re: #172 Justanotherhuman

I really wouldn’t be surprised if Putin guided Russia back into Soviet-style govt; after all, China is happy to practice communism for its own people while taking the West’s money.

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I would just because, well, Soviet-style government didn’t work. China isn’t really practicing communism anymore, it’s a lot more complex than that. The state-owned companies have control of less than 50% of the economy now, and even among them, they’re no longer perfectly command, they kind of operate like capitalist monopolies more than truly state organs.

I think Putin will continue doing what he’s doing: Have the country be a weird fucked up bunch of oligarchs with overtones of nationalism and militarism.