Briar Stewart – CBC News July 5, 2024
Researchers are seeing a new wave of patriotism emerge in Russia, including among young people who are forming campus groups and finding ways to justify the war in Ukraine, even if they don’t all agree with it.
At the end of November, four students dressed in military uniforms from Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, a prestigious and traditionally liberal leaning university, arrived in the city of Nizhny Novgorod with a special care package for Russian troops.
They were handing over three drones, and other accessories from the school’s White Raven student group, a pro-military association which was created one month after Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine.
“When you feel that you and your government and your country are standing for one mission, then you will achieve success,” Maksim Lukianenko, one of White Raven’s co-founders, said in an interview with CBC News.
The 20-year-old who studies cross-cultural communication admits the group has sparked protests on campus, but insists the controversy has only driven more students to join its ranks and take part in the sporting events and fundraisers they organize.
“I see it with my own eyes… a crucial increase in patriotism,” Lukianenko said.
‘New patriots’
Nearly a year and a half into the war, Russian President Vladimir Putin maintains the country is more united than ever. A group of Russian researchers say they are seeing an increase in patriotism among citizens who might have disagreed with the war in the beginning but support the country’s military because they want it to emerge victorious.
Despite a counteroffensive launched by Ukraine and what some have called an attempted coup against Putin by the Wagner mercenary outfit, the research suggests that patriotism is actually increasing among ordinary Russians.
Comment – March 29, 2024
If the architects of the war in Ukraine had hoped to weaken Russia they must be sorely disappointed. Far from weakening Russia, ordinary Russians have rallied round President Putin and the idea of Mother Russia.
Indeed, a more recent survey found that efforts to fragment and demoralize Russians were counter-productive. A sense of pride and commitment to their motherland is now at an all-time high among Russians. Ed.
Share of ‘patriotic’ Russians reaches all-time high – poll
RT.com – March 29, 2024
Unconditional patriotism has surged to 62% since last year
Some 94% of Russians describe themselves as patriots, more than at any point since surveys first began, the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTSIOM) said on Friday.
The increase was driven mainly by a ten percentage point surge in “unconditional” patriotism since last year, which now stands at 62%, VTSIOM revealed. Back in 2005, when the survey first started, it was just 47%.
“Today, the feeling of patriotism is shared approximately equally by men and women (93% and 95%, respectively), the young and the old (87% in the 18-24 category and 94% among those 60+), and residents of cities and the countryside (94% and 95% respectively),” said the pollster.
The recent surge in unconditional patriotism is higher than the eight-point increase in 2022, after the military operation in Ukraine began.
The percentage of Russians who described themselves as “not very” patriotic was the highest in March 2014, prior to the reunification with Crimea. It stood at 13% at the time but has shrunk to just 2% today. Only 1% of Russians have openly declared they don’t feel patriotic at all.
VTSIOM’s poll was based on phone interviews with a representative sample of 1,600 adult Russians, carried out at the beginning of March.
“Unconditional Patriotism” Indeed!
That is because Russia is a true NATION. Bound by blood and history.
Contrarily, “The Western Nations” are just holding pens for the global plantation we knew was coming years ago.
In the States, meatpackers are firing workers and sending the work to the “migrants” in New York City.
Google Tyson corporation firing americans hiring illegals or some such. The story is being buried all over. This will not only happen in the USA.
The resurgence of nationalisms is really all we have to stand against the bankers who wish to rule the world, but, since the bankers seem to really hate White people, there also needs to be a lot less of these “Brothers wars”
One simply cannot avoid it – Prophecy concerning Russia is being fulfilled.
And it is always worth restating this :-
Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
ZeroHedge has an article saying the fallen bridge in Baltimore is trapping in port two high-speed ships that played a major role in America’s wars these past few decades. Used to rapidly move men and materiel they are temporarily out of action, and as it can take ten days to get them ready and under sail I don’t particularly call that rapid. And other ports have these ships. But some are calling it sabotage of the bridge, so maybe it was an attack on US war readiness as well as its economy as supply chain problems start to bite? Maybe Russia and China didn’t do it if some Americans want to pause this rush to war.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/huge-problem-pentagons-rapid-wartime-response-cargo-ships-trapped-baltimore-after-bridge?utm_source=
So, can’t sail the big containerships in or out?
Ever heard of feeder ships? They are smaller, don’t have the air draft requiring high bridges to navigate under ans require smaller berths and facilities to handle containers. Also intracoastal waterway tugs and barges.
Then there is road and rail to share the burden.
Yes, it all slows down but what fecking idiot put all the eggs in one basket with the just in time ideology – profit maybe?
While we are at it, is not the Northern part of the bridge still available for the passage of feeder vessels.
If in danger, if in doubt, shout and scream and run about!
God bless and long live Vladimir Putin!!!
A Daily Fail online article a couple of days ago tried to paint 2 UK volunteers for the Russian Army as TRAITORS who should be JAILED (sic).
The ensuing readers comments must have given the yiditors quite the fright.
Nobody is buying their nonsense.
“Cold weather make people stupid” what funny movie was that?
After watching the masked branch covidians, I can see what “they” can do to the group mind… long as more goyim die and leave their farm land real estate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgij9irxfKY
Russia puttin on the Ritz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgij9irxfKY
not any jew pentagon ambition is worth that
any russian has to die against it . Putin should
carry the war where it was cooked out (Pentagon,
DARPA;CFR;RIIA; Bilderberg, NATO; CIA;
MI6,SAS, wallstreet, Washington DC, B´naiB´rit) !