Gorbachev on Putin

Hakki Alacakaptan nucleus at superonline.com
Thu Mar 21 07:14:38 PST 2002


|| -----Original Message-----

|| From: Behalf Of Cian

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|| --- Hakki Alacakaptan <nucleus at superonline.com

|| > wrote:

|| > Yes but time to do what? That is the burning

|| > question in my mind. I have

|| > this secret hope that Putin is a commie and that the

|| > ex-SU is _now_ ripe for

|| > communism.

||

|| Isn't he a bit authoratarian for that. Unless you're

|| one of the people that subscribes to the theory that

|| the SU was communist I guess.

What a daft comment, of course not. But the SU never threw the working class to wolves, which is what happened when the ex-SU peoples got their long-awaited wish of living in a consumer society. So now they know both sides of the coin, they have more political experience than anyone else to come up with something totally new. And sure, Putin's authoritarian now. Let's see what he really is when he defeats the mafia, oligarchs, US-backed jihadists, etc., who've been trying to eviscerate Russia.

Hakki



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