Joshua Keating has hurt my feelings

Moscow Times runs an article which exposes the vast contrast between Russian President, Dmitri Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin which is mainly that the President likes horrible bands from the 70s like Deep Purple and Pink Floyd while the Prime Minister likes lovable Nordic bands, namely ABBA; the least insane poster over at the Foreign Policy blog, Joshua Keating, posits that this makes Medvedev more of a "badass" than Putin.

What he doesn't know is that Medvedev probably likes ABBA too. Everyone in Russia likes ABBA. This is because Russians have excellent taste when it comes to the Arts. In the winter of 2007 there were roughly A BILLION posters advertising the "smash hit musical" Mamma Mia! and people would whistle such golden tunes as "Knowing Me Knowing You" and "Dancing Queen" on the streets. Students at the Technical Institutes would take study breaks, put down their maps, stop worrying about how best to punish the Caucuses and recreate dance numbers. If ABBA were to reunite and play a free concert in Norilsk, Muscovites would ride on the backs of wolves to the frozen Siberian tundra to hear the group's glorious, inspired pop sensibilities.