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Nyet12/06/2010 6:51:52 am PST

re: #38 Obdicut

Tolerance of what, corruption? It’s more like we’ve more or less given up on that, though of course Medvedev now starts yet another “war on corruption”. Which is kinda pointless because corruption is everywhere. That means the cops/prosecutors/officials are also corrupt, and since it’s a system, it’s hard to go against it, so they try to be a part of it. Only when extreme things like this mass murder happen do we see “officially” what’s underneath, because the higher-ups need to save face. (There is only one positive aspect of corruption, one can buy one’s way out of the army draft.)