Putin is just the latest symptom of an old Russian disease, the need for a political strongman. In the old days it was the Tsar, then it became Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Gorbachev. Yeltsin wasn’t up to it and the country was in a miasma of depression. In marched Putin and he will stay on top until he dies or is otherwise disposed of.
Putin is just the latest symptom of an old Russian disease, the need for a political strongman. In the old days it was the Tsar, then it became Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Gorbachev. Yeltsin wasn’t up to it and the country was in a miasma of depression. In marched Putin and he will stay on top until he dies or is otherwise disposed of.