Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status”

• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One could argue that the USSR as a dictatorship is not much different than modern Russia as a dictatorship, and that claims of communism contradict the reality of the Stalin era, but there are certainly a lot of nuance that I’m avoiding with such a statement.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One could argue that the USSR as a dictatorship is not much different than modern Russia as a dictatorship

    Totalitarian and autoritarian dictatorships work differently. USSR promised better future and mostly delivered with occasional purges during Stalin era, while Putinism promises stagnation at best. First was ultrareformist, while second is ultraconservative, even regressional. First collapsed from stagnation of 80-ies, second is still going.

    and that claims of communism contradict the reality of the Stalin era

    Indeed, Stalin era is opposite of being soviet(parlamentary) and socialist.

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