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Originally Posted by TteFAboB
Who needs a "fair trial" or "freedom of press"
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I hate to sound like such a skeptic, but given the choice between "fair trial"/"freedom of the press" and putting food on the table, most people would choose the latter.
Never having lived in a society where people are faced with that sort of choice, I think people are too-easily dismissive of what it entails. I am not surprised Putin was chosen over the other alternatives. I don't like him one bit. I don't support his policies. But he is, essentially, the only stable option.
And don't get me started on Hodarkovsky or these types. I think "spit" on them, for me, is a little too mild a word.
Difference between Hodarkovsky and other 90's-privatization-kings?
Others shared the loot with the right people. He didn't.
Type941 is, unfortunately, right. Western-style democracy, at least in the form that it appeared in the 90's, has already failed in Russia.
Much like another purely Western idea called communism failed - and at about the same rate.