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Hortensis

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4. Funny. Putin's an authoritarian right-winger by personality,

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Mon Jan 25, 2016, 02:09 PM

Jan 2016

busily accumulating more wealth and power than any Czar or Patriarch ever had/ but conservative Russisans are doing what conservatives do -- revering the past -- and are thus nostalgic for the authoritarian but "left-wing" communism of the glory-days of the Soviet Union. So, sure Putin's been careful not to alienate his own conservative base by kicking over their collectivist-oligarchy idols.

Until now. I'm guessing nostalgia's probably dying off fast, in the literal sense.

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Putin denounces Soviet founder Lenin [View all] bemildred Jan 2016 OP

Interesting. Thanks for the post! Proserpina Jan 2016 #1

Very. You're welcome. nt bemildred Jan 2016 #2

He's right in this respect. nt thereismore Jan 2016 #3

Funny. Putin's an authoritarian right-winger by personality, Hortensis Jan 2016 #4

Ha! That's a mouthful! elias49 Jan 2016 #7

It's not really different. bemildred Jan 2016 #9

Probably. His religious nationalist targets Hortensis Jan 2016 #15

Yep. He knows his audience, he is one of them. bemildred Jan 2016 #17

Vladimir Putin is an interesting man - elias49 Jan 2016 #29

Granted. nt bemildred Jan 2016 #31

how interesting is getting beaten to death by a neo-nazi death squad approved by Putin's Kremlin uhnope Jan 2016 #33

given his mutual admiration society which includes Trump, ChairmanAgnostic Jan 2016 #10

Indeed. dawn frenzy adams Jan 2016 #25

Well, I do feel the Windsor family is far, far, far Hortensis Jan 2016 #27

Says who? Proserpina Jan 2016 #30

Unlike Putin, Lenin was "The ends justify the means"... Herman4747 Jan 2016 #5

Here we go. Brickbat Jan 2016 #6

the USSR took a lot more from HG Wells than from Engels MisterP Jan 2016 #8

Lenin in Zurich Paperback � May, 1976 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn bemildred Jan 2016 #11

How long before St. Petersburg is renamed yet again? FLPanhandle Jan 2016 #12

Undergrad. eggplant Jan 2016 #19

There's something I didn't expect to see. NaturalHigh Jan 2016 #13

Why did I picture Putin doing a Trump impression? Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2016 #14

I think the key word is the borders. I think Putin wants to abolish the borders. olddad56 Jan 2016 #16

Actually, Putin is a monarchist. Crowman1979 Jan 2016 #18

Yeah, he wants to be Britain, I think that's about right. bemildred Jan 2016 #20

Putin's grandfather was a chef who cooked for Lenin and Stalin. former9thward Jan 2016 #21

+1. bemildred Jan 2016 #22

Both of them believed to have been poisoned Hmmmmmmmmmmmm Monk06 Jan 2016 #35

I wasn't going to go that far. former9thward Jan 2016 #38

Russian TV Drama Documentary about WWI, WWII, from Russian perspective on YouTube vinny9698 Jan 2016 #23

cool thx nt uhnope Jan 2016 #34

Another grave dancing thread here on DU Kaleva Jan 2016 #24

He was just back from riding bear Kennah Jan 2016 #26

I thought this was the Onion DonCoquixote Jan 2016 #28

Yep. bemildred Jan 2016 #32

yes but tell that to Pussy Riot., Litvinenko, and the nation of Ukraine uhnope Jan 2016 #36

I'll bring it up next time I see them. nt bemildred Jan 2016 #37