How Putin’s Sochi dream was shattered by Ukraine’s nightmare

By: American Decency Staff

Vladimir Putin has a dream – and for the past two weeks, the world has been helping him to live it.

In this dream, Russia is rich again, a place where the reported $51-billion cost of the Winter Olympics in Sochi is no object. It’s a nation of impressive architecture and smiling volunteers who speak English but think like Russians. “Russia – Great, New, Open!” brag the billboards around the Olympic city. (“Open”? Sochi has high fences, surveillance balloons and warships off the coast; every phone call and e-mail is monitored.)

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