• @Munrock@lemmygrad.ml
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    311 year ago

    It tickles me that liberals call for “free and fair elections” in Russia, when that would mean the United Russia party would march straight back into officf. And if they adjust the meaning of “free and fair elections” to prohibit voting for United Russia, the Communist Party would be next in line.

    • @Soselin@lemmygrad.ml
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      311 year ago

      Free and fair elections would mean when the people of the USSR voted in the 1990 referendum to maintain it, Yeltsin would have been arrested for using military force to impose “shock therapy”.

      • @Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        letsin shouldve been shot after dissolving the ussr, let alone after ordering (and conducting) the bombing of the parliament

  • 陈卫华是我的英雄
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    301 year ago

    Trust me, you do not want regime change in Russia at this current moment.

    No sirree, things do not happen in vacuums.

  • @lxvi@lemmygrad.ml
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    241 year ago

    I think it will come back. They have a memory of the Soviet Union. They have the largest communist party inside of capitalist nation. They’ve already nationalized, centralized their core economy, though privatized government-bourgeois relations still exist. Primarily they’re tying themselves to China. Capitalism insures itself with NATO terror. If Russia started massacring communists, China wouldn’t be backing those massacres up. They’re in a position were capital is forced to capitulate to socialism.

    Socialism is guaranteed simply by not having an external terror campaign.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      221 year ago

      Yeah, my big hope is that now that Russia is firmly in Chinese orbit there will be a lot of impetus to create a similar system. As you point out, people still remember USSR. Lots of people in Russia have direct memories, and majority of people who got to live in USSR remember it in a positive light. There isn’t the same stigma against communism that there is in the west. Seeing China going from strength to strength makes a lot of people realize that this could’ve been Russia if they didn’t let USSR collapse.