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The Parallel Universe of Russia’s War

The Documentary Podcast

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Is Russia a Bipolar World?

Sashar arkipa is a social anthropologist researching Russian attitudes to the war. He mocks liberals and anti-war campaigners who are traitors in his book. The biggest target of his humour as he sees it is LGBT people. We challenged him about his homophobia, but his answers became ever more offensive. Russia is for traditional values. Western world now is for we call it centenism. You call it Satanism. That's quite an apocalyptically black and white view of the conflict.

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