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minus-squareMummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down3·4 months agoThey are conservatives. They want to conserve the USSR.
minus-squarenjm1314@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoThe irony there being that Putin doesn’t want the USSR. He wants to go back to the Russian Empire. He’s kind of open about that.
minus-squareZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 months agoGiven that conservatism is pretty much “what if we somehow conserved the power dynamics of the feudal era into democracy?”, Stalinism is just conservatism, but with communism.
They are conservatives. They want to conserve the USSR.
The irony there being that Putin doesn’t want the USSR. He wants to go back to the Russian Empire. He’s kind of open about that.
Given that conservatism is pretty much “what if we somehow conserved the power dynamics of the feudal era into democracy?”, Stalinism is just conservatism, but with communism.