You and I do not disagree.... These are in some ways distinctions without a difference. The END of both systems is death of freedom, liberty, and the individual.
Both are dangerous. But there seems to be on FR recently the silly notion join around that Putin (who is first, last, and always KGB) is somehow a nice guy who really isn’t all that bad. I want people to remember the Gulag and Solzhenitsyn and all of those who died at the hands of Putin and his predecessors