[Mark17]

but give Putin time his paranoia and savagery grows everyday.

I am sure that is true. You know I have always wondered. Was life under the communists, that much worse than life under the Czars?

[blitz128]

Is there really a difference between communism and a dictatorship?

As for life under dictatorship, “communism” or czars(dictator), imagine is was all about the same

I’m Soviet Union there were special shops for elite, vacation resorts…. Tucker loved to point out the Moscow subway, but didn’t venture to see the Soviet concrete block housing and utter poverty of the east and much of what is outside St. Petersburg and Moscow

At this time sure wouldn’t want to be downstream from a Russian dam.

But Ukraine is full of nazis and corrupt so all is justified /s