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🧵On The Influence of Ivan Ilyin on Putin's Regime
1/ Hi everyone, today we are going to introduce Ivan Ilyin, a Russian Christian fascist writer who exerts a significant influence on the ideology and actions of Vladimir Putin.
#IvanIlyin #Ukraine #Russia #RussianFascism #Putin
1/ Hi everyone, today we are going to introduce Ivan Ilyin, a Russian Christian fascist writer who exerts a significant influence on the ideology and actions of Vladimir Putin.
#IvanIlyin #Ukraine #Russia #RussianFascism #Putin
2/ Therefore understanding #Ilyin's ideas is crucial to comprehend the motivations behind Putin's policies. Let's explore how #Ilyin's ideology shaped Putin's actions.
3/ One key aspect is how Ilyin's ideas influenced Putin's approach towards UKR. Ilyin believed in a Russian-dominated Eurasian empire where nationalites like Ukranian all belonged to Russia. Putin, influenced by this ideology, sought to "punish" Ukraine for its Western leanings.
🧵There is much speculation about what prompted Putin to launch his genocidal war against 🇺🇦. I'll try to explain this with the help of Timothy Snyder's book "The Road to unfreedom".Putin's mindset is important for this. It's shaped by ru philosophers.
Thread today: Ivan Ilyin
Thread today: Ivan Ilyin
One person who is recited by Putin in many speeches and who has great influence on him is the philosopher Ivan Ilyin (1883-1954). His body was transferred to Moscow in 2005 with the support of Putin. Putin also attended his funeral.
Who was Ilyin?He was born in Moscow in 1883 and dealt extensively with the works of Hegel.From these he derived his works,the content of which can be described as"Christian fascism".
🧵A Russian oil executive, Ravil Maganov, Chairman of Russia’s second-largest oil producer Lukoil, a company that criticized President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, died Thursday after reportedly falling out of his hospital window in Moscow.
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The company issued a statement Thursday confirming the death of Maganov, 67, "after a severe illness," but did not specify the cause. “Ravil Maganov immensely contributed to the development of not only the Company but of the entire Russian oil and gas sector,” the statement read.
It was a rare Russian business to come out against Putin’s Ukraine invasion, which the Kremlin calls its “special military operation.” The company’s board of directors called for an end to the war in early March.
ZHIRINOVSKII AND PUTIN'S NEO-IMPERIALISM
1. Yesterday, one of the culprits of #Russia's return to imperialist #ultranationalism, the #fascist #VladimirZhirinovsky, died. On Zhirinovskii's form of #Russianfascism: researchgate.net/publication/25… @FFRAFAction @KomRex_UniJena @FascismJourna
1. Yesterday, one of the culprits of #Russia's return to imperialist #ultranationalism, the #fascist #VladimirZhirinovsky, died. On Zhirinovskii's form of #Russianfascism: researchgate.net/publication/25… @FFRAFAction @KomRex_UniJena @FascismJourna
2. His #LDPR's victory, with 22.92% in the first post-Soviet multi-party parliamentary elections in December 1993, was an insufficient but necessary pre-condition for Moscow's military intervention in #Chechnya one year later.
@russian_monitor @ElectionsCenter @russia_matters
@russian_monitor @ElectionsCenter @russia_matters
3. The #FirstChechenWar of 1994-1996 and its deep repercussions on #Russian society were arguably the beginning of the end of post-Soviet proto-democracy. See: rferl.org/a/journey-into…
