Vladimir Zhirinovsky dead of covid at 75, known as fiercely nationalist/populist & "showman of Russian politics, brash, confrontational, anti-US"

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"Liberal democracy" is about the same kind of shit that Biden&co

Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party was neither liberal nor democratic. he instead espoused a fiery brand of ethnic populism. he pushed for a stronger Soviet state that would use force to suppress ethnic groups seeking independence. Zhirinovksy also championed transnational ideas of racial solidarity, ideas that included Americans. we "Northern people, that is white people, had to unite against those in the south to protect our culture", he bellowed