”…Putin’s inner circle is predisposed to certain ideological paradigms, in this case – the works of Ivan Ilyin. Ivan Ilyin is quoted and mentioned not only by the president of Russia, but by the prime-minister Medvedev, foreign minister Lavrov, several of Russia’s governors, patriarch Kirill, various leaders of the United Russia Party and many others…”
—Anton Barbashin
https://ridl.io/ivan-ilyin-a-fashionable-fascist/
#ilyin #putin #medvedev #lavrov #kirill
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“…his [Ivan Ilyin’s] ideas of spirituality and the Russian state are closely linked to his positive views of the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Salazar and Franco.”
—Anton Barbashin, Ivan Ilyin: A Fashionable Fascist
#ilyin #hitler #mussolini #salazar #franco
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“…Ilyin is standing for the same values he is praising in Italian fascism and German national-socialism.”
—Anton Barbashin, Ivan Ilyin: A Fashionable Fascist
#ilyin #mussolini #hitler
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”Despite all the horrors of war, Holocaust and unseen destruction of Europe, Ivan Ilyin did not reject the ideas of fascism but immediately proposed how to make it better, by avoiding several mistakes his contemporaries made.”
—Anton Barbashin, Ivan Ilyin: A Fashionable Fascist
#ivanilyin #ilyin