alt Hacker NewsIt's not just that. Putin and his gang are actively pushing what is now referred to as neo-sovietism:
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anthk • today at 12:09 PM
There's no Neo-Sovietism but Duginism. It's a like an even more hardcore version of the Spanish Francoism but a la Slavic way.
They hate science and praise the Orthodox ideology with high statism. And without a country-loving science China it's just getting a luxury present for free themselves.
They will progress like crazy with very little efforth and they could buy Russian assets for scraps.
Yes, but again - this more about their afforts to appeal to a certain part of domestic popularion rather than a fair attempt of rebuilding USSR.
It's more about "ice cream for 47 kopecks" rathan then anything else.