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How's that Putinism working out for you Russians?

Way better than Yeltsinism or Gorbachevism. Russia isn't an U.S. puppet state anymore and not a failed state as it was under useless alcoholic Yeltsyn.

We have economic difficulties, that's true, but together with the rest of the world. So, it's not a Putin's policy's result. At least, minor bribers are prosecuted and some bigger fish is jailed.

Russia never was a US puppet state. It was an autocracy for over three hundred years under the Romanovs. Then, it became a monstrous totalitarian state under the communists for 70 years, a reckless threat to world peace, and a mass murderer of its neighbors and its own people.

Stalin collaborated with Hitler and provided NAZI Germany with the fuel and other materials it needed as Hitler waged war on Britain, Norway, the Netherlands, and France. Russia invaded peaceful Finland while Hitler fought the democracies of Europe. Stalin joined Hitler and invading Poland, too. Russia today threats all of Europe with idiotic statements about using nuclear weapons, air incursions, and the killing of Ukrainian citizens in an undeclared war. It support Iran with nuclear technology that the mad mullahs are using to build a nuclear weapon. It sell advanced weaponry to Iran and Syria assuring more war and more instability to the benefit of the Russian arms industry and no one else.

Briefly, Gorbachev and Yeltsin took Russia away from being a cruel and benighted communist nation and even worked to end its authoritarianism. But in their biggest mistake they failed to undo the elites of Russia who'd exploited the masses under communism. Russia remained controlled by the former communist elite who never gave up their ill gotten wealth. Essentially today it is this same crass but rich clique that rules Russia using phony nationalism as their ethos.

Putin returned the Russian people to their comfort zone with authoritarian rule; he reestablished their chauvinist nationalism, making the Russian people happy and proud again even as they were clearly once again a nation dedicated to poverty for the masses, philistinism, and corruption and lawlessness to the benefit of a small clique of thugs and cronies.

Putin's war on foreign food is just one example of how foolish he and his supporters are.

http://www.businessinsider.com/putins-war-on-european-food-is-facing-a-huge-backlash-in-st-petersburg-2015-8?IR=T