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Originally Posted by kpv1974
Was it Stalin who led Poland or the GDR?
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Indirectly, he installed puppets to rule in his name.
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These were Polish and German personnel. Why don't you criticize them? It was they who kept these countries in the communist bloc.
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The paid puppet leaders were INDEED criticized, by the free world and by their own people. When their own people rebelled like in Germany in 1953 or Checoslovakia in 1968 the protests were brutally subdued or invaded with russian tanks and russian soldiers.
Not that Pravda or TASS or any russian media would have told THIS part of russian history.
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PS: Btw, in Russia there is a criminal punishment for refusing to go to war.
Go on war, or go to prison.
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Nope, not officially. According to Putin they are all volunteers, and they can leave the front whenever they want.
This at least was Putin's promise to the people.
You do not interfere in my russian oligarchy pool and cleptocracy and stay away from politics, and as a "reward" you will be granted a little bit of a better life. And no war, no conscription.
But you have to see it is the people of a nation who have to decide whether they go along with/help such creatures like Putin or not. The longer they wait, the longer the dictatorship exists, the harder it is to overcome it.
With the current level of surveillance technology it may at some point become impossible, like in China.