Trump is basically a Democrat from 10 years ago, now sporting an R after his name.

It's complete idiocy.

The fact that they prop up the Gilets Jaunes so much on RT or that they try to promulgate an image of Russia as this conservative model nation, or that they fund the National Front because they see a potential consolidation of the EU as a problem. None of these are super bad or whatever, but they are things they clearly do... What they don;t do is control the PotUS...

I think they are all cancer.

All authoritarianism is bad, left or right.

That's the lesson most people haven't learned.

In the west the far right are the baddies, in the east the far left are the baddies.

IT IS THE SAME THING.

Libertarianism is the only solution.

Most Russians think Stalin was a great leader

Really?

ye

You know some strange Russians.

it's not who I know

it's polling data

I don't know a lot of Russians, but definitely none of the ones who were alive during his time had much love for him after.

I'd really like to see those polls ...

^ cancer

I think they have a simmilar approach to him as they have to Tsar Ivan the Terrible

Yes, the people who are gone are always great - if you didn't have to endure them.

Cunt, but made Russia powerful, so we luv him 4 that

That is not untypical this sort of nostalgia.

Russians have little outside their nationnal price

pride*

Even some older Indians wished the British Empire back.

When you're in the middle of it, though, it's usually a whole different game.

Same reason why you have so many retards shilling fascism now.

Plus propaganda works u know

especially on the less educated

ppl across the entire Soviet bloc cried when Stalin died

Maybe bad experiences fade faster than good ones sometimes.

You get a kind of romanticized view of the past.

I think, when rubber meets the road, people want capitalism.

Me grandma told me she cried (though she was a teenager at the time)

People love to bitch about capitalism, but they love it when it's gone.

And it's hard to find a more anti-Russian/Communist country then Polakistan

Take their pumpkin spice lattes and their iphones away, though, and they cry like babies.

Maybe.

I'd say there the hate might be genuine.

It's not the virtue signal hate you see elsewhere.

Just like people virtue signal hate capitalism. They love it.