[Thunder90]

Russia/Soviet/Coldwar2 PING!!!

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[the invisib1e hand]

and should also put to rest that other pathetic charade, that "communism is dead."

It's more alive now than ever; it's seeds are everywhere, even in the White House.

[JRandomFreeper]

In Soviet Russia, President elects self.

/johnny

[broken_arrow1]

Looks an awful lot like the Obama and the Democrat’s vision of Amerika Comrades!

[goldstategop]

Russia doesn’t have a dictatorship or a pure democracy. It is something in between. There a school of thought that says the advances in the West passed Russia by. That many of the reforms that swept the West entered Russia late. If so, it doesn’t explain why Russians today have so much more freedom than they have had since the 15th century. Russia’s one and half party system isn’t all that different from dominant parties that ruled Italy, Israel and Japan in the last century. The most Russia can hope for is a United Russia regime that keeps the Communists, powerless and picturesque, with no real prospect of ever controlling the government. It will like take a generation before a more pluralistic political party system finally takes root in Russia.