Ah comrades.....I miss those lines for food and toilet paper. And I miss the sandpaper feel of that toilet paper.
Nostalgia is all they have. Putinist Russia has no hope and no future.
Understandable to some extent.
The old Soviet Union days weren’t so bad for the insiders and well connected.
They lived quite well on the backs of the masses.
They were just like our hypocritical political insiders today - preach socialism and lecture us how others should live but live like robber barons themselves.
Look at the Dirt Poor Clintons.
Look at Bernie Sanders and his new $600,000 vacation home.
After Trump wins the election the scammers and greedheads that he puts out of business will be nostalgic for the good old Clinton and Obama days.
I am dimwitted or is the gist of this AFP article is trying to suggest that the whole of Russia is waxing nostalgic for the Soviet communist era because a group was denied a permit to hold a rally, commemorating the end of Soviet communism in 1991, because they say (wink, wink) the rally is now viewed as an annoyance??
Frankly, I don’t blame whoever in Russia is trying to play down the inauguration of the Yeltsin era. Yeltsin was an embarrassing, bumbling drunk who forced Russia to recover from not only 70 years of communism, but immediately followed up by his reckless stupor, where Russia was looted by a cast of treacherous characters (oligarchs) and Western elites (e.g., Larry Summers) who designed the post-Soviet economy which shifted resources to the oligarchs.
Yeah, well so does the DNC, the RINO GOPe and the banking cabal...
They really seem desperate for another war to cover their tracks.
hmmm....
How bad are things in Russia today that there is nostalgia for the Soviet era?!
I haven’t heard anything about if they plan to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
The problem is that there are still many Russians who are partial to Czar Nicholas, or at least to old Imperial Russia that would take offense.
The U. S. S. R. did not come to an end due to a coup.
It economically collapsed.
It’s leaders allowed the iron curtain to fall, and nations who wanted to return to their own sovereign existence, did so.