"Lydia Chukovskaya wrote about the Stalinist USSR as a society" damaged in the mind, "so poisoned with lies," which can only be compared with poisoning the army with poisonous gases ".

The fish begins to rot from the head, and society falls into insanity after the dictator. His personal paranoia becomes public, propaganda infects her whole country. As a result, society begins to painfully fever, and then it just goes crazy. So it was in Stalin's USSR. So it happened in Putin's Russia.

The only difference is that Stalin's paranoia was directed into the interior of the country. He was pathologically afraid of conspiracies, did not trust even his closest associates, sought to destroy all those suspected of disloyalty. Propaganda infected Stalin with the Stalinist paranoia of Soviet people, who en masse sought the enemies of the people among their friends, neighbors, and colleagues.

Putin's paranoia, unlike Stalin's, is directed outwards. The main Putin crazy idea is that the West and above all the US want to overthrow it and destroy it. He constantly talks about it. Judging by one of these phrases, Putin subconsciously associates himself with the "bear" that the West and the US "will never leave alone, because they will always strive to put on a chain. And as soon as you manage to put on a chain, they will pull out teeth and claws ".

Any world events, whether it be a revolution in Ukraine or elections in France, Putin perceives through the prism of this paranoid fear. The propagandistic machine subordinated to him broadcasts the anti-Western paranoia of the "master" throughout the country, infecting people with xenophobic hysteria and hatred.

So for the second time in the history of Russia, the illness of one person becomes the source of the epidemic of mass psychosis, "summed up Eidman.