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I don't like to be essentialist, but it's true that Lenin too was brutal, authoritarian, and imperialistic.

Allow me to reformulate : Russian political leadership has always been brutal, authoritarian, and imperialistic.

"Russia" is an arbitrary piece of the surface of the earth. "Russians" are generally decent people.

It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II

by eurogreen on Tue Apr 5th, 2022 at 07:25:04 AM EST
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Of course I'm talking about political systems. That's why I said "Russia" and not "Russians."

Ultimately Russian mafia neo-monarchy, US corporatism, UK public schools are all psychopath farms. .

The differences are in implementation - specifically how direct and face to face the violence is.

Western psychopathic systems specialise in indirectness - economic apartheid, debt abuse, covert propaganda to manufacture consent with the appearance of freedom, and distant foreign military opportunism. Direct violence is limited to specific subcultures.

Russian psychopathy is more direct and straightforward. The lies are more blatant, the gaslighting more extreme, the justifications more tenuous, the violence and repression more overt. What you see is what you get.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Apr 5th, 2022 at 08:15:59 AM EST
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Although those few Russians I have know have all had very authoritarian mindsets...

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Tue Apr 5th, 2022 at 11:56:41 AM EST
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