Putin reelected

Putin will remain in power,as long as he wishes, Unlike Saddam no-one has the balls to invade Russia.:rolleyes:
 
cashman said:
Putin will remain in power,as long as he wishes, Unlike Saddam no-one has the balls to invade Russia.:rolleyes:
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Maybe no-one needs to.
Tsar Nicholas thought he was invincible too.
There have been mass rallys protesting - will be more now he has 'won'(allegedly)
 
Thatcher evicted from Downing Street.

The Queen losing Britannia.

Putin winning a dodgy election.

Tears for souvenirs.

I found it very moving too.

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The Russians have a strange relationship with those who rule them. Quite masochistically they like to be dominated by men who are not afraid to flex their muscles and the more literally they can do this, the more popular they are. One of the reasons that the late Tsar failed was because he was too nice. The revolution would never have happened in his fathers reign, he would have hanged the lot of them, evidence or not. Russians respect that sort of decisiveness. This is the reason that Medvedev was not re-elected. This is the reason for Putin's ridiculous macho posing, but, as long as he has his physical health, he will succeed. Mental health in Russian rulers has never been much of a drawback.
 
Acrylic-bob said:
Mental health in Russian rulers has never been much of a drawback.
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Yes, Russia's the only place in the world where they celebrate an outbreak of potato blight.

Knowing it will make their vodka even more mentally exciting.
 
cashman said:
Putin will remain in power,as long as he wishes, Unlike Saddam no-one has the balls to invade Russia.:rolleyes:
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With everything that's been going on in the Middle East - this will probably sow the seeds of discontent and demonstrations in Russia!
 
kestrelx said:
With everything that's been going on in the Middle East - this will probably sow the seeds of discontent and demonstrations in Russia!

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". Carl Jung
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Seldom has there been spoken a truer word.
 
But back to Russia. I find it worrying that despite killing upwards of 20 million of his own people. There are still a frightening number of people, of all age groups, in Russia who think that Josef Stalin was a good idea.
 
Acrylic-bob said:
But back to Russia. I find it worrying that despite killing upwards of 20 million of his own people. There are still a frightening number of people, of all age groups, in Russia who think that Josef Stalin was a good idea.
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He might have been a bit of a lad, especially when it came to genocide, but you've got to admire the quality of his Mint Balls.

Wigan has a lot to thank Russia for.

If it wasn't for them being allowed to manufacture them, as well as Pol Pot pies, there'd be no jobs at all in the area.
 
Alexander II was killed in St Petersburg by an anarchists bomb. His Son, Alexander III,father of Nicholas II, is reported as saying, when the culprits had been aprehended and condemned to death, "No one will dare to come to me to ask for mercy". And nobody did, except Leo Tolstoy, but everybody usually ignored him anyway.

Point is, nothing ever really changes. If anyone is looking for revolution as a result of this election they will have a long and futile wait. Protests will be permitted, for a while. But slowly and surely the ringleaders will be identified and rounded up and silenced. Russia will march forward, backward or sideways, however Putin determines, and it will all be back to business as usual tomorrow.
 
When the very rich realise that their greed for money is providing comfort but not bliss, they begin to seek the power and control over others to satisfy their egos.
 
MargaretR said:
When the very rich realise that their greed for money is providing comfort but not bliss, they begin to seek the power and control over others to satisfy their egos.
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Give it up Margaret, your never going to do that no matter how much you try:D:D
 
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