After a year of the conflict, Russia has a coherent ideology.
My father, who was in his late 30s at the time, joked that if "fascists took over Moscow" (how or why is not important here), he would want to be on a beach somewhere in Asia, sip on his coconut with a straw, watch CNN show rows of Nazi soldiers march across Red Square, and go, "Blyat" (literally, fuck). At the time, I was too young to attend or understand the Bolotnaya protests.
When I later spoke with older people about that time, they revealed that while Russia had its fatty years of high oil prices and ostentatious consumption in the roaring 2010s, there was a sense that these luxuries are fragile and ephemeral and that they will soon be gone.
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