It’s sad Russia went backwards and allowed a dictator to take over.
It’s sad Russia went backwards and allowed a dictator to take over.
It’s probably for the best. Russia is prone to violence and has no history of liberal democracy. Expecting anything better than Putin out of them is a fools errand.
There was a time when the Soviet Union could have evolved slowly into something like a typical European welfare state, but the neocons who were advising Yeltsin advocated a quick turn toward free markets. But those "free" markets were quickly gobbled up by ex-KGB oligarchs who were then reined in by ex-KGB Putin.