Hur vill Putin och den ryska ledningen utveckla Ryssland? Är målet att återskapa Sovjtunionen, dvs inkorporera baltländerna, Polen, Vitryssland. Ukraina, Ungern, Tjeckoslovakien, Rumänien, Bulgariet, Georgien, Moldavia? Även östra Tyskland?

⇑ Rehabilitation of the Russian Empire

Putin has been described as advocating Russian neo-imperialism. It is claimed that Putin models himself on the Tsar Peter the Great, whose reign is reminiscent of a Russian imperial greatness which the Kremlin is keen to promote. Four months into the invasion of Ukraine, Putin compared himself to Tsar Peter, saying that just as Peter had returned "Russian land" to the empire, "it is now also our responsibility to return (Russian) land".

A presidential commission asked Putin in 2003 to grant the request of one of Nicholas II's last surviving relatives to rehabilitate the House of Romanov. Willing to regain the imperial grandeur of Russia, Putin invited the Romanov imperial family to return to Russia in July 2015. According to the presidential commission, this move would represent a significant final step in Russia's journey to embrace its imperial history.

⇑ Allians med kyrkan

An alliance has been forged between the Church and the Kremlin since Putin became President of the Russian Federation. An adherent of the Russian Orthodox Church, Putin has allowed the regaining by the Orthodox Church of much of the importance that the Church had enjoyed in the Russian Empire and has won the enthusiastic support of its religious leaders.

Russian journalist Andrei Malgin compared Putin's desire to restore a "lost" empire and his support for the church and "traditional values" to the policies of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

American historian Stanley G. Payne argued that Putin's political system is "more a revival of the creed of Tsar Nicholas I in the 19th century that emphasized 'Orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationality' than one resembling the revolutionary, modernizing regimes of Hitler and Mussolini." [1]

⇑ Källor

• Ideology, Russia, Wikipedia
• Vladimir Putin försöker återskapa Sovjets makt, Anders Lindberg, Aftonbladet (2022-02-24)