Posted on 10/03/2014 5:09:42 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has warned that President Vladimir Putin's current policies threaten to trigger a repeat of Russia's 1917 revolution.
In an interview with Bloomberg, the former Yukos CEO described Putin as an authoritarian leader "forced to burn the field" all around himself in order to retain power.
"All authoritarian regimes, especially ones like this that aren't based on an ideology but on an individual person, are highly unstable," Khodorkovsky, 51, was cited as saying.
Citing dismal economic conditions exacerbated by Western sanctions imposed on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, Khodorkovsky told Bloomberg the country was on the path to an uprising similar to the 1917 revolution that ended Russia's tsarist rule.
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~Khodorkovsky, 51, ~
Lenin, is it you?
With 80%+ support for the Fuhrer? I doubt that. Slavery is in their veins, they honestly think that the rest of humanity would be better off living just like them.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
repeat? how about resumption?
The communists stole the revolution in 1917
~repeat? how about resumption?
The communists stole the revolution in 1917~
What is that happens when you have leftists on top.
Strong communism “fixes” weak liberalism all the time in the end.
What's Gorbachev say on the subject, it makes as much sense to listen to him as it does to listen to Khodorkovsky.
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