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By the way, this is precisely how Putinist propaganda is presenting things in Russia today. "We have no democracy, elections are a fake and people are jailed fo
by anovikov 6y ago
By the way, this is precisely how Putinist propaganda is presenting things in Russia today. "We have no democracy, elections are a fake and people are jailed for dissent? Right, but this is the case everywhere, trying to do otherwise would have destroyed any nation very quickly because populist demagogues would win and steal everything. It's just people in the West are too brainwashed to see how are they being used"
- anovikov 6y agoSometimes it goes even better: "it's not our fault that we have to do more political persecution and violence than in the Western countries. it's just that Russians are a lot smarter than Westerners so what can be easily done in the West by simple brainwashing through media, doesn't quite work here and has to be augmented by force"