From the article:
“Russian President Vladimir Putin’s surprise move is widely regarded as the first step toward passing the assets into the hands of Kremlin-friendly investors and comes as part of a renewed push against Western businesses still operating in the country amid the Ukraine war.”
Have we come full circle and Russia is a good guy now?
Not even close. When one shitty organization does something shitty to another organization, it doesn’t make the first organization good. We can still celebrate the second organization experiencing the inevitable consequences of continuing to capitulate to the first organization.
Another example: In 1939, during WWII Stalin and Hitler agreed to carve up Eastern Europe between the two countries and to not attack each other. Nazi Germany and Russia invaded Poland devastating the country and killing millions of innocent civilian Poles. Two years later in 1941, Hitler violated the pact and invaded Russia anyway killing millions of Russians. Its hard to feel sorry for 1941 Russia after what 1939 Russia did to Poland. In none of the scenarios is Hitler a good guy.
Thats a great example where they both suck and are evil.
Of note: the Soviets were happy to let the Nazis have their half of Europe as long as the Nazis let them have their autocracy in their half.
Russia truly was only on the side of the “good guys” because their bad guy ally double crossed them.
Man, lemmy sure does seem to love its historical revisionism.
The opposite is true: The USSR tried forming alliances against the Nazis while all western powers signed agreements with the Nazis, with the USSR finally joining in to buy more time to prepare for the coming war.