As we know, Putin has now reigned supreme in his country for more than 20 years. The many political opponents are imprisoned, or even worse. The regime’s independent media are only a fantasy, even more so since the war in Ukraine. Putin even states bluntly that his country is now aligned with the axis of autocratic countries that are opposed to Western democracy (which also includes China).
In the aftermath, the country of the Great Bear is sinking more and more towards ultra-conservatism with nationalist accents with the adoption of new amendments to the Russian Constitution prohibiting homosexual marriage and favoring patriotic education in school, among other things. Besides, there is even a family amusement park devoted to the glorification of the Russian army – which would have made the most fervent supporters of National Socialism in Third Reich Germany green with envy.
Moreover, Russia, like its natural adversary, the United States, is not short of a contradiction. She abandoned a communist regime to devote herself body and soul to capitalism in less than a generation, while reproducing the worst failings of this economic system: inequalities in Russia are among the most glaring in the G20, income tax is at a single rate (which is a regressive measure favoring the richest) and the 1% of the wealthiest, that is to say the oligarchs, hold half of the national wealth.
This invasion of Ukraine by Russia also reveals other contradictions. Putin’s regime, whose fascist tendencies are evident, reproduces the same expansionist policies of a certain authoritarian German leader of the XXe century that the Russian people fought fiercely during the Second World War. What’s more, the head of the Kremlin falsely accuses the Ukrainian government of being of Nazi allegiance to better justify a simple “special military operation” and to camouflage at the same time his own far-right authoritarianism…
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