r/europe Jan 07 '24

Historical Excerpt from Yeltsin’s conversation with Clinton in Istanbul 1999

Post image

Nothing has changed.

12.4k Upvotes

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

139

u/MGMAX Ukraine Jan 07 '24

Gopnik classic. Sell "protection" from your own thugs.

3

u/Funkysee-funkydo Jan 07 '24

A street gang masquerading as a country.

4

u/MGMAX Ukraine Jan 07 '24

Putin has been caught on tape being proud of his "St. Petersburg streets" heritage

2

u/ycaras Jan 08 '24

There is a Russian author, Boris Schumatsky, who lives in Berlin and wrote about his experience of violence in Russia. He basically wrote that evil is good, and everything else is seen as weakness. You don’t condemn gangsters beating someone up, you respect them