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Putin isn’t in any way a communist.
by School-Cotton 2y ago
Putin isn’t in any way a communist.
- wraaath 2y agoHe's an autocrat acting on delusions of empire building. That is the root of Russia invading Ukraine. All the other excuses are ancillary or nonsense (Nazis etc)
- School-Cotton 2y agoTrue, but unrelated to whether he's a communist. There are authoritarian and libertarian communists but Putin is neither.
- Braxton1980 2y agoAs a former KGB officer wouldn't he be the most likely to want a return to the old ways?
- School-Cotton 2y agoWhat does the KGB have to do with communism? A lot of countries have had draconian secret police and spy agencies, regardless of whether those countries were communist or not. For example, the Gestapo in Nazi-era Germany.
- Braxton1980 2y agoIt has nothing to do with communism and I didn't say that it does. I was referring to the single party authoritarian government of the USSR
- School-Cotton 2y agoSure, but the person I responded to asserted it had to do with communism, so that’s the context I was replying to.
- Braxton1980 2y agoThen I apologize for jumping in the conversation. Either way Putin is evil and Republicans are all traitors for supporting him
- consteval 2y agoThis is such an absurd stretch that I don’t think anyone can actually believe it, even if they wanted to.
- Braxton1980 2y agoCan you elaborate?
- Aeolun 2y agoCongratulations, now can you respond to the contents of the message, instead of jumping on technicalities? How is whether he is actually a communist relevant to the substance of what I wrote? The point is that he wasn’t exactly trustworthy to begin with, and an erstwhile enemy. You don’t feel betrayed when your enemy does what you expected him to.