After defeat, Russia may not repent. It may search for betrayal — and revenge.
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In this episode, Elvira Bary compares post-war Russia with Germany after the First World War and asks a dangerous question: what happens to a country that expected victory but receives humiliation, economic stress, dead soldiers, angry veterans, and no satisfying triumph? Germany’s defeat produced the “stab-in-the-back” myth, a comforting lie that protected national pride and helped open the road to Hitler. Post-war Russia may face a similar trap: wounded imperial pride, propaganda, censorship, veterans trained in violence, and a public tempted to believe not “we were wrong,” but “we were betrayed.” The challenge for the West is not appeasement, but helping create a path to Russian dignity without empire and without revenge.
Video Chapters:
00:00 Why Post-War Russia Will Fall into the Same Historical Trap That Created Hitler
03:13 Hunger for Respect
06:50 The Greatness Machine
09:34 The Short War Illusion
11:56 The Victory Bubble
14:21 The Betrayal Myth
16:39 The Veteran Prob
