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Is Russia a fascist dictatorship?
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not even Russia knows what the fuck it is, there's no point trying to characterize it from the outside with broad textbook political definitions like that.. it's a criminal enterprise first and foremost.. any ideological considerations are lipstick on that pig..
are Russians fascist? you betcha they are.. is it a dictatorship? it's more of an official government mafia..
I feel like 'fascist dictatorship' is used in common parlance to just mean a political system without effective representative mechanisms, even though political scientists or historians would use more specific definitions.
I've heard terms like managed pseudo republic - there's a lot tightly controlled theatre of representation that you wouldn't need in a textbook dictatorship, even if the effect is the same.
There are obvious and strong autocratic elements in putin's personal power, but the need to keep key elites on side - and everyone (including actual generals!) building PMCs - highlights oligarchic elements.
There's also the resource-curse so there's petro-state elements.
The state ideology is a little loose to fit neatly into fascism, but is certainly heading more in that direction.
A hybrid mafia state seems to describe it fairly well from what I know, but I definitely think it's too unique to fit into any one textbook definition.