Vladimir Medinsky is Vladimir Putin’s ghost writer. He writes texts about Russian history under Putin’s name.

From the start, Mr. Medinsky’s work was criticized by real Russian historians. But he never hid that his work was not based on facts. They were not important to him; the real goal was to create a persuasive narrative. “Facts by themselves don’t mean very much,” Mr. Medinsky wrote in one of his books. “Everything begins not with facts, but with interpretations. If you love your homeland, your people, then the story you write will always be positive.”

(Mikhail Zygar, “Putin Is Obsessed With History. So Is the Man Behind His Name,” New York Times, 9-19-23)

Related: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was inaugurated in 2003. The seed of terrorism fertilized the reactionary egg when “homeland” replaced “national” in our palaver. The fetus of MAGA was spawned. A Russo-Floridian school of historiography became inevitable.

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