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Indian here. There are a few leaders in India who can't speak one coherent sentence in english, even though they have a masters degree in english,

I second that. India desperately needs better quality leaders.

(me injun)

American here. There are professors of English in the US who pride themselves on incomprehensibility. And let's not get started on the social scientists...

(from an exUSSR, with sympathy)

It was hard in USSR to buy degrees and many USSR leaders actually have degrees. But our former leaders successfully exploited various loopholes in the education process and got good grades for social/political activities, not for education achievements.

So all in all, those looking for power will find their way through any system.

Well we have G.W. gone to Yale, FWIW.

And then got a MBA from Harvard.