Therapist: Fidel Catstro doesn’t exist!

All the best to Cuba!

Now you see how bad is in Moscow, tankies?

Snowy and sunny are idealization, and each idealization is wrong, most winter days are continuous change and mixture of intermediate states of snow and sun. Death to idealism.

Unfortunately, I perceive Putin as a right-wing nationalist, though he’s not a nazi. Maybe China? Cuba is unfortunately too small :(

The best I can do is: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1au0nyy/the_tennessee_state_capitol_yesterday/

Looks to me like your average day in America.

Well, this place is fucked.

Austria seems to be pretty fucking fascist country.

No way, Ukraine is on the good side, they’d never do that. /s

Another step to deflate the U$ hegemony. Good news!

Made me laugh 😂 I hope Gabe will get wiser and will be fine after all.

Well, this is nicely surprising - but I do expect nothing beyond that.

I am repulsed by commercialisation of the Chinese society too.

I can imagine - last 8 years in Poland we had some catholic indoctrination, fortunately it gave almost opposite effect - many kids resign from religion lessons. Sadly, liberal propaganda is overwhelming and so common that regular people even do not notice it ☹️

I am angry to myself that I missed 100 anniversary of Lenin’s death.

Could someone resurrect Lenin and my grandma? Death is a removed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwaXhTGEhIk

That is all true, and it is somewhat uplifting. However, there is a long way for Russia to be a communist country, also many people can be just nostalgic about their youth, as well as many people may remember USSR as the late one, where many of ideals of the original Bolsheviks were compromised. Some of them just miss «the strong nation», not the Bolsheviks’ ideals of creating a just workers’ society and propagating it to the whole World. Without clear and not-too-pragmatic socialist leadership, they see a shadow of a shadow. I think KPRF is exactly in this flavour – the flavour of late USSR. But with no serious alternatives, their popularity gives me joy as well.

I did some «doomerist» post today, when I cry why Russia is far-right and reactionary, and here I see some great news! I’ll drink some good tea for that.

This says that it is not so bad – but still Russia cannot be called a communist country nor going in that direction. With using conservative rhetorics, references to tradition, history and religion, it – at least officially – presents itself as a far right country. Look at their coat of arms – it even looks like a tsarist one. Many – if not most – of European conservatives think of Russia as of «the last bastion of Christianity and European civilization». Far right scums like Le Pen was very supportive for Putin. You know there is much more. For me all such things looks plainly reactionary.

Russia should be allowed to find whatever allies they want

Russia is not only allowed, but it has means to enforce it. I am rather concerned that ideologically, morally and mentally Russia is far, far inferior to the early USSR. And this trend affects other countries of the Eastern Block. I live in Poland, which is divided by liberals and ultra-catholic far-rights, most probably backed by Kremlin. The country is literally divided – I can not talk with my father, since he belongs to PiS supporters and acts like a member of a sect. This is not a country I want to live in.

I am aware that the market turn was a complex and unclear process, as well as deciding whether Stalin was personally leaned towards more nationalist policies or he was forced by the external factors is difficult (both things extremely interesting, but somewhat outside of the scope of this thread). Anyway, thank you for interesting answers comrade.