This shit is deranged on so many levels, I love it

An educated Marxist-Leninist such as Putin accepted that there had been more than 100 million victims of communism, an acceptable price to pay to remodel the world. He accepted the purges that Lenin and Stalin used to cement their rule, the forced famines that eliminated enemies of the state, the forced labor camps in Siberia, the tight control of all media. Putin studied the techniques of agitation and propaganda, applying them in his KGB assignment in Dresden in East Germany during the Cold War.

https://archive.is/4nZkS

https://twitter.com/NRO/status/1533851215624298497

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    We can only deal effectively with Putin if we accept how much he is in thrall to... its core idea that political power grows only out of the barrel of a gun.

    So only if we accept that Putin... understands material reality? Has object permanence? Not really sure what the end goal here is.