Opinion Putin is not Russia. He is a despot on borrowed time
Perhaps the most insidious myth cultivated by Vladimir Putin’s propagandists is the idea that he and Russia are the same thing. As his sycophantic deputy chief of staff, Vyacheslav Volodin, put it in 2015: “There is Putin, there is Russia. There is no Putin, there is no Russia.”
A Twitter image of Vladimir Putin about to burst a balloon in Ukrainian colours ... but is it Putin’s own balloon that will be burst?A version of this narrative has also been disseminated by a vocal group of Western commentators. What is extraordinary is that today, as missiles rain down on Ukraine, some are still prepared to identify Putin’s dictatorship with the Russian people.this week offers a simplistic outsider’s fantasy about “the Russian mind” and a millennium of Russian history.
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