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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Europe during the cold war, and saw for myself how bad the Soviet Union was in terms of society and freedom.

I had big hopes for a better Russia to rise from the ashes of the fallen Soviet Union.  At first it seemed to have been the dominon of the Russian mafia and other unsavories, but then Putin started pulling it together.

Initially I had some level of respect and trust for Putin.  But it seems to me that over the last 20 years, Putin has gotten worse and worse, cracking down on free media and political opposition, and filling the airwaves with a drumbeat of with more and more hostility to the West, along with what seems like revanchist dreams of restoring the old Soviet Union.  With the invasion of Ukraine, I finally just gave up on Russia.  Putin needs to go, as do many of Russia's hardliners.

Russia has many good people, but their apathy is frustrating.  Even during the Afghanistan war they did not put up with such mismanagement of the military and resources and losses of personnel and equipment and had the sense to cut their losses and pull out of Afghanistan.  Putin has no such sense or decency.  [/quote]

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