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Entry: Two Cheers for Putin Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/two_cheers_for_putin#5030 Post contents: @Theodore No one claims that Putin is this knight in white armor, nor a democrat (I loved his rejoinder to Bush about democracy in Russia "You want us to be democratic like Iraq?"). But he is a sensible man who is doing things that need to be doing. Unfortunately there is no democratic tradition in Russia, but a strongly autocratic one. Sure, he is a former secret policeman, but you do not realize what this means. That, after the disaster caused by all that Western advice, the only insitution that could be said to hold itself together and to function somehow was the KGB. So, of course, it took over. Sent at: 2008 07 24