Putin is often compared to Joseph Stalin, but nowadays, as the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s collapse at the end of 1991 approaches, he looks increasingly like Leonid Brezhnev – the symbol of a political system that is well past its expiry date. All that is missing are the jowls.
人们常常拿约瑟夫•斯大林与普京做比较，但是如今，在苏联（1991年底解体）解体20周年纪念日临近之际，他似乎越来越像勃列日涅夫了——与帝国时代格格不入的政治制度的象征。只是少个下巴而已。