crackerjack
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There's been a lot of theorising lately about the popularity of new autocrats (not just Putin, but the PRC, even the likes of Shinawatra), but I still think this is some scary shit. I'm not sure who I'd expect them to vote for, but even so.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4339108.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4339108.ece
He sent millions to their deaths in the gulag, but that has not deterred Russians from voting en masse for Josef Stalin as the face of their nation.
The Soviet tyrant and Second World War leader is battling Tsar Nicholas II for first place in The Name of Russia, a domestic version of the BBC series Great Britons. Stalin had been well ahead in the online vote until the show's producer appealed to members of a popular Russian social networking site to back Nicholas II.
The Tsar edged in front tonight as communists and monarchists whipped up support for their candidates. Stalin has received almost 263,000 votes so far, against more than 267,000 for Nicholas II.
Lenin, the Tsar's nemesis, was third with nearly 187,000 votes. The top dozen included Peter the Great, Pushkin, Catherine the Great, Yuri Gagarin, Boris Yeltsin and Ivan the Terrible.