Ah, I thought you were speaking from a Historical perspective, not very recent events.
I will not dismiss some failures of character of some Western leaders, and questionable moments in modern democracies... but answering your question: in comparison to modern Russia, yes, those anecdotes are laughable.
None of the Western leaders has murdered or attempted to murder political opposition through several methods of assassination;
None of them has been on a rampage of oligarch executions to seize their assets and consolidate power;
None of the administrations arrests people for holding blank pieces of paper in front of their governance buildings;
In Western countries you don't have one, and only one press - the state press.
I mean I can go on with this list just to highlight the absurdity of thinking the sad anecdotes of the Western countries' governance remotely compares to the sht show of Russia. People live in misery there, by choice of governance.
In case you didn't realize, there's a genocide going on in Ukraine and it's being promoted in Russian state media.
I will not dismiss some failures of character of some Western leaders, and questionable moments in modern democracies... but answering your question: in comparison to modern Russia, yes, those anecdotes are laughable.
None of the Western leaders has murdered or attempted to murder political opposition through several methods of assassination;
None of them has been on a rampage of oligarch executions to seize their assets and consolidate power;
None of the administrations arrests people for holding blank pieces of paper in front of their governance buildings;
In Western countries you don't have one, and only one press - the state press.
I mean I can go on with this list just to highlight the absurdity of thinking the sad anecdotes of the Western countries' governance remotely compares to the sht show of Russia. People live in misery there, by choice of governance.
In case you didn't realize, there's a genocide going on in Ukraine and it's being promoted in Russian state media.