Chris Doss wrote:
>--- uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
>Mr. Putin has been accused of rolling back
>Russia's fledgling democracy and even aiming to set up
>a dictatorship.
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>How can you roll back something that never existed?
>Russia's experience with democracy lasted from around
>1990 to 1993. Russia's choice is not between democracy
>and dictatorship; it is between centralization and
>disintegration.
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Chris: you've lived so far away for so long you no longer understand the
lingo. Let me clue you in:
Democracy: "free-market," interest of U.S. capital. Dictatorship: anything opposed to the "free-market" and the interests of U.S. capital
If you will perform this easy substitution, you will realize that everything you read about Russia makes perfect sense.
Kisses,
Joanna
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