The Kremlin is Starting to Worry About Trump

[Xolodno]

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/13/the-kremlin-is-starting-to-worry-about-trump/

Vladimir Putin's entourage cheered the outcome of the U.S. election – until they saw exactly what they were dealing with.

In 2016, a senior Russian official explained to a group of visiting foreigners why the government had decided not to celebrate the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Yes, it was a turning point in Russian history, he argued, and, yes, President Vladimir Putin sees today’s Russia as a successor to both the tsars and the Bolsheviks. But celebrating a revolution would send the wrong message to society. The Kremlin today is staunchly opposed to “regime change,” the visitors were told, and thus skittish about eulogizing 1917. It plans to use the centenary, instead, to draw attention to the catastrophic consequences of resorting to revolution to solve social and political problems.

Looks like buyers remorse...

[Xipe Totec]

1. Sounds like they bought a pig in in a poke, or as the Russians would say

купить кота в мешке

(buying a cat in a bag)