There is a fundamental difference between Soviet citizens who defended the USSR from criticism and Russians who defend that system today, Pavel Kazarin says. The first did so out of ignorance, while the second know the truth but choose to deny it out of vileness. “The Soviet man could sincerely believe that the mass repressions...
Soviet citizens defended system out of ignorance, post-Soviet ones defend it out of vileness, expert says
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