Andrei Kolesnikov, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, writes about the ideological foundation of the Putin regime, the most important part of which is the destruction of the memory of the Soviet regime’s crimes and the transformation of Stalin into a positive figure.
What??? Next you’ll tell me that the conservative, nationalist, militarist, imperialist, sexist, homophobic dictator of russia doesn’t like democracy.
No way! I always thought he’s a “lupenreiner Demokrat”!?
But the 90s were bad, he must be so great and wonderful!
as the old Russian proverb goes, “and then it got worse”
Russian history is depressing as fuck.
I think Hitler and Putin really would have gotten along splendidly. No surprise there.
Until they fell out over a disagreement, like Hitler and Stalin
It is amazing for what trivial and obvious answers people of today need researchers.
Will the same researchers tell us in a decade or two that Trump and the GOP were just following in Hitlers and NSDAP’s footsteps in 2020ff?
Sure it is obvious but now it is part of the scientific discourse. Now it’s not just your opinion, now you have a reliable source to support your opinion.
