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The state of post-Soviet Russia is entirely a result of the transformation of apparatchiks into kleptocrats. There's no ideology there beyond fucking-over the serfs, so they have gone back to pre-Soviet conditions but with the additional leverage provided by 21st Century technology.

Well, the 1990s period was cloaked in a great deal of ideology, IIRC, mostly the free market kind.

Remember this:

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