Putin’s Order To Promote Patriotism Repeats Stalin’s ‘Almost Word For Word’ – OpEd

Vladimir Putin’s May 2024 directive to use history lessons in the schools to boost patriotism and a willingness to sacrifice one’s life for Russia repeats Stalin’s May 1934 order to do the same thing in the Soviet Union “almost word for word,” according to Boris Kerzhentsev.

The historian and commentator traces the...