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10 years ago Russia was invading Ukraine and everyone remembered Russia poisoning people in Salisbury.
So probably not.
And now it is people like you supporting Russia.
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Spending a few hours on a day trip will not give you the true nature of a city, you also said "anything in the UK", that could mean towns , villages, hamlets etc, you must be 200 years old
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"I'm all for gay rights, don't get me wrong, but I think when they're teaching them to children in school - I've got a seven-year-old son, I don't want him being influenced in that way."
At least when his son sent off for compulsory service and hazed (dedovshchina) he won't know what is coming ... although not sure ignorance is always bliss...
At least when his son sent off for compulsory service and hazed (dedovshchina) he won't know what is coming ... although not sure ignorance is always bliss...
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You don't have to support Putin and what he is doing to support Russia, the average Russian doesn't support him either. Russia is a beautiful country,
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So he is "all for gay rights" but he doesn't want his son to be taught that gay people have rights?
He's one of those bonkers people who thinks that if you tell children that some people are homosexual, and that they should not be the target of abuse and discrimination because of that, then that will change the sexuality of those children.
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Nobody even knew who his oponent was.
HM’s wife has reformed her ways
He's insanely popular in Russia. They're a nation that has been trained to obey instructions and appreciate a 'strong leader'.
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I travelled through, a couple of times. Once started at Moscow, then drove to Leningrad (renamed), Kiev as was, then down through to Georgia, Armenia, Azerbijan. Pre Gorbachev. People just got on with their lives, is the impression I got. They had somewhere to live, a car, reasonable education and health service (they thought). Not fired up by their freedoms as much as I'd have thought.
The West was thought of as pretty awful, which lets face it, it is. Down south they didn't think much of the Moscow government, but they were all basically "ok". They respected academics and medics - the "intelligentsia". Plenty of incompetence around, nobody seemed wound up about it, but it did measn the palce was falling apart, I remember a talk my a minister who came to London, called Yablokov (as im "knock"), who described how the Moscow water supply system leaked more water than it delivered, by 2:1.
But a lot of middling people had their Dacha somewhere nice . (holiday home).
They has a social equality of sorts, which was buggered by Perestroika and Glasnost. Later, there was much more financial relevance and impact on people, more rich, more poor, more without. More freedoms if you could afford them. More problems, really.
Putin is trying to resort to the previous order, it seems.
The West was thought of as pretty awful, which lets face it, it is. Down south they didn't think much of the Moscow government, but they were all basically "ok". They respected academics and medics - the "intelligentsia". Plenty of incompetence around, nobody seemed wound up about it, but it did measn the palce was falling apart, I remember a talk my a minister who came to London, called Yablokov (as im "knock"), who described how the Moscow water supply system leaked more water than it delivered, by 2:1.
But a lot of middling people had their Dacha somewhere nice . (holiday home).
They has a social equality of sorts, which was buggered by Perestroika and Glasnost. Later, there was much more financial relevance and impact on people, more rich, more poor, more without. More freedoms if you could afford them. More problems, really.
Putin is trying to resort to the previous order, it seems.
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That's the same everywhere. We are constantly being told that the UK is going down the pan etc. but yet, everybody I see and speak to is doing OK. In fact, some say now is the best its ever been. Some people just like to pretend that everything is bad - it's usually extremist groups who don't like democratically elected governments who lie to the public about the state of the nation.
Fun fact: more immigrants used to arrive in lorries than arrive in boats. The only reason more arrive in boats now is because we put more checks on the lorries. But everybody thinks this is a big new problem because some bloke in a suit told them to think that.
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No, it was mostly buggered by the way the oligarchs grabbed as much of the USSR's assets and wealth for themselves as they could.
No, Putin has simply replaced the first wave of oligarchs with a new bunch consisting of his own personal friends and colleagues (and himself, with "ownership by proxy" deals with chums). He changed the people sitting in the chairs, but he didn't change the chairs themselves. He is now one of, if not the, richest men in the world.
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No. P & G was what allowed the oligarchs to breathe. It was always doomed.
Putin - well leading the S.U or R was always a sham. It's what he claims. He's an intelligence officer at heart, lining hie pockets like they all did - maybe not Lenin! Once the social support network was broken up, of course it couln't actually be reinstated in a hurry. P has been doing his best to reclaim contol over the old territories..
Stalin wasn't exactly a man of the people. Power corrupts, is a given.
Putin - well leading the S.U or R was always a sham. It's what he claims. He's an intelligence officer at heart, lining hie pockets like they all did - maybe not Lenin! Once the social support network was broken up, of course it couln't actually be reinstated in a hurry. P has been doing his best to reclaim contol over the old territories..
Stalin wasn't exactly a man of the people. Power corrupts, is a given.
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