Russian true believers are different. They see Gorbachev as a weak cowardly fool. The crisis called for a ‘true Russian of the I
Ron willed Stalin breed’ who would have known to the Army and the GULAG to crush the dissidents and put the world on notice that was as ever great, powerful, and one and bend your knee before it or else.
In their own way those who long for the Soviet union are like the post WWI German fascists with their “stab in the back” myth and nostalgia for the Kaiser.
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