Time and space Quote by Masha Gessen

““One more thing: the regime is a show that conceals what in reality is chaos. What looks orderly and restrictive is in fact disorganized and inefficient. Obviously, this does not lead to order. On the contrary, people feel acutely lost, in time and space among other things. As everywhere in the country, a person does not know where to go with a particular problem. So he goes to the head of the detention facility. That’s like taking your problem to Putin outside of jail. When we describe the system in our lyrics— I guess you could say we are not really opposed— We are in opposition to Putinist chaos, which is a regime in name only. When””

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