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Mister Puton, Is There Any Equivalent of the Pollet Bureau?
It does seem that under mister puton, russie as gone back to being a sort of one man band. That's what makes it so dangerous on the one hand, and also so fragile on the other because poton has no political party that supports himA he's basically even a movement behind him. The parliament the dome is a rubber stamp, united rust of the ruling party's not even part of it,. There's only the constitution and his popularity. And there's small group of people around him. Obviously, they don't even function that much as a brain trust, although obversly, some of them do have some influence. But we've seen in those bizarre set
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