Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
Well, that's not fair to hate the stagnation, but at the same time to praise the stability. Bazil was saying people are nostalgic about the stagnation period of the Soviet Union, but it stagnated, so people wanted the change. O my, people are never happy!
I'd hate to be tedious about terminology, but stagnation != stability, it's actually a turn to worse.

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Have you ever heard of the collectivization or a war? If you think the situation is bad, things could always be much worse.
Great! Let's be thankful to Mr. Putin that we do not have a new collectivization or some 'small victorious war' by now. Well, let's be thankful we don't have to chase a mammoth all day now and live in caves! People are strange indeed! They want to live better than they do now, they are not thankful for 'the stability'.

Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
How ungrateful! People forgot about the 90s, forgot about the 80s, forgot about the 70s, about the 60s, about the 30s, 20s, and 10s. We need to introduce the history lessons in schools.
Oh, man, have you forgotten about educational reforms? You've read about Fursenko, our esteemed Minister of Education. Your comments were not complimentary as I recall. Him alone is a reason to hate the present government. What history lessons? We must educate perfect and brainless consumers!

Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
The 90s were famous, in part, for the [political] struggle being conveyed on the streets. People wanted the stability and being able to walk safely on the streets. They got that. The opposition is under control. Now, you want the struggle again? Do you want the reporters shot on the streets again (while saying their death relates to some criminal activity)? The prominent political opposition figures who tried to play by the rules (Rochlin, Lebed, etc.) were killed - do you want that phenomena to repeat?
Oh, I thought Lebed was killed in 2002, not in 90s. And Politkovskaya in 2006 while Putin was a president. Of course, I don't want that to repeat. That's why I'm against Putin. (No, I wasn't a fan of Politkovskaya).
I don't want to go into a deep research, but if we compare the number of killed journalists during 2000s and 1990s I'm afraid the results would not be in favor of the 'period of Putin's stability'. Murders continue, the only difference is that in 1990s bandids were killing each other and nobody seemed to object much, right now they murder more decent people.

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What laws are you talking about? Who is living by the laws in the RF today? The courts accept bribes on a regular basis. The criminals got the power.
Another reason to change the government, don't you think?

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Using your terminology, the politicians are the puppets. Do you think that if Zuganov would splash a glass of juice onto Putin that would restore the well-being throughout the state?
No, I don't think so. But it's a start. In 4 years there will be another attempt and perhaps another small change.

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The 18th century is a way past the medieval times. My example was based on the French Revolution (as it served the mental foundation for the later revolutions).
Yeah, right. Especially for the so called 'Arabian revolution'. :LMAO:

Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
But, the foundation is still the same. People will not get onto the streets all of a sudden just because someone had twitted "let's go, bros!" Let's consider the relatively recent events in Moscow (aka "soccer fans vs the police"). What would the more prominent presence of CPRF in Duma do in that case? Would Zuganov climb an IFV and say through the loudspeaker: "Guys, calm down! We are the people's party and we have more representation in Duma now! So, go home peacefully and we will sort all the issues through the political dialogue!" Could you imagine that working?
'Manezhka' happenned because someone twitted 'let's go bros!', by the way. And you don't consider the reasons for that. People went there because the police released a criminal. Because some police officer took a bribe. That's what triggered this. The last drop. The whole system works this way because "у всех всё схвачено". "Всё схвачено" means there's no control, no counterweight. They are all members of the same gang. I want to introduce a rival gang. The problem is - people don't believe in the state power, they don't believe in justice, they don't believe in protection. They oppose the state power, they think in terms 'us and them'. Civil wars start this way.