24.10.2024, Aleksandrovskoye.
Russia has long been shaped and formed in a consumerist way, based on the priority of Western values, said political scientist, philosopher, the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan on October 17 in the new issue of his author’s program Destiny.
“Throughout the thirty-odd post-Soviet years, Russia has been shaped in a consumer-hedonistic manner, first as something wild and chaotic under Yeltsin, and then came Putin and sharply calmed everything down,” stressed the political scientist.
The country was moving in the same direction even before, Sergey Kurginyan clarified. According to him, this continued throughout the post-Stalin years and was especially evident during the Brezhnev period.
“Having formed itself in this way based on the priority of Western values and friendship with the West, the country has lost a significant part of its mobilization potential,” noted the leader of the Essence of Time.
Russia lost a lot during the “distressful nineties”, added the expert. Putin was able to restore something, but the approach did not fundamentally change, including with regard to the country’s defense capability. Kurginyan recalled that Anatoly Serdyukov, who implemented this approach in relation to the Russian army, was a Russian Minister of Defense not under Yeltsin, but under Putin.
“And in essence, he applied the same approach that Mr. Serdyukov (minus the theft, which is an irrevocable constant in all spheres of post-Soviet life); he had a certain idea of what the defense capability of the Russian Federation should look like in contrast to the Soviet Union,” said the political scientist.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
