(unless someone really believes that Russia is going to bring about socialism by blowing up NATO then I don’t even know what to say)

From @rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml

I would really appreciate any posts you’d like to share as I am very interested in what’s going on in Russia.

Sure, let me share what I have collected so far that shows clear signs that incredible things are happening within Russia:

• Over four years, more than 63,000 people have become party members, with most of the new recruits being young people under 30 and “people of prime working age.”

• “We are now seeing not just nostalgia for the past, but a conscious choice by millions of citizens in favor of the socialist path of development,”

• We restored all ties with the Communist Parties of China, Vietnam, the DPRK, with India, with the Arab countries, with Latin America, with Cuba, with Venezuela, with Nicaragua.

• The expansion and astronomical growth of grassroot movements like the Inmortal Regiment. This movement grew so large that plenty of countries around the world organized a similar march. It started small until it grew in a international movement.

• The imperialist siege intensified and forced Russia to look elsewhere which lead to their economy into allying with plenty of the global south. This allowed more cultural/ideological exchanges with China and the DPRK.

• Victory day Grassroot parade where people drive with the USSR flags.

• “Our tourists are older people who want to return to the USSR because they feel that the real North Korea is similar to what it was like in the USSR. At the same time, there is a growing demand among young people.”

• Result of a Grassroot org to make Russian schoolchildren go to the DPRK. Russian Schoolchildren’s Camping Group were briefed about the benefits of the socialist educational system enjoyed by the DPRK students

• Vladimir Putin praised the work of the CPRF in preserving [Soviet] memory and establishing partnerships in the world.

• Far from toppling statues, Russia puts up new monuments to Stalin

• (This trend didn’t go unnoticed even by lib newsmedia) In May 2021, 56 percent of Russians polled by the independent Levada Center agreed that Stalin was a “great leader” — double the figure in 2016, when the Stalinization of mass consciousness had already been a clear trend for several years.