Russian Popular Mythology

Historical analogies and second world war references are a consinant among claims about what is really going on in ukraine. There are comparisons made between modern rys phobia and narcy anti semetism. But while these stories may seem confusing, or even confused, they are better understood as forming a part of russian popular historical myth. In this alternate reality, russia is under attack from the west, as so often in its history, and must either fight back, like in the second world war, or be destroyed like the us. Russian audiences are led to believe that history will repeat itself either as triumph or as tragedy.