“To understand what’s going on in Ukraine right now, what’s going on inside of Russia, too, and what’s driving Vladimir Putin, we need to talk about a man named Ivan Ilyin,” says @mehdirhasan. Let him introduce you to the Russian autocrat’s favorite fascist philosopher:

Mar 21, 2022 · 12:12 AM UTC

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You, Mehdi, are wonderful❤️
It explains a lot ! How someone like Trump and billionaires and oligarchs-are on the side of Putin !!
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Uhhh, I don’t think that’s a picture of Putin placing flowers at Ilyin’s gravesite (at 2:48 of video)….looks more like Sholzhenitsyn’s gravesite…just saying…
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Don’t forget the Russian Orthodox Church and its role in Putins world.
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"Fascism" is indeed thrown around too arbitrarily. This, however, is well argued and sadly quite accurate.
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Today’s Moscow rally is yesterday Nuremberg rally.
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Finally people of the West start to understand what's really going on in modern Russia. Ukrainians were screaming about it for years, but were dismissed as bias. And off course it was so hard to say no to that delicious russian oil😡
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