The Reality of Bringing The USSR Back?

 Several 'Doctor Dooms' came out yesterday in Germany and addressed one particular topic....re-creation of the old USSR.  

You could divide this topic up into forty different angles, and on virtually every single one of them....it makes no sense.

The key deal of selling the USSR 'gimmick' is that all 'roads' and all decisions lead back to some team in Moscow making a decision for you.  It's like the Ottawa gimmick, the Washington DC gimmick, the Brussels gimmick and the Beijing gimmick.  You just don't find that many people who want centralized decisions made by people with lousy perceptions, poor judgement, and crazy agendas.

If you walked around and just asked plain working-class Russians....I doubt that you'd find more than 10-percent of population who longs for the old days of the USSR.  So this vacuum exists....with a number of insiders to Putin....continually talking up this idea.

Find any Germans who long for the old USSR days?  Even in former East Germany (old DDR)....most remember how stores only had bananas around Christmas time, and they were considered a 'prized possession' if you could get a couple.  Music choices?  You got what the government guy would sign off on, and allow.  Movies?  You produced what was agreeable social commentary.  Cars?  They produced the cheapest and most economical vehicle possible.

I'll just say it this way....it's a pretty dark mental state to think that bringing the old USSR back solves any problems.  You end up with a thousand idiots in Moscow who serve some leadership function and 'gift' society in whatever manner they believe in.