Thank you for the reply and the source! I am guilty of avoiding Solovyov and even Komsomolskaya Pravda, because why would voluntary see that? Туда не наступайте, ибо там нехорошо.
фашизм и ублюдлчный нацизм - разные вещи (fascism and bastard Nazism are different things)
третий путь, по которому, частично, сегодня идёт Россия ([Mussolini created] the third way, which Russia today partly follows)
Ah, but this is a bit different from a rehabilitation of fascism the way fascism is normally understood. Mussolini, despite inventing fascism, wasn't really its most pure expression. The fact that an odious media personality is flirting with Mussolini isn't indicative of the general direction of things.
Remember the time when Kiselyov said gays shouldn't be allowed to be organ/blood donors? That was a very prominent statement - but in the end Russia's one of the few countries without restrictions on MSM blood donations. I think it's just empty demagoguery or TV clowns being TV clowns. I'm optimistic, but I hope I'm right.
I would 100% agree with you if people wouldn’t eat this shit up. Not only my relatives, but real people all over Russia in general.
My anecdotes sadly confirm your anecdotes. People are dumb and don't go outside enough. But, luckily, Russia's not a democracy. So there's no need to fear what people think ;-). I agree it's bad that there are fascist/racist/conservative opinions entrenched out there, which creates the potential for bad leaders, but I also think people's backward views are tempered by pragmatism/apathy/civility. Sure, hypothetically, the Jews and Gayropa want to addict your kids to drugs and perverted sex, everyone knows that, but in your daily life it's not something that ever comes up. (Unless you yourself are the target of discrimination, which sucks, obviously, but it's not systematic.) Most people are too busy dealing with normal shit to want to get into politics.
Hey, maybe I'm 2 years behind. But I've vacillated on this question before. I think the darkest timeline is not in the interest of the ruling class either.
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Thank you for the reply and the source! I am guilty of avoiding Solovyov and even Komsomolskaya Pravda, because why would voluntary see that? Туда не наступайте, ибо там нехорошо.
Ah, but this is a bit different from a rehabilitation of fascism the way fascism is normally understood. Mussolini, despite inventing fascism, wasn't really its most pure expression. The fact that an odious media personality is flirting with Mussolini isn't indicative of the general direction of things.
Remember the time when Kiselyov said gays shouldn't be allowed to be organ/blood donors? That was a very prominent statement - but in the end Russia's one of the few countries without restrictions on MSM blood donations. I think it's just empty demagoguery or TV clowns being TV clowns. I'm optimistic, but I hope I'm right.
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My anecdotes sadly confirm your anecdotes. People are dumb and don't go outside enough. But, luckily, Russia's not a democracy. So there's no need to fear what people think ;-). I agree it's bad that there are fascist/racist/conservative opinions entrenched out there, which creates the potential for bad leaders, but I also think people's backward views are tempered by pragmatism/apathy/civility. Sure, hypothetically, the Jews and Gayropa want to addict your kids to drugs and perverted sex, everyone knows that, but in your daily life it's not something that ever comes up. (Unless you yourself are the target of discrimination, which sucks, obviously, but it's not systematic.) Most people are too busy dealing with normal shit to want to get into politics.
Hey, maybe I'm 2 years behind. But I've vacillated on this question before. I think the darkest timeline is not in the interest of the ruling class either.