This phrase is the title of a December 2022 interview featuring political scientist on the YouTube channel Popular Politics .
: A key point in such reviews is often that today's repressions, while severe, are targeted and hybrid, whereas Stalin’s were industrial and indiscriminate. Expert Perspectives segodnya_rossiya_parodiya_na_stalinskoe_vremya_...
: Kolesnikov argues that while modern Russia adopts the repressive aesthetics and rhetoric of the Stalinist era (such as "foreign agents" and "national traitors"), it lacks the coherent ideological mobilization and total state control seen in the 1930s. This phrase is the title of a December