Russian political psyche: history and modernity

[mirhond]

mirhond

FSB guy Strelkov/Girkin's deputy gave interview to Novaya Gazeta, where he justified Stalin's terror in 1930. Terror was ok, because next generation achieved success. Accrding to mirhond definition in 40 years golden era arrived. I think his points illustrate the thinking among top guys in Eastern Ukraine.

PS mirhond, I hope that you survive the possible terror period without harm.

1. It's a commonplace in current views on Stalin's era, sometimes terror is just accepted as unnecessary but inevitable flaw of bolshevism, sometimes it justified by calculation of utility function. The matter itself is more complicated, as usual.

2. Wishful Thinking Fallacy. Show any good evidence of possible terror or you know what. And read a fine article about hybrid regimes. http://users.livejournal.com/_niece/249212.html

В России не только демократия липовая, но и сталинские усы - накладные