Posted on 06/09/2022 10:58:29 AM PDT by Wuli
Commentary magazine published one very important essay of the 20th century in November 1979: “Dictatorships and Double Standards” by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick [snip]... Right-wing authoritarian regimes, she explained, controlled only the levers of power and thus didn’t tamper with the “habitual rhythms” of traditional societies; nor were they bent on revolution. [snip]... Communist systems and ideology sought to remake societies, claiming “jurisdiction over the whole life” of their peoples, and therefore destroyed them [snip]... for decades to come.
[snip... no better example of this can be found than Russia, a superficially Europeanized society that sustained more than 70 years of communism. When the Soviet system finally collapsed in 1991, the result was [snip]... a decade of near-anarchy. [snip]... , Vladimir Putin’s tyranny followed organically.
[snip]... it is also true that Mr. Putin has been Soviet in his style of rule. He has amassed more personal power than any Russian since Joseph Stalin.
Many were naive [snip]... thinking communism was consigned to an irrecoverable past. The past three decades have proved to be a mere false start for Russia because the problems of communism are still with us. The Russian Revolution wasn’t preordained. It was a matter of many tenuous and contingent factors. Had Czar Nicholas II remained in power, Russia would likely have evolved into an imperfect constitutional monarchy, not the murderous monstrosity of the past 100 years. [snip]...
Nothing reveals Mr. Putin’s Soviet inheritance better than the structure and performance of the Russian army in the Ukraine war. [snip].... a Western army is built around its noncommissioned-officer corps: the various sergeants and corporals who impose pride and discipline on the troops. The Russian military [snip] sent into Ukraine had an NCO corps. That didn’t matter for the mercenaries and special-forces units that had fought Mr. Putin’s small wars.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Too many folks are brainwashed about what’s going on in Russia and Ukraine. They swallow the Globalist Kool-Aid from the lying warmongering Derp Staters or still think Russia is the Soviet Union. Sad.
That’s because the Russian Federation — by and large — is being run by the same Bolshies who ran the USSR.
Communism IS Russia...fixed it !
In the article below that Dr. Jordan Peterson provides a link to, it is shown that at a recent, major speech, Putin has publicly rejected Commununism, Fascism, and western libtardism, saying they are all failures and in their stead declared that hard-core Traditionalism should be embraced by everyone. So it looks like Putin wants an expansion of Traditional values.
Jordan Peterson
Putin appeals to his citizens to reject Western “progressive liberalism” not least because it echoes Bolshevism:
https://mobile.twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1481257700403171330?lang=en
Yep.
The Kremlin’s English translation of Putin’s words (April 2005 state of the nation address):
“Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and co-patriots found themselves outside Russian territory. Moreover, the epidemic of disintegration infected Russia itself.”
BOFIT Forecast for Russia 2022–2023
Bank of Finland
https://www.bofit.fi/en/monitoring/forecasts-for-Russia-and-China/latest-forecast-for-russia/
Putin says why he invaded Ukraine. https://news.yahoo.com/back-strengthen-putin-evokes-peter-221227292.html
Thanks. You might be interested in this very related video including historic information about Moscow.
Simple facts about Ukraine: ancient, beautiful... and with savage jealous russian neighbour
https://youtu.be/HS9G1WtECgA
Communist and fascist dictatorships have typically desired empire. That’s why they continually push for more real estate. They want to rule the world.
Communist, fascist or monarchy, such nations with overly centralized governments and psychopathic, Machiavellian, narcissistic rulers must be stopped from time to time. And notice that fans of such tyrannical rulers and bully nations tend towards psychopathy, Machiavellianism and narcissism: the Dark Triad. ...wouldn’t want to live with one of them.
Rd later.
Putin BUYs his “respectable Christian” image to BUY the popularity of the Russian ignorant in the countryside.
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