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Originally Posted by sterlingice
How is 2022 Russia communist? They look a lot more like turn of the 20th century hyper capitalist en route to feudalism.
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Transitioning. If Putin imposes martial law. Presumably, the government will absorb the function of the corporations that no longer have international value. They already don't have free elections, and the laws that prevented a president from being in office no more than eight years were circumvented to allow Putin to continue his role (in name, Medvedev was president for four years, then Putin came back and terms were changed to six years).
Your point about feudalism is certainly valid (I don't know what hyper-capitalism is). Putin does seem to see himself more as tsar than Stalin. But both systems (sorry Bolsheviks, you ended up killing millions over essentially laundry) are extremely similar.