NEWSLINK Financial Times: What Russians really think. Many in the west see Russia as aggressive and brainwashed. But its citizens have a different view.

… Since the start of his third presidential term in 2012, Putin has identified patriotism and a hero cult as the necessary glue for his disoriented nation. ‘There is a great work under way now for the patriotic education of the youth,’ says Nadezhda Malinina, granddaughter of General Mikhail Malinin, Marshall Zhukov’s chief of staff ….

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