Leningrad 1987

[Liberal In Texas]

The Orange Traitor is a Russian asset. No question.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Putin trolls us every day via his paid puppet.

[Igel]

2. Petershoff.

It's Peter the Great's summer palace west of Petersburg.

Catherine the Great's was no less sumptuous down in Pushkino.

But it was the style back in the Baroque--one would hardly consider the kings of France in the 1700s to be Putin's puppets ... Yet Versailles' ballroom.

[Liberal In Texas]

4. Apples-Oranges. Putin didn't exist in the 1700s

This holdover from the Baroque period seems to be a desire become like the royal despots of the 18th century. Complete with conspicuous poor taste consumption.

The present-day dictator's Versailles. Hard to tell the difference.

[Ping Tung]

3. Gaudy and kitsch then, Gaudy and kitsch now. Just like trophy wives.