Sometimes, the opposition doesn’t need to actually say anything, to show that the government’s run by madmen; they say it for us …

Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky has announced that the US government supports the television company Netflix, as it wants to “find [its ]way into every television set.”

“It turns out that under our conditions our ideological allies [he means the USA … Ed. ] are well aware of what is the most important art form of all [a reference to Vladimir Lenin’s words on cinema] – and how to get into every household with the help of Netflix, to find their way into every television set and through that television into the minds of every person on Earth. But in Russia we don’t understand. Do you imagine for a moment that these enormous start-ups just come about all by themselves? That some student sits there and dreams it up and billions of dollars rain down on his head from above?”

Well, Minister Medinsky, could it be that the only thing Netflix is interested in is running an entertainment business …