01-22-2017, 11:27 PM
(01-22-2017, 05:19 AM)taramarie Wrote: I think certain groups of people in Russia would say otherwise. Bans on anything remotely referring to gays in banned and can cause one to end up in jail. Putin is not totally there yet but he is leaning towards the direction of totalitarianism.
Merely leaning towards the direction of totalitarianism is what makes Russia a lot better today than the Soviet Union was. The Soviet Union had had half a century in which to perfect their totalitarianism by the 1970s. I doubt that any substantial groups of people in Russia would prefer the Soviet Union, though some young enough not to have experienced it might "say otherwise" due to their historical ignorance.