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Putin’s not a Marxist-Leninist anymore. All he really believes in is power. As a ex-KGB, he’s certainly capable of ruthlessness. Also, as I said, there’s no real proof, so far. I prefer to wait until something more concrete comes up.

I agree that there is no proof, just allegations.

Putin's not a Marxist-Leninist anymore. All he really believes in is power

But that is not a negation of continuity with the crimes and mindset of Homo Sovieticus. People who really believed in Marxism-Leninism did not survive Stalin's purges. Since then, the system was ostensibly Marxist but the real ideology was that of fear and power.

I have a technical question. For the past couple of months the server was not displaying special characters any more. I notice because I have a habit of posting Greek scripture (with translations) every day, and the Greek was coming out as gibberish. The bug was not only affecting Greek or other foreign stuff, but also curved quotes and curved apostrophe. For example, if I copy and paste the beginning of your text, it comes out like this:

Putinâ€™s not

That is because you used a curved apostrophe, not the straight "'" on the keyboard.

But your posts come out correct when you post them.

So if you don't mind, let me ask you: what computer/operating system do you use and what browser? Or do you make a special effort to encode your apostrophe by hand?

I recently wrote a utility that converts texts and for lengthier posts I use it. This is why my recent posts also come out clean. I was wondering what makes your posts work also.