In Soviet Russia...

[Sir Slash]

He does but he's so tough, Nicotine is afraid of him.

[Nefaro]

Now I'm wondering if Putin smokes...  ::)

He smokes opposition media leaders & his ex-agents in foreign countries.

[mirth]

I weep for the future

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/opinion/sunday/stalinist-nostalgia-in-vladimir-putins-russia.html

"He was a great man, unique in history," Zhenya Viktorov, an 11th grader, told me on a recent visit. His classmate Amina Kurayev was more circumspect: "It wasn't as terrible as they say."

And what about the millions of Soviets who were shot or sent to the gulags? "No one was repressed for no reason," Zhenya said. When I asked him how many political opponents Stalin killed, he told me "thousands," and argued that the purges weren't as "big or inhumane as the media likes to say."

[Gusington]

Yes and those Nuremberg rallies were something, eh? I really think 2016 is going to be as important a year as 1914, 1939, 1945, 1968, 1989 and 2001.