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Josef Stalin once said that "cadres determine everything," and it's never truer than when you want to secure the gains of your revolution—and this was Stalin's expertise. Now that the People's Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk have been in existence for a solid month, they've turned to the eternal question of cadres. The People's Republic of Donetsk, which has been zealously overfulfilling quotas in red tape, has already named 28 ministers of 28 ministries, everything from agriculture to sport and tourism.

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