I wouldn’t expect this. He has had so much in common with the communist thugs.
Putin said he sincerely believed in Communist ideology when he served in the KGB, adding that while promises of a fair and just society in the Communist ideology resembled the Bible quite a lot but the reality was different. Our country did not look like the City of the Sun, envisaged by socialist utopians, he said.
That is quite telling.
Putin is more of a Stalin guy.
It has the Compost upset, too.
Did Stalin poison Lenin?
But yet he won’t bury Lenin or ban Soviet symbology.
Putin likes Bernie’s proposed oppressions better.
The whole communist world is trying to bend to a softer gentler Bernie Sanders look.
Its a sign of power in top-down societies - he’s able to publicly give his OWN version of history. I saw the same thing in China.
If you don’t have the authority to challenge accepted history, then you are a follower. We have the same thing here in the USA - its called “political correctness.”
If you can challenge it and set your own mark upon it - you are a leader.
DemonRatz, in general, got their little pink panties in a wad.
Bernie is real irritated that Putin has dissed his hero Vlad.
Bernie : No. No! NO! Stop it! Stop it, please! I beg you! This is sin! This is sin! This is sin! It's a sin, it's a sin, it's a sin!
Dr. Brodsky: Sin? What's all this about sin?
Bernie: That! Using Lenin like that! He did no harm to anyone. Lenin just enslaved millions with Socialism/Communism!
~ A Clockwork Sanders (Feel the stupidity berning)
Not that the resident FR anti-Putinistas will grasp the distinction or the significance, but Tsars hate Commies.
Dishabilitating Lenin. Odd move. He said he’s not going to take the body out of the tomb or anything.
“Stop your grinnin’ and drop your Lenin.”
Putin only criticized Lenin by writing the Soviet Constitution to allow succession by the republics. Had that not been written in there, the USSR would still exist and Putin would be the ruler of the USSR.