[ETL]

Putin has no genuine interest in conservatism.

Did Communism Fake Its Own Death in 1991?
American Thinker ^ | January 16, 2010 | Jason McNew

In a [] 1984 book [New Lies for Old], ex-KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted the liberalization of the Soviet Bloc and claimed that it would be a strategic deception. ..."

"Golitsyn's argument was that beginning in about 1960, the Soviet Union embarked on a strategy of massive long-range strategic deception which would span several decades and result in the destruction of Western capitalism and the erection of a communist world government."

"Golitsyn published his second book, The Perestroika Deception, after the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. This book contained further analysis of the liberalization, in addition to previously classified memoranda submitted by Golitsyn to the CIA. The two books must be read together to get a complete picture of Golitsyn's thesis."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/did_communism_fake_its_own_dea.html
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Link to read "New Lies for Old" online:
https://archive.org/details/GolitsynAnatoleTheNewLiesForOldOnes
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Link to read "The Perestroika Deception" online:
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-TVvzZzfXiMBkMdvD

[annalex]

The truth is that the USSR had its version of conservatism. It was entirely coercive, big-government conservatism: the gays were jailed (along with the political dissidents), abortions were either permitted or punishable by law depending where the nations’s demographics were. The art was said to “belong to the people”, which, of course, practically defined ideological sentimentalism. The Russian Federation’s conservatism is not conservatism of the English enlightenment kind of laissez-faire and capitalism; it is a police state that has not respect for individual rights or justice.