How lovely. In their servile ecstasy, they no longer even see how they are exposing themselves.
Take a look at this report from Biysk television (in Altai Krai, Siberia) about how signatures are being collected in support of Putin.
The signature collection point was set up in the factory’s House of Culture, and students and employees from other enterprises were bused there.
They say it outright: In four days, virtually all employees of the city’s enterprises and students of secondary vocational and higher educational institutions expressed their support for Vladimir Putin.
I should note that Biysk is unquestionably the poorest of all the cities I visited during my campaign trips. Salaries are around 15,000–19,000 rubles a month, and everywhere you look there are ads saying “Lawyer specializing in debt collectors.” It’s just awful. To claim that Putin enjoys high support in Altai is simply ridiculous.
And that is clear from the voting results for United Russia as well—one of the lowest in the country.
The same signature-gathering methods are being used in Kurgan too.
And obviously, this is happening across the whole country. Roizman was absolutely right.
Putin has been in power for 18 years, and he still cannot honestly collect even 300,000 signatures in his support.
His only path to victory is to allow only those candidates onto the ballot who will not seriously campaign at all. And that is exactly what happened.
Do not take part in these “elections.” Do not recognize them. Urge everyone around you to do the same.