Masha Gessen | In the Russian Election, Voters Had Nothing but Bad Options

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Masha Gessen | In the Russian Election, Voters Had Nothing but Bad Options 

Masha Gessen, The New Yorker
Gessen writes: "The lazy imagination conjures totalitarianism as a regime in which citizens have no options. But the particular hell of Vladimir Putin's retro-totalitarianism is different: it is a regime in which choice is possible and necessary, but only between soul-deadening options."
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