Back to the USSR
Closed societies are predictable in that all becomes an us versus them. And I mean everything. This is why, during the Soviet period, there was Russian culture, Russian science, and Russian man. Well, we are returning to those themes. I remember the good old Soviet days when the Bolshoi theater was not just a symbol of the state but a way of showing the developing world the greatness of the International. So here we are, where culture, again, becomes a symbol of this system:
The Russian government has adopted the “Strategy for State Cultural Policy for the Period up to 2030”, which contains a loud statement that “the State is for the first time elevating culture to the rank of national priorities” (i.e. the end of the remnants of culture). The same is said by the writer Boris Akunin , who studied the document.
The government act contains a hefty dose of the usual cynicism and deception, which manifested itself here in the assertion that the Ukrainian army is destroying historical monuments and objects of Russian culture (including the Mariupol Drama Theater — if you are going to lie without shame and conscience, then completely, the Putinists do not change themselves here). 🤡
👉 But the document also shows an attempt to build some kind of ideological basis for Putin’s Russia. At the heart of it all is, of course, the so-called “SVO”. And, of course, the theses…