https://youtube.com/watch?v=jodGuZsTWcc

Just a closer peek into the man’s life. It’s not that he criticized this or that, it’s that he was a fraud

That was Anatoliy Chubais, this one is his older brother afaik. No surprise there

But a nation is loved not for its political system

Should Germans have loved Nazi Germany because it was “their nation”, in spite of its political system? How about the Italians or the Japanese? Or any European nation participating in WW1? Is loving the US (or any other imperialist nation) not reactionary? Patriotism cannot and should not be detached from class reality and from material analysis. Otherwise it becomes nothing but a tool to lead the masses towards their slaughter in the name of Capital, instead of a tool for liberation.

PS IMHO anyone unironically referencing Solzhenitsyn as “credible source” should be immediately dismissed.

Now we’ll have to pin this failure on someone