Between Shit and Honor

The two poles of Russian self-conception and the fight for Ukraine

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Like everyone this week I was trying to figure out a way to end the war in Ukraine. What could we possibly do to puncture the bubble of Russian self-delusion? This is not the first time this question has come to my mind. In the 1990s I ran a training program that sought to teach Russian journalists the basics of…