Why Corruption Exports Better Than Communism

Russia finally found a model it could sell the world

Aug 12, 2025

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Corruption as State Power

The conventional wisdom holds that Vladimir Putin’s Russia exercises a degraded form of Soviet power. Russia has only thuggery where Moscow once wielded ideology. The conventional wisdom is wrong.

Corruption has proved a far more exportable model than communism ever was.

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