The conviction of infallibility is a dangerous pathology...

[Soph0571]

Illustration by Anthony Gerace
[link:https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2022/03/a-tale-of-two-dictators-why-putin-is-beholden-to-stalins-legacy|]

Powerful image, am I right? Excellent long read at the link.

Yet Putin is not Stalin. Stalin was a Marxist; Putin is a 21st-century tyrant, who, while co-opting elements of Romanov and Soviet imperialism, is a populist and nationalist, a practitioner of 21st-century identity politics who deploys both old-fashioned military heavy metal and the new hi-tech weaponry of social media.

Yet Stalin could not be more relevant. Stalin’s influence is imprinted everywhere in the state structure of Russia; he remains omnipresent. Putin’s repression at home increasingly resembles Stalinist tyranny – in its cult of fear, rallying of patriotic displays, crushing of protests, brazen lies and total control of media – ­although without the mass deportations and mass shootings. So far.

Emphasis mine

What a horrid horrid little tyrant. Bombs, war crimes, risking WW3 cause he thinks he deserves a legacy (like Stalin's? - you know that legacy of mass murder and horror for power and control...)

Putin's back to future be like ..



Russian Supremacy is so last century, Fuck that.

[tanyev]

1. Kick.