Putin and his propaganda have picked up on the ideas of Russian panslavism, neopaganism, the Moscow Orthodox Church- but also Soviet communism and the Russian extreme far right, which by the way is considered to be kind of mainstream in Russia nowadays.

Meme Putin Vs Boris Johnson Draghi

President Vladimir Putin boasted on Thursday that Russia had barely gotten started in Ukraine and dared the West to try to beat it on the battlefield. "Today we hear that they [the West] want to defeat us on the battlefield. What can you say, let them try...