Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a decree late on Tuesday renaming the airport in Volgograd as Stalingrad, as the city was known when the Soviet army defeated the Nazi German forces in the biggest battle of World War Two, APA reports citing Reuters.
“In order to perpetuate the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, I hereby decree … to assign the historical name ‘Stalingrad’ to Volgograd International Airport,” the decree published on the Kremlin’s website said.
Don’t be ageist. Don’t get me wrong I don’t expect him to come round but a guy can hope. He is slowly moving in the right direction and resurrecting the name Stalingrad as a celebration of the defeat of nazis is a sign of that. Sure it took Putin till he was 70 to realize the white/european racial supremacist world order doesn’t see russians as white or european but just cuz he is a slow learner doesn’t mean he is incapable of learning.
Even if Putin woke up tomorrow and decided to turn Russia communist, he would just be replaced by someone else. The Russian capitalists won’t be defeated so easily.
The Russian capitalists are split into two camps: Pro Brics/Pro China faction and Pro EU/Pro West faction.
After the Maidan coup in 2014, the latter faction was slowly losing power and it sped up with the Western sanctions and the war in Ukraine. As for the former(Pro Brics), it gained a ton of power and, from my standpoint, I see this faction as an easier group to work with to move Russia back to Socialism.
That’s my two cents. Maybe, it is too optimistic.