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The Russian Propaganda Narrative Around the Second World War
The abuse of the Second World War is absolutely central to the Russian propaganda narrative around this war. And it's just so transparently being turned into this extremely violent national cult, which is all about war in this rather unpleasant phrase. In retrospect, you can now see how that was creating this almost war frenzy in Russian society. At the time, I kind of put it down to a little bit of jingoism is every country's got it, all of that. But the way Vladimir Putin is absolutely kind of directly trying to connect himself to 1945, it's mad. It's completely insane. He wasn't even live in 1945. The culture minister just turned around and said, well,
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