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No, Ordinary Russians Are Not Responsible for the Crimes of the Russian Regime

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10/08/2022Ryan McMaken
Narrator: 
Michael Stack

In wartime, politicians frequently attempt to claim that all the citizens of foreign states are guilty of all the crimes their regimes commit. This is a modern invention, and a barbaric one.

Original Article: "No, Ordinary Russians Are Not Responsible for the Crimes of the Russian Regime"

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Ryan McMaken (@ryanmcmaken) is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Send him your article submissions for the Mises Wire and Power and Market, but read article guidelines first. Ryan has a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in public policy and international relations from the University of Colorado. He was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Breaking Away: The Case of Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities and Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre.

Original Article: 
No, Ordinary Russians Are Not Responsible for the Crimes of the Russian Regime