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Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F45i0v_u6s
Author: https://www.youtube.com/@fin_topsu
Date: 20220316

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Credits and thank you to Thorsten Kurz for creating this synthesized English audio from the original Finnish language lecture. (https://youtu.be/kF9KretXqJw)

Martti J. Kari (former intelligence colonel in the Finnish Defence Forces): Russian strategic culture - Why Russia does things the way it does?

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Subtitles can be opened and changed from the video settings

Quiet parts between sentences have been cut out of this version, therefore it's 6 minutes shorter than the original

0:00 Personal introduction
0:45 Governmental, political and military questions - How is Russia different from all the other countries and why?
2:44 Russia's six layers in history: Slavic, Byzantine, Asian, chaos, European and Superpower
4:25 Cultural features from the Mongol era: corruption, cruelty and lying
3:54 The era of Europe and Russia as a superpower: Peter the Great, a land between the West and the East
7:22 Geographical nature of Russia, 11 time zones and flat area on the west
8:02 Belief in Russianness at three points: Orthodoxy, autocracy and the people, narodnost
8:23 Autocracy: a central authoritarian regime
9:20 Autocracy: Faith in a fair good tsar and princes
9:40 Autocracy: Boyars between the people and infallible leaders: No right of ownership, but a right of possession according to social status, rules, corruption and nomenclature
12:06 Autocracy: Boyars practically in a modern Russia
13:17 Orthodoxy: The Importance of Religion in Russia
14:36 The people: narodnost, nationality. The Tsar knows better what is best for the people
15:26 Ability to wait and endure suffering and two different realities, sacrificing oneself to the leader
17:02 Homo sovieticus - the new Soviet man
18:12 Faith in Russian summarized before and now - Has anything changed?
18:32 "A little war in the border areas is needed to sustain a patriotic spirit" from the 19th century
18:45 Social system - receiving information in Russia from a state television channel
20:09 The Kremlin's narratives: a besieged fort, a constant war, and an enemy at the gates
21:56 The Kremlin's neurotic view of the world affairs is based on a traditional and instinctive sense of insecurity
23:16 Faith in power and use of force: Deaf to the logic of reason, but very sensitive to the logic of power
23:58 Territorial enlargement: fear-based imperialism
24:54 Asymmetry - Information Geopolitics & Information Influence: Are characters like Johan Bäckman just distracting from real influence?
26:55 Russia's Messianic Mission and Pan-Slavism - The Leaders' Knowledge of Saving Europe
27:59 The Russians seeing the world through history
29:46 How do Russians see Finns? Bronze Horseman - A.S. Pushkin - The Russian landscape through the first poem taught to children
31:10 Russia's technological backwardness throughout history, from ships to atomic bombs to computers
33:24 Russian Truth: The Significance of Language and Concepts, Especially for Lie and Truth
36:27 Examples of the frontiers of lie and truth in a Russian narrative
39:55 Russia's destabilizers in modern times
41:34 What are the Russians afraid of? Fear of internal unrest and striving for a strong leader
43:50 The Russian Landscape Through History, Changes and Similarities: Tsarist Russia, Soviet Union, Chaos in the 90s, 2000s
51:46 Homo re-sovieticus in the last few years: worship of the past and other themes of Russian thinking today
46:23 What does Russia's future look like? Five different scenarios based on history
55:49 Belief in a fair good tsar and princes: Russia's next leader?
50:09 Putin's support and comments on national conditions
53:38 The impact of online youth on Russia's future

Russia's recent actions, such as the occupation of Crimea, the wars in eastern Ukraine and Syria, the excessive use of force against protesters, possible special operations abroad and, for example, the control of the Internet, partly fought against western thinking. However, the Kremlin leadership believes these actions are justified. Justification can be explained through the theory of strategic culture.

Synthesized English audio on this video is based on the subtitles of the original video. Document can be viewed here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1REPlzRsenZPWkJWERs8LiYrtyzYVs8Z_dmhVWU9AvBM/edit?usp=sharing

Transcript as a blog post by Ryanad2 here:

https://the-culture-shocks.blogspot.com/2022/03/evaluation-of-russia-by-finish.html

Questions & Answers -section after the lecture:

https://youtu.be/ZqBzJMEJqZ8

Source:

https://m3.jyu.fi/jyumv/ohjelmat/it/panu/kyber/hybridivaikuttaminen-ja-turvallisuus/031218

Presented on December 3, 2018 (in Finnish)

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