#ReadingRussia – Un giornale russo oggi: “La caduta di Assad conferma il fatto indiscutibile che la percentuale di voti ottenuti da un dittatore/autocrate/usurpatore alle elezioni prima della sua caduta non significa assolutamente nulla. Nessuno di quel ‘sostegno al 95%’ è uscito per difenderlo. Steve Rosenberg per BBC News

I really don’t understand why almost all current dictators go on organizing those ridicolous fake elections they always win with numbers unknown to real democracies. Sometimes I think is just a way to flex their power to the democratic world.
It wasn’t like this in the past: neither Mussolini, nor Hitler or Stalin ever considered any kind of elections, same with most dictators in South America and Africa.

BuT wHy Do yOu kEeP voTIng TheM iN?? 

*Insert a meme of a head without a frontal lobe with one eye looking upwards and diagonally to the right, while the other eye looks down and diagonally to the left. Also the tongue is protruding uncontrollably and falling besides the mouth*