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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
I've said it many times on this forum over the years: Putin = Democratically elected dictator.
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If any political competitor happens to fall down some stairs or somehow manages to find himself in prison.. I would not quite call the survivor "democratically elected"
Not that some oligarch would have been "better".
OT: I do not want to compare Putin to Hitler, but the mechanisms of getting to power are the same. Since millenia, i might say.
They also called the election of Hitler "democratic", so he called himself the "elected Reichskanzler". Of course he was not. Other parties had higher voting numbers and those of the NSDAP were falling. But if any Reichstagsabgeordneter had to fear for his life and family by ways of the SA and secret police waiting behind the parliament's doors, he preferred to at least abstain from his vote.
There were only a few social democratic party delegates who stood up and voted against Hitler, and they paid the price.