Originally Posted by
newbiehunter
Pardon, you are referring an opinion piece with picture of Stalin as representative of whole Russia? It's pretty much like referring to Nazi site in Canada stating that Canada has nostalgia of 3rd Reich..
Have you tried to search any nostalgia article in Soviet satellites ( Estonia, Bulgaria, etc...)? Am pretty sure there will be none.. In Russia, for each nostalgic person- there will be 100s who had family members that got killed/jailed during Stalin's time.
I do agree with your observation that oligarchy has replaced the commissars; however not going to dig into the reasons for it.
Something to be stated through that I was referring to global communist regime scenario..
In case of separate countries:
You have relative freedom of movement (one country/system/society does not work for you, immigrate)
You have some chance (it maybe small but it's a chance) to making to life that matches you
In case of a central world govt - you got nowhere to run or hide.
People will always group themselves according to a common value system.. it's inevitable that multiple separate groups will be formed.
The smaller the group the closer its members to ruling class and more agile the group is - making life easier for everyone involved...