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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1587272" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>Stalin by all accounts was a butcher. He ruled with an iron hand and treated his own people worse than the Czars ever did. Particularly true in the Baltic and East European parts of the Soviet Union. Worse than Hitler? No, i doubt anyone can get that bad or on that scale, but Stalin was still very bad. </p><p></p><p>The economy of Russia today has very little effect on what the Russian military and it's govt can or can't/will or will not do. No matter how economically deprived the Russian people may be, nationalism is still very strong in Russia today. They are very much in support of their nation having a string military and react with pride whenever Putin gets the upper hand in the tit-for-tat goings on all around the world...there is a reason he gets re-elected so easily, tho his ratings have finally begun to drop as of 2018.. His people wanted a leader that would put their country back closer to par with the West and they got one. They may not be there yet, but they are getting closer every year.</p><p></p><p>Even after raising the Russian federal retirement/pension age to 65 for men and 60 years for women in 2018, his approval ratings are still in the mid 60% range. (was age 60 for men and 55 for women). Nothing like a foreign military endeavor to galvanize the Russian people to stand behind the red flag..when they forcefully annexed Crimea, Putin's approval rating rose to 89%. It rose again when he sent his planes into Syria.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1587272, member: 18945"] Stalin by all accounts was a butcher. He ruled with an iron hand and treated his own people worse than the Czars ever did. Particularly true in the Baltic and East European parts of the Soviet Union. Worse than Hitler? No, i doubt anyone can get that bad or on that scale, but Stalin was still very bad. The economy of Russia today has very little effect on what the Russian military and it's govt can or can't/will or will not do. No matter how economically deprived the Russian people may be, nationalism is still very strong in Russia today. They are very much in support of their nation having a string military and react with pride whenever Putin gets the upper hand in the tit-for-tat goings on all around the world...there is a reason he gets re-elected so easily, tho his ratings have finally begun to drop as of 2018.. His people wanted a leader that would put their country back closer to par with the West and they got one. They may not be there yet, but they are getting closer every year. Even after raising the Russian federal retirement/pension age to 65 for men and 60 years for women in 2018, his approval ratings are still in the mid 60% range. (was age 60 for men and 55 for women). Nothing like a foreign military endeavor to galvanize the Russian people to stand behind the red flag..when they forcefully annexed Crimea, Putin's approval rating rose to 89%. It rose again when he sent his planes into Syria. [/QUOTE]
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