Re: A Crushing Victory

On Nov 30, 6:59 am, Eugene Holman <hol...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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lorad...@xxxxxx wrote:
'Astute politician' your ass, too... the sucker is an asstute
chekist.. nothing less.

The man is what he is and has the past - and baggage - that he has. Most
people of his generation in positions of power are the products of
Soviet power structures, and there is nothing that can be done about it.
The generation untainted by a Soviet past is still in its teens.

You have to build with what you've got. The Baltic option of bringing in
an emigré to head the country would not be feasible in Russia.

Regards,
Eugene Holman

Well in Estonia (and Latvia?) president is just symbolic position. for
a long time there have been no "imported" workforce in govt where
decicions will be made. And generation untained by Soviet past is now
over 30 years old - hardly you can call as "soviets" folks being kids
back then. Those who graduated from school in 1991 in 18 years age are
now 34-35, quite a typical age for politicians here (in stabile times
leaders aare normally older - they have experience to balance energy
of young people. But in times of fast turns in history old experience
is mostly worthless, so energy of young generation will clean the
place).
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