Yeah well we still compare very favourably to those countries who elevated mass murderers like Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc who used isolationism, fratricide, patricide and matricide to cleanse the religiously entrenched.
Strange thing about Russia is that it was established by the Christian Church after persuading the various kingdoms to unite into one Holy Roman powerhouse. And now Putin runs the show and is deeply Christian, even has his own personal clergy.
Australia has always been insufferable when it comes to foreign cultures trying a step too far to change our Anglo Christian and aetheistic ways. The POMs, the Yugolslavs, the Italians, the Greeks, the Oirish, etc all had to run the gauntlet to varying degrees based on there willingness to embrace our norms.
For sure we're better than those countries. Miles ahead. I mean it's only recently that we started to revert back to seriously taking from the poor but tell them somebody else did it.
USSR, China and Cambodia didn't elevate those a-holes when they were mass-murdering a-holes. They follow and lift them into power because they thought they're one of them. A comrade, if you will.
Once power corrupts those guys, it was kind of too late to stand up against them. I mean, have you seen what they did to people who does absolutely nothing to them?
But that's nothing new to other civilisation and countries though.
Take the US of A.
Bill Clinton was "the first black president"... he's cool, smooth talking and play tha sax. He talks of feeling people's pain, having lost his natural father early, being loved by his step father... he know how tough life is, how love from a parent being there for you can make you a governor then a president!
Who would have thought the farker got friends in the private prison business, past a "tough" law that double the prison population, locking mainly black and Latinos for petty crimes, destroying kids and kids' kids lives.
Then there's Obama. Hope and Change. There are no blue state or red state, there is only the united states. Then bottoms up Flint kids, the water's fine. See, I took a sip from a filtered cup and the lead didn't get to me at all. Kick 10 million families out of their home, letting that "free market" screw them out of all their life's savings while no amount is too big for Wall St and corporate America needing some welfare.
You'd think a people would learn their lessons. But nope. We got ourselves an "outsider", a multi-billionaire who's just like your typical sleezy, racist, rapie neighbour. Now having his tiny little fingers right next to that red button.
But Putin is an exceptionally bad guy.