The "new hope" of Czech politics - an elderly man who was in training to become a literal communist glownigger and who openly praised the crushing of Prague Spring by the Warsaw Pact, only to immediately start slobbering on NATO's knob after regime change
People vastly overestimate the extent to which people have ideological motivations vs. the worship of raw power. Nearly everyone is just a power-worshiper.
This is the president of a country where you'll get dragged by the regime media and investigated by the police for arranging shredded cheese into the letter Z on an open-faced sandwich, btw. No, I'm not joking. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go send more money to Ookraine because they're fighting for our precious freedom, the Bolshevik hardliner told me on TV.
The left loved Russia until it stopped being communist.
People vastly overestimate the extent to which people have ideological motivations vs. the worship of raw power. Nearly everyone is just a power-worshiper.
The left loved Russia until it stopped being communist.
Humans always seek power. It is what drives society and inevitably repeated rise and collapse