@vladislavdamianov7836
I know that this is a serious topic but hearing ,, cosmic mongol energy for communism" completely beats my serious mindset
@spectacles-dm
Everybody gangster until Carl Schmidt comes up
@hubloz2137
Viewer: Pls kraut, could you explain something? Kraut: Yes writes 300 pages essay
@therabbi9848
I remember walking into a Walmart in Iowa an thinking “Ahh, yes. People of the sea”
@RavignonCh
Something interesting I’ve noticed about Putin is that he seems very intent on defending the Soviet Union and Stalin while really hating on Lenin. I think that for a lot of the Russian far right that thinks like this, the Soviet Union was not a genuine experiment to construct a just society but simply the continuation of the Russian Empire by other means. It started to make sense to me that Putin sees Lenin as they guy who let himself be corrupted by the West, but Stalin as one of these “great Czars” who reclaimed Bessarabia and Poland, who took the war to the West and who became an absolute ruler of the state. I had never heard of Ilyin but he echoes with Dostoyevsky in the worst ways possible when it comes to this idea. It’s kind of odd how they’re both attached to a civilisational project which is… the lack of a civilisational project. It’s more a fierce attempt to try to preserve a certain character at all costs, and this obsession with that national character is incredibly fascistic. Great video Kraut, I learned a lot from it.
@簡伯翰-o5c
As a philosophy of law student, hearing the name CARL SCHMITT came up was unexpected to say the very least.
@barmybarmecide5390
"any history student can tell you, sooner or later, you will have to read a french text" amen to that, same goes for the rest of the humanities.
@scorpioengine4797
I like how Ivan Ilyin’s ideology basically boils down to, “Russia isn’t disabled, it’s just special.”
@BasalaWaZeytoun
Ivan Ilyin went from "yeah whatever floats your boat" to straight up super villain. Crazy shit happens
@VullVull
Ivan Ilyin's ideology is the most frightening thing I've heard in years. It feels like 1984 was a parody of his vision, specifically
@andrewzebic6201
You're bang on the money with the innocence myth. I went there in 2016 and saw a one off ad, that emphasized the "fall" of every other culture since they left the "loving Russian arms" and how Russia was an innocent victim, always being betrayed by the world. It's bizzare, and reminds me of an ancient myth of how Rome believed it only ever fought defensive wars
@nothankyouYouTube420
"Cosmic Mongol energy " would be a FANTASTIC band name
@kingace6186
Jesus Christ, Kraut! It has been one phenomenal video after another this month -- and this one is an hour-long!! What did we simple fans do to deserve all this love? I am also especially appreciative of this lengthy topic you have chosen; this probably took you the majority of the year to produce. Thank you for the amazing work and keep up the stellar effort! Good luck and fortune in your future endeavors/initiatives! And live long and prosper.
@KevinFu5100
Lev Gumilev's claims that "people of the west" had lost their connection to land, unlike the Russians through remaining land locked were people of the land; bound to them, developing a superior culture Comes off to me like a hard cope for not having sea access or a warm water port
@sashavasilyev3000
Good video, but as a russian myself I want to bring attention to the fact that this is absolutely NOT what regular russians, not even those that directly support Putin, believe in. This is very much the ideology of Putin and his elite, not of russia as a whole. Russian culture, due to the literal hundreds of years it has been subjected to ideological propaganda, has developed a sort of "immunity" to said propaganda; in the late soviet era, communism by many was viewed as "the thing that you have to say you believe in to get anywhere in life", while during the pre-invasion Putin era most people tried to "stay out of politics" and instead focus on living their own lives, since it was no longer required to swear your loyalty to the state's ideology, and this was very much accepted and encouraged by the state since it meant relative stability and safety for the rulers. Of course, such an attitude is extremely dangerous in itself and essentially negates any attempts at building a democracy, but I just wanted to make it clear that the stereotype of the russian ideological fanatic is very much just that - a stereotype that has had very little relation to reality over the last 60 years. Now, after mobilization was announced, the government is desperately trying to revive at least some sort of ideology in the people, since people who "stay out of politics" don't really want to die for said politics. Right now, there is an expression going around in Russia: "you were not interested in politics until the point where politics became interested in you". Just please, please, please know that we are not lunatics. We are simply people trying to live a normal life in a horrible environment.
@rymdalkis
Ivan Ilyin is the personification of the old Swedish idiom "som fan läser bibeln", which roughly translates to "as the devil reads the Bible". I mean, I've seen people cherry pick the Bible before, but this one takes the cake.
@ThatBasedGuy
"What's your ideology?" Russians: "Everything but liberalism at once"
@WolfieboyMachi
Damn, Kraut is on a roll. So many videos in rapid succession. Not at all complaining. Struggling to keep up on Kraut videos is a good problem to have.
@hansnase364
While these are interesting points to take into consideration, I am somewhat sceptical by how much these ideas actually shaped modern Russia, rather than them being used to justify or retroactively explain something that already emerged out of historic reality.
@Kraut_the_Parrot