Igor Eidman: “A paranoid will not peck out a paranoid’s eyes”

“Putin protects Ivan the Terrible and Stalin “from excessive demonization” because he subconsciously feels in them “brothers in mind,” or rather, in clinical paranoia,” the sociologist writes on hisFacebook page, commenting on Vladimir Putin’s words in defense of Ivan the Terrible, voiced during the President’s visit to the Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Plant.

“In addition, the new “loser” perceives his predecessors as the same as himself, victims of the slander of hated foreigners. This is exactly why Stalin defended Grozny. True, to Stalin Grozny seemed not a decisive enough killer, but for Putin both of them were just right, “in accordance with the requirements of the time.” Putin, by his own admission, is not afraid of the birthmarks (or corpses?) of Stalinism on the body of modern Russia.

Under Stalin, Ivan the Terrible was rehabilitated, and under Putin there is a creeping rehabilitation of not only Ivan the Terrible, but also Stalin himself. Paranoid people don't hurt each other."