“I think a lot of politicians in the west are beginning to realise that you can’t impose your standards for political life and behaviour on other other countries and peoples, regardless of [their] ethnic and religious make-up .... and historical traditions.
“You have to give these peoples the right to determine their fate by themselves, however long it takes them to go down the path of democratisation"
Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The Russian president as a young man spent many years working east a KGB operative in Dresden in the former German Democratic Republic.
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