Your comments are right on point. I would just like to point outa couple of details that hit me as I read:
1. The Orthodox Church didn't invite the Pussy Riot to sing - they broke into a service and sang a song, suring the election period, that said in so many words, Putin is a tyrant - vote him out. That kind of thing is the onyl out let Russian dissidents, i.e., democratically minded Russians or at least non-Putin minded Russians, have because Putin has blocked all other accesses to media nad party politics.
2. Defecting is not always easy, unless you are alone and have no family back "there" to pay the price.
3. I still hope the cheater will be stripped of his medal. Perhaps after the Games. But, it is by no means certain.
I didn't know that the Pussy Riots invaded a service at the Orthodox Church. Putin is simply being a Russian Communist president who learned his trade in and at the head of the KGB. It's the old story - If it looks like a duck, etc" Why expect anything more.
ReplyDeleteINSANITY - is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Not going to happen.
Have a good evening(?)