What do the battle of Stalingrad, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling’s astronomical transphobia all have in common? You’re probably thinking “nothing,” right? That’s understandable, because you’re not the megalomaniacal head of a global super power currently engaged in a war of imperial expansion (... are you? If you are, you have to tell me. That’s the law).
In the craggy nooks of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s mind, however, all three of the above are just a few of the many historical examples of the same Western “cancel culture” he claims is currently working against him and his country — cancel culture that, in his estimation, has finally gone too far, dagnabbit!
