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Originally Posted by Geraldsh
I am reading “The future is history “ by Masha Gessen which explains how totalitarianism has shaped Russian psyche and put Putin where he is today. Eighty years of rule by terror has developed a mindset that we in the west will never truly understand.
Putin wants his legacy to be a Russia World including all Russian speaking people, ignoring or abolishing national borders. At any cost! Totalitarianism works best when the population is in poverty.
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Eighty? you're having a laugh, think about 800, Russia went pretty much straight from agrarian feudalism to communism, they completely missed what we would call the Renaissance followed by the age of reason, not only did they not slowly grant the vote to a growing middle class like the rest of Europe but right up until the late 19th century peasants were owned by their Lords and could not leave the land they were serfed on, serfs were sold by their Lords to the Ottoman Empire as slaves