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He wasn't reading history books from a century ago, he was reading Aleksandr Dugin, a.k.a. Putin's Brain. A far-right crackpot whose ideology was about as grou
by pseudohadamard 9mo ago
He wasn't reading history books from a century ago, he was reading Aleksandr Dugin, a.k.a. Putin's Brain. A far-right crackpot whose ideology was about as grounded in reality as Alfred Rosenberg, although his ideas about destabilising the west, principally the US, have proven quite effective.
- tim333 9mo agoNot quite sure where I read that but from "What’s on Vladimir Putin’s reading list?" in the FT: >Putin, though, likes to present himself as someone who has thought extensively about the past. It was not just Trump who has been treated to the Russian leader’s analysis of the history of Rus’, the Christianisation of Prince (later St) Vladimir in 988 or the impact of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania on lands to its east in the late Middle Ages. I'm not much of a Putinist but in the couple of minutes of Putin Tucker I watched he was going on about that stuff and how Hitler wouldn't have had to do so much war if the Poles had just been reasonable about him taking over. I'm sure he's familiar with Dugin but probably regards him as a bit of a crank.
- pseudohadamard 9mo agoIt's Russian media who have labelled him Putin's Brain, and they're not likely to say anything disparaging about the Tsar. His work was allegedly required reading at the Russian General Staff Academy. However this is Russia, where nothing is true and everything is possible.
- drysine 9mo ago>It's Russian media who have labelled him Putin's Brain, and they're not likely to say anything disparaging about the Tsar. I've seen that only in liberal opposition's media