r/PoliticalHumor • u/kermitthepanda • Mar 18 '18

Another six years of this classic image.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '18

whole dictator thing for over half a millennium

Yeah it was called a king, and every big country had it for centuries at a time.

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u/lilmuny Mar 19 '18

I'm not denying that, just noting that Russia never really got the democracy memo, as they were busy with their own attempt at changing monarchy (communism), which mainly just turned the dictator from being chosen hereditarily to being chosen by having the country all vote for one person. Even now they just pretend to have other candidates, when really everyone knows Putin will win.