Well, I believe you and it's a sad state of affairs.

If Russia was going to remain a non-democratic one-party state; then: what was the point of all the chaos and tragedy in the 1990s?

If the purpose was to introduce market economy because the people wanted that -- then it would have been simpler to do what China did.

And it's ironic how many Eastern European politicians have a history of membership in organisations that were part of the Communist system. Now they say they are liberalist, democratic etc. But it seems they are mainly just opportunists and have no ideology at all.