Zhirinovskyisms

[carter]

Zhirinovsky is a drunk idiot. Drunk idiots vote for Zhirinovsky. There are many drunk idiots in Russia.

[Andrej_]

According to your theory, we are now almost free of drunk idiots, as he only recieved 6% of the vote in 1999 parliamentary elections ;P

[carter]

Official results from the Russian Central Election Commission

Number of citizens who took part in the election: 75,181,071; 68.74 percent of all registered voters.

Candidates for Russian Presidential Election, March 26 2000

Vladimir Putin 52.94
Gennadii Zyuganov 29.17
Grigorii Yavlinskii 5.79
Aman Tuleev 2.95
Vladimir Zhirinovsky 2.70

[Andrej_]

I agree with Apache, that guy is burned out. Makes me wanna zZz.

[davlet]

Originally posted by Andrej_
I have a book on the floor right now, called 'My Struggle', by Vladimir Wolfovich Zhirinovsky (Eidstein).

Eidstein? You mean he's Jewish? I always remembered him as an anti-semite (among other things). Oh well...

In a way hes expressing the thought of an average Russian.

He has very little support, THANK GOD!

[Bowery]

I bought a small paperback of Zhirinovsky quotes and speeches (translated into English of course) years ago - It was a fun read, the book wasn't meant to be flattering though.


I just remembered this is Russia.com...

SO, I have a question for you Russian folks. What do you think of President Putin (both your political and personal views of the man)?

[Andrej_]

His father is a Polish Jew (Eidstein), Zhirinovsky is his mothers last name, which he adopted later in life. He is well educated, and personally I don't care if hes Jewish, Chechen or Tatar, being Russian is a state of mind, ethnicity is hardly important in my oppinion. Hes a patriot, and while most people won't vote for him, they are glad hes there, hes their dark conciounce. Like they say, If there wasn't a Zhirinovsky, someone would invent him.