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Kurginyan: “Drum-thumping idiotism” stems from shame for involvement in destruction of USSR

“Drum-thumping idiotism,” the neurotic belief in a myth of Russia’s post-Soviet greatness, comes from the shame that the public and the elite experience for their involvement in the collapse of the Soviet Union, philosopher and political scientist Sergey Kurginyan writes in his article ‘Drum-Thumping Idiotism’ Will Kill Russia published in the Essence of Time newspaper.

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