https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mafia#1992%E2%80%932000:_Growth_and_internationalization

Not that far off from that libertarian cop copypasta

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Western liberals considers this period to be a golden age for freedom and democracy in Russia and have masturbatory fantasies of bringing Russia back to this.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      The Russians only do not appreciate Gorbachev and Yeltzin due to the hypertrophied democracy lobe of the slavic brain pan not having undergone the rational enlightenment period that started with Immanuel Kant in Königsberg and transformed all Western nation-states into shining beacons of civil rights that never committed any notable crimes against humanity afterwards :very-intelligent: