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The Oedipus complex of John Ganz

The Oedipus complex of John Ganz

After rigorous psychoanalysis of his views on Russia I have arrived at an extremely scientific conclusion

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Carl Beijer
Sep 13, 2022
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Studying Russian at Moscow University, back when the only food word I knew how to say was “bread”.

A few days ago I posted a brief rebuttal to writer John Ganz, arguing that what he called “lies and idiocies that have been repeated since the start of the conflict” in Ukraine were in many cases neither lies nor idiocies.

John has posted a pretty funny resp…

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