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soothsayer

(38,601 posts) Mon Jan 25, 2021, 02:39 PM Jan 2021

Navalny's lawyer kidnapped by unidentified Putin thugs, handcuffed w a bag thrown over his head, an

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Olga Lautman
@OlgaNYC1211
Navalny's lawyer, Vladlen Los, was kidnapped by unidentified Putin thugs, handcuffed w a bag thrown over his head, and driven to the Belarusian border to be deported. He is not allowed to return for 5 years

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Navalny's lawyer kidnapped by unidentified Putin thugs, handcuffed w a bag thrown over his head, an (Original Post) soothsayer Jan 2021 OP

Dear God. Boomerproud Jan 2021 #1

That'll teach him. Chainfire Jan 2021 #2

I wonder how long it would take the ReThugs True Dough Jan 2021 #3

one second... dhill926 Jan 2021 #4

I was going to say "not long" Mike 03 Jan 2021 #5

Weren't they getting close to that GopherGal Jan 2021 #7

He's a Belarussian citizen Klaralven Jan 2021 #6

Boomerproud

(9,363 posts)

1. Dear God.

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Mon Jan 25, 2021, 02:44 PM

Jan 2021

I have no words.

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)

2. That'll teach him.

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Mon Jan 25, 2021, 02:46 PM

Jan 2021

True Dough

(27,310 posts)

3. I wonder how long it would take the ReThugs

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Mon Jan 25, 2021, 02:53 PM

Jan 2021

to reach that level of autocracy if they had unbridled power here?

dhill926

(16,953 posts)

4. one second...

Reply to True Dough (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 25, 2021, 03:19 PM

Jan 2021

Mike 03

(18,690 posts)

5. I was going to say "not long"

Reply to dhill926 (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 25, 2021, 03:24 PM

Jan 2021

Historically, these things happen quickly because they are harder to stop that way.

Dictatorship happens gradually, and then suddenly.

(With a hat tip to Hemingway, who described the process of going broke the same way)

I'm recommending Ruth Ben-Ghiat's new book Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present to people interested in reading a broad case study of the rise, reign and fall of dictators, because it is a 100-year survey capturing the similarities and some occasional differences.

GopherGal

(2,952 posts)

7. Weren't they getting close to that

Reply to dhill926 (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 25, 2021, 04:44 PM

Jan 2021

with the unmarked vans grabbing people in Portland?

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)

6. He's a Belarussian citizen

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Mon Jan 25, 2021, 03:31 PM

Jan 2021

Lucky they just deported him to his home country.

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