China has seen a lot of economic growth and then one dark aspect of that while under the great leap forward you have upwards of 70 million people dead today i think there's a large number of people who admire Stalin and admire Mao what they admire is the stability and the strong leadership. We don't need that trade-off in Russia but we could have a form of um imagine if Russia went to a system closer to social democracy  that maintained stability.

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