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Originally Posted by rupertramjet
I spend much time laughing at the 80% approval rating claimed by the Putin! Is it not strange that our biggest music, TV, media and other stars would not rate that high a rating, yet millions love them, and yet many Russians are unable to see how odd this might appear in the West!
That leaders of any credible, and sometimes not so credible, opposition parties get arrested fo speaking out? Would be like Vince Cable or the bizarre Corbyn being locked up for arguing with the Government! What Russians do not seem to get, is that oppositions and opposition views are what forms a democracy, and of course they think we in the West are stupid, because we question what they accept, because we are allowed to!
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I was used to watch NHL during 7 years and always was surprised to see that NHL Russian superstar hockey players, like Kovalchuk, Oveshkin, Datsuyk, etc... are proud to play for Russia, return to play to the KHL (the Russian league) or return to live in Russia, when they are retired, but they very rarely stay in Canada or USA.
Even the ex-USSR Olympic champions Slava Bykov or Khomuthov who played in Switzerland during the 90's returned to Russia. Bykov, who took the Swiss nationality but still is Russian, sometimes come back in Switzerland because his son was raised and decided to stay here.
If Russia would be a dictatorship and USA or Switzerland such marvelous countries, would these Russian hockey players come back in their homeland?