V.I. Lenin
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Rssian President Vladimir Putin says Russia has no future, if it turns its back on democracy. In his annual state-of-the-nation address Monday at the Kremlin's Marble Hall, he urged lawmakers and the public to strengthen democracy and rule of law.
President Putin says freedom, rule of law and a basic respect for human rights must be the hallmark of Russian institutions and society, as the nation works toward his promise of a better future.
In remarks broadcast live on state television, President Putin said Russia's place in the world will be defined by strength and success in both democratic and economic gains.
Putin is not good for Russia's infant democracy. It's like taking a person who's almost recovered from a cold and put him out in a blizzard.
V.I. Lenin said:Putin surely is no Stalin, but he's in NO way the leader of a "democracy".
Comrade Brian said:Putin is better than people like bush/stalin/Hitler(hard to decipher between the three), but putin is both a capitalist and seems to want commies to favor him, since latest polls say two-thirds of russians want ussr back, d***, a third said they'd rather be under stalin than now, shows that even soviet-socialism was always better than capitalism, so putin justs wants favor, especially when soviet system was popular!
I always thought that even soviets were still better than capitalists(lenin,trotsky were the best)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - "More Russians would prefer a return to communism than back the government's current reform plan, an opinion poll has shown.
Support for the government has taken a battering from opposition to an unpopular plan to replace in-kind benefits with cash, although President Vladimir Putin's popularity has been less severely damaged.
Tens of thousands of pensioners took to the streets to protest what they said were miserly payments, and forced a series of concessions from the government.
According to the survey published Tuesday by ROMIR Monitoring of 1,500 Russians, only 17 percent backed the current reform programme while 21 percent favoured a "return to socialism". 57 percent said reform should be more socially targeted.
The last time more Russians wanted communism than Putin's reform was in May 2001, ROMIR said.
Other reforms have led to higher power and water bills and taken away the right to free housing for most Russians, although major reforms to modernise the armed forces and to dismantle state monopolies have been largely put on hold".
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050301/3/3qyie.html
Gandhi>Bush said:My main complaint about Putin is his eagerness to sell weapons.
The US is just as guilty I know. I don't support that either.
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