for some reason, stalin is tendency on twitter: people talking about the past, the need of marxism-leninism, how we need more dudes like him and vacations in the soviet union
for some reason, stalin is tendency on twitter: people talking about the past, the need of marxism-leninism, how we need more dudes like him and vacations in the soviet union
It’s evidence that that the term “dictatorship” (like “authoritarian”) as used in the West has no material basis and is simply used to slander state enemies, because the word is never applied to Western countries.
Dictatorship is typically used by liberals to mean that a country doesn’t have elections, or that they are ruled by a leader without popular support.[1] But in this context, this person is using it to mean “screw tightening”, which I interpreted as state repression, i.e. the qualities of a police state.
I put up the numbers as evidence that Russia is no more a police state than the UK. I don’t really mind if people call both or neither countries a dictatorship.
Russia is also no more a dictatorship than the UK by this definition, as can be seen by comparing approval ratings ↩︎