Why do NUPES/Die Linke parties that hate the US for being a hypercapitalist imperalist power without government-run healthcare like Russia, a hypercapitalist imperialist power without government-run healthcare?
Russia is undoubtedly imperialist, but it is not “hyper capitalist” (which is a dumb term to use to begin with, but certainly not true of Russia), and it does have government run healthcare. As does the United States, incidentally.
55% of Russian wealth is controlled by the top 1%. 85% is controlled by the top 10%.
That's because during the Yeltsin years, Yeltsin allowed the oligarchs to enrichen theirselves and he became a powerless puppet of them.
Yeltsin was an awful and pathetic leader. Democracy and capitalism in Russia have miserably failed.
For most Russians, life during the USSR was better, esp. economically, they've not seen or witness the "economic advantages" of capitalism, quite the contrary, and it's not like many Russians experience a lot of freedom nowadays.
The collapse was only a good thing for east European nations that have sought closer ties with Europe, but for anyone else it was a disaster. The further east the worse the consequences were (except for Kazakhstan and maybe Azerbaijan because they sit on a ton of wealth), but even than those people do not experience freedom or the same kind of liberteis the upper class do.
