From our Bureau of Great Moments in the History of Elections with some assistance from our Russification of Cuba Bureau
Czar Vlad the Invader received 87 percent of the votes cast in Russia this past Sunday. So, naturally, his colonial subjects in Cuba have congratulated him for winning a fifth term in office. And so have the North Koreans. When it comes to black humor, jokes don’t get any funnier than this. Masters of parody, these evil clowns.
From 14yMedio via Translating Cuba
The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, congratulated his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on his re-election for a fifth term as president, after achieving his biggest electoral victory since he came to power this Sunday, which will allow him to remain in the Kremlin until 2030.
“Our sincere congratulations on the re-election of President Vladimir Putin. It is a reliable sign of the Russian people’s recognition of his management,” the Cuban ruler said on the social network X.
Díaz-Canel said that “links between Cuba and Russia will continue to be strengthened, in sectors identified for the well-being of our peoples.”
In the last year, the relationship between the two governments has intensified, with the exchange of visits by senior officials, including trips to Havana by the Russian Chancellor, Sergey Lavrov, the secretary of the Security Council and the deputy prime minister, Dmitry Chernyshenko.
Russia is one of Cuba’s top ten trading partners, and both governments define their association as “strategic.” In November 2022, Díaz-Canel and Putin analyzed in Moscow the development prospects for the Russian-Cuban strategic partnership in the political, economic, commercial, cultural and humanitarian spheres. Several agreements were signed, including the supply of oil, a key area for Havana.
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, also sent a message of congratulations to the Russian president for his victory in the presidential elections held on Sunday, in which the authorities did not allow the participation of any strong opposition candidate.
Bad as Putin is, I’d have thought he’d have more self-respect than to put up such a monument to a cheesy con man. It’s not as if he had to curry favor with the whorish Castro, Inc., who’d kiss his ass no matter what.