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Russia is fucking huge and there are a ton of federal entities in it, it's crazy, look it up you'll find ehtnic groups you never even knew existed, some of them have their own republics inside russia (though United Russia is usually the ruling party).
I guess maybe a few of those might've retained something from the old culture
Mostly industrial and rural areas. Moscow is overwhelmingly anticommunist, St. Petersburg and North Caucasus aren't much better, but other places are overall full of pro-Soviet people, but this nostalgy is completely unorganized. Still, it is noticeable that the authorities know about it and are increasingly trying to appeal to it. It also limits the degree of anticommunism the authorities can afford to do without significant protests.
I think a better question is how do modern Russians en masse feel about the USSR? Since if the goal is to have Russia once again become communist, as it should be, the main thing we will need is for the bulk of Russia to feel they would be better off as such. So if they feel that the current system in Russia is failing them, and that the system of the USSR may have been more effective perhaps they can manage to reverse course.
I think this will be exactly what happens. We already know that the people who are still alive from the time of the USSR say life was better then. Their children and grandchildren will have heard these stories. Even if for now they don't put much stock in them. But as China becomes more successful, and influencial within Russia itself, and the conditions there for people become more strankly in contrast to the conditions in China itself the people of Russia may start to think back on the words of their elders. Perhaps it will be what allows them to return to communism.
For now Putin has an iron grip on Russia, and they are preoccupied with other things though. I do think once Putin is gone it would be a prime time for Russia to have a political shift. If someone there is able to organize a proper vanguard during that time then they may manage to rebuild what was lost. In part anyway. Having the proper conditions isn't the only thing needed. It will be a lot of work, and people will push back against it, but I do think it can be done. Especially as the American Empire wanes, and exposes the failures of capitalism to the world. Many of the post-soviet nations may look to their past for a path forward during that time.
Support for socialism (and a nostalgia for the USSR) is still fairly high across the board among Russians. If Russia were to suddenly adopt socialism tomorrow, most people would accept it. They may not like it, they may even be critical of communism, but most would still accept it over the current system. The same cannot be said for any of the Western capitalist countries.
The biggest hurdle is how are you going to convince the people that a second USSR won’t turn into another disaster.
Remember that most people today who have lived through the USSR period also lived through its most corrupt and inept period during the late USSR. The older generations who grew up in the 50s-early 70s had great memories of it, but many people growing up in the 80s have a very different view of what the USSR meant to them.
Besides, and perhaps even more importantly, those who lived through the nightmare of the 1990s do not want to return to that period any longer. They would rather have stability, even if it meant a more deteriorated material condition but still rather comfortable and safe, than to risk plunging the country into another mass poverty and crime-ridden era. Putin played a very important role in stopping that madness, which is a fact that many have come to accept despite criticisms of him.
Read up what happened to Russia in the 1990s and you will very quickly understand that the living memories of the period still haunt every Russian to this day.
Oh i don't contest that. It's why i think China has a big role to play in their shift in thinking. The USSR had its flaws, and the people of Russia fear falling victim to them again. What needs to happen is a mental decoupling between the flaws of the USSR, and Socialism as a whole. China can be an example of how it is possible to prosper under socialism, and inspire people to think that maybe Russia can too. That perhaps the USSR had the right idea, but it just needed refining. I think the big tipping point will be when most of the world starts to see China as superior to the United States in its living standards. Which is close to happening. Russia may be one of the first currently capitalist countries to shift to socialism under a Chinese inspired model because of its own socialist history.
I also think that the current Ukraine war and war with the west in general will play a role. The USSR fought the Nazis and won. They made it all the way to Berlin. If modern Russia can not make but a fraction of that same progress people may start to wonder why. Why is it that the USSR was able to stand on equal footing with the USA for so long despite the USA having the backing of most european powers, and a geographical, and industrial advantage? If people start asking those questions, and then they see China doing the same thing also under a socialist government the answer should become obvious to them. Perhaps people will get curious and start to read Lenins words again. See the vision for a Russia he had, and then decide they too would like to see that Russia.
The DPR is now part of Russia and has tons of socialist-aligned people
From what I've heard a number of unions are unabashedly communist. Especially the auto workers union which has connections to the main extra parliamentary communists.
Thank God they saved something out of the collapse. Strong, principled unions with open communist ideals? Hell yeah.
In the Czech republic this is the case at least, though these pockets are fading. Mostly certain areas of downtown Prague and rural mining and tourist towns.
Let me guess, communist boomers (don't ask their views on anything from vaccination to LGBT rights), fashy middle aged people, very fashy youths that like libertarian economics.
Communists in Czechia are fine on LGBT stuff in my experience these days, the older ones have caught up. Young men are very libertarian and the middle aged people vote socdem and handwring about the evil commies that want Russia to roll in the tanks
Are there any specific cities/towns you know of?
It'd probably doxx me if I got too specific but a quick way to check is KSCM voting patterns in local city councils
But yeah we still have cops that were from the communist era and are communist in my hometown, they only really harass rich tourists for breaking rules
wish you could share but I understand completely.
I’ve always wanted to visit Prague and Czechia but I have the likeness of a Romani person and I hear the brainworms against Romani are largest and meatiest in Czech Republic lol
Trying to look up KSCM voting based on city/town
I don't think it'd be a problem in our town or Prague but plenty of places in Czechia are very reactionary now and will fuck with brown people for fun. In Prague they'd probably just think you're Turkish.
Russia may be better at this they're fairly multiethnic
I think speaking Spanish while looking like a Romani person and being a communist might literally put 5 GTA stars above your head if you go to most parts of Europe.
Rustic alpine^[doing a bit of anti-Europe Orientalism, Occidentalism if you will; I know the Alps have nothing to do with Czechia] Disco Elysium is not a myth, I have seen it
I don't understand what this means lol
I want a game that uses Disco Elysium's same insanely well crafted narrative system and wonderful writing...
... but it's about a young witch trying to solve the disappearance of her neighbour's cat in a small village in the Alps"