 Russia is following the path of the USSR. Putin repeats Brezhnev. Russia is now following the path of the USSR in the late 1970s and 1980s. The imperial policy of the Soviet government led to the collapse of the USSR. Russia itself is also facing a recession. This was said by member of the Ukrainian parliament Oleg Dunda. The policy in particular ended with empty shelves and collapsed housing and communal services. The conventionally collected resources from all regions for the welfare of the regions and citizens. However the funds were then used not for the people but for financing wars primarily for promoting politics outside the empire. Let's remember Afghanistan campaigns in Africa Angola Mozambique he said. According to Dunda Russia also uses the same methods as the Soviet government and plunders the regions. The resources taken from there go to the military industrial complex the war with Ukraine financing pre-Guzhin supporting radical political movements in Western democracies and propaganda. According to Rand Corporation of US four decades ago Leonid Brezhnev led the USSR into what many Soviets called the era of stagnation. Vladimir Putin is taking Russia down a similar path. For Ukraine and the West these parallels offer hope that Russia might lose the war in Ukraine or someday dial down its hostile stance. But this could be unpredictable or take time.