Ever been there? Or just making sweeping generalizations? Ever lived under an autocratic regime? Visited a country where one is in power? Tell me about the atmosphere and the interactions you had with everyday people, please.
Ever been there? Or just making sweeping generalizations? Ever lived under an autocratic regime? Visited a country where one is in power? Tell me about the atmosphere and the interactions you had with everyday people, please.
Russia, no. My survival instincts tend to lead me to avoiding such places. I have spent some earlier years living in a society ruled by a callous and corrupt politician. Joh Bjelke-Petersen's Queensland Australia where the length of my hair was cause enough for the police to stop me more than once while walking in the streets of 1980s Brisbane, to search my pockets for drugs and my arms for needle marks. Friends and acquaintances had businesses threatened and/or raided unless monthly extortion payments were made. A few testified to the Fitzgerald Inquiry and one participated in obtaining secret recordings that were used.
Ever been there? Or just making sweeping generalizations? Ever lived under an autocratic regime? Visited a country where one is in power? Tell me about the atmosphere and the interactions you had with everyday people, please.
Russia, no. My survival instincts tend to lead me to avoiding such places. I have spent some earlier years living in a society ruled by a callous and corrupt politician. Joh Bjelke-Petersen's Queensland Australia where the length of my hair was cause enough for the police to stop me more than once while walking in the streets of 1980s Brisbane, to search my pockets for drugs and my arms for needle marks. Friends and acquaintances had businesses threatened and/or raided unless monthly extortion payments were made. A few testified to the Fitzgerald Inquiry and one participated in obtaining secret recordings that were used.
I'm not completely naive and unaware.
https://theconversation.com/issues-that-swung-elections-the-dramatic-and-inglorious-fall-of-joh-bjelke-petersen-115141
So that would be a no, correct?