Comments on: Nina Khrushcheva: “Here’s What Happened When I Held Up a ‘Putin is a Dick’ Sign in Red Square” http://milanoschool.org/nina-khrushcheva-heres-what-happened-when-i-held-up-a-putin-is-a-dick-sign-in-red-square/ of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:29:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: chris http://milanoschool.org/nina-khrushcheva-heres-what-happened-when-i-held-up-a-putin-is-a-dick-sign-in-red-square/#comment-430447 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 17:55:11 +0000 http://milanoschool.org/?p=121262#comment-430447 “a resilient style of top-to-bottom leadership: the “managed democracy.” In it, rights and freedoms are available even if diminished; protests and criticism of the Kremlin are publicly allowed, thus giving an impression of strong but not unreasonable power. What’s more, it’s necessary to kill and arrest only a few. The rest will control itself in the name of stability, fearing chaos and disarray.”

In 1988 I attended a theater festival in Colombia when a Chilean troupe performed. After the performance there was a Q&A and someone asked about the latitude for political action under Pinochet who was still in power at that time. A performer replied that Pinochet was very clever, that he allowed room for you to lift you head up and talk, it was only if you raised it too high that it would get chopped off. But you didn’t know what was too high, so you policed yourself. Dicks of a feather…

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