Russia hasn't changed

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Badassbab said:

Pretty much. They call it National Bolshevism. Despite the fact nazism and communism were thrown in opposite sides of the political spectrum in the western world, remeber the nazi party was actually the national socialist german's worker party. Most of their third-position economical and social ideas, by the way, are pretty much what you see on China today, a country ruled by a so-called communist party.

But Communism and Nazism are polar opposite. Sure they share some similarities but Nazism also incorporates elements of capitalism which isn't to say they are the same. Nazis believe in racial superiority which is totally at odds with communists and socialists. China may well be ruled by the Communist Party but their economic policy is classic State Capitalism which is the system the West used to get their industrial base up and running and continue to practise today (Governements pour money into the risky hi tech industry which then evetually filters into the commerical market and the profits privatised).

Actually the Soviet Union wasn't much more than the Russian Empire on new clothes. It was dominated by ethnic russians, culturally and socially, and collapsed when their percentage fell below 50% and they weren't able to hold on to their realm anymore. See for instance the ammount of ethnic russians that currently make up the population of Kazakhstan, Ukraine etc. The "we are all soviets" catchphrase never really went beyond an excuse for massive, forced internal displacement of populations and pouring more russians into central asia and the baltic countries. 

Of course, as you said, that doesn't mean the Soviet Union was like the PRC today or the NS Germany.  But both the PRC and the NSG are radically different from standard western economies.It's a matter of whether corporate interests pour into state politics or the other way around.