(non)elections
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.6 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Greetings, Comrades!
This is my account on the events in the Russian elections, together with some analysis. Normally, I don't insist on it, but, please, if you can, share it and recommend to people, who want to know how things actually went down. One thing, that really matters tho, is that while this episode was being edited, Zhirinovsky already managed to declare, that United Russia plans to abolish elections, and create some sort of a grand council, which would hold all the power, and where the membership would be for life. And yes, it is Zhirinovsky, but hey...like I said, he's an over the top mouthpiece. But a mouthpiece still.
Enjoy. We live in very interesting times.
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| 0:41.5 | Feel good travel. |
| 0:58.6 | Greetings, comrades. |
| 1:02.3 | This is a special about something special. |
| 1:07.7 | You know, the great Dan Carlin, the person who basically introduced me to podcasts as a format, |
| 1:12.4 | and whom I believe to be one of the greatest inspirations of my life, |
| 1:20.2 | once wondered in his hardcore history show about the fact that whether or not the people who lived through in, so to speak, interesting points of history, knew that they lived in |
| 1:26.6 | such periods. I think I can answer that now |
| 1:29.3 | pretty clearly. I think they got a hunch. Because in my humble opinion, we now live |
| 1:36.3 | in such an era. Again, in my opinion, you'll be able to tell your kids that you were alive |
| 1:42.3 | when the last elections in the Russian Federation happened. |
| 1:46.0 | This show is here to explain why I and quite a few other people who follow the action actually think so. |
| 1:55.0 | First off, everyone knew that Putin was going to win. That much was obvious. |
| 2:00.0 | And he did it with over 75% of the vote, |
| 2:04.5 | with second place going to Pavel Grudinin from the Communist Party, with about 13%, and the third being |
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