Oh come on. We all know that in almost all the former communist countries, a lot, if not even most, of the former communist secret police agents and apparatchiks became far-right populists. It is in fact one of the most ironic things about former communist countries.
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I would never describe him as right wing as he swallowed a large chunk of social democrat and communist workers and likes buying voters with handouts.
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In every society you have opportunistic people motivated by success at all costs. In socialist states, those individuals looked for power jobs — bureaucrats, officials, dignataries, etc.
Then the old cards were gone, so they adapted to the new ones.