Putin is not a fascist, in part because he does not need to be. Trump ran a consistently fascist campaign.
American Fascism: Lessons from Russia
Eliot BorensteinPenile Servitude and the Police State
Anastasia Kayiatos
Sunday before last, on the drizzly police holiday, Petersburg performance artist Petr Pavlensky (b. 1984) sat stark naked in Moscow’s sacred center and nailed his scrotum to the cold cobblestones of Red Square.
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Eliot Borenstein
Stories Not About Putin, or Masha Gessen Bikes to the Kremlin
Eliot BorensteinAuthoritarian Fun Fact: when the political culture and mechanisms of power all revolve around one man (sexist language intended), the accidental consequences of that man’s actions can be both disheartening and hilarious (when they are not tragic and reprehensible).
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