Putin’s propaganda glories in devastation but, like the Nazis, he is sowing the seeds of self-destruction
. He called on Russians’ sense of historical mission and implied Russia was ready to use nuclear weapons. “This isn’t a bluff,” he insisted.
As with the Nazis, rational self-interest is meant to be swallowed up in the community of the state. But look closer and the picture gets more complicated – and vulnerable. Russians do not celebrate dissidents ... mass oppression has resulted in a society that celebrates passive conformism
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