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East Germans started kicking up a fuss when they saw West German tv and realised their “Worker’s Paradise” was anything but.
Putin can't have his serfs getting uppity.
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Yes. It's timely to remember that. I'm sure Putin hasn't forgotten. A year before the wall came down I went through Checkpoint Charlie for a stroll around East Berlin. What a grim, shabby, joyless place. It made Huddersfield look like St Tropez. Parts of Moscow are very glitzy these days, but most Russians never see that kind of sophistication. This vlogger's stuff is worth a watch. She's from Khabarovsk in the far east https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWf43GShTqMDdJN9pICYd2Q
nick_h.
Putin uses Nato expansion as a pretext for invading Ukraine, but EU membership and democratic elections are the real threat. A dictatorship with a poor standard of living cannot survive if its neighbours are prosperous democracies with free and fair elections.