But most are glad to have thrown off the old system right? That was really my point in making the comparison between other Eastern European countries and Russia when I read that so many in the Soviet Union wouldn’t mind going back to the way it was.
Sure, people are glad that we are no longer communist country. I think that in Russia most of them don’t wont SU back either. Russians have different mentality, they have no problem living poorly without democracy if only their country is powerful. That is why they support Putin, he gives them such illusion.
It isn’t a choice between one or the other, it’s the fact that privatization was done incredibly poorly benefitting only those close to the corridors of power...just like in Russia. Many now associate capitalism with blatant theft thanks to these privatization schemes.