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Stephen Kotkin has a good talk on this. TLDR is the Russian culture has a tendency towards supporting strong autocratic rulers, especially those “in defiance of
by _skzr 5y ago
Stephen Kotkin has a good talk on this. TLDR is the Russian culture has a tendency towards supporting strong autocratic rulers, especially those “in defiance of” something (capitalism, the west, etc)
https://youtu.be/RnWp_kr4tfc https://youtu.be/RnWp_kr4tfc
- menotyou 5y agoThis is even better: https://youtu.be/kF9KretXqJw https://youtu.be/kF9KretXqJw (In Finish but with english subtitles)
- NicoJuicy 5y agoThanks for that! Learned a couple of things, I was aware of the result but that shed some light on the origin.
- balsam 5y agoCuriously one can thus be grateful for, e.g., Sci-Hub (defiance of the western copyright regime), and the wellbeing of Snowden. I’m kidding? I guess you might say that Russians are kind of collective anarchists. Principled— I mean fairly not based on ethnohistorical pride like say the occasional defiance of the Chinese. Life is not cheap, only too willing to pay the price. Vodka loosens up the psychic joints.. Here, to the defiance of the soi disant curious of the orange site )
- cultofmetatron 5y agoso they culturally lean contrarian?