Glorious or not it's being romanticized to make it sound like the common man had something that he has lost and Putin can bring back the nationalist glory.
Putin will put down anyone that is a threat to Putin, that does not exempt him from having valid political comparisons made about him. He is appealing to a lost national glory and rallying against progressive values / moral decay to bolster support for authoritarian rule.
Can you please give me an example of Putin doing this. I can`t recall him ever saying that he will rebuild SU or bring back Russian Empire. As for nationalist glory, i will tell you again, there is nothing nationalistic about Putin, one the main nationalist is in jail because he quoted Tsar Alexander III that "Russia should have Russians in the government".
Putin`s selling point to the people is that Russia only gained and not that it has lost something and need to regain it. Some of the propaganda consist of people saying that Russians living better than ever before under Putin.
I am getting really tired of Westerners telling Russians how things "really" are in their country.
Political relativism is not going to cut it here. No one is saying he is Alexander Prokhanov, but if Fedor or you are going to throw terms like fascist around, you should learn what the term means and admit the similarities.
I dont throw this term around, i said nothing about Fascism. You did. Both you and Fedor doing the same thing, calling countries Fascist when they are not.
LOL at "if", so he is not a fascist by Russian standards but if he is backing fascists in the west and that is a good thing...ok.
Right-wing opposition = Fascism?
Russia is an authoritarian sham of a democracy that suppresses the media so no, much worse on the shit scale than the west, for all its faults.
When it comes to right-wing talking points both Russia and the West suppress them equally.
When it comes to media bias it is equally as well, although government in Russia owns the majority of the media.
Besides there is Echo Moscow that got around 2 million listeners every day, and up to 40 million potential listeners otherwise. The radio is dedicated to talk shit about Russian government 24/7. Just like CNN about Trump. BTW CNN it self moved out of Russia in 2014.
Then you have channels like Dozhd with 8 million viewers in a month and with "unique" 1,5 million viewers each week. Then you have Radio Svaboda with 4% of Russian population listening to it. Statistics is a bit old from 2013-2017, but that is all i could find. All of them are available to people in their cars, radio and online. All of the channels are just liberal propaganda most of the time.
In comparison Right-wing media in Russia would be done after 2 hours after a successful police raid.
There it is, same shit as the west, your choice is either liberal propaganda or government propaganda.
Oh and the garbage from Hollywood also makes it way to Russian cinemas.
For a Fascist dictator that suppresses media Putin appears to be highly inefficient.
I am defining a term and describing the similarities, you and Fedor should try that.
and i try to explain to you that you just consumed too much of western media that does not know shit, same as Fedor that just repeats what "United Russian" told him to repeat.
As far as Norway goes, go back and read what I said, a big govt is not a sufficient condition.
But Corporatism is. It is the only similarity Russia has with "Fascism", but so does other countries, countries that even you would not call fascistic.
Btw going to russia in a couple of weeks
Dunno if its better to be russian or kavkaz guy nowadays.
Kavkaz, so grow yourself a beard and start shooting in the middle of the street while screaming allahuakbar, police will do nothing i promise.
