I don't assume they're mistaken, I just believe it. Stranger things have happened in history.

Your explanation why is happened sounds plausible, but I still don't understand it. I would never trust a wildcard that comes with a populistic dressing. I cannot think of a single case in history where that worked out.

I wish there was a button to lock my own thread... maybe everyone should just mass spam report it and see what happens.
trying to get a blue when they're online is like trying to find Wally in a 140p full-screen resolution picture on a 1080p monitor.

It's like we had a choice... Whole country was under foreign control: American "advisors", "economical killers" were all over here in 90s. Of course all this crap couldn't be possible without traitorous dogs on our side. These dogs are still around here. On the contrary to common opinion, Putin is not a tyrant, because if he was - all these traitors would've been jailed long time ago and our economy would've sky rocketed.
So, things go slower, in a democratic way, but they go for sure.

I think I'm hearing it: "I like to kick fascist pigs and shit down their neck" :-D

If you compare with a purely monarchy or dictatorship during the whole time you would probably expect many bloody wars too (as it for example happened before the French started with the democracy thing).

It's really difficult to predict in which scenario more people would have died. Nobody knows.

One could expect though that once you are in a democracy it's harder to start a war because you need to convince much more people of any action. Dictatorships often start an internal war against opponents right after they start. One could maybe take actually present democracies and dictatorships and compare the number of casualties they inflict upon themselves or others (maybe withing the last 20 years). Should be interesting to see the results.

You have a good auditive system! :P

http://www.amerika.org/politics/entering-the-age-of-permanent-holocaust/

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/ga_the_infinite_wonders_of_creation_mark_viiii/page1

Maybe check what some of our GOGgers provided too us and vote upon it? :P

She lost because of Bruce Springsteen.. ^^

Well yeah. Despite the horror lists of the Revolution, the real asshole of French history is the Religion Wars era of the XVI th century, and those slaughters were fully endorsed by the kings of the time.
Doesn't change the fact that the French Revolution was a pretty bloody mess for the people that lived through it, though. But I still think it was worth it to get rid of our tyrants (and to kick the Church out of the political landscape). War was still present, but it became a serious affair, and not simply a sick game for the nobility.

But my point was mostly that a working democracy like the one you described does not appear in one day, especially if the old figures of power are lurking around. We take it for granted but it takes time, and those times can be real unpleasant.

We're going to need it!

Is there a good website with official numbers about the popular vote? I only get percentages, not absolute numbers.

Passes a cold one to HFTB. Cheers bro

It may well be that they did make a mistake, but IMO, it was for them to decide whether or not to take that risk.