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General Vzla. politics thread
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Hasn't the Russian government been instrumental in supporting a variety of right-wing governments in other countries (most famously, but not limited to, the United States)? Not to mention the Soviet Union hasn't existed for forever already. I'm surprised the Russian government is still seen as "left".
Then again this might involve weird multidimensional political opinion cleavages that exist particularly at the international level.
Jooz*ahem* Cultural Marxists. This despite the fact these same folks would otherwise be the first to say Russia is not Latin/Western/civilized, that it is religiously lukewarm, has a big Muslim minority, and abortion rates through the roof, and that even if it was as they saw it, it'd be the kind of Christian they consider badwrong.AFAIK in Russia itself it's more in favour of right-wing movements and against left-wing ones.
That would serve as a common link between those people who oppose the US/the West for capitalistic western imperialism (and thus would be considered "left-wing") and those people who oppose western liberalism (is this term meaningfully correct here?) for being too deferential to foreigners and foreign cultures (so, in other words, people who espouse cultural/traditional purity and hold anti-immigrant sentiment, and thus would be considered "right-wing").
I don't have news to share (or rather, nothing that you can't easily find on any international news website), but I did find this video about the 2019 blackout, in a language only one of you has a chance to understand, but ehh, I'm putting this anyways:
You know what, the latter probably doesn't hurt the improvement either. And the former is understandable, we have that too. Do you guys joke about dropping everything and settling down, like, somewhere in the jungle?
That said, these last years people have become more independent from the state (but not the rest of society) so as to fill the void it's left; power generators are fairly commonplace now, the economy was pseudo-dollarized, a bunch of telecommunications companies have sprung up*, and there was that time when buying day-to-day stuff involved the black market. Life finds a way.
* Although it's my understanding that they still use public assets for anything that is not city-specific.