Comments on "The Man Without a Face - The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" by Masha Gessen
Although Masha Gessen has written a very interesting and informative book, isn't it true that vast multi-cultural Russia has always been a police state in one form or another? And, perhaps more accurately, a secret police state with additional occupied territories?
The whole world has, at best, something like poorly concealed gang warfare, although mostly in various states of truce or ceasefire.
The Russian leaders Vladimir Putin and Dimitri Medvedev are hardly "natural born tyrants". Probably to most people they seem to be about as innocuous world leaders, but still responsible, as can be found anywhere.
Wouldn't any of those people demonstrating so much against the present Russian government, assuming that they were capable, eventually become "tyrants" if they were somehow given the power?
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