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President, Kyiv School of Economics; Minister of economy, Ukraine, 2019-2020; Associate professor, University of Pittsburgh

May 11, 5 tweets

Kasparov: Putin’s dictatorship is built not on communist ideology, but on imperial thinking and personal power.

Stalin, not Lenin, is Putin’s idol. A personality-cult dictatorship in a country like Russia always needs to prove the leader’s greatness. 1/

Kasparov: This is not just Putin’s war. It is a war against Russia’s imperial essence. Without Ukraine, there is no empire.

Nothing except a Ukrainian flag over Sevastopol can knock this imperial madness out of the average Russian mind. 2/

Kasparov: Ukraine is performing a feat every day, every hour, every minute, grinding down Russia’s power.

If Ukraine had surrendered, that force would have crashed down on all of Europe. Ukraine did not “just hold.” Ukraine saved Europe. 3X

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