'Traditional values' in the law include patriotism, service to the fatherland, high morals, a strong family, productive labor, and the priority of the spiritual over the material.
A movie about the Nuremberg trials made the forbidden list even before the law was enacted
I can barely imagine the level of arrogance that these “leaders” must have.
They spend years doing things they know are so egregious, that they imagine if it had been done to them there’s no way they’d tolerate it… which makes them think the general population is full of weak idiots who deserve their exploitation.
It’s like a rapist who thinks women deserved to be violated against their will. “Since they didn’t fight back up to the point of you murdering them — They must be okay with it.”
Too be fair, Russia IS full of weak willed idiots. Much like the Chinese, Russian feel they must protect their abuser, like their abuser “protect” them from the world. They fully believe in the national exceptionalism they’ve been fed since childhood. That they must endure the abuse, because they are uniquely strong and unified, that there are no one else in the world like them, and that they are under attack and risk extinction.
I can barely imagine the level of arrogance that these “leaders” must have.
They spend years doing things they know are so egregious, that they imagine if it had been done to them there’s no way they’d tolerate it… which makes them think the general population is full of weak idiots who deserve their exploitation.
It’s like a rapist who thinks women deserved to be violated against their will. “Since they didn’t fight back up to the point of you murdering them — They must be okay with it.”
It’s the exact same mentality.
Too be fair, Russia IS full of weak willed idiots. Much like the Chinese, Russian feel they must protect their abuser, like their abuser “protect” them from the world. They fully believe in the national exceptionalism they’ve been fed since childhood. That they must endure the abuse, because they are uniquely strong and unified, that there are no one else in the world like them, and that they are under attack and risk extinction.
It’s sad and pathetic.