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Originally Posted by Plethon
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I know it from the example of my own country: as long as it had a government that the West did not like, it was considered undemocratic (and different kinds of pressure exerted thereupon). As soon as the government changed and the darling parties of the West came to power, suddenly it came to be considered as "democratic", although nothing of real substance changed.
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It is similar to the use of terms like "moderate" and "hardliner" in media reports to signal who is good or bad in foreign places as diverse as Ukraine, Fiji or Venezuela. The BBC especially loves such lazy and simpleminded terms.