Something obviously just as true today as it was in Stalin's time.
We used to laugh at those countries where stuffing ballot boxes is taken for granted.
Today Mexico has a reasonably honest voting system, maybe more honest than ours.
Back in the day, PRI, the government party, ALWAYS won the presidential races.
There was a joke back then when Mexicans would facetiously say, "Today is election day. I am so excited. I wonder who is going to become president!"
I guess that Americans will soon be telling the same joke.