Today Putin is scheduled to give his hugely important State of the Nation speech where he, as usual, will explain to the people of Russia that the economy is booming, life is getting better every single day under his strong leadership, and Russia is super successful and admired by everybody on the world arena.
In order to make the speech even more convincing, yesterday Putin was planning to inaugurate a “power bridge” that would finally bring electricity to the Crimea. Putin personally flew out to the “bridge,” the media came in strong numbers to cover the fateful moment of the peninsula lighting up, a ceremony was prepared, and everybody was poised for a huge Putinoid triumph.
Finally, the button that was supposed to activate the “bridge” was pressed and. . . and. . . and. . .
If you need to ask what happened next, then you haven’t understood anything about Russia at all. Putin went back home to work on his speech, and the hapless Crimeans are still sitting in the dark.
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I love these stories about Russia. They are so 1970s.
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Sorry, but does anybody know why all comments get a weird link to polldaddy in the end??? I didn’t set things up this way or change anything in the commenting settings.
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—Putin went back home to work on his speech, and the hapless Crimeans are still sitting in the dark.
Yes, but this does not matter. 🙂 I mean to anyone except the people of Crimea. And perhaps the Ukrainians. What matters is that 86% of the Russians believed Putin and many of them yesterday publicly celebrated and imagined how unhappy the Ukrainians must be that their evil plot was derailed so quickly… My favorite Facebook description of this ultimate Ukrainian unhappiness involved vivid scenes of the sky above Kyev being full of multicolored traces of “svydomyty” * who went up in flames and eventually exploded in the magnetosphere upon hearing the news of Putin’s magnificent deed.
* Play of the words, a derogatory expression used by Russian imperialists, a cross between Ukrainian for “independent” (?) and a “sodomite”.
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Yes, absolutely. Love is blind and the people of Russia don’t need any new reason to love Putin.
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“Yes, but this does not matter. 🙂 I mean to anyone except the people of Crimea”
I’m sure they blame themselves for letting the great leader down, if they just believed harder in him it would have worked!
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