Russian sadness paranoid historical melancholy could be Putins additional weapon

Russian sadness, paranoid historical melancholy could be Putin’s additional weapon

Stalin was also radical and deeply saddened, and in him symptoms of paranoia vied with charisma and total political astuteness. We must not underestimate the nihilistic and tragic basis of a mentality

Putin is a sad man, he embarked on an even sadder enterprise than he did, in terms of sadness and inhumanity, well before Ukraine, since Chechnya and the poison in London at least. but that sadness, translated into paranoid symptoms and delusions of grandeur, may be one of his strengths. Stalin was also a radical and deeply sad Georgian, and the symptoms of paranoia competed in him with charisma and total political cunning, the pre-emptive physical elimination of a potential opponentespecially if internal. It cannot be said that his mobilization techniques, intertwined with the purges and other systematic political crimes at the highest levels, did not cause difficulties for those who stood before him.

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