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Conspiracy and Fantasy After Socialism

June 15, 2017

Instead of a Conclusion

June 15, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
Instead of a Conclusion

This is the last post in the Plots against Russia blog

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June 14, 2017

Flights of Fancy

June 14, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
Flights of Fancy

MH17 was actually the missing Malaysian flight 370, and all the people on board were already corpses.

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June 09, 2017

Stations of the Double-Crossed

June 09, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
Stations of the Double-Crossed

Now the Ukrainian conflict isn’t just fratricidal; murdering children is assault on the future itself.

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June 06, 2017

Infowars

June 06, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
Infowars

The sky is falling, and everyone under it couldn’t be happier. 

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June 02, 2017

The War at Home

June 02, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
The War at Home

Despite its location, this is a war between Russia and itself.

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May 30, 2017

Monumental Trolling (More Wrongs about Buildings and Food, Part Five)

May 30, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
Monumental Trolling (More Wrongs about Buildings and Food, Part Five)

Western Ukraine partying like it’s 1989

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May 26, 2017

Veggie Tales, or, More Wrongs about Buildings and Food (Part 4)

May 26, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
Veggie Tales, or, More Wrongs about Buildings and Food (Part 4)

The sheer wrongness of destroying food is directly link to the rightness of eating it.

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May 25, 2017

Cookies from Hell, or, More Wrongs about Buildings and Food (Part 3)

May 25, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
Cookies from Hell, or, More Wrongs about Buildings and Food (Part 3)

“We’re here from America. Take some stuff.”

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May 19, 2017

Operation Provide Leftovers, or, More Wrongs about Buildings and Food (Part 2)

May 19, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
Operation Provide Leftovers, or, More Wrongs about Buildings and Food (Part 2)

The “Uncle Ben Effect” allegedly caused children to vomit after repeated exposure to the American rice company’s commercials.

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May 18, 2017

Breadbasket Case, or, More Wrongs about Buildings and Food (Part 1)

May 18, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
Breadbasket Case, or, More Wrongs about Buildings and Food (Part 1)

The post-Soviet Russia-Ukraine so often plays itself out in alimentary terms:  what might Ukraine be sneaking into Russia’s (political) diet?

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May 16, 2017

Undead Ukrainian Nazis (and the Americans Who Love Them)

May 16, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
Undead Ukrainian Nazis (and the Americans Who Love Them)

Invading Russia from the West without going through Ukraine is theoretically possible, but inefficient

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May 04, 2017

Ukraine 'r' Us?

May 04, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
Ukraine 'r' Us?

Ukrainians have somehow been brainwashed into thinking they exist.

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April 28, 2017

Whom you gonna call?

April 28, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
Whom you gonna call?

Were cities and countries truly reverting to their traditional, national names, or was someone just trolling diplomats and journalists?

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April 24, 2017

The Devil Next Door

April 24, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
The Devil Next Door

Ukraine may not have been a “real”country, but Ukrainians, rather than being the enemy, were at worst a variety of Russian who talked funny. 

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April 19, 2017

This Country Which Is Not One

April 19, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
This Country Which Is Not One

What does it mean to be a "real" country?

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April 17, 2017

A Bewitched Place

April 17, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
A Bewitched Place

The Russian literary tradition gives little comfort to participants in territorial disputes.

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April 12, 2017

A War with No Name

April 12, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
A War with No Name

The violence in Ukraine, continually posed as a proxy war, would then be the work of malign forces pulling strings offstage

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February 16, 2017

Stop Making Sense

February 16, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
Stop Making Sense

Engaging with the demonized discourse (whether “zombification”,  “propaganda”, or “fake news”) starts to look suspiciously like engaging in it. 

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February 14, 2017

Speaking Putinist

February 14, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
Speaking Putinist

Zombification is not just based on false psychological and informational premises: it is based on the belief that politics are the product of rational thought.

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February 10, 2017

Can the Zombie Subaltern Speak?

February 10, 2017/ Eliot Borenstein
Can the Zombie Subaltern Speak?

The directors juxtapose Astakhov with the imagined television viewer in a manner that insults them both.

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Plots Against Russia

Plots against Russia, from the beginning:

  • 2015
    • Nov 11, 2015 Preface Nov 11, 2015
    • Nov 16, 2015 Neither Seen Nor Heard Nov 16, 2015
    • Nov 23, 2015 Why Russia? Nov 23, 2015
    • Nov 30, 2015 Russia and Other Ideas Nov 30, 2015
    • Dec 2, 2015 Tales from the Cryptic Dec 2, 2015
    • Dec 7, 2015 From Second World to Secondary World Dec 7, 2015
    • Dec 14, 2015 Ideological Cosplay Dec 14, 2015
    • Dec 21, 2015 Epic Fail: Forging a Russian Past Dec 21, 2015
  • 2016
    • Jan 4, 2016 Welcome to the Deserters of the Real Jan 4, 2016
    • Jan 12, 2016 Huge Tracts of Land Jan 12, 2016
    • Jan 18, 2016 Punch-Drunk History Jan 18, 2016
    • Jan 25, 2016 Allegories of Re-Reading Jan 25, 2016
    • Feb 2, 2016 Praying for Reign Feb 2, 2016
    • Feb 8, 2016 Ten Years That Shook the World Feb 8, 2016
    • Feb 15, 2016 The Russia We Can’t Find Feb 15, 2016
    • Feb 22, 2016 Bare Sovereignty: Ideology’s Event Horizon Feb 22, 2016
    • Feb 29, 2016 What Not to Wear: Discarding the Emperor’s New Clothes Feb 29, 2016
    • Mar 7, 2016 Mischief Managed Mar 7, 2016
    • Mar 14, 2016 Conspiracy and Entropy Mar 14, 2016
    • Mar 16, 2016 Karl Popper: Open Societies and Closed Minds Mar 16, 2016
    • Mar 21, 2016 1963 Mar 21, 2016
    • Mar 23, 2016 A Paranoid Style Guide Mar 23, 2016
    • Mar 28, 2016 Only Connect Mar 28, 2016
    • Mar 30, 2016 The Truth Is…yadda, yadda, yadda Mar 30, 2016
    • Apr 4, 2016 Conspiracy and Its Subjects Apr 4, 2016
    • Apr 11, 2016 How to Do Things with Plots Apr 11, 2016
    • Apr 13, 2016 The Play's the Thing Apr 13, 2016
    • Apr 20, 2016 The Conspiratorial Mode Apr 20, 2016
    • Apr 25, 2016 Conspiracy Is a Virus from Outer Space Apr 25, 2016
    • Apr 28, 2016 Old Jews Telling Jokes: Meet The Elders of Zion Apr 28, 2016
    • May 2, 2016 What Conspiracy Means to Me May 2, 2016
    • May 4, 2016 Catastrophe of the Week May 4, 2016
    • May 9, 2016 Waiting for the End of the World May 9, 2016
    • May 20, 2016 All Apocalypse Is Local May 20, 2016
    • Jun 3, 2016 Save the Date: Apocalypse Postponed Jun 3, 2016
    • Jun 6, 2016 Verbal Hyperinflation Jun 6, 2016
    • Jun 8, 2016 Flirting with Disaster Jun 8, 2016
    • Jun 10, 2016 Death of a Nation Jun 10, 2016
    • Jun 13, 2016 You Must Pay the Rent Jun 13, 2016
    • Jun 22, 2016 The Protocols of the Elders of Tartu Jun 22, 2016
    • Jun 27, 2016 The Truth Shall Not Set You Free Jun 27, 2016
    • Jun 30, 2016 1990s: Conspiracy on Paper Jun 30, 2016
    • Jul 5, 2016 Fight Fiercely, Harvard! Jul 5, 2016
    • Jul 6, 2016 The Union of Concerned Mad Scientists Jul 6, 2016
    • Jul 7, 2016 Attack of the Degenerate Gay Jews Jul 7, 2016
    • Jul 8, 2016 Nobody Expects the Russian Inquisition Jul 8, 2016
    • Jul 12, 2016 Harvard: The Mutant Menace Jul 12, 2016
    • Jul 13, 2016 Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide Jul 13, 2016
    • Jul 14, 2016 Chronicle of a Death Foretold Jul 14, 2016
    • Jul 18, 2016 So Many Feelings Jul 18, 2016
    • Jul 19, 2016 Selling Russia: Retail, or Wholesale? Jul 19, 2016
    • Jul 20, 2016 The Last Resort Property Jul 20, 2016
    • Jul 25, 2016 Russophobia and Homophobia Jul 25, 2016
    • Jul 26, 2016 What Isn't Russophobia? Jul 26, 2016
    • Jul 28, 2016 Enemies of the State Jul 28, 2016
    • Aug 2, 2016 You Don’t Have to Be Jewish (But Maybe You Are) Aug 2, 2016
    • Aug 3, 2016 Fascism with a Human Face Aug 3, 2016
    • Aug 5, 2016 Russophobia and the Generic Villain Aug 5, 2016
    • Aug 10, 2016 From Russophobia, with Love Aug 10, 2016
    • Aug 11, 2016 The Slash of Civilizations Aug 11, 2016
    • Aug 15, 2016 Либерализм и борьба с ним (Liberalism and the Fight against It) Aug 15, 2016
    • Aug 16, 2016 Politically Correct Scary Tales Aug 16, 2016
    • Aug 17, 2016 Political Correctness as a Right-Wing Straw Womyn Aug 17, 2016
    • Aug 18, 2016 American Idiot vs. Russian Cynic Aug 18, 2016
    • Aug 23, 2016 Gender, and How to Stop It Aug 23, 2016
    • Aug 30, 2016 All Happy Families Aug 30, 2016
    • Aug 31, 2016 Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? [1] Aug 31, 2016
    • Sep 2, 2016 Queer as Folklore Sep 2, 2016
    • Sep 7, 2016 The Love That Dare Not Speak its Name to Anyone Under 18 Sep 7, 2016
    • Sep 12, 2016 Chasing Rainbows Sep 12, 2016
    • Sep 15, 2016 Gayropa, Gayropa Sep 15, 2016
    • Sep 19, 2016 The Rape of Gayropa Sep 19, 2016
    • Sep 22, 2016 Suffer, Little Children! Europe as an Anti-Family Dystopia Sep 22, 2016
    • Sep 26, 2016 The Passion of Irina Bergseth Sep 26, 2016
    • Sep 30, 2016 Tolerance as a Social Disease Sep 30, 2016
    • Oct 3, 2016 Smug New World Oct 3, 2016
    • Oct 5, 2016 Compulsory Homosexuality and Liberpunk Experience Oct 5, 2016
    • Oct 7, 2016 Where My Country Gone? Oct 7, 2016
    • Oct 10, 2016 American Horror Story Oct 10, 2016
    • Oct 14, 2016 The Tyranny of the Minority Oct 14, 2016
    • Oct 19, 2016 Sauron Does Moscow Oct 19, 2016
    • Oct 20, 2016 The Fellowship of the Wrong Oct 20, 2016
    • Oct 24, 2016 The Abuses of Enchantment Oct 24, 2016
    • Oct 26, 2016 There and Back Again Oct 26, 2016
    • Oct 31, 2016 How to Read Like an Orc Oct 31, 2016
    • Nov 2, 2016 The Hobbit Menace Nov 2, 2016
    • Nov 7, 2016 Or(c)ientalism Nov 7, 2016
    • Nov 28, 2016 Orcs Online Nov 28, 2016
    • Dec 2, 2016 The Orc-Song of Mikhail Y. Elizarov Dec 2, 2016
    • Dec 6, 2016 Off the Reservation Dec 6, 2016
    • Dec 21, 2016 Orknash: Supporting the Home Team Dec 21, 2016
  • 2017
    • Jan 3, 2017 Zombie Nations Jan 3, 2017
    • Jan 5, 2017 The Zombies of Postsocialism Jan 5, 2017
    • Jan 17, 2017 The Zombie Diet Plan Jan 17, 2017
    • Jan 18, 2017 Engineers of Hearts, Minds, and Human Souls Jan 18, 2017
    • Jan 23, 2017 A Visit from the Deprogrammer Jan 23, 2017
    • Jan 25, 2017 White Zombie Jan 25, 2017
    • Jan 26, 2017 How to Win Friends and Zombify People Jan 26, 2017
    • Feb 1, 2017 Everybody’s Talking (And No One Says a Word) Feb 1, 2017
    • Feb 7, 2017 Astakhov Sergii and The Idiot Box Feb 7, 2017
    • Feb 10, 2017 Can the Zombie Subaltern Speak? Feb 10, 2017
    • Feb 14, 2017 Speaking Putinist Feb 14, 2017
    • Feb 16, 2017 Stop Making Sense Feb 16, 2017
    • Apr 12, 2017 A War with No Name Apr 12, 2017
    • Apr 17, 2017 A Bewitched Place Apr 17, 2017
    • Apr 19, 2017 This Country Which Is Not One Apr 19, 2017
    • Apr 24, 2017 The Devil Next Door Apr 24, 2017
    • Apr 28, 2017 Whom you gonna call? Apr 28, 2017
    • May 4, 2017 Ukraine 'r' Us? May 4, 2017
    • May 16, 2017 Undead Ukrainian Nazis (and the Americans Who Love Them) May 16, 2017
    • May 18, 2017 Breadbasket Case, or, More Wrongs about Buildings and Food (Part 1) May 18, 2017
    • May 19, 2017 Operation Provide Leftovers, or, More Wrongs about Buildings and Food (Part 2) May 19, 2017
    • May 25, 2017 Cookies from Hell, or, More Wrongs about Buildings and Food (Part 3) May 25, 2017
    • May 26, 2017 Veggie Tales, or, More Wrongs about Buildings and Food (Part 4) May 26, 2017
    • May 30, 2017 Monumental Trolling (More Wrongs about Buildings and Food, Part Five) May 30, 2017
    • Jun 2, 2017 The War at Home Jun 2, 2017
    • Jun 6, 2017 Infowars Jun 6, 2017
    • Jun 9, 2017 Stations of the Double-Crossed Jun 9, 2017
    • Jun 14, 2017 Flights of Fancy Jun 14, 2017
    • Jun 15, 2017 Instead of a Conclusion Jun 15, 2017

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