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Psychologically, this is understandable. The growing demand for ideology is natural, since a coherent ideology helps consolidate society in critical situations. At the same time, many still remember the ideological quests of the late Yeltsin era. Back then, unofficial and official media outlets deliberately turned such quests into clownery designed to highlight the value disorientation in society, the loss of Russian identity, and the lack of national thought. Liberal propaganda portrayed all of that as a fundamental characteristic of the Russian collective consciousness, not as a result of propaganda efforts per se.
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