bits of society. So everybody felt represented. But to make sure that none of them could ever really compete with Putin. So the overall point of this reality show was there is no alternative to Putin. But you had your crazy communists who were meant to kind of soak up some of the resentment of pensioners. But everybody else was meant to look at them and go, oh, my God, they're crazy old commies. And then there was the really far right guy, Zyrunovsky, who was created by the Kremlin literally, who would play the role of like the crazy far right Steve Bannonny kind of character. And he would get, by the way, like 17% of the vote. But most people go, oh, my God, he's crazy. And he would say outrageous things, crazy things that part of the population would like, but anybody normal will go, whoa, he's mad. And then you had a kind of liberals who were always a little bit effete and a bit kind of, you know, very un-Russian. And they would, you know, get their 6% of the kind of liberal elite (20/57)
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