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		ztrtr on Dec 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Putin gives eight gold rings to presidents of CIS ... Can people from the periphery still get power in Russia? In the Soviet Union, many did: Kaganovich, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Chernenko, Gorbachev were from Ukraine or had Ukrainian ties. Stalin, Beria, Putin were/are from Georgia or had Georgian ties.

moffkalast on Dec 27, 2022 | [–]

Vladimir went down to Georgia, he was lookin for some land to steal,

he was in a bind cause he was way behind

as he was starting world war three

jjtheblunt on Dec 27, 2022 | [–]

isn't Putin from Petrograd?

allarm on Dec 28, 2022 | [–]

Leningrad to be precise. And it’s hardly a peripheral city.

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