russia is held back by neocon policies that try to destroy their country by interfering in their social and political affairs and try to wreck their economy.
now its funny you still call russia communist even though they moved away from communism long tome ago and are doing much better overall as a country
2 Communist parties in Russia have 15%. 2nd largest Russian party is Communist. 3rd largest is fascist. A Just Russia is heavily linked to the real socialism. I have nothing against socialist parties, just against Communism.
7th party with 2% is a party for pensioners. Pure Communism, even though they have miserable pensions so they must be defended. But the principle is Communist. The principles of this party and of A Just Russia are Communist.
And that Rodina of threatening Rogozin, God knows what a hybrid creation it is. Patriots of Russia, pure Communists...
The non-socialist parties or really new are a very few! And not voted. This is not democracy.
And the Russian spectrum or scene is dominated by socialist parties.
Plus there is always that problem with the Putinists, if they act democratic or not.
on the other hand european union, which was supposed to be a free trade zone only, is slowly become the new soviet union with centralized government control and pushing of lefty policies. most of the smaller states in that union have no real say and are told what to do. entire eu is a mess and will eventually collapse leaving western europe and all the eu members in total chaos.
I don"t deny, but it"s still better than Russia. The Russian citizens not even morally are much better humans. Maybe some, or more, no idea but it"t also a country on downtrend morally. Abortion, drugs, drinking, lack of education from the state, the real education for morality in Russia was religious. Like the current world. I see the world as a whole, "globally". And like I have said, not that my country is (much) better morally...
Putin may be even pro-LGBT, but nobody wants a revolution in Russia. The rights there can"t be installed by the puppets of the agenda in the next 2 decades, I doubt so.
I am against LGBT rights in my country, but how can the UE harm the Eastern countries more than it is Russia? Except this homosexuality. In Russia happens things way worse than in the EU.
How does Spain live compared to Russia for example? The Spaniards compared to the Russians? I am telling you there is certainly not a huge difference of brainwashing if you want to say that.
Sure, you will say Poland, Romania, even Slovakia and the Balts are just a "market". Plus they lost brains. True. But meanwhile, the Russians are living badly in Russia. Some are serving alcohol because of the economical problems. And Romania for example has tripled its GDP anyway since 2000. The corruption is cleaning out in the EU with the help from Bruxelles. Poland and the Balts have also advanced a lot, but as you may know they were at the fall of the Communism a bit in better state. Plus the Baltic countries are also very small, so if they get more money from the EU it becomes more visible.