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Wow, Gorbachev has always avoided directly criticizing Putin until now, afaik. I wonder if there's a nice hot cup of thallium in his future now.
by jbellis 17y ago
Wow, Gorbachev has always avoided directly criticizing Putin until now, afaik. I wonder if there's a nice hot cup of thallium in his future now.
- coffeemug 17y agoI actually thought the article was very reserved at criticizing Putin. The point is basically that Putin destroyed all progress toward democracy, but the article never assigns blame to him exactly. It tends to refer to an abstract entity ("Russia") rather than a specific person (Putin).
- varjag 17y agoWhich is not without justification, as Putin is very much a product and reflection of modern Russian society.