Nearly six weeks ago, on February 24, 2022, #Russia launched a full-scale invasion of #Ukraine. From that moment, the #history of the Russian state’s past crimes ceased to be history, argues Meduza’s Ideas editor, Maxim Trudolyubov. Russia’s shared present once again includes a fight against the country’s own population, the trials of “enemies of the people,” deportations, occupations of neighboring countries, and “cleansing operations” in countries that were once part of the Soviet bloc. In the war against Ukraine, all of the Russian #state’s worst facets in its Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet guises have coalesced. This war is a living indictment that brings together all the things Russian #society can no longer ignore.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/04/05/we-live-in-a-closet-stuffed-with-skeletons #war #nationalism #tradition #gulag #georgia #syrian #chechnya #repression #putin