WilliamIII, the point of the book is that Russia is in “psychosis” mode precisely because it can’t make up its mind about what to condemn or celebrate about its past. For a good while, I lived in a Russian home and slept under a portrait of Stalin next to an icon of Jesus.
Consider the following statement made by historian Irina Pavlova in her article about the modern Russian struggle to settle on a consistent ideology (translated from Russian)
“Today we can already state the fact of schizophrenia of public consciousness in Russia. It paradoxically coexist assessment of the October revolution of 1917 as a disaster and a desire to return to the Soviet past, condemnation of the repression and the veneration of Stalin as a statesman, anti-Westernism and talk about democracy.”
Modern-day Russians have no use for Lenin, Brezhnev or any other Communist leader, but Stalin is different, they don’t even see him as a Communist. They see him as the one responsible for making Russia powerful, despite his methods, much like Ivan the Terrible.
I’ll take whatever they’re drinking if it would get me the 12 percent flat tax that they reportedly have in Russia! The author may call that “crisis”. but it certainly isn’t communism. If he wants real crisis, the author should write about California, Illinois, or NY. That’s where modern communism has found a home
Another reason our media and fake-conservative neocons hate Russia: Russia has said no to the gay agenda. They don’t let gay couples adopt orphans. That makes them evil in our establishment’s eyes