Neo-Feudalism Explained - Vladislav L. Inozemtsev - The American Interest Magazine: The Russian system cannot exist without economic freedoms, and that is why there will be no second coming of the Soviet Union. But the system deeply fears political freedoms, which are incompatible with its feudal perspective. Thus Russia will not soon look like any country in Western Europe or North America. It will not collapse, and it will not radically evolve. It will simply be. And what hope the future supposedly holds will resemble the wry Stalinist joke that the horizon is a far-off place that continues to recede as you approach it.