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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Mon Jul 16, 2018, 11:36 AM Jul 2018

We Now Have A Russian Congress. It Is Official. We Are A Satellite Of Russian Government.

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We Now Have A Russian Congress. It Is Official. We Are A Satellite Of Russian Government. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Jul 2018 OP

Yep. calimary Jul 2018 #1

Yep. We have a Putinist government. dalton99a Jul 2018 #2

Yep, just call it the Duma... Wounded Bear Jul 2018 #3

calimary

(81,265 posts)

1. Yep.

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Mon Jul 16, 2018, 11:41 AM

Jul 2018

We ARE a Russian satellite now. And I’m old enough to remember when there was such a thing as “the Iron Curtain,” behind which there were numerous captive countries forced to live under harsh, cold Soviet rule. They were known as the “Iron Curtain Countries” and “Soviet satellite countries.” Now, that’s us.

dalton99a

(81,486 posts)

2. Yep. We have a Putinist government.

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Mon Jul 16, 2018, 11:43 AM

Jul 2018

Wounded Bear

(58,654 posts)

3. Yep, just call it the Duma...

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Mon Jul 16, 2018, 11:43 AM

Jul 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duma

A duma (дума ) is a Russian assembly with advisory or legislative functions. The term comes from the Russian verb думать (dumat’) meaning "to think" or "to consider". The first formally constituted duma was the State Duma introduced into the Russian Empire by Tsar Nicholas II in 1906. It was dissolved in 1917 during the Russian Revolution. Since 1993, the State Duma is the lower legislative house of the Russian Federation.

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