Death of a Nation 1/6

"Fifteen years after the fall of Communism, Marcel Theroux goes on a personal journey through Putin's Russia. He discovers a country that's literally dying."

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[14Russian88]

I came from Russia. I moved to U.S in 2000. Moscow should be its own country, rest of the country is dying. Why ? because the pigs in Moscow are selling my nation.

[CuachicquehRex]

It is simple, The rich in Russia are sucking the country dry. They'll destroy the country getting rich...

[havee3333333]

Human Development Index by United Nations, USSR/Russia: 1987: .920 Rank: 26 1995: .769 Rank: 72 1998: .771 Rank: 62 2001: .779 Rank: 63 2011: .755 Rank: 66 Human Development Index by United Nations, USA: 1987: .961 Rank: 15 2011: .910 Rank: 4 Human Development Index by United Nations, East Germany: 1987: .953 Rank: 21 Human Development Index by United Nations, Germany: 2011: .905 Rank: 9 This world is full of lies! Marxist-Leninism is the greatest thing that happened to those countries.

[Evolving001]

@Crazyneutron, reviewed the background of Sergei Kourdakov on wikipedia, and was disappointed by his involvement in an evangelical religious movement. We should not exchange one devil for another, no matter how "holy" the pretenses. Just look at Russia, and the corrupt state nakedly intertwined with the corrupt church. Although no religion (i.e., atheism) is not necessarily of benefit by itself, religion is part of the state and will always be, due to its pro-authoritarian hierarchical nature.

[Evolving001]

@Crazyneutron, thank you, I will check that book. Here is a view from a communist revolutionary who participated in the revolution, Kropotkin, to clarify what I am referring to. Google "Intelligentsia and revolution: Russian views of Bolshevism, 1917-1922" which you could access free online, go to page 99. Kropotkin refers to Bolshevism as "state communism", "a contradiction in terms", which as I suggested amounts to "state capitalism". We should not be surprised about what happened next.

[Crazyneutron]

@Evolving001 I didnt misinterpret. I have just read one very interesting book , the title is " Forgive me Natasha " in other countries title is " The Persecutor " from Sergei Kourdakov ... if anyone is really interested to find out the real life of communism in USSR this is the right book. No one lives communism not even Stalin himself who is directly involved in killing millions of Russians and bottom line is how too deceive people and get on top of the authority !

[Evolving001]

@Crazyneutron, although in the beginning the working class tried. People were not ready, lacked experience in autonomy and self-government. Govts are always repressive, represent a ruling class.

[Evolving001]

@Crazyneutron, I hope you did not misinterpret my response. What I tried to express is that the entire Soviet Union, Eastern Block, Cuba, etc. were never "communist / socialist" to begin with.

[Crazyneutron]

@Evolving001 Yes, same story in Croatia .. and i believe it is a same story in other former communist countries ... 99 percent of the people are too blind to see the problem and they do not have a will to change things ... if they just only knew that those capital bastards are the same former communist bastards ... i know that communism is utopia but i also know that capitalism when it is uncontrolled can jeopardize elemental human rights ...

[rtr995]

i see every day how my country is destroying, cus of fucking capitalism, and oligarchs. And i want communism, yes i didn't live in that period, but i want it. I want when the clever goverment supervise all our life. It is much better , when 'Gazprom' asks too high prices for gas , for our brothers Byelorussians.And when Uckrains govermant with Bulgarian(we were friends right?) licks a bum of the USA and European Union. Sorry for rude words. I love all countries, but now i have really bad mood

[RealAlbo4life]

I hope that all russian scums die and russia itself seize to exist

[Evolving001]

USSR was a masked State Capitalist country. By 1991 the shameful facade of "communism" came off and the naked state capitalism was revealed. The old party bosses became the new oligarchs, e.g., the Putin gang - now leaner and meaner without even the pretense of "socialism / communism" which they never ever represented. But that is how capitalists operate - opportunistically. How many more times are the Russian people going to be fooled? Let's hope no more - not just in Russia, but anywhere.