PATRICK BULGER | Cometh the iceman: putin’ history in its place in Ukraine
So anachronistic is Vladimir Putin that, without even blinking, he’s revisiting a century-old feud while pondering World War 3
24 February 2022 - 20:06
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine this week is bad news for the hapless victims, but every ghastly cloud of ordnance detonated in anger must, one hopes, have a silver fulminate lining. Happily, for lovers of nostalgia, this blast of icy Arctic air sweeping in from Moscow is another last hurrah for the Cold War, together with its ubiquitous shrapnel of cultural-revolutionary kitsch...
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