The myth of the “people’s commanders” of Novorossiya
My thesis in brief is this: all the stories about the glorious “people’s commanders” of the New Russia militia are a myth. A myth that, in general, without any malicious intent, was first created by Russian military officers and Russian bloggers like Colonel Rozhin and El-Nesmiyan, and was also picked up from the most noble intentions by the Moscow sofa-patriotic intelligentsia. It’s just that everyone was with the Russian Donbass in heart and soul, with...