Blood and Iron: How Nationalist Imperialism Became Russia’s State Ideology

I did not have the time to read the whole long article, but the little I read and the title suggests it is worth reading it.

When will the lethargic Russian people finally get rid of their last czar, the megalomaniac and war criminal Putin the Terrible!

The only good news: Age is catching up with Putin the Terrible!

"... The Putin regime today is essentially a type of hybrid totalitarianism that combines mature authoritarianism with totalitarian practices. This model requires a certain degree of self-justification. The political system can better affirm itself and its reason for existing in the first place if it can find the proper words to artificially describe the ideological reality it has created. The harsher the regime, the harsher the words. The more repressive practices are introduced, the more active the industry of inventing, producing, and implementing the building blocks of its ideology in the public consciousness. ..."

Blood and Iron: How Nationalist Imperialism Became Russia’s State Ideology - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace The nationalist-imperialist worldview that the Putin regime is imposing on Russians is intended to feed on the past and exploit historical memories and concepts to reshape and manage the mass consciousness of the Russian people.