[dfwgator]

It will become yet increasingly more obvious in time that the Russian leaders are trying to put the Soviet Union back together again

You mean The Russian Empire....Let's not forget that Russia has been like this long before the Bolsheviks came onto the scene.

[familyop]

"You mean The Russian Empire....Let's not forget that Russia has been like this long before the Bolsheviks came onto the scene."

That's true, including political censorship! From an old American point of view, empire, monarchy, communism, fascism, they're all too similar--very centralized and too corrupted at the start. Most Chinese folks don't know it, but they're addicted to empire and expansionism, too.