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this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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Pelevin was satirizing 90s' Russia and its emerging capitalist culture and his critiques still stand, because Putin's Russia is just less fucked up version of 90s' Russia. Trying to reduce his works to "satires of authoritarianism" is extreme cherry-picking.