Russia’s national past: unpicking history from propaganda
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The Crimean War, Moral Victory From Destroyment
There's the very interesting story of the crimean war. And er for putin, the example of nicholas the first, who led russia into the crimea is inspiring. But although denounced by most western oriented liberals in russia, he was praised by russian nationalists. There's a direct parallel between nicholas's intervention in the ottoman empire, on behalf of the orthodox and putin's own intervention in ukraine, balerus, even in kasastan. You know, that's a conception of russia as bigger than its territorial boundaries. It's a conceptionof russia as thi spiritual civilization we were talking about,. In which
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