Russia’s major problem is
Little history with democracy
For most of its modern existence
It has been ruled dictatorially
Pre-early 20th Century
Were the Czars
Then came Lenin and Stalin
Followed by similar successors
In the 1990s a feeble
Effort at democracy
Merely paved the way
For Putin’s kleptocratic autocracy
Little history with democracy
For most of its modern existence
It has been ruled dictatorially
Pre-early 20th Century
Were the Czars
Then came Lenin and Stalin
Followed by similar successors
In the 1990s a feeble
Effort at democracy
Merely paved the way
For Putin’s kleptocratic autocracy
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