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BlueStateLib

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Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:11 AM Jul 2016

Putin has long held a grudge against Clinton for trying to weaken his rule when he was most vulnerab

In December 2011, Vladimir Putin came closer than he’s ever been to losing his hold on power. His decision that year to run for a third term as Russia’s President had inspired a massive protest movement against him. Demonstrations calling for him to resign were attracting hundreds of thousands of people across the country. Some of his closest allies had defected to the opposition, causing a split in the Kremlin elites, and Russian state media had begun to warn of a revolution in the making.

At a crisis meeting with his advisers on Dec. 8 of that year, the Russian leader chose to lay the blame on one meddling foreign diplomat: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“She set the tone for certain actors inside the country; she gave the signal,” Putin said of Clinton at the time, accusing her of ordering the opposition movement into action like some kind of revolutionary sleeper cell. “They heard this signal and, with the support of the U.S. State Department, started actively doing their work.”
http://time.com/4422723/putin-russia-hillary-clinton/

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Putin has long held a grudge against Clinton for trying to weaken his rule when he was most vulnerab (Original Post) BlueStateLib Jul 2016 OP
When Hillary becomes president, she will do even more. Cali_Democrat Jul 2016 #1
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