Soviet view of American elections

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From Morton Schwartz, "The 1964 Presidential Elections through Soviet Eyes," The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 4, (Dec., 1966), pp. 663-671:

"The 'real power' in this country is said to be concentrated in the hands of a small group of enormously powerful corporations. Deomocracy in America, therefore, is a sham. As Khrushchev himself declared in 1959, 'For them democracy is the opportunity to engage in glittering parlimentary oratory, to play at political deals among the parties, to set up a 'flowery screen' of free elections behind which capital is omnipotent and the workers are actually deprived of their rights.'"

The parlimentary oratory isn't even that glittering anymore.

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After today, off to see the remnant dwarf arctic plantlife of Little Egypt.

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Lenin's view

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Lenin, a diligent scholar of the American political scene, commented that in America the people have the right to vote for someone to misrepresent them.