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[–] JasBC@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

...it would great if the tankies could understand that fact to be case in any other context when discussing Russia, but they don't, so we won't.

[–] psilocybin@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] JasBC@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Because it isn't logical, because it is all a mess. Yet because Russia claims Soviet glory and tankies actively shows the current regime reverence as if Putin was a General Secretary, it is rather hard to actually make a distinction between the current authoritarian regime and the one of the Soviets - the fact of the matter is that Russian political culture whether royalist, communist or capitalist doesn't change.