Both groups understand the same things. The difference is that Russians see that socialism leads to failure, and they know that's a bad thing. obama's voters see that socialism leads to personal power, and they don't care that national failure comes along with that power.
Today's Eastern Europe people DID experience Communism and want NO PART of it.
Today's Western Europe people DID NOT experience Communism - but their MSM and universities were steeped in its communist propaganda for 50 years, and so have convinced the dumbed masses that they (the masses) want THEIR PART of it.
About time for the “red states” to make a declaration of independence from the rump government that styles itself “blue-state”. WE do not have to obey the dictates of the failing nascent obama regime. That is for the sissy-boys and the she-men of the fever-swamp left, not for real Americans. There shall soon be no practical framework from which to run the newly highly centralized government.
They may not be able to escape in Chicago from this highly partisan form of pseudo-diversity, but nobody has to hold still for it in the broad prairies that stretch to the south and west from that benighted city.