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You are now in charge of Russia. What do you do? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Cryophilia@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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You have all the powers that Putin currently does. Everyone completely loyal to Putin is now loyal to you. Enemies of Putin are enemies of you. Putin no longer exists, and there has been a clean and absolute transfer of power to you. The economic, military, social and political situations are the same as they now are. You are not inhabiting Putin's body, you are just you. You're magically transferred to the Kremlin. The world at large doesn't know your past life, to them you have magically appeared as the new ruler. To everyone who knew you before, you just vanished.

Edit: no one knows your past life YET. They'll quickly figure it out. You will not lose any support based on your actions in your past life.

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[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 80 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

Give Volodymyr a call
Pull out of Ukraine and Georgia
Hand over Putin to ICC
Instruct the loyalists that democratic reform is coming, and nobody is to be given the window/tea treatment.
Call Navalnys widow and tell her to prepare her political aparatus
Announce an election in 6 months (should be enough to prepare everything, I guess?) with international observers encouraged to participate
Realize that I have no fucking idea how to ensure that elections on that scale are free and fair, so I ask for assistance from aforementioned observers.
Pull an epic prank on Lukashenko. Possibly involving potatoes.
Realize that I am in no way fit to run a country, and start planning my (safe) exit. Once the election results are in I'll be gone without a trace.
Repeal putins laws
Start releasing political prisoners
Last thing I do before leaving is calling this guy named/called Misha whether he's fine with Murmansk, or if he wants the city to have a new name.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Sounds like a good way to get a pro Putin oligarch elected. Even with fair elections they have a lot of support.

[–] ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place 12 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

There will be an epidemic of falls through windows. It will affect oligarchs and will spare the population. There is a cure: leaving the country after having relinquished all your money to the government.

Oligarchs problem solved.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Sounds like how Stalin got his start. "If I just kill this small group of bad people things will be better."

Oh no, the people who replaced them are corrupt too. Ok, this next wave of executions will surely send the right message.

[–] ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place 15 points 3 weeks ago

"The murdering will continue until corruption decreases"

I think it's a good plan. I either stop corruption or I run out of people (which technically will stop corruption too).

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, it kinda worked for him

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