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19. Russia today is an oligarchy/kleptocracy with an autocratic leadership

Fri Jun 23, 2017, 09:34 PM

Jun 2017

Under the guise of a psuedo-democracy.

Hell, even under the USSR it was only nominally Marxist for much of its existence.

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Republicans think that liberals are literally communists, but communist Russia [View all] elehhhhna Jun 2017 OP

The greatest psy-ops program in the history of mankind. Efilroft Sul Jun 2017 #1

Russia no longer has a communist economic system unblock Jun 2017 #3

We lost thousands of American lives in proxy wars with them. elehhhhna Jun 2017 #14

Exactly. It's worse than Benedict Donald cozying up to communists. unblock Jun 2017 #15

I'm not sure if we defeated them elehhhhna Jun 2017 #17

Right, that's why I don't give Reagan much credit unblock Jun 2017 #18

Russia not communist hasn't been for a long time. Voltaire2 Jun 2017 #4

In all but name! Chasstev365 Jun 2017 #5

Nope not totalitarian either. Voltaire2 Jun 2017 #7

Authoritarian kleptocracy Nevernose Jun 2017 #13

Fascist is a better description. Bradical79 Jun 2017 #8

Totalitarian dictators tend to hang out in the same circles. Initech Jun 2017 #6

Russia is a gangster/libertarian/authoritarian society... tenderfoot Jun 2017 #9

And how ironic??? bresue Jun 2017 #11

Communist Soviet Union was never communist... Thomas Hurt Jun 2017 #12

They do not have a center of logic. Baitball Blogger Jun 2017 #16

Russia today is an oligarchy/kleptocracy with an autocratic leadership Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2017 #19