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The Russians face the specter of a great leap backwards

2022-02-27T18:35:41.015Z


The Russian-Ukrainian conflict will have economic, social and political consequences. Correspondent in Moscow To discover LIVE - War in Ukraine: the Russians continue their offensive, the Ukrainian army resists The same feelings of amazement and dejection are expressed in the voices of our many Russian interlocutors . "But how is that possible?" The adult generations, who have seen others, particularly since the fall of the USSR, but also the youngest, are wondering about the ev


Correspondent in Moscow

To discover

  • LIVE - War in Ukraine: the Russians continue their offensive, the Ukrainian army resists

The same feelings of amazement and dejection are expressed in the voices of our many Russian interlocutors

.

"But how is that possible?"

The adult generations, who have seen others, particularly since the fall of the USSR, but also the youngest, are wondering about the events of recent days as well as about their future, with the awareness that this could be deeply affected.

The war started by Vladimir Putin in Ukraine has gripped them and leaves them helpless.

"I no longer recognize my country,"

says Tania, a 30-year-old architect.

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We observe simultaneously, in the country, three parallel realities.

That, first, of the federal television channels where continuous jets of invective are expressed, replicating the remarks of the head of the Kremlin and galvanizing the fight against the

“Nazi” forces

in power in Kiev.

Then, the reality of a daily crowd, crossed in the street, the shops, the metro, which displays the mask of indifference...

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