Russia in a third world crap hole, and the people desire a third world despot like Commie Putin.
There are at least 25 million who would say it wasn’t so great, except they can’t.
KGB/FSB Putin - bottom, center
Ask the people of Latvia, Poland, E Germany, ... if they want it back.
Its what they see as their glory days. Do they want the old Russia back? The CCCP with all their former states? (Tsarists Empire?) Not sure they want the good ole Gulag days, maybe its just parts of what was the original design of change via Lenin and Trotsky? If they do its going to repeat itself again. I’m thinking there are many Germans also wishing for their good ole days, especially with all the immigration being shoved down their throats. LOL, and they complain about the white race? Relax, they’ll destroy themselves, they’ve been doing such a great job of it in the last century, they still have time to finish it.
Considering the alternative - German-style SUICIDE, it’s hard to blame the Russians.
Holy fook, how stupid do you have to be?
"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."
Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090228095645/http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=
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Did Communism Fake Its Own Death in 1991?
American Thinker ^ | January 16, 2010 | Jason McNew
In a [] 1984 book [New Lies for Old], ex-KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted the liberalization of the Soviet Bloc and claimed that it would be a strategic deception. ..."
"Golitsyn's argument was that beginning in about 1960, the Soviet Union embarked on a strategy of massive long-range strategic deception which would span several decades and result in the destruction of Western capitalism and the erection of a communist world government."
"Golitsyn published his second book, The Perestroika Deception, after the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. This book contained further analysis of the liberalization, in addition to previously classified memoranda submitted by Golitsyn to the CIA. The two books must be read together to get a complete picture of Golitsyn's thesis."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/did_communism_fake_its_own_dea.html
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Link to read "New Lies for Old" online:
https://archive.org/details/GolitsynAnatoleTheNewLiesForOldOnes
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Link to read "The Perestroika Deception" online:
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-TVvzZzfXiMBkMdvD
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"Gentlemen, Comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about glasnost and perestroika and democracy in the coming years.
These are primarily for outward consumption.
There will be no significant internal change within the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes.
Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep".
-- Mikhial Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union, to the Politburo in November of 1987.
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131219/185734707/Putin-Says-Stalin-No-Worse-Than-Cunning-Oliver-Cromwell.html
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"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'..."
"The more I see and read about Mr. Putin, in power since 1999, and his 'managed democracy,' the more apprehensive I become about the future of Russia and the safety of its neighbors.
If Putin believes that the dissolution of the Soviet Union into 15 independent states represents the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,' then it follows that Putin might well believe he should do something to repair the loss..."
http://web.archive.org/web/20090415000000*/http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html
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"The demise of the Soviet Union was the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century'," Putin said in 2005.
The French are fond of Napoleon Bonaparte, but it was a miserable time for the French. Endless war, a police state, and a destroyed country. Maybe people miss the “adventure”?
I have nostalgia for the former Czars.
Communism sucks.
Guess they miss the days of living behind barbed wire and waiting on line for bread.
Nostalgic for the Soviet Union?
Let’s see.....
The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred about 3 decades ago. People born since then would be around 30 years old and younger. Then, those that were 20 or leas when the dissolution occurred would comprise perhaps 20-30% of the population at the time. Taken together, those 50 years of age and younger would make for more than half of the people in the country, and would not know what they would be nostalgic about.
Somebody is playing very loosely with statistics.
This nostalgia is the only thing keeping Putin from being strung up like Mussolini. Oil is plunging every week, down 50% in 2 months. Russia has lost $2 trillion as a result, and is on the verge of economic catastrophe.
And they were nostalgic in the 90s because the system had collapsed.
They had lost their empire and weren't a superpower any more.
Are they nostalgic now for the same reasons, or is it that they think Russia is making a comeback?
“The number of Russians who regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has risen to its highest since 2005”
Same for the number of Democrats here, too.
Standing in line for hours and hours, waiting for toilet paper or bread. Good times.