Question by Claude: Has the collapse of the Soviet Union brought a positive change to Russia today?
Why is Russia governed by fascism? Has “crony capitalism” benefited the people of Russia? Has poverty been eliminated? Why has there been an increase in neo-nazi and right wing extremeist groups? To what extent has Russia post 1991 benefited the people?
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Answer by Brutus
Fascism is just another form of collectivism/socialism. The problems in Russia extend from a lack of protected individual liberties and restraint of government.
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Andrew G says
Hey, Claude, a good question. I am from Russia.
First of all, what does it mean — the right wing extremist groups? I really don't get it in terms of Russia and Russian realities (another idea to discuss, btw).
fascism? Who told you about fascism???
crony capitalism — yeah, that's really here.
poverty hasn't been eliminated yet and the main problem for that is that the income — majorily the petrodollars — are going to the few oligarchs and not the general public. To have the profits distributed in a better way you have to privatise businesses (here I mean — to ge the state AND oligarchs out of there — since this kind of oligopoly of the oligarchs is something close to the state being the major force in a market).
Neo-nazi is not neo-nazi…
We had a skin-head in our class (graduated from school in 03). He (and me…) were trying to start dating the same girl — she is a Jew. So, are we still talking about NAZI or not???
The neo-nazi (I think, skin-heads is the best term) are against the newcomers from the Caucasian countries. The problem is that after the collapse of the USSR there was a collapse of everything. There was the collapse of the regulation of the immigration thus. And the majority of ppl understood quite quickly that Moscow, St. Pete and other major cities were the best ones to come and live in. So, the ppl started to feel constrained by the newcomers from "The South". The main objections are that 1) they are rude (Well, sometimes they are, u know. But, I think if you take into account the hostile attitude of the general public, it is OK); 2) they take our jobs, our girls, our money, our flats…etc.(Well, they do. But, on the other hand, they do all the dirty work and help us fight the Great Demographic Depression); 3) they have their own culture and they don't want to do things the way they should be done — i.e. the way we do them. (I think that's really true. I mean there aren't any programs to try to affiliate them with some sort of organizations. U just come in here and start doing whatever you want to… Since not a lot of ppl have higher education, they start trading and they CLUSTER together. So you get an idea that this or that particular segment of the economy is completely taken hostage by the streams of newcomers)
BTW, I have answered a couple of the similar quesitons in the past. I guess some two or three of them are actually the same ones as this one.
and, since Moscow has the major part of these probs with immigrants, there has been made a joke about it.
U can call yourself a real MUSCOVITE if u have spent two weeks in here
V2 says
A lot of Russians would go back to communism in a heartbeat if they could.
When you talk to Russians, they blame Gorbachev for destroying "Great" Russia. Similarly to Americans (and other big countries), Russians believe that Russia has a special mission to carry. They think that Russia was like "Mother" for neighboring countries (Soviet block), but these countries betrayed Russia and now deserve punishment. By employing similar technique as US ("terrorist threat"), Russia is trying to restore its old borders.
"Positive changes" in general means that a group of new ultra riches ("New Russians") that consists of old communist elite and criminal mafia have no restrictions shopping worldwide.