The Kremlin is working to systematically instill “patriotic” values in children and teenagers through a Soviet-style propaganda campaign as it looks toward preparing the next generation for a life shaped by conflict with Ukraine and the West.
The Kremlin is working to systematically instill “patriotic” values in children and teenagers through a Soviet-style propaganda campaign as it looks toward preparing the next generation for a life shaped by conflict with Ukraine and the West.
They don’t care about “the labor pool”.
Only when it cuts into their profits.
What would cut into their profits?? Have you never seen how authoritarian regimes work? Do you think North Korea officials want to revolt because of their starving labor pool?
Not a lot of North Korean billionaires living it up in the West though. To extract that level of wealth you need a better class of worker.
You keep saying that but it’s not necessary to keep power as evidenced by… History.
History says that it is. There have opuoentoy wealthy people into Antiquity. But supporting the number of opuoentoy wealthy that modern Russia has requires an organized economy. You can’t have 1,000 Billionaires in an 500B sized economy.
And yet he remains in power with no sign of that changing.