You can take a man out of the KGB, but you can’t take the KGB out of the man. The fact that Russia is being run by people from the former Soviet security services would be a lot like postwar Germany being run by Gestapo officers. Except former Soviet government officials are a lot nuttier on economic issues.
Well said, Sir.
Good point. There was a window of opportunity during the mid 90s to have closer ties but the old Soviet guard shut that down.
Putin is going off the deep end...and will not end well for him.
I cannot imagine what it would be like to live in a society where the intelligence services made the rules and chose who got prosecuted. /s
Those poor Ruskis.