The Russian Nazi State Is the Oldest in the World: Its Origins Trace Back to Ivan the Terrible
June 22, 2026. Exactly 85 years ago, the Second World War—which by then had already been raging for nearly two years—reached one of the powers that had effectively helped unleash it alongside Nazi Germany. It was the inevitable consequence of Stalin’s misguided attempt to exploit the moment and carve up Europe with Hitler. The 1,418 days of that terrible conflict, later known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War, claimed tens of millions of lives and left a swath of devastation stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Volga. Yet the scale of that suffering does not absolve the communist regime of responsibility. On the contrary, it remains one of the principal architects of the catastrophe.
The current war, launched by the Russian Empire against independent Ukraine without any legitimate justification, crossed the symbolic threshold of 1,418 days in January 2026. For at least a decade before the invasion, imperial propaganda saturated both Russian and European audiences with the aggressive slogan, “We can do it again.” In certain respects, they have indeed repeated the past: Ukrainian cities reduced to ruins, rivers of blood, and casualties on both sides numbering in the millions.
