@dump_stack

Oh I remember the reform of police and it did make a change because I was driving from Poland to Russia back then each year.

And I don't really believe in genuine popular support if you've got 24/7 propaganda going on, whitewashing all his mistakes and inflating achievements. This was 50% PR and 50% suppression of competing politicians.

It's statistically not possible that in a 140m country only 1 great politician appears... yet, somehow nobody emerged :)