Michael Halila 🏳️‍⚧️ on Nostr: It's a marvelous book. Basically, it argues that after destalinization, the official ...

It's a marvelous book. Basically, it argues that after destalinization, the official discourse of the Soviet Union became hypernormalized: it no longer changed or reflected reality, but became circular and self-referential.

As the official discourse became detached from reality, it started to become irrelevant to people's lives. This led to the paradoxical situation where the Soviet Union appeared eternal, but its citizens found themselves prepared for its collapse.