What the post-war future holds for Russia: Drawing on the case of post-Nazi Germany (RU/ENG sub)

May one compare Putin to Hitler? Or Russia’s modern regime to Nazi Germany? How did Germans, who destroyed millions of lives and unleashed World War II, manage to turn their country into a thriving democracy? And, most importantly, does the future hold something similar for Russians after Putin and what will they go through on that path? Psychology has the five stages of grief model. A patient, who has just found out their fatal diagnosis, at first denies the inevitable. Then they go through the stages of anger, bargaining, depression, and only then they accept their fate. In the case of Germany, an entire nation is such a patient. It took decades for German society to heal. In search of a recipe for Russia, we went to Germany to talk to people who witnessed the changes and those who still feel their responsibility for their ancestors’ crimes. 🔵 Russian version of the movie: ▶️ 🔵 Timecodes 00:00 The five stage