"Putin’s control of the media is becoming more and more comprehensive. What is left over, that ownership does not ensure, self-censorship increasingly neuters. The Gleichschaltung of parliament and political parties is, if anything, even more impressive. The presidential party, United Russia, and its assorted allies, with no more specific programme than unconditional support for Putin, command some 70 per cent of the seats in the Duma, enough to rewrite the constitution if that were required. But a one-party state is not in the offing. On the contrary, mindful of the rules of any self-respecting democracy, the Kremlin’s political technicians are now putting together an opposition party designed to clear the bedraggled remnants of Communism — liberalism has already been expunged — from the political scene, and provide a decorative pendant to the governing party in the next parliament."
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Perry Anderson, in "Russia’s Managed Democracy", London Review of Books Vol. 29 No. 2 (25 January 2007)
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Gleichschaltung
Gleichschaltung was a Nazi term meaning "synchronization" or "coordination", designating the process by which Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany, established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society. Although the Weimar Constitution remained nominally in effect throughout Hitler's dictatorship, near total Nazification was achieved by 1935 with the resolutions approved during that year's Nuremberg Rally, fusing the symbols of the part
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