[Navy Patriot]

Your comments are accurate, however we need to mention and understand that the legacy older citizenry of Russia have their survival, pensions and retirement incomes dependent on Communist programs that the Russian Federation supports as an obligation to Russian citizens.

The Bureaucracy seems like the Communist method and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation seems familiar to them. This will have to be reformed slowly as this segment of the population slowly fades.

[dfwgator]

Then it bares more resemblance to the British Welfare State than anything.

[goldstategop]

Much of present-day Russian policy is to honor the older generations and their sacrifices without the heavy ideological emphasis of the Soviet time.

United Russia is the party of power now and represents the ideals of Russian statehood and the revival of Russia as a great power.

For the post-Communist Russian elite, being part of the world is more desirable than trying to overturn it, as the Soviet elite had sought.

As time progresses, the Soviet era will have as much relevance to Russia as the time of the Tsars did to people who lived when the Soviet Union was still in existence.