[elcid1970]

The Soviet Union officially rises from the dead in five, four, three, two.........

[The_Reader_David]

The Soviet Union Russian Empire officially rises from the dead in five, four, three, two.........

(No dialectical materialism, free-ish markets with big companies cozy with the state, the Orthodox Church as a major influence on society, and cozy with the state. Putin is much more a replay of Nicholas I than of Stalin -- and yes, I picked the Tsar I meant.)