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This article correctly contrasts Kursk's legendary WW2 role in defeating fascism with the high possibility that Kursk 2.0 will become legendary for its humiliation of Moscow's hubris.

But Russians intent on fostering good will with their neighbors and who abhor Russia's own slide into "klepto-fascism" under Putin's system may someday, we all hope, become legendary in turning the tide against fascism again.

This new fascism is home-grown, implemented by a small army of depressed and selfish KGB officers who so wanted glory for themselves when the autocracy they swore to support for the privileges it would reward them with, collapsed.

Instead of readjusting their sights on equality of opportunity and creating a meritocracy that intelligent, enlightened Russians hoped for, these KGB veterans became the nation's robber-barons. Since then, Russians have passively accepted s system of self-dealing, repressive, klepto-fascists from the top of the Russian church down to the corporate oligarch class to the enabling siloviki who uphold Putin's brutal regime. ((https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russia-security-services-siloviki-putin-regime/ (https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russia-security-services-siloviki-putin-regime/))

Yes, the contrast is good. But hopefully this will mark Kursk's rol e in leading to the collapse of a militaristic fascist threat a stunning second time.