When I was a child, my sister and I used to joke that we were Russian. My father’s parents didn’t come from Russia but the Soviet block. They were Ukrainian and Lithuanian— quite a difference. I’ve had an interest to visit Vilnius and then the Polish death camps. I think I want to witness the results of the darkest side of Man. It remains an abstraction until one gazes upon the scene.
It’s just so unfortunate that Yeltsin thr drunken slob he was, couldn’t have set the future of Russia without Putin. If only. Russia went for an absolute monarchy to an absolute dictatorship then to a brief experimentation in western-style democracy which slowly ended as Putin assumed leadership.
Great article! You have pulled a lot of threads, and tying the international interference response to the response in the US is also connected to outcomes. I agree we must be loud, factual, and specific in order to unplug the word “hoax” if we are to prevent the continuation of influence in our elections.
Linda, in your comment on Heather Cox Richardson's Letter you used the phrase "social emotional destabilization"; that is an interesting conceptualization and I can't find it elsewhere. Could you explain what you mean, I know this is off context here but I can't seem to message you?
When I was a child, my sister and I used to joke that we were Russian. My father’s parents didn’t come from Russia but the Soviet block. They were Ukrainian and Lithuanian— quite a difference. I’ve had an interest to visit Vilnius and then the Polish death camps. I think I want to witness the results of the darkest side of Man. It remains an abstraction until one gazes upon the scene.
It’s just so unfortunate that Yeltsin thr drunken slob he was, couldn’t have set the future of Russia without Putin. If only. Russia went for an absolute monarchy to an absolute dictatorship then to a brief experimentation in western-style democracy which slowly ended as Putin assumed leadership.
Great article! You have pulled a lot of threads, and tying the international interference response to the response in the US is also connected to outcomes. I agree we must be loud, factual, and specific in order to unplug the word “hoax” if we are to prevent the continuation of influence in our elections.
Linda, in your comment on Heather Cox Richardson's Letter you used the phrase "social emotional destabilization"; that is an interesting conceptualization and I can't find it elsewhere. Could you explain what you mean, I know this is off context here but I can't seem to message you?