Is this the work of a democratic nation? No. Stupid Russians. They need to realize they're still in the 12th century & go back to feudalism to work their way out of it like the rest of us did.
Posted by Treknophyle (Member # 509) on :
This is what happens when you take a primitive culture and GIVE it advanced technology before the aborigines can socially evolve to cope with the changes.
I guess the Prime Directive was right...
Posted by Nevod (Member # 738) on :
It's not stupid we, it's our stupid laws.
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
hmmm..
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
Ahh... Democracy, Putin style.. Don't give a damn about your people (*cough*Kursk*cough*). IIRC, in all those years governing Russia, the people had exactly ONE possibility of asking him questions :S. Thankfully he and Bush get along quite normally (but don't feed him pretzels ).
Anywayz, it would be cool if mr. Nevod himself gave some inside views on all this .
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Well well, aren't we all considering ourselves superior.
Alas, poor Gorbatsjov, we hardly knew ye...
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Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Well I admit that Russia is taking a step backwards with this issue. But you have to remember, they have been living under communism since 1917, and they only just recently became a democratic nation. Not only that but they were living under one of the last monarchies in the world. It wasn't until after Czar Nicholas II bit the bullet that the average russian serf could have some rights. and it wasn't until Stalin (not his real name) came to power until Russia started to become an industrialized nation (one of the last in Europe to do so). The Iron Curtan was even worse, no one was allowed to enter or leave the Soviet Union.
Posted by Treknophyle (Member # 509) on :
Nice excuse, but they've got every permutation of democracy existing in the world to study and model their new society on - from US 'Republic' to Canadian 'Dominion' to British 'Monarchy'.
I know they're Russians, but given a head start by studying other democratic cultures, you'd think they could backwards-engineer a governmental system.
Hint to Russians: If you want democracy - get rid of autocracy - and totalitarianism. I know it's genetic - but TRY.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"...Nicholas II bit the bullet..."
He bit it? I was under the impression he was shot w/ it...
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
And, to Nixpick history, I believe Lenin emancipated the serfs a few months before Nicholas and the bullet did their thing.
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