Why Hillary Clinton and NOT Melania Trump????????

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35. And in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Putin had

rose to power by hitching himself to the first major post-glasnost party that could defeat Gorbachev, who was planning easing the old Soviet Union into a Scandinavian style Democratic Republic.

Putin already was against Democracy and the West and knew he could destroy any mass westernization and retain support from the late Soviet Oligarch/mobsters by destroying Democracy from within before it could take hold and enough people got used to having a middle class and rule of Democratic law that they would refuse to return to being listless peasants.

Yeltsin was an easy tool to cultivate; loudly philosophical, naive, and as inexperienced with the various ways to govern effectively as the early Marxist Bolshevists were pre-Lenin.