“I feel badly for Putin. He’s damned. He’ll wind up like Mubarak, Gaddafi, and Ben Ali - it’s gonna end badly for him.”-Boris Nemtsov, Russian opposition leader, in 2011
As a student of Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Lucid chats, I’ve been waiting for this day. The day it becomes clear that a dictator is going to fall. The sign she said to look for is known as ‘elite …
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