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Europe will lose all credibility if Russia wins in Ukraine, warns French president Macron
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Actually Putin became president about ten years after the USSR collapsed, so there may have been a window of opportunity
Yeltsin was a highly placed party member as well before becoming president. You could say he was liberal, but so was Orbán during his first term.
Good point. I'm not sure if the first president could've been not a highly placed party member, though, that'd be more like a revolution
That's my point exactly. No revolution ever happened, the same power structures that kept the USSR working the way it did keep Russia in the same path.