Putin 1996

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Country: Russia

Language: Russian

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Posted by: kallekn on Oct 28, 2008

Putin talar om risken för totalitarism i Ryssland.

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However regrettable, and however frightening perhaps it sounds, in my opinion
in our country a turn towards totalitarianism for some period of time is possible.
But the danger needs to be looked for
or the danger needs to be seen, not in the law enforcement agencies
not in the security services, in the police force or even in the army
This danger is in the mentality of ourselves, in the mentality of our people
of our population, in our own mentality.
It seems to us all, and I won't deny it, it also sometimes seems to me, that if
we bring in the hard order of a firm hand
then all of us will start to live better, more comfortably and more safely.
In actual fact that comfort will pass very quickly,
because that firm hand
will very quickly start to strangle us
and we and our family members will instantaneously start to feel that ourselves.
Only in the conditions of a democratic system
when the officers of law enforcement agencies, whatever we might call them,
KGB, Ministry of Internal Affairs, NKVD, whatever
when they know, that tomorrow, or in a year, there may come a change in political leadership
in the country, in a region or city, and they will be asked:
"And how have you been implementing the laws of the country you live in?" and
"What have you done for the citizens, in whose affairs you wield authority?"

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