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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is why Putin is popular: he kicked the Global North neocolonialists out of the country.

[–] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Which by all indications was something he didn’t actually want to do in the first place. It’s just the west wasn’t ready to give up exploiting the people of the former USSR. If Putin allowed that to continue he would have likely lost his power just as Yeltsin had.