In 2009, this piece suggested that the KGB was behind a series of apartment bombings "They say it was the Chechens who did this, but that is a lie. It was Putin's people. Everyone knows that. No one wants to talk about it, but everyone knows that."http://reprints.longform.org/putin-conspiracy-banned-story-anderson …
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In 2014, a NYT piece about the early post-truth era in Russia "When people stopped trusting any institutions or having any values, they could easily be spun into a conspiratorial vision of the world. Thus the paradox: the gullible cynic."https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/opinion/russias-ideology-there-is-no-truth.html …
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This piece by
@mashagessen in 2014 on hopelessness and early mortality in Russia "Sometime in 1993, after several trips to Russia, I noticed something bizarre and disturbing: people kept dying."https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/09/02/dying-russians/ …Prikaži ovu nit -
"The deaths kept piling up. People—men and women—were falling off trains and out of windows; asphyxiating in country houses with faulty wood stoves or in apartments with jammed front-door locks; getting hit by cars that sped through quiet courtyards or plowed..."
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"...down groups of people on a sidewalk; drowning as a result of diving drunk into a lake or ignoring sea-storm warnings or for no apparent reason; poisoning themselves with too much alcohol, counterfeit alcohol, alcohol substitutes, or drugs; and, finally, dropping dead."
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A paragraph connecting, anecdotally, mortality to a sense of futility and disposability: "In The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt argues that totalitarian rule is truly possible only in countries that are large enough to be able to afford depopulation."
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"The Soviet Union proved itself to be just such a country on at least three occasions in the twentieth century—teaching its citizens in the process that their lives are worthless."
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"Is it possible that this knowledge has been passed from generation to generation enough times that most Russians are now born with it and this is why they are born with a Bangladesh-level life expectancy?"
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Then
@peterpomeranzev in September of 2014 on the menace of unreality - "But there is one great difference between Soviet propaganda and the latest Russian variety. For the Soviets, the idea of truth was important—even when they were lying."https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/russia-putin-revolutionizing-information-warfare/379880/ …Prikaži ovu nit -
"When the Kremlin and its affiliated media outlets spat out outlandish stories about the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in July... they were trying not so much to convince viewers of any one version, but rather to leave them confused and paranoid"
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And December of the same year, on post-truth in Russia "Imagine if you grew up lying. Not a little bit, for convenience, but during every public moment of your life: at school, at work, at social events."https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/opinion/russias-ideology-there-is-no-truth.html …
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"The Kremlin’s goal is to control all narratives, so that politics becomes one great scripted reality show. The way it wields power illustrates and reinforces this psychology. "
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This is not exactly what is happening in the West. To repurpose Hanlon's razor — I think we're recreating through incompetence what the Kremlin accomplished with malice.
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