Randahl Fink“We don’t want it, we don’t want it!”
All Russians are happy that Putin shut down the internet in Moscow and Saint Petersburg… at least that is the North Korean style messaging from Russian tv 1.
Martin Seeger@randahl If this is what you get for invading your neighbor, I would call it a just punishment...
C.Suthorn 
@[email protected] @[email protected] I think this is in Iran. That there are sim cards in different colors. A color allows free access to the Internet. The others don't. Probably it is in Russia exactly like that. Putin and his friends have free internet access. But not the people.
@Life_is @randahl Authoritarian regimes are always hotbeds of corruption. Not by choice, but the nature of the regime requires corruption as method of generating and rewarding loyalty.
There is a very interesting book by Frank Bajohr about the corruption in the Third Reich "Parvenüs und Profiteure". It is easy to recognize the similarities...