05.10.05
Putin, Russia, and USSR
Austin Bay has posted something good on Putin and the return of the USSR 2.0. It’s good stuff, you should check it out here. This is a highlight:
However, the other half of today’s Russia, made richer by the experiment of
perestroika, knows more about Stalin’s crimes than it did even 15 years ago.
Enlightened Russia affirms that we won the victory despite Stalin. It hates him
for his terror, his failure to prepare for war, his use of soldiers as cannon
fodder, and for much more besides. Enlightened Russia sees Stalinist
totalitarianism and Hitler’s regime as two sides of the same coin.
But the
Kremlin is pandering rashly and none too intelligently to the unenlightened,
socially backward half of Russia, refusing to understand that this bloc has no
future. In short, the schism has led Russia into an ideological civil war.
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