As strongman of Russia, President Vladamir Piutin has been influential on the world stage for twenty years. Former KGB Captain and station chief for East Germany life and rise to the top was shaped by the Former Soviet Union. he served. A lawyer and intellectual too he was admirer of Soviet system and also deeply admired Russia's Imperial Past. Putin admired the Russia or Romanov Imperial Days and since taking power in 1999 dreamed of reenergizing the Russia he took over from Yeltsen and making it a superpower again. He rebuilt the Russian fleet and rearmed. And Russia rejoined the family of nations achieving an astounding level of acceptibility for the first time since 1945. However his chief influence was Ivan Illyin. Illyin was in Russian political science the Anti-Lenin. Illyin'slife parelled Lenin also was exiled to Germany and dreamed of taking over.He mainly argued nationalism and facism vs the peace,land,and bread of the Bolshivik argument. He was a counter-revolutionary and wrote political dogma and manifesto's for the Whites during the Russian Revolution. Although the Bolsheviks won and Illyin's Whites were beaten his argument survived. Some Reds even agreed even Illyin was right especially in the tTroublesom 1920s were the Soviet union suffered growing pains and a leadership crisis after Lenin. Illyin died hated and in exhile and his writings were stored far in exhile in the University of Michican. Putin needing inspiration in 1994 asked for them. Putin and United Russia today are not just a rehash of the Soviet Union or Russia's Imperial Past but a possible facist state. The war in the Ukraine is perhaps typical of Putin's facist wars. Perhaps we shall see in the future what Illyin's adpt pupil does.
