With Putin’s war in Ukraine now having surpassed the length of the Soviet Union’s Great Fatherland War, it is long past time to recognize that the current conflict is radically different not only from that war but from all other wars Russia has been involved in throughout its history, Vladislav Inozemtsev says.

The Russian commentator says that not doing so keeps Russians from recognizing just how serious an injury this conflict has inflicted on the country and also on how difficult the tasks Russians now face (ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/01/14/zhiznyu-zhizn-poprav-ili-otritsanie-rossiiskoi-istorii-a184425).

The first way in which Putin’s war in Ukraine is unlike any previous Russian war is that “for the first time in the history of Russia a prolonged war has begun for the destruction of a people who for a long time formed part of the........

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