The world’s despots are praising Putin’s sham election victory… but the dictator is being called the ‘new Stalin’ and compared to the mad Emperor Caligula
The world’s despots rushed to praise Vladimir Putin’s landslide victory in Russia’s sham election after the tyrant secured 87 percent of the vote.
The aging ruler, 71 years old, now dubbed the ‘modern Stalin’, has brutally secured his rule of almost a quarter of a century Russia until at least 2030.
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Putin cruised to an easy, predetermined victory when he was re-elected with a record 87.33 percent of the vote, after facing token challengers and opposition voter suppression.
Last night the brutal ruler delivered a ‘victory speech’, thanking Russians for their ‘trust’ and ‘support’ and threatening the West again with World War 3.
“No one can oppress us, they will never succeed,” he promised, adding that “all our goals will be achieved.”
Although there is no doubt about Putin’s route to the top of the polls, the despot’s friends abroad are busy piling on the congratulations.
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That of Iran President Ebrahim Raisi was among the first to toast Vlad, Russia’s longest-serving dictator since the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin – about his “decisive” victory in the elections.
Chinese president Xi Jinping also sent a congratulatory message to Putin, stating that his re-election “fully reflects the support of the Russian people.”
Beijing’s The Foreign Ministry also praised the “continuous development of China-Russia relations in the new era.”
Close Putin ally Kim Jong Un – which has provided Putin with huge stockpiles of ammunition for the war in Ukraine – sent “congratulations” to Putin this morning through his embassy in Russia.
Putin is simply sick of power and is doing everything he can to rule forever
Volodymyr Zelensky
Earlier, Putin was congratulated by both Nicaragua’s authoritarian ruler Daniel Ortega and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla.
The presidents of Venezuela and Bolivia, Nicolás Maduro and Luis Arce, joined the small repressive group cheering Putin’s landslide victory.
This also applied to former Soviet states – with close, ongoing relations with Moscow – Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Putin’s supporters did not seem bothered by the lack of real opposition candidates – all serious challengers were wiped out before voting began – and the deep flaws in the electoral process.
Anyone who might have challenged him has been jailed, exiled or killed in Russia’s toughest crackdown on opposition since Soviet times.
Apart from the fact that voters had virtually no choice, independent oversight of the elections was extremely limited.
The process also included an electronic voting system that was easily susceptible to abuse and yielded eight million votes from Putin.
There has been silence or condemnation from the West, whose leaders have sent lukewarm congratulations to Putin for his past victories.
But this time the polls were criticized by several Western countries as neither free nor fair.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron today condemned the results, stating: “These Russian elections starkly underline the depth of repression under President Putin’s regime, which seeks to silence any opposition to his illegal war.”
British Secretary of Defense Grant Shapps accused Putin of behaving like “a modern Stalin” and “stealing” the elections.
Writing in The Telegraph, he blasted Putin for “imprisoning or killing” his opponents, such as opposition leader Alexei Navalny, before the election began.
In a similar criticism, the Ukrainian president said Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Putin of wanting to rule “forever”.
He raged: ‘It is clear to everyone in the world that this figure, as has happened many times throughout history, is simply sick of power and is doing everything he can to rule forever.
“There is no legitimacy in this imitation of elections, and there cannot be.”
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Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, also labeled the election as bogus. “These elections are based on repression and intimidation,” he said.
A White House spokesman also said last night: “The election is clearly not free or fair, given the way Mr. Putin has jailed political opponents and prevented others from running against him.”
Putin’s former speechwriter Abbas Gallyamov said that “no one will believe the “crazy” part of the votes for the dictator.
It was clear the vote had been rigged, he said. “There is no need to prove anything, it is now an axiom.
“Just compare the official result with yesterday’s photos of anti-Putin lines at polling stations, with a huge amount of photos of invalid ballots – and everything will become clear to you.
“Putin preferred to convince critics that he was strong than supporters that he was honest,” he said.
“This is the same logic as in the case of Navalny’s murder and the repression in general…”
Referring to the infamous and bloodthirsty Roman emperor CaligulaGallyamov said it was “the logic of Caligula… Don’t let them love you as long as they are afraid.”
He continued: “The only problem is that the Russian president can only show his strength to his own – unarmed – citizens.
“And he cut his teeth on the Ukrainians. So he’s not that strong either.”
Among the fantastic statistics was the claim of a 99.8 percent turnout, including Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.
The latest support for Putin in Chechnya received an incredible 98.9 percent of the vote.
At the same time, exit polls and some results showed that Russian voters abroad – who did not face repression from the authorities – supported candidate Vladislav Davankov, ahead of Putin.
The actual results of Russians voting in Belgrade showed that Davankov scored more than six times as many votes as Putin: 67 percent to Putin’s paltry 10 percent.
In Prague, Davankov scored 60 percent and Putin only 16 percent.
Even with little room for protest, more than 75 citizens were arrested as Russians crowded outside polling stations at noon on Sunday to show their dissatisfaction over the shameful election.
They responded to calls from Alexei Navalny before his death last month, when he asked Russians to show up to spoil their ballots or vote for another candidate.
His wife Yulia reiterated his call for the courageous ‘afternoon against Putin’ protests. joining the crowds of demonstrators in Berlin and write her late husband’s name on the ballot.
All weekend long, Putin was furious when he saw some brave Russians destroying ballots with ink and throwing petrol bombs at voting booths.
In Russian embassies around the world, where Putin’s rule is weaker, people could riot even more defiantly when they voted.
They showed up in large numbers, some waving banners reading “He is not president” and “This is not an election.”
A blood-red sign in Georgia read: ‘Enough Putin. Lies, war, repression.’
And a huge effigy in Berlin showed the despot in a bathtub, painted in Ukrainian colors, washing himself in blood.
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