Russian Referendum Results 2020

[Bearu]

What do you think of the constitutional changes in Russia from the end of June and beginning of July this year?

The changes allowed Vladimir Putin an additional two terms in office, produced additional power in the judicial system of Russia, and enabled an increase in power for the legislative system.

I found this information on the referendum.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53255964

I do not like the weak leaders of other nations from around the world and other nations should have strong leaders like Vladimir Putin with many caveats under the referendum. Putin has managed the revival of the Russian economy for the elites after the disasters from the Boris Yeltsin era like a rocket from a missile silo. These economic enhancements prevented the collapse of Russia from internal problems in the early 2000s. Putin remains a part of the revival and survival of bastions of formal authoritarian rule in Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro, Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte, Hungary under Victor Orban, and the People's Republic of China under Xi Jinping to name a few locations. Putin's economic rule possess some positive traits for the bourgeoisie, but these rulers hurt the survival of many working classing people.

Working Russians demand more social protections after the erosion of the social protections from the Soviet era. Putin's power in the referendum further erodes social protections for workers and average pensioners in Russia under worsening political conditions because Putin values economic growth over the necessary social protections for a healthy society. These protections include the avoidance of age raises for the pensioners, the funding of free medical hospitals, and the expansion of education opportunities outside the system. These social protection systems remain a core component of concern under the referendum reforms in the legislature and judicial branches of Russia.

[Geo]

Kinda sounds like me that increased power for both the judicial and legislative system(s) is a contradiction in terms.
Unless of course the Judiciary now has an increased power to lay heavier penalties for opponents of (certain) legislative power(s).

[E_T]

Here's a Book you should read, Bearu https://www.bookbub.com/books/animal-farm-by-george-orwell

[Bearu]

Here's a Book you should read, Bearu https://www.bookbub.com/books/animal-farm-by-george-orwell

Thank you for the book recommendation. I read George Orwell's Animal Farm as a teenager. The whole narrative of Animal Farm remains an allegory of the farm animals under the growing corruption of the pigs/ leaders on the farm under false promises and privileged positions for the pigs/leaders while the work animals suffer or experience extermination. The narrative's commentary exists as a denouncement on the alleged corruption of Soviet society under Joseph Stalin in the 1930s and 1940s. Animal Farm follows a series of criticisms of Soviet society from dissenters like Mikhail Bulgakov in Heart of a Dog from 1925. https://archive.org/stream/MikhailBulgakovTheHeartOfADog/Mikhail-Bulgakov-The-Heart-Of-A-Dog_djvu.txt

I would recommend you read Anna Funder's Stasiland https://www.amazon.com/Stasiland-Stories-Behind-Berlin-Wall/dp/0062077325 if you want a more balanced view on Putin's activities in Russia since the book covers the work of the Stasi in East Germany in the 1980s. Vladimir Putin worked in secret service agencies in East Germany during the 1980s, so the book provides insight into the power of the secret service agencies and the similarities between the Socialist secret police and  the secret police under the monarchies and tsars of the 1800s and early 1900s.

[EmpathCrawler]

Here's a Book you should read, Bearu https://www.bookbub.com/books/animal-farm-by-george-orwell

Thank you for the book recommendation. I read George Orwell's Animal Farm as a teenager. The whole narrative of Animal Farm remains an allegory of the farm animals under the growing corruption of the pigs/ leaders on the farm under false promises and privileged positions for the pigs/leaders while the work animals suffer or experience extermination. The narrative's commentary exists as a denouncement on the alleged corruption of Soviet society under Joseph Stalin in the 1930s and 1940s. Animal Farm follows a series of criticisms of Soviet society from dissenters like Mikhail Bulgakov in Heart of a Dog from 1925. https://archive.org/stream/MikhailBulgakovTheHeartOfADog/Mikhail-Bulgakov-The-Heart-Of-A-Dog_djvu.txt

I would recommend you read Anna Funder's Stasiland https://www.amazon.com/Stasiland-Stories-Behind-Berlin-Wall/dp/0062077325 if you want a more balanced view on Putin's activities in Russia since the book covers the work of the Stasi in East Germany in the 1980s. Vladimir Putin worked in secret service agencies in East Germany during the 1980s, so the book provides insight into the power of the secret service agencies and the similarities between the Socialist secret police and  the secret police under the monarchies and tsars of the 1800s and early 1900s.

You should read a book called 1984, too. It's the longest rationalization ever about why it's OK to snitch to the intelligence forces of the fine upstanding British Empire which never did anything wrong. Because if you didn't, you might live in a world where your phone TV watched everything you did and reported it to companies and alphabet agencies Stalin.

[E_T]

That and a a few other Orwell books.  His collected essays are very interesting....

[E_T]

All Hail Marx and Lennon...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k-4eUdDdRDwVPt4PUVlPDjNupDc2kx7zc

[EmpathCrawler]

Well that was a trip.

[Bearu]

All Hail Marx and Lennon...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k-4eUdDdRDwVPt4PUVlPDjNupDc2kx7zc

John Lennon remains a petite bourgeois song writer. I have never enjoyed the songs of the Beatles.

You should read a book called 1984, too. It's the longest rationalization ever about why it's OK to snitch to the intelligence forces of the fine upstanding British Empire which never did anything wrong. Because if you didn't, you might live in a world where your phone TV watched everything you did and reported it to companies and alphabet agencies Stalin.

I have read several of George Orwell's books and short story collections in university and on my own. George Orwell left the end of 1984 open for interpretation because Winston and Julia come to love the party and the state after the events of Room 101 as the traitorous individuals in the Great Purge of Joseph Stalin relented to the socialist state's demands after alleged punishment through the removal of fingernails, blasting of prisoners with ice cold water, and removal to a cell for a few days to enable the onset of frostbite. Traitors against the socialist state's demands will experienced punishment and reeducation. I support internal collective security among socialist states for the greater good of the party and state because socialist states endure and have endured continual attacks from capitalist sources. Socialist states pursued some less successful policies like the People's Republic of China's Great Leap Forward to exceed the United States of America and other western nations in production and the Soviet Union's successful industrialization drives of the 1930s under Joseph Stalin.