• grue@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    They were never “anti-Russia.” They were anti-Soviet. Russia flipped from communism to fascism, so they flipped from hating to loving it.

    There’s a lot of things that are inconsistent and hypocritical about conservatives, but their attitude towards Russia isn’t one of them.

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      8 months ago

      I have many recollections of conservatives in my sphere not distinguishing Russia from the USSR, so we have had different experiences in this regard.