Re: the bottom line on the Russian elections

Kazys Almenas wrote:
question, you get a stoopid answer. To wit, the issue is NOT
which of the Kremlin created parties should be elected, the issue
is that the Kremlin has suppressed all possibilities for the
Russian people to develop parties which represent a real
choice. Once you have suppresed opposition, it does
not matter what an election yields. A literate person like
Holman should be able to recognize that this was not an election.
It was a ritual referendum. Inteligent people
in Russia (and, yes, there are quite a number of those)
recognize this. Read any of the numerous Russian blogs.

Dunno about Holman, but I do. Yes, it was a crucial (nit ritual)
referendum and intelligent majority voluntarily said Yes to Putin's
policy. And hey, which parties "which represent a real choice" failed
to be developed by Russian people? Surely different parties are
treated differently in Russia, but nobody's talking about Kremlin's
massive political repressions. Notably old GULAG is dead and new Gitmo
not created in Russia yet.
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