LE FIGARO: “Russians grew up in their homeland and suddenly found themselves in a supermarket,” you write Wizard of the Kremlin. To understand the war in Ukraine, one must remember Russia’s economic and political decline in its aftermath The fall of the Berlin Wall?
Giuliano DA EMPOLI. In a way, I think so, we as winners had no interest in the loser and we blinded ourselves to what was going on. In the 1990s, there was a kind of political, cultural and economic cataclysm in Russia. During this time, all the values that prevailed, even if they were hypocritical values, collapsed. These values were associated with the Soviet system and corresponded to a kind of “Soviet dream”, which itself collapsed. We didn’t see this dream because it was modest compared to the “American dream”; for example, it was a matter of achieving a small career as a civil servant, which involved some…
Source: Le Figaro
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