At some point, Putin looked at that picture (without the flag-tache) and said, 'Yep, I like it, really shows who I am!' and yet people seem suprised that he's apparently not a nice guy. The man stares at you like he wants the cameraman to melt away...
I'm so sickened and dissapointed by what is occuring in that country. So sad. Putin is absolutely to blame for it.
Putin bares some of the responsibility. But what about the mobs of queer killers in the streets, and the apparent agreement with everything he's done?
I put most of the blame on him for directing the anti-gay bill through their legislature, remaining silent in the face of all these assaults, and instructing the police not to aid any gays that are attacked or could potentially be attacked. In an article I read, a man said "They can have their parades, but there won't be a policeman anywhere on that block." America is full of violent homophobes, but the POTUS doesn't push anti-gay bills and instruct police not to help us. He doesn't turn a blind eye to us. Putin basically condones ALL OF IT. The people doing the beating are disgusting too, but would everyone be so quick to beat the crap out of a gay guy if it was heavily punished?
He is the ex head of the KGB, who just happens to now be showing his true colors, after Gorbachev & Yeltsin, I just feel so sad that this Man has undone all the good that these to Men did & has set the Country back 50 Years. :eusa_naug
So unreal, this makes me very sad. its things like this that make me realize how lucky I am because no matter what I'm going through things could be some much worse.
He shall die in a house fire with his model/actress wife and Alsatian dog...that's never happened before.
I can't say I'm a fan of Yeltsin either... Siding with the infamous KGB, letting the economy collapse and oligarchs prosper, illegally dissolving the parliament, shelling the Russian White House, scrapping the constitution, making a new constitution giving too much power to the president (himselves) and on top of it all, designating Putin as his successor! If Yeltsin hadn't come into power, Russia might have been a lot better and maybe Putin wouldn't have happened either. :icon_sad: Edit: Whoops, Somehow I forgot Chechnya, widespread corruption and his drunken 'performances'.
