A communist coup in Moscow would be a bit on the nose, but I’d allow it

"He emphasized that such a scenario must not be allowed to happen."

Controlled opposition.

Maybe, but I don't think that the conditions are nearly as bad as they were in 1917. They're obviously worse than they would have been had Russia not entered into the war, but the collapse in 1917 was due to urban food shortages. I don't mean "luxury X is unavailable", but that people couldn't get staple food to survive because of demands of the war.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/russias-february-revolution-was-led-women-march-180962218/

Like the French Revolution in 1789, a bread shortage in the capital precipitated unrest. After long shifts in the factories, female factory workers stood in bread lines alongside other women including domestic servants, housewives and soldiers’ widows. In these bread lines, news and rumors about planned rationing spread. When Saint Petersburg municipal authorities announced on March 4 that rationing would begin ten days later, there was widespread panic; bakeries were sacked, their windows broken and supplies stolen.

As he had throughout the previous months, Nicholas once again underestimated the extent of the unrest and again departed for military headquarters more than 400 miles away in Mogliev, which is now in Belarus, against the advice of his ministers. In the czar’s mind, leadership of the military took precedence during wartime, and he was concerned by the mass desertions occurring in the aftermath of munitions shortages and defeats at the hands of the Germans.

Though in past moments of revolutionary sentiment, the military had stood by its czar, by 1917, the armed force was demoralized and sympathetic to the demonstrators’ cause. The presence of large groups of women among the demonstrators made soldiers particularly reluctant to fire on the crowds. When the soldiers joined the demonstrators, as opposed to firing upon them, the end of the Romanov dynasty was near.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/ztyk87h/revision/5

There was a severe lack of food in Moscow and, in 1917, Petrograd only received half of the grain required to feed its citizens.

Now, okay. It's possible that standards for political support are different, that the bar has changed. But the public in Russia of 2026

though it may be in a worse state than Russia of 2020 due to resources consumed by the war

is also not experiencing the degree of deprivation of Russia of 1917.

Isn't that party in Russia super pro-government? Essentially controlled oposition?

Oh, soviet union 2. Now with more soviets.

Warns of the Risk of a Revolution in Russia

Isn't it, like, his job to make this happen?

It'd be nice is Russia can take back itself from that dick-tater... Get rid of all of Putin's ilk, elect a decent person as president., power wash the stench away, peace talks with their neighbors, condemnation of the US Pedo Party. All that good stuff.

Highly doubt it will happen.

Damn, I want that for the US!

Simpsons did it

Oh well. As a certain ballistic missile submarine Captain once observed: A revolution every now and again, is a healthy thing.

Russian jokes still write themselves

We’re gonna see that in the US before we see it in Russia. At least Russians have free education and free healthcare mandated by their constitution.

lol

I support it. I have no love for the early USSR, but I see its fall as a historical tragedy