Russia’s national past: unpicking history from propaganda
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Is the Putinite System Corrupt in the Way the Western Analysts Often Define It?
The tsar controls his equivalent of the boys in the oligarchs. They are effectively owned by him, and can be called on by him for money. As soon as they cross him or displease him, they can have it taken away. It's not that putin isn't i mean, people say, you know, putin is worth 30 billion or whatever. But he doesn't see it that way. He sees this ridiculous palace that novolni illuminated in his anti corruption video a few years ago. This isn't his own own palace, but it's his in so far as he is acquainted with russia,. The patrimonial ruler of mediaeval times, to the
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