“Ivan Ilyin: the fascist philosopher behind Vladimir Putin’s information warfare” – Timothy SNYDER | Big Think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s31VFwO-6u0 Some ideas lie dormant for decades, and such is the case with Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin, whose anti-communist stance got him—along with about 160 other intellectuals—expelled from Soviet Russia in 1922 aboard the 'philosopher's ship'. So who was Ilyin, and why has Russia's President Vladimir Putin breathed new life into his writings more than…