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The way their oligarchy is set up is the only way it can work without Russia tearing itself apart again. You can't just bounce back from 80 years of brutal communism and hundreds of years of essentially feudalism into a functional society without a benevolent dictator curbstomping all the massive psychopaths into the ground. He can't just have them all shot either, so he's gotta let them get away with some ultimately low level of corruption to keep them somewhat satisfied.
Russia under Yeltsin was hell on Earth and Putin saved the nation, and possibly the world because a country with this many nukes under control of some madman with delusions of grandeur might actually kick off WW3.
I just worry about what's going to happen when he kicks the bucket, he's pretty old already even if he doesn't look like it.
Yeah, it was a couple books I read 3-4 years ago about Yeltsin's Russia that broke me away from the typical "evil Russia" narrative pushed by almost the entirety of Western media. That whole mindset is really just proliferated by hypocritical politicians and alphabet people. Russia is an easy boogeyman for them.
If I recall, hasn't Putin mentioned stepping down or not seeking further terms at some point in the near future? That might be a good way to ease a transition into a new leadership. Of course I can't remember if that's something I read in the Russian news or in American news.
I haven't heard that but I don't keep up with Russian affairs very much. Finding an "heir" to keep the current state of affairs going would definitely be the smart thing to do, so I don't doubt he's working on that. As I said, he's getting up there in age, he's 69 now.
Putin's adopted son Ramzan Kadyrov believes he will be the heir.
(But he's also retarded.)
I always saw Putin as 21st century Vlad Tepes, relatively better reputation in his own countries while portrayed as a brutal dictator or corrupt KGB in the western media. If Putin didn't have a good reputation in his own country, I wouldn't see so many videos about how kind he is to kids and animals etc. recommended to me time to time. You don't see those kind of videos with a lot of western leaders.
You seriously believe the old school "Stalin is friend of all children" (actual Soviet slogan) style propaganda?
Speaking of which: https://www.rbth.com/history/328538-stalin-children-gelya-markizova
Putin's photo-op shit is really crude and often just stupidly so. For example he goes swimming and just happens to discover ancient historical artifacts lying there in the shallow water (https://youtube.com/watch?v=132i_zfDriw).
Which is why he gives little Ramzan everything in the world and lets him murder anyone in Moscow.
That's a good one.
Yes, because even whatever Kadyrov does is just peanuts compared to the 90s, because he's a gangster who's happy to steal and murder, he's not causing Russia to experience the highest amount of deaths since WW2, and his criminal empire is laughable compared to what was going on during Yeltsin's vodka-fueled "rule".
The post-war years were much harder (actual famine killed at least half million Russians and many more other Soviets especially Ukrainians in the winter of 1946-47 alone, and I mean "free citizens" strong enough to survive the war years). It's just memory holed, like all these horrifically maimed war invalids who have been sent to the deep countryside to die forgotten there.