Yeah that was one of the worst privatization schemes in history. They basically carved state assets into stocks then distributed the stocks among the workers. You cannot eat stocks or pay rent with them. So the Oligarchs and/or black market guys bought them at pennies on the dollar....

First by backing the drunk Elzin and then by using the Oligarchs to consolidate some power in Russia.

Collectively the western world must realize that our governments are our enemies, not our brothers

Before the KGB got the lead act in the show of course.

I think that the Russians now are far closer to making this conclusion than you are @Snake

If tehre is a good and strong leader who thinks for his people and does sh*t the Russian people are willing to follow.

BUT

The key word is DOES SHIT!

They will shoot any cowards, traitors or banksters!

Putin has said that Eastern Orthodox Christianity was closer to Islam than Protestantism or Catholicism. We are all Christians mother fucker

Putin is a full blown KGB sell-out by this point.

Well they do not segment religion on that demography but Muslims are about the only growing demographic there. So Putin's picking a winning side in a way.

I would be all over him, if there wasn't this KGB smell all over him.

Putin **made** them the winning side

By opening the borders of Russia to ex communists state like Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan

Muslim states

Then gets flooded by terrorists

Putin is starting to look like the regular commie traitor with each and every day.

Like Europe

To be honest most of the country wants him gone by this point.

The problem is the KGB has nothing else to offer any more.

Likely for the same reasons. European demography is almost as bad. Worse some places. So they tried to import a solution......

He’s a Eurasianist, he doesn’t believe Europe and Russia are the same civilization, he think he has more in common with the Muslim and Asian worlds

So the people are confused and do not know what to do.

Which is false, Slavic peoples are western. Christianity, their language is from Greece, they westernized before

They do not know what is next and this is why they would rather have him and his muslim sympathizers than accept help from the West!

This all started with the communists to distance themselves from NATO

It's partly your fault, too, I believe.

But ironically communism came from the western world

Communism, yet another bad idea that came from Europe.....

I'm not saying the KGB are right but if you hadn't lost your sh*ts with all these LGBQT whatever bunch and the muslims raping and killing in yours countries you could have been a raw model.

And now you are just a laughing stock for the KGB propaganda machine.

Russia is European through and through, Putin should stop denying the facts and reject this suicidal, genocidal, vicious rhetoric

@yordanyordanov I’d still would want Russia doing better than us

But it is this rhetoric that keeps him in power, can't you see it?

At least someone would be left standing

I know it is

That’s the sad part

Yeah @Snake

I don’t want Russia to die

It’s the last thing I want