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minus-squareAlcoholicorn@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·6 days ago gave them crumbs to survive on Compare the average life in China vs India, and how it’s changed in the last 75 years or so. You can do the same with Russia and Cuba. One side is getting a hell of a lot more than “crumbs”, and they haven’t even achieved communism yet.
minus-squareMaple Engineer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·6 days agohttps://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-rise-of-kleptocracy-power-and-plunder-in-putins-russia/
minus-squareBrainInABox@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 days agoRussia not only isn’t socialist, it doesn’t even claim to be: it is especially capitalists. How is it that you are so confident to talk on a subject you clearly don’t even now the basics of?
minus-squarebalsoft@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 days agoPutin’s Russia is basically christofascist capitalism with russian characteristics, sooo nice self-own I guess
minus-squaredavel@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·6 days agoRussia hasn’t been communist for a generation so what’s your point? Yeltsin sold the Union off to European and Anglosphere neocolonial plunderering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics)#Post-Soviet_states
Compare the average life in China vs India, and how it’s changed in the last 75 years or so. You can do the same with Russia and Cuba.
One side is getting a hell of a lot more than “crumbs”, and they haven’t even achieved communism yet.
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-rise-of-kleptocracy-power-and-plunder-in-putins-russia/
Russia not only isn’t socialist, it doesn’t even claim to be: it is especially capitalists. How is it that you are so confident to talk on a subject you clearly don’t even now the basics of?
Putin’s Russia is basically christofascist capitalism with russian characteristics, sooo nice self-own I guess
Russia hasn’t been communist for a generation so what’s your point? Yeltsin sold the Union off to European and Anglosphere neocolonial plunderering.