The Soviet Union will never be restored. But the Russian state is undergoing some recentralization of authority following the USSR's collapse in 1991. President Putin is not in a position to restore the old regime even if that was his personal desire. He does want to be a "little tsar" and that in keeping with Russian history.
"The Soviet Union will never be restored. But the Russian state is undergoing some recentralization of authority following the USSR's collapse in 1991. President Putin is not in a position to restore the old regime even if that was his personal desire. He does want to be a "little tsar" and that in keeping with Russian history."
It would take a lot of blood to flow to restore the Soviet Union, however the ideology is not dead and time will tell just how far Putin will go.
Effectively controlling who gets "elected" looks like a little more than "recentrallization" to me, not to mention the underhanded tactics taken against the press. If I was Bush, I wouldn't trust Putin as far as I could spit.
Good point. And Russian prophecy.