I am reading “The future is history “ by Masha Gessen which explains how totalitarianism has shaped Russian psyche and put Putin where he is today. Eighty years of rule by terror has developed a mindset that we in the west will never truly understand.
Putin wants his legacy to be a Russia World including all Russian speaking people, ignoring or abolishing national borders. At any cost! Totalitarianism works best when the population is in poverty.
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