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    5 days ago

    argentina is doomed, it’s like a victim of domestic abuse after being beaten to a pulp and almost dead, asking to return with the abuser or risking to lose its job, what is this boludez?

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        4 days ago

        40BN $ can buy a lot of votes, Yeltsin led Russia into the disaster comparable to WW2 losses and still won after getting much less cash from US.

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          Yeltsin literally had to bomb the congress of Russia and do a coup though. He was NOT popular and had no support from the people, just from the military.

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            I mean 1996 elections which were theoretically more or less legit formally, but Yeltsin bought so much votes using fraud and US money so he turned his 8% popularity into win.