He comes across them again and again in political network debates: "There is no digital stone from which a dozen Putinists would not come out at every opportunity to praise, defend or conjure up their Vladimir," wrote Sascha Lobo in his most recent column, "Where do they actually come from?" all Putin fans? ".
Lobo believes he has identified eight different types, including the "anti-liberal patriarchy junkies" who see the Russian president as an antidote to the "effeminacy of the West", but also anti-American, conspiracy theorists and "professional propagandists".
Even right-wing extremists and left-wing nationalists are equally to be found among the Putinists, as contradicting as that may sound at first.
Lobo considers them all to be receptive to Russia's modern propaganda in social media, which "works with the self-doubts of Western liberal democracies - that is, the constantly loud and widely discussed question of the socially correct path".
Actually, it is precisely the "one strength of the West" because it enables progress.
He names #MeToo, Fridays for Future and #BlackLivesMatter as examples.
But Russia's propaganda machine makes change appear as something bad and then makes "especially actual or self-perceived modernization losers the target group".
In his podcast, Lobo comments on some letters from his readers.
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