Snark?
You were calling decorated veterans “Putinista” without regard to whether they helped win the Cold War.
That said, apology accepted.
FYI: It’s possible to support some action of the Russian Government, or to sympathize with a particular action, without being a fan of Vlad Putin.
This particular special operation was prompted by the growth of national self-consciousness in the former Soviet republics, she suggests; and Moscow created “a new generation of Russian historians organized by the FSB” to promote national discord among these countries.
In doing so, the Moscow propagandists are not reviving the post-1956 Soviet view but rather that of high Stalinism, denying the existence of the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the cooperation of Hitler and Stalin, and their joint responsibility for the beginning of World War II in Europe.
“Today,” Pavlova says, “it is obvious how successfully the Kremlin and its ‘information warriors’ have been able to impose on international society its discourse on ‘the struggle with the threat of Nazism.’” Many pick up Moscow’s line on “’the fascist junta’” in Ukraine and the need to struggle with fascism everywhere.
- Irina Pavlova
an excerpt, kind of hard to follow on first read because its translated but with some key points worth considering.
http://www.interpretermag.com/russia-has-reached-its-own-very-different-end-of-history-and-west-has-failed-to-recognize-this-pavlova-says/