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Another says Alexander Lebed would win a new presidential election if Yeltsin died (Lebed is still keeping company with thugs, warns the magazine).
The list includes beasts, criminals, villains, thugs, fascist legions, and hordes of murderers.
"They have been notorious thugs since the turn of the century," adds Matthew Singer.
Vigilance and combat are particularly essential to law enforcement and foreign policy, which must deal with thugs and tyrants, not thoughtless husbands.
Personally, I doubt that there was anything we could have done, given the thieves and thugs thrown up into leadership positions by the Soviet collapse, and the disintegration of anything that might have evolved into civil society.