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Originally Posted by Onkel Neal
Damn, can't someone kill Putin and let Russia catch up?
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Careful what you wish for. Who ever follows Putin, most likely will be worse than him. And the role of the "democratic opposition" in Russia always has been idealistically overestimated. Democracy has no room in Russian thinking, culture and mentality. They never learned what it is, had never made any experiences with it.
I knew Russian Germans who returned to Germany after their families migrated to Russia centuriesago. They all three left no good hair on Russian civilization andn all said its hopeless.
Even figureheads of the claimed opposition like Navalny was, must be taken with utmost caution, as I just posted in the Ukraine thread.
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...postcount=2610
I have given up on Russia long time ago. Its useless to have hopeful expectations with Russia. I made that mistake years ago. No longer. And not just since the Ukraine war started ten years ago.