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About LinkBacksI don't think that increased "democracy" is necessarily the solution to anyones problems. It doesn't look like it did anything for Russia in the 1990s! Not sure if it even needs to be the ideal for the whole world + some of the countries that "preach" it, should implement it properly at home before they try to force it onto others... Also, it took a century to build it in most of Western Europe and it's still far from perfect.
After learning more about Russia over the last year and a half, my view is:
The thing that seems so depressing about the situation in Russia is that a small group of people have all the power (money and political) and do as they please; while normal people struggle to get by and have no say about what policies and decisions are made. According to my Russian text book, lots of middle class people even have to hold two jobs, like; be an accountant and work in a shop at the same time.
Somehow it seems more shocking to me, that this happens in Europe, in a country that was at least in theory, trying to build a communist utopia. Now instead, everyone is cynical and apathetic about the political situation.
I think things went wrong when the USSR was dissolved and public property was sold off too fast and too cheaply.
What do you think about the approach that Belarus took (Lukashenka's idiosynchrasies aside...)? Did they do anything "right" that Russia and Ukraine could have done? Or do you think it's too oppressive and old-style socialism there?
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Originally Posted by Hanna 
