On Thursday #Russia will celebrate Victory Day, its commemoration of the defeat of #Nazi#Germany in 1945. Domestically, this is nostalgia. In the 1970s, Soviet leader Leonid #Brezhnev created a cult of victory. Russia under #Putin has continued the tradition.
Abroad, this is intimidation. We are meant to think that Russia cannot lose.
Russia can lose. And it should lose, for the sake of the world — and for its own sake.
