Putin's tsar power
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Re: Quote of the week
The quote of the week for November 9-15 was reported on Saturday, November 15 (“Australian and British leaders tell Putin to stop being a bully”, World). Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was quoted as accusing Vladimir Putin “of trying to relive the ‘lost glories of tsarism’.”
Lost glories of tsarism? Tony-baby, the tsarist system was a monstrous, oppressive despotism of unspeakable cruelty. There was nothing glorious about it at all.
With the possible exception of Catherine the Great, who was reputed to have been a “hot babe”, many of the tsars, like Ivan the Terrible, were tyrants, bullies and homicidal maniacs. “Cool Vlad” would not want to be like them, would he?
Or would he?
Howard Beasley
(The Quote Guy)
