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Lightning Strikes posted...

This is the thing though, the people saying that it was a fake revolution or acting like Russias still communist are wrong. It is a very different Russia. Just not, as it happens, a better Russia.

The revolution WAS a farce, though.

I presume you think that America under Reagan and America under Obama were the same. Countries change, even with the same sort of government. Russia is still very much the dictatorship it was under Stalin, it's just that the despot at the top is a different kind of insane. He still uses KGB hitmen to rub out his opponents, controls the press, and holds absolute power. He also holds farcical elections to make it seem like the people want him. It's all a scheme to save face, just like the fake revolution was once all the SSRs declared independence. And now he's going "I'll be taking these back, thank you." Which isn't very different from the invasion of Afghanistan in the 80s.