Oh also, just to educate you scrubs about what Russia was actually like I wrote the Russia wiki article a long time ago.
wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/RussiaSomeone edited my glorious page but scroll down.
"Russia History"
"Economic History"
"Media History"
all written by me before we were taken over by Romania. Which far predates any significant number of Russians.
Pay special attention to when the Capitalist party stole 200 gold from the national treasury, wasted it on companies which now no longer function all because they knew we would win the next election.
At least the companies we control still operate on what we promised them to operate on. A communal system where profits are shared, and the fruits of labor are distributed to meet need. Mekism has followed the path quite well in that regard.
The question, if we should return this money back to Russia is a humorous one. eRussia hasn't developed what we in the Political Science field call a Democratic Barging-ship (the exact term escapes me at the moment). What this means is once one party loses an election they can't trust the in coming party to not "fiddle up" everything the previous party had.
What we witnessed was a transition in ideology and I find it ridiculous that you would expect the current leadership to transfer funds and accept this without trying to preserve what they, and countless others before the current horde of eRussians worked for.
Sasha Igorovich removed funds from the Russian treasury because he knew we would likely use those funds to promote our ideological goals. Namely, expand our commune system. When the CPSU lost power they took the money (that was never in the treasury, mind you) to preserve what they had before. Why? Because if the money was left in the treasury (or in this case, transfered to the treasury) the money would then be wasted. Why? Because capitalism isn't about providing for the people, it's about generating profit.
Sure there are some government sponsored companies currently, but they are contributing to the inflation that the Russian currency is experiencing (145 gold bought me 5.04 gold 2 days ago, now it buys only 5 gold). Other countries don't have this problem because they don't go through ideological transfer. One capitalist party takes over another capitalist party. Thus, those funds in the treasury are going to be used for the same things that the other government would use them on, warfare.
We did not. And from a logical perspective you wouldn't do the same either. Instead you act like you are on the high ground pretending that if you were in our position you would allow literally two years of work go into the pooter just to be "morally superior." It's a joke. And when Eternal told me about this I personally laughed at someone trying to lecture an experienced leadership about politics.
I'll leave you some words of wisdom because you are pretty new to this game, corruption only matters if it is internal (within the party). Morality only counts if you are in power. And once you lose power it's your goal to preserve the movement for the betterment of the party, and not for some fake made up fairy tales about "honor" and "nationalism."
The transfer of rubles to the communes was an act of self preservation. Without the funds the movement would be lost. Once the party was taken over all hope of a recovery was lost and now it is down to a few dedicated workers who still believe in something. And you, of all people, want to take that away. People who have been with us for years still playing the game the way that is not only mathematically and logically efficient, but also morally superior.
Which I thought was something you would stand for. But I guess not.
If the leadership wanted, and if the rubles taken were truly for personal benefit they would literally destroy the Russian economy for a period of 2 months by instigating rapid inflation. But they dont, because those funds are for the communes and the communes alone, and not for Capitalists who are only trying to reign in their control over what little we have left.
But I do appreciate the lecture, it was entertaining for awhile.