The source is that time when Zelensky did LSD to try quitting coke
Russia is as anti-communist as it gets bro
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It’s a meme (in Russian ‘leftist’ social media) quote from a speech by Putin in Feb 22 right before he invaded. About how Ukraine is a fake country created by the foolish utopian Bolsheviks who used declarations of self determination as empty slogans to gain initial support. And then Stalin built a normal centralized state but didn’t bother changing the utopian “confederative” wording.
So now Putin is forced to fix Stalin’s mistake, put Ukraine through decommunisation and go back (presumably to how it was in the Russian empire) before all this communist nonsense.
Here’s the full speech if you’re interested https://web.archive.org/web/20220224052445/http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828
If I change the title of many Russian news channels to Der Stürmer, there would be very little difference between the rhetoric. Just swap German fanatical nationalism for a Russian flavor.
They should call it the UwUSSR
“Very credible source in Ukraine”: An alcoholised banderite mid-level official spewing deranged conspiracy theories.
Unfortunately, even if it was the case, the only thing in common with the former USSR would be geographical IMO. I don’t think it would even be close to socialism. Any thoughts on this? If there actually was a possibility of establishing a real socialist state in the former USSR, who do you think would lead the change?
I don’t think there’s a chance of actual socialism in the near term, but it is worth noting that USSR is regarded as a time when Russia was a superpower. Lots of people who lived during Soviet times are still alive and overwhelmingly speak positively of it. So, there isn’t a comparable level of anti-communist propaganda that there is in the west. And, now that Russia is being pushed into China’s orbit we’ll necessarily see influence from Chinese system in Russia. A lot of people are looking at China and realizing that this could’ve been them if different decisions were made in the 90s.
On top of that, Russian economy is already organized in a similar fashion to Chinese economy. State owned enterprise accounts for around half the economy, and government tends to exercise direction over private enterprise as well. I’d argue this creates more favorable conditions for transition to socialism than what we see in the west.
So, I definitely think there is a very real possibility of Russia transitioning to becoming a socialist state that’s modelled on China in the long run.
