Angle  

Homeostasis of Human Society 

So I was thinking about Russia, right, and between Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and modern Capitalist 'Democracy' Russia, you have three wildly different governmental structures and ideologies, but somehow they all seem more like each other than they do like anything else, implying some kind of homeostatic mechanism that keeps a society more or less in equilibrium even as you poke at it, for better or worse.

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Hypolite Petovan  
@Angle Isn't it because there was no fundamental change in who had the power? Some heads rolled during each regime change, but I assume some families stayed in control of key parts of the infrastructure. This plus the cultural tendency to authoritarianism present in all three regimes (tsarism, soviet federation, republic) seems to indicate a rigid political context.
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kravietz 🦇  

@hypolite @Angle

There was not many families left in control after the October Revolution, while it was definitely the case after USSR collapse 1989-1991 when the "communist nomenclature" was generally left in peace (apart from few cases like Ceaușescu).

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Hypolite Petovan  
@Angle @kravietz Thank you for the added details. I also believe that the political, economical and military pressure the US has been putting on any remotely "communist" country has contributed to the emergence of authoritarian governments as the most effective way to resist this pressure, at the expense of the people. And this was part of the plan to destabilize these governments and replace them with US-friendly ones, not necessarily democratic ones.
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So while the "USSR only collapsed due to Western conspiracy" argument became quite popular since 2010 revival of Russian imperialism, back in 1990 the reasons for its collapse were obvious for everyone, and especially for anyone living in Eastern Europe. The truth was that USSR foreign policy was extremely aggressive and assumed absolute supremacy of Marxist socio-economic system, even while secretly taking loans from Western countries.

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