Guardian UK: Russian reality TV show Game2: Winter to 'allow' rape and murder in Siberia - Contestants sign waiver acknowledging they may not survive nine-month Siberian wilderness challenge, and if crimes are committed, they will be arrested
Contestants will each sign a waiver acknowledging that they might be raped or killed but the rules also state that police are free to arrest anyone who commits a crime on the show.
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A short history of modern Russian history is necessary here. First let me say this: Russia has definitely degenerated under Putin. That said, it wasn't exactly a thriving democracy before him was it? Russia has gone from an Imperial / Empire State with a Czar and his ruthless Secret police to a Communist Dictatorship / Totalitarian State with a Dictatorship to a Kleptocracy under an elected ( LOL) Dictator / Putin all this in 100 yrs. It had two chances in that 100 yrs. to transit to democracy and it failed miserably both times. The 1st chance was in 1917 when the Revolution started and the Kerensky Gov't came to power as the CZAR abdicated. Then came the Communists under Lenin then Stalin finished that chance off fast and in so doing gave birth to the Soviet Union. The Soviet State lasted 70 yrs. under a Collective leadership arrangement called the Politburo, where a new Soviet Dictator was chosen oddly by ballot. It was the only place in the Soviet Union where democracy existed for 70 yrs. Although, the Soviets did hold elections and you got to choose whomever they liked. Then came the fall of the Soviet State in 1991 and the break up of the Soviet / Russian Empire. From 1991 to 1999 Boris Yeltsin was the elected President of the new Russian Federation the remaining rump State of what was left after the Soviet Union dissolved. Yeltsin ill and depressed quit on NYer's eve 1999 Y2k! Then came Putin and today's Russian Federation with it's elected Dictator Putin now in office since 1999. Putin was the Y2k effect as we now can clearly see. With his rise to power things have led directly to Trumpf. IMO, America will soon follow Russia into the Authoritarian darkness of White Nationalism and Kleptocracy. To be honest it had already come most of the way these past 36 yrs. yrs.
Nice Glenn, this is helpful and puts a lot into perspective regarding the Trump/Putin bromance - American Nationalism movement.
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