At the moment, it seems clear Russia is winning the Ukraine war, and no matter how many weapons NATO gives, that reality likely won’t change. Still, others have dreamed up a theory of victory for Ukraine that looks nearly impossible, but, nonetheless, should be considered and debated. Indeed, while it might not be a popular […]
I might be overly critical, because as a Russian myself, I am very unsatisfied with the current state of Russia, and I recognize that maybe he’s not exactly a fascist, but more of a reactionary. Things like having castrated communists party, the anti-LGBT laws, his endorsement of Ivan Ilyin (a fascist and nazi sympatizer!) and Dugin, his slander of communism and Lenin, the lack of effort in social plan for the poor…
He’s not a communist, but not a Gaddafi (a criticizable person who did a lot of good things, and was overall a great thing for Lybia) either.
Credit where it’s due tho, at least he avoided the entire collapse of Russia post-Yeltsin.
My cousin lives in Russia and he also obviously agrees that current state is not good, from what he told me, CPRF is the biggest opposition(and biggest communist party) there is to Putin, but for some reason they agree with him on some policies. For LGBT, it’s completely unfair to criticize him on that considering that his stance is the norm in even most of the communist parties since Stalin, it was the same during USSR, CPRF has the same stance, KKE has same stance and it was the same during Tito in Yugoslavia here, so pretty much Eastern European standard. As for Illyin… yikes.
And he sometimes praises Stalin for some reason(even while shitting on Lenin), although he had some interesting takes recently like that time when he said that nationalism is the first stage to nazism since it’s based not only on love for nation but also on hatred for others. So it’s really hit or miss with him.