• Aljernon@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    Putin has been more often than not genuinely popular with Russians; he was very successful at creating a persona that worked in his culture to secure and maintain power.

    And while Maduro wasn’t charismatic, Chavez certainly was

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      1 day ago

      You don’t talk about Hitler “more often than not” being popular with Germans. Hitler famously had huge rallies filling stadiums.

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        11 hours ago

        Putin has been in power for longer and there have been times were his popularity dipped. Then he launched a successful military operation and boom, popularity back up.