Putin the Terrible: By falsifying and elevating the legacies of Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible, and other canonical figures, Vladimir Putin hopes to justify his own authoritarianism and neo-imperial wars of aggression.
Putin the Terrible: By falsifying and elevating the legacies of Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible, and other canonical figures, Vladimir Putin hopes to justify his own authoritarianism and neo-imperial wars of aggression.
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>Particularly since the invasion of Ukraine, the entire Russian propaganda machine has been cranked into high gear to justify the war on neomedieval grounds.
I don’t like that epithet. Too ambiguous. Why not take inspiration from Pepin instead of Ivan?