Announcing to the Jubilant Crowd

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66chandona
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Announcing to the Jubilant Crowd

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Imperial self-awareness, the banner of the Russian political elites under Tsarism, against which populists, socialists, anarchists and a large part of the first Bolshevik generation fought tirelessly, was a legacy assumed by the USSR, like an ancient geological and semantic sediment that never seems to have finished modeling the surface. Education on the importance of dialogue, understanding and respect for otherness instead of violence was conspicuous by its absence. Let's try, as we read, to imagine the life symbolized by the words of Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize for Literature: «Deep down, we are warriors. Either we were at war or we were preparing for it. We have never lived otherwise. That's where our military psychology comes from. Even in times of peace, everything was as if we were at war. We beat the drum, we unfurled the flag The heart raced.

People didn't realize they were enslaved, and even liked it»5. And even more, from the same pen: In the school library, half the books were about the war. (...) It was a coincidence? We were always special data or preparing for war. We remembered how we had fought. We have never lived any other way, and we probably don't know how to do it. We cannot imagine what it is like to live otherwise, and it will take us a long time to learn it. At school we were taught to love death. We wrote essays about what we would give our lives for... That was our dream.6 Neo-Nazism in post-Soviet Russia The neo-Nazi presence in Russia, encouraged and protected by the country's leadership, has two aspects, the practical and the ideological.

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Let's start with the first. The western extreme right, post-fascist and neo-Nazis movements have perfectly understood the ideology of the current Russian leaders, because they espouse the same values ​​and aspire, with some nuances, to the same type of society. From Matteo Salvini to Marine Le Pen, they have been praising the policies of the Kremlin for years, which has responded with concrete gestures of sympathy. Le Pen's meetings with senior Russian leaders, including Putin, have borne fruit. In 2014, Le Pen's National Front, on the brink of bankruptcy, received millions of euros worth of Russian loans.
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