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Modern Russia is fundamentally not the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, at least according to its own mythology, was an instantiation of communist ideology. Mode
by philwelch 4y ago
Modern Russia is fundamentally not the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, at least according to its own mythology, was an instantiation of communist ideology. Modern Russia is not an ideological state in the same way; if it's motivated by anything, it's base nationalism.
- etiam 4y agoContemporary Cheka is a direct continuation of the predecessors though? The promised ideology may have been revised and revised again, but in practice the implementation of authoritarianism seems pretty stable.