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Russia Does NOT Need Another Revolution
There have been a lot of visions of grandeur since Ukrainian troops began routing the occupying Russians in eastern Ukraine.
An enemy last described by one Ukrainian soldier as “it was all asses and elbows,” can lure people into imagining possibilities that might both not be possible and even desired. Russia’s literal sprinting-to-the-rear retreat has quite a few people today thinking that Russia is on the cusp of a revolution.
If Russia’s past revolutions are any indication of what we can expect from a future one, then I say “nuts,” to borrow from the 101'st Airborne’s General Anthony McAuliffe when giving his answer to the German request that the U.S. surrender at The Battle of Bulge in 1944.
No to revolution
Russia does not need another uprooting of the foundation upon which its society sits. Russia does not need a de-Putinification in the way that Nazis were forcibly extracted from all aspects of society after their surrender in 1945 — and the way that Trumpists should be removed from the institutions they have infiltrated.
Putin’s effect was not as all-pervasive as Soviet communism was. Putin’s reign has not altered the brains of Russians to the point…
