LE FIGARO.- “The Russians had grown up in a homeland and suddenly found themselves in a supermarket,” you write in the
Magus of the Kremlin
.
To understand the war in Ukraine, one must remember the economic and political slump in Russia after the
fall of the Berlin Wall
?
Giuliano DA EMPOLI.-
In a way I think so, we as winners lacked curiosity towards the loser, and we blinded ourselves to what was happening.
During the 1990s in Russia there was a kind of political, cultural and economic cataclysm.
During this period, all the values that prevailed, even if they were hypocritical values, collapsed.
These values were linked to the Soviet system and corresponded to a kind of “Soviet dream” which itself collapsed.
We did not see this dream because it was modest, compared to the “American dream”: for example, it was a question of accessing a small career as a state employee, which involved a certain…
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