Re: Russia's invasion of Ukraine - I'm revisiting The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - I've been pondering this passage from one of the final chapters. Perhaps the unjust conclusion of Russia's past is part of what has shaped its present...

"The hypothetically egalitarian, universalist doctrines of Karl Marx Contained hidden within them sufficient hatred, resentment, envy, & denial of individual culpability and responsibility to produce nothing but poison and death when manifested in the world." - @jordanbpeterson