ZHIRINOVSKII AND PUTIN'S NEO-IMPERIALISM
1. Yesterday, one of the culprits of #Russia's return to imperialist #ultranationalism, the #fascist #VladimirZhirinovsky, died. On Zhirinovskii's form of #Russianfascism: researchgate.net/publication/25… @FFRAFAction @KomRex_UniJena @FascismJourna
1. Yesterday, one of the culprits of #Russia's return to imperialist #ultranationalism, the #fascist #VladimirZhirinovsky, died. On Zhirinovskii's form of #Russianfascism: researchgate.net/publication/25… @FFRAFAction @KomRex_UniJena @FascismJourna
2. His #LDPR's victory, with 22.92% in the first post-Soviet multi-party parliamentary elections in December 1993, was an insufficient but necessary pre-condition for Moscow's military intervention in #Chechnya one year later.
@russian_monitor @ElectionsCenter @russia_matters
@russian_monitor @ElectionsCenter @russia_matters
3. The #FirstChechenWar of 1994-1996 and its deep repercussions on #Russian society were arguably the beginning of the end of post-Soviet proto-democracy. See: rferl.org/a/journey-into…
4. Ever since, #Zhirinovskii and his #ЛДПР have spoiled #Russia's #domesticdiscourse and #foreignaffairs with #authoritarianism, #xenophobia, #warmongering, #hatred, and #expansionism.
Here, #Zhirinovsky with his long-term political friend Jean-Marie Le Pen @lepenjm of @SGen_FN:
Here, #Zhirinovsky with his long-term political friend Jean-Marie Le Pen @lepenjm of @SGen_FN:
5. In the early 2000s, #Жириновский and the #LDPR became part and parcel of the #PutinSystem. Nevertheless, #Zhirinovski's death yesterday went largely uncommented in Western mass media, as far as I can see.
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