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Why do so many Freepers hate Russia so much? She is qor best hope to turn back the dark side (Islamonazis)

Hate? Much too strong a word..
Distrust? Much more "definitive"..

Some people think Socialism failed with the fall of the Berlin Wall..
Others believe it was the Election of Boris Yeltzin and the beginning of a "democratic" Russia..

Then there are those (of us) that question the accepted "truth" that socialism is a failed ideology and that we no longer have anything to fear..

Socialism is not dead..
It still rears it's ugly head in various places around the world..
For the moment, socialism does not need Russia..
It has France.. Germany.. Brazil.. Venezuela.. Cuba..
Russia itself has a large percentage of it's population that regrets the democratic revolution and wishes to return to the "old days"..
Russia is a nation that taught socialism for some 75 years, and they have generations of citizens that have absolutely no idea what capitalism is.. or how it works..
In fact, it has been instilled in those generations that capitalism is "evil"..

How do you convince nearly 4 generations that to work hard and make money is somehow better than not working at all, or only working when you feel like it, and getting enough to get by whether you work or not, is better?
They didn't have much, and sometimes they had to do without, but at least they didn't have to "do" anything for it...

And for a nation that supposedly forsook socialism for democracy, the new russia certainly seems to support a lot of nations that still adhere to the old ideology..

I don't Hate Russia..
But I'm not quite ready to "trust" Russia, either.

A pic to go with your post:

Russia was not a "Socialist" country. It was Communist, as is Cuba, China and others.

France, Germany and most of Europe is Socialism in action. Socialism is a stepping stone to Communism.