The KGB Kremlin launched “managed nationalism” decades ago - 10 decades almost exactly. https://theconversation.com/putins-fascists-the-russian-states-long-history-of-cultivating-homegrown-neo-nazis-178535?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2022%202022%20-%202240722241&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2022%202022%20-%202240722241+CID_a439928ef1a7fcd57da5dc634292bc57&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=Putins%20fascists%20the%20Russian%20states%20long%20history%20of%20cultivating%20homegrown%20neo-Nazis Zinoviev in 1919 expressed Lenin's idea with inimitable cynicism: We cannot do without Azerbaijan's oil or Turkestan's cotton. We take these things which we need, but not in the way the old exploiters took them but as elder brothers who are carrying the torch of civilisation'