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Mark Adomanis vs. the Washington Post on Stalin

[theamericanbear]

This is, ultimately, the fate of all performance-based autocracies: it’s as if they are on a treadmill that can never slow down, and the better they perform the more their citizens demand. This is also why I’ve never been particularly worried by the “threat” posed by Putin or his regime – it’s been clear for awhile that the regime is going to have its hands full just keeping the economy moving and that, in the medium and long terms, this would occupy ever greater amounts of its attention.

Mark Adomanis | Explaining Russian Discontent With Putin In One Graph