That's how they operated in "people's democracies" such as East Germany and Czechoslovakia, but I think that in the Soviet Union proper, there was only one legal political party until 1988.… (View Post)
Assuming Trump is a Russian agent, he might do that, if the Russians ask him to, but they don't seem to feel strongly on the Israel/Palestine issue. (View Post)
Kearns isn't shadow junior minister at Foreign any more. She's currently, as of November, a shadow junior minister at the Home Office (according to Wikipedia, or Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary … (View Post)
I suppose those analogies are for the type of split rather than the relative size of the states, since for size/ratio the analogy would be the opposite way round. West Germany was 70% of today's Germ… (View Post)