"Neither then nor later did most Russian liberals understand that the imperial project itself was the source of Russian #autocracy. […]
Outside the country, hundreds of thousands of ordinary Russians are beginning to understand how closely the empire and the autocracy are linked." | @anneapplebaum

#Russia #RussianEmpire #RussianEmpireMustDie #FreeRussia #SupportUkraine
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/12/putin-russia-must-lose-ukraine-war-imperial-future/671891/

"The best way that outsiders can help #Russia change is to ensure that #Ukraine takes back Ukrainian territory and defeats the empire. We can also keep supporting those Russians, however small their number, who understand why defeat is the only path to modernity; why military failure is necessary for the creation of a more prosperous, open society; and why, once again, the empire must die." | @anneapplebaum

#RussianEmpireMustDie #RussiaUkraineWar #SupportUkraine

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/12/putin-russia-must-lose-ukraine-war-imperial-future/671891/