Russian soldiers marching on Red Square in Moscow. Reuters
7 Reasons That Russia Is Not The Soviet Union -- Mark Adomanis, Forbes
National Review published a rather overheated piece the other day that contained an entertaining line: “Russia has become the Soviet Union with a better suit”. The idea that Russia is fundamentally the same as the Soviet Union is a popular one, particularly on the political right where “Soviet” has for decades served as a synonym for “bad.” Barely a day goes by without someone bemoaning Putin’s “Soviet” character or the “neo-Soviet” policies that Russia pursues in its part of the world.
However this idea is deeply mistaken and extremely misleading, and can only be held by deliberately ignoring a huge amount of contradictory information. Indeed, by focusing on the minor and superficial similarities between present-day Russia and the USSR we ignore a great deal of what actually makes Russia unique.
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My Comment: Being one whose nationality is Russian .... and who despised the Soviet Union when it was under the rule of the Communists .... I can attest that the Russia of today is certainly not the Soviet Union from a few decades back. The Russia of today is .... Russian.
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