@mike805 Fair points. They didnt make stuff up out of whole cloth; they found existing fracture lines and drove wedges into them. That said, their efforts on the right during the Cold War were basically just marginal extremists--just as the FSB's efforts on the left today are. Their main effort just switched sides.And that was kind of the point I was making (and why i talked in terms of the social order) about the demise of the Soviet system there. Yes, the siloviki still came out on top--but the social order OF SOVIET COMMUNISM perished, and a new one of Russian Nationalist MAFIA CAPITALISM rose in its place. #VladTheInvader is most accurately though of not as a new Soviet Premier under a different title, but rather as their Oligarch-in-Chief--and coordinator of a global #BillionairesInsurgency...which, while it is clearly MODELED ON the old Communist International (COMINTERN) is also just as clearly a different beast.https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/harry-potter-internet-trolls-putin-reimagines-global-jim-ellsworth
