Did Bert bite you too?
Schism is caused by people like you, who oppose the opinion of the active part of the CIS community. There was a vote. There were even two votes.
the one who was proclaimed by the activists won.
Volgograd didn't inflate the number of votes, didn't dig up dead people. Yekaterinburg, for the most part, didn't either: it's just that Yekaterinburg appealed more to the "fives" group.
the rest of those who voted are real people who did so in a sound mind and with clear memory.
and are the "fives" no longer people? are they a lower caste, so we'll reduce the weight of their votes! but the viewers are people, yes! they are a higher caste, so we'll increase the weight of their votes!
Half of those who voted for Korolev hadn't participated in the past 7 years (and with a high probability, won't participate in the next 7 times 7 years).
but those who go to Volgograd would go anywhere, because geography isn't that important to them, unlike those who didn't vote for the Vigo bid, and specifically voted against it because of geography.
Korolev is not suitable for organizing the CIS event - neither at the level of the initial organizing team (at least because it took a week to get to the base, lol), nor at the level of the base itself: this "hotel" is known throughout the area as a "brothel on wheels."
(с) Roger Zelazny