- -Chris Doss wrote: Me: This is pretty much general Russian opinion. This idea promulgated in the West that the fall of the USSR was about an oppressed people throwing of their shackles is simply laughable. 90% of people in the USSR were socialists or communists of various sorts.
- -So why did they elected successive right wing governments?
Alexandre Fenelon ------------- Me:
Rabid nationalism. They voted for corrupt nationalist pieces of shit as opposed to corrupt pro-Soviet pieces of shit.
Also, no country in the CIS is a democracy. The closest thing there is in the CIS is Russia, and then probably Belarus, and both of those are at bottom authoritarian states. Turkmenistan is ruled by a man who calls himself Turkmenbashi (Father of the Turkmen) whose major achievement to date is building a giagantic rotating statue of himself in the middle of Dushanbe.
Chris Doss The Russia Journal