It absolutely is.

Russia’s ideology is based on the works of such. Look at the quote in the comments above. Dostoevsky approves any sin and logically derives that it will be forgotten. He does not merely condone sin, he rationalizes it, and in doing so, lays bare the grim inevitability of its absolution in the collective psyche.

Living in Kyiv, we were shocked, how a regular person can commit such crimes in a modern day effortlessly, and you can see how - by reading the mind of a russian in the form of a great prose.

Dostoevsky is a window into a sick mind of a crippled nation where death and torture is normalized and the life had no value for at least a millennia.

It is an ideological base of a russian culture, its code, captured by the mastermind who was able to feel it thoroughly.

"It's not a coincidence that one of the last public appearances by Putin before invasion of Ukraine was opening a Dostoyevsky centre in Moscow." [0]

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