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If there are similarities between the two autocrats, the differences prevail. Explanations in the light of Russian political history.
Line. Can we really place Vladimir Putin in the wake of the theoreticians and practitioners of Marxism-Leninism? From left to dr. : Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Putin.
By Nicolas Werth*
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Lnext year, Vladimir Putin will beat a record: that of Stalin, who remained twenty-four years (1929-1953) at the head of the USSR. Over time, Vladimir Putin has continued to “fine tune” his stature as a statesman who has marked an “era” in Russian history for centuries. At the beginning of June, visiting an exhibition dedicated to Peter the Great, whose 350 Russia celebratese birthday (Peter the Great was born in June 1672), Vladimir Putin – without complex – compared his policy of conquest of Ukraine to that of the tsar. By attacking Sweden and occupying those northern lands on the shores of the Baltic where he would found his new capital, Saint Petersburg, Peter the Great, he explained, “didn’t take anything, he just took over and strengthened Russia […] Today…
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