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Putin pitänyt puheen, jossa lainannut Stalinia ja Hitleriä.
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Putin's Thousand Year Reich
December 2nd, 2023, 5:07 p.mRussia increasingly resembles a parody of the Soviet Union and the "Third Reich" at the same time: This week, Putin spoke at the "World Council of the Russian People" - and quoted Stalin and Hitler.
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In this speech, Putin outlined the limits of Russia's possible territorial claims: "The Russian world is ancient Rus, the Moscow Empire, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and modern Russia."
Putin spoke kindly of Stalin and recalled that after the German attack in 1941, he had addressed his fellow citizens in a very Christian manner: "Brothers and sisters," with these words Stalin began his address to the nation. And Putin praised him for it.
Finally, in his speech, Putin uttered a formula that had never before been used by Russian theorists or propagandists: "a thousand-year, eternal Russia."
So far, only one similar formula has been encountered in world history: “Thousand-Year Reich” – that’s what Hitler first called Germany at the party conference in Nuremberg in 1934.
Nobody had ever called Russia that before Putin.
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The most surprising thing about the whole thing, however, is the virtual Putin who looked at the audience across the screen. Not only did he give his opening speech, he also sat in front of his computer the entire time - and at the end of the session he even gave a closing statement.
The spectacle was strikingly reminiscent of the prophetic novel by the great Russian writer and dissident Vladimir Vojnovich. At the end of the 1980s, after he was expelled from the Soviet Union and lived in Germany, he wrote the anti-utopian novel “Moscow 2042.”
In it, he imagines a future for Russia in which the KGB would come to power, the Communist Party would merge with the Russian Orthodox Church, and the head of state would be a certain genius who would be on a distant spaceship and not come to Earth.
The fascist congress in the Kremlin could be very frightening if you took everything its participants said literally. However, it is difficult to ignore that he is himself a parody, a farce in the Vojnovich spirit. But does that really make what's happening any less frightening?
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In this speech, Putin outlined the limits of Russia's possible territorial claims: "The Russian world is ancient Rus, the Moscow Empire, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and modern Russia."
Putin spoke kindly of Stalin and recalled that after the German attack in 1941, he had addressed his fellow citizens in a very Christian manner: "Brothers and sisters," with these words Stalin began his address to the nation. And Putin praised him for it.
Finally, in his speech, Putin uttered a formula that had never before been used by Russian theorists or propagandists: "a thousand-year, eternal Russia."
So far, only one similar formula has been encountered in world history: “Thousand-Year Reich” – that’s what Hitler first called Germany at the party conference in Nuremberg in 1934.
Nobody had ever called Russia that before Putin.
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The most surprising thing about the whole thing, however, is the virtual Putin who looked at the audience across the screen. Not only did he give his opening speech, he also sat in front of his computer the entire time - and at the end of the session he even gave a closing statement.
The spectacle was strikingly reminiscent of the prophetic novel by the great Russian writer and dissident Vladimir Vojnovich. At the end of the 1980s, after he was expelled from the Soviet Union and lived in Germany, he wrote the anti-utopian novel “Moscow 2042.”
In it, he imagines a future for Russia in which the KGB would come to power, the Communist Party would merge with the Russian Orthodox Church, and the head of state would be a certain genius who would be on a distant spaceship and not come to Earth.
The fascist congress in the Kremlin could be very frightening if you took everything its participants said literally. However, it is difficult to ignore that he is himself a parody, a farce in the Vojnovich spirit. But does that really make what's happening any less frightening?
