> Not gutting the machine that does - and that's courts, the entire FSB, whole departments of the MVD The FSB _itself_ needs to be split and de-powered. There

> Not gutting the machine that does - and that's courts, the entire FSB, whole departments of the MVD The FSB _itself_ needs to be split and de-powered. There should never be a state organization with this amount of power. However, people who were working there should not just be blindly purged. This way you end up with the Iraq scenario. From the practical standpoint, FSB also contains border guards, law enforcement departments, counter-terrorism, etc. They are all needed in a normal state. Instead, there should be _personal_ prosecutions of people responsible for political persecution and for the illegal foreign operations that started the war. This is probably far less than 10000 people. > Poland is not that small, more than 1/4 the population of Russia, and their lustrations worked very well. Their version was pretty mild, and even then had problems with false documents used to libel even Lech Walesa. > No living person there had any memory of democracy at the time they happened. Poland was occupied in 1939, so people who were 20 at that time were 70 by 1990. > Way to conflate civic lustrations with a war, and by total destruction by a superpower onslaught at that. That's another argument: you probably won't even _have_ a chance to do a massive purge (never mind if it's a good idea or not). But reforms are a possibility.