Excuse me, but this makes no sense. In the 1990s, the Russian government had no public approval and was run (largely) by kleptocrats who pushed through tremendously unpopular policies and stole (really stole, not just fiddled with a few percentage points) elections. This was even worse on the local level. Whereas today, the Russian government has great public approval and tremendously popular policies, and the local governments are more-or-less (more less than more) beaten into line.
How did the democratic system collapse?
--- On Tue, 6/16/09, Itamar Shtull-Trauring <itamar at itamarst.org> wrote:
>
> Except the ones I noted in my original posting, which in
> fact didn't
> mention fascism or the economy at all. My point was about
> political
> structure and the collapse of their democratic systems: the
> Weimar
> police and judicial system, government bureaucracy and
> most
> significantly the military were all unchanged from the
> Imperial regime,
> and never really accepted the legitimacy of the new
> regime.
>
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