Kremlin x Pussy Riot: Girls Win!
Posted Sunday, August 19th, 2012
"“Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?” – Alexander Pope, 1735
This summer, Vladimir Putin tried to break three of Moscow’s butterflies on the creaking, iron wheel of Russia’s court system.
On Friday, the three Pussy Riot girls were sentenced to two years in jail for singing the wrong song in church.
Stalin’s show trials were scary.
Putin’s show trials are providing a show.
Day after day, the Moscow courtroom provided a stage for three attractive young women, sequestered in windowed box known as the “aquarium.”
As their international celebrity status grew day by day, you could hear the Kremlin’s PR and political strategies backfiring, day by day.
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Under this intense glare of international publicity, gleamed a court system that seemed like a lost chapter from Alice in Wonderland."
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