Originally Posted by
Less Hair
Why all these procedures and formality when by now everybody already knows it is just fake and show? Who do they think they fool?
Internal audience. The people of Russia. Putin conciders that formality his shield and defence.
Even Stalin was afraid of being overthrown, especially the days when oepration Barbarossa began and the news of german advance and collapse of the red army started to emerge. When they came for him on the morning of 22nd June 1941 he was certain that they were to take him out and shoot him. When that didn't happen it took him a few days to realize that others feared him more and took control.