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[-] SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Just the way rus*ia is built, it's impossible for it to not be authoritarian. As a state it's a federation which has a bunch of different ethnic groups forcefully bound to it by violence, and the moment that grip lets even a little loose it all falls apart, as we saw with chechnya. It's a miracle it didn't happen on the heartland with the collapse of the soviet union. Now I'm no geographic determinist but some countries just can't be democratic as it is existentially threatening to them. It's sad but not much you can do. Whoever's gonna inherit the throne after smallballs dies is going to be either just, as if not more of a loser.

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