Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Russian society is characterised by resentment, fatigue and the development of a slave mentality, Russian American historian Mikhail Yampolsky writes in the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: In my view the refusal to accept reality in todays Russia is directly related to the helplessness of the people, who are unable to bring about the slightest change in their country - or even in their own family. ... All of Russian society, from Putin down to the lowliest street sweeper, is equally infected by feelings of resentment. With Putin its because Russia and its president arent accepted as equal players in the global arena. For the street sweeper its because of his helplessness vis-á-vis the police, civil servants, judges and criminals. I believe that at a specific moment the resentment fantasies at the top were strangely echoed by the resentment fantasies of the population at large. ... Although the government, as embodied by Putin, is to blame for the fact that the people do not have any influence at all on events and decisions, todays changing attitudes help it rather than harm it. (12/11/2014) faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/entfremdung-und-erniedrigung-die-russen-verlieren-den-bezug-zur-realitaet-13262683.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_2
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