Two Russian Views and Open Society

Editors note: Links to papers on the open JSTOR depository use the Chicago link, with a live link in the reference note.

When you spend enough time on Telegram, you can see how Russian society is divided. The war is not popular in all quarters. So today, I bring attention to two posts. The first is from a conservative source, and it runs through the ideology of the nationalist, almost imperial, far-right:

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Moscow Region Georgy Filimonov @filimonov_official — about the “deep-lying agency” especially for the MIG of Russia @mig41:

❇️ SVO showed that Russian society is basically consolidated. People see the inevitability of a new global clash with the West and understand that there is no alternative to Victory, without which there is no chance for the future.

❇️ At the same time, the last year has revealed real problems with a misunderstanding on the part of the consumer society of the ongoing global tectonic shifts, as well as threats, including those coming from representatives of the so-called pro-Western political agents. Left without a coherent state ideology, the society gave rise to a whole layer of infantile outcasts who openly cheer for the enemy during the war.

❇️ Among them there were “useful…