[MadIvan]

A sobering reminder that the USSR isn't quite dead.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Poohbah]

A sobering reminder that the USSR isn't quite dead.

He's resting.

[Hoplite]

If I only had a shoe, I could really drive home my points!

[GOP_1900AD]

He raised pensions, cleaned up the streets .... and got the trains to run on time? ;)

Where have we seen this script before? And the scary thing is, these 21st century procrusteans embody characteristics of both the USSR and the Nazi / fascist lands of WW2. Whatever political label they have made for themselves, they are essentially National Bolsheviks. National Bolshevism is there, and it may be growing. Some would argue that United Russia also embodies certain National Bolshevik characteristics. Are Western analysts paying attention to all of this, or will they blow it the way the "experts" in the US and UK blew it during the 1920s and 30s?