Police take on anti Govt protesters in Russia

[WRESTLINGFAN]

Crowds gathered in Moscow and in St Petersburg to protest Putin. Many protesters were arrested and beaten. There have been fears that Russia will go back to the days of communism. After all Putin is a former KGB agent

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070415/ts_nm/russia_protest_dc

[AgnosticJihad]

Crowds gathered in Moscow and in St Petersburg to protest Putin. Many protesters were arrested and beaten. There have been fears that Russia will go back to the days of communism. After all Putin is a former KGB agent

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070415/ts_nm/russia_protest_dc

I don't think the fears are of a return to Communism per say, at least not as a political and economic system. Communism simply doesn't work, which is why the Soviet Union collapsed in the first place and China has embraced free-market economics. I think the fears are of a return to an oppresive authoritarian regime, but not Communism.

[A.J.]

"In Soviet Russia, markets were free...OF GOODS!"

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[furie]

Kasperov was one of the protesters

[Don Stugots]

I don't think the fears are of a return to Communism per say, at least not as a political and economic system. Communism simply doesn't work, which is why the Soviet Union collapsed in the first place and China has embraced free-market economics. I think the fears are of a return to an oppresive authoritarian regime, but not Communism.

i agree. i think someone will give it another name but the old days are coming back big time over there.

[patsopinion]

stu where have u been?
the russians support our enemy's in the middle east
they have an oppressive regime that kills those set against it
they have nukes


what changed?

[Don Stugots]

stu where have u been?
the russians support our enemy's in the middle east
they have an oppressive regime that kills those set against it
they have nukes


what changed?

there economics did. they are an open free enterprise society now. at least they say they are anyway. like i said, its the same game just with a different name.

[BoondockSaint]

Kasperov was one of the protesters


Check.

[sailor]

i agree. i think someone will give it another name but the old days are coming back big time over there.

savages.

[SatCam]

There have been fears that Russia will go back to the days of communism.

you say that as if they ever left