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Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny
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March 30, 2025
This text is a profound review of what is driving a so called "post-Soviet culture". While written in witty and light-hearted manner, this books into the horrible thing that took place of an already overwhelmlingly brutal Soviet project. Instead of the traditional XX century tyranny (where the ends justifies the means), its version of XXI century has an undead twist to it (there are no ends to be attained, the past needs to be fed with the future so the world of today is redeemed). And indeed an undead brute is more horrible than a living one.
"Unstuck in Time" gives a very solid explanation of the putinism's world view, where one can be a communist, an orthodox, and a monarchist simultaneously inasmuch the one is galvanizing the past ; with the time travel fantasies (popadantsy) being an integral part of it. The future in such a world is only the next iteration of the heroic historical cycle, as in the ancient Egypt.
Recommended read to the people interested in Post-Soviet cultural phenomenon.
"Unstuck in Time" gives a very solid explanation of the putinism's world view, where one can be a communist, an orthodox, and a monarchist simultaneously inasmuch the one is galvanizing the past ; with the time travel fantasies (popadantsy) being an integral part of it. The future in such a world is only the next iteration of the heroic historical cycle, as in the ancient Egypt.
Recommended read to the people interested in Post-Soviet cultural phenomenon.
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