Russia's Hard Men Stage a Quiet Coup ; Russia Is Holding an Election, but You Would Never Know It...Because There's Only One Serious Candidate and Only One Thing Voters Want and It Isn't Democracy,Review

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Like a column of tanks in human form, Vladimir Putin slowly crushes the freedoms that flourished in Russia after the sudden collapse of the old Communist order and nobody cares.

The world, and the Russian people, are now witnessing the KGB putsch that everyone feared back in August 1991, when I watched as real tanks rolled, halted and then mysteriously turned back.

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Russia's Hard Men Stage a Quiet Coup ; Russia Is Holding an Election, but You Would Never Know It...Because There's Only One Serious Candidate and Only One Thing Voters Want and It Isn't Democracy,Review

But this time the coup d'etat is clever instead of clumsy; quiet instead of noisy, and its leaders icily sober rather than slurred, incoherent and drunk.

And what is worse is that this assault on liberty is actually popular at home and willingly excused abroad. It seems to me to be part of a new death of freedom taking place around the world, where more and more exhausted, insecure and frightened people are sinking into the arms of authority with sighs of relief.

Unless I am very much mistaken, ...

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