votes. But it was very clear that they didn't represent real Russia. They weren't real men. They were, you know, they were nerds. And, you know, they clearly didn't reflect normal Russians. Interesting. Real men also something really to sit on a bit and to think about in the course of this conversation, this notion of masculinity. Oh, yeah, that obviously plays a huge role, almost to kind of a camp sort of way with Putin's photographs of him being so virile and riding horses and going around bare-chested. And so you were meant to look at that and go, wow, Putin is just so much better compared to all of this. And there is no real alternative to him. But we do have some sort of debates. They don't want politics to be boring. It's not meant to be fun. You know, there were stories around these parties and these characters and they were all, you know, these fun debates and, you know, you got to vent a lot of spleen. Though ultimately, when it came to any big decisions, all these parties (21/57)
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