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user-inactivated  ·  2624 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 18, 2017

Obama's seemed fine. Heard nothing bad about it.





lil  ·  2624 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I meant in Russia.... There are elections. Occasionally.

user-inactivated  ·  2624 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are there?

...oh yes, that circus. Never felt like watching the same thing over and over. Putin's been around the throne for most of my life. I went to school the year he went to power.

lil  ·  2624 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Update: A historical source has been found for one version of this quote. The source is Boris Bazhanov's Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary, published in 1992 and only available, so far as I know, in Russian. The pertinent passage, which appears near the end of chapter five, reads as follows (loosely translated with the help of Google):

    "You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how."

still true I guess