Established in 1962, the MIT Press is one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design. The bodies lying on the streets of Bucha, Mariupol being destroyed, theaters and even maternity wards blown up, millions of innocent civilians fleeing the country searching for safety and shelter – all of it is ridiculed and overturned by Russian propaganda and served to the millions of Russians who behave like in one of Alexander Pushkin's famous poems: "Ah, it is not difficult to deceive me, I am happy to be deceived." Komunizujacy totalitaryzm wszedl w nasze zycie spoledzne, gloszac zniesienie “prywatnej wlasnosci” srodków produkcji, a wiec ich uspolecznienie. (Tischner 1992)

The film's director Ivo Briedis and the journalist Rita Ruduša were both born in the Soviet Union. Together, they embark on a journey to explore the phenomenon of HOMO SOVIETICUS. They want to know if a totalitarian mindset can still be found in countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union. Image: Mistrus Media Heller (Geller), Mikhail (1988). Cogs in the Wheel: The Formation of Soviet Man. Alfred A. Knopf. pp.27, 43, 47. ISBN 978-0394569260. Heller quotes from a 1974 book "Sovetskye lyudi" ("Soviet People"): Soviet Union is the fatherland of a new, more advanced type of Homo sapiens - Homo sovieticus. Kolakowski, Leszek (2008). Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393329438.Although Russia has no iron curtain and the internet is free, “it is as though an invisible wall still counterpoises everything that is ‘ours' to everything ‘foreign',” Mr Levada has written. Indeed his polling showed that, by 2004, the number of Russians who considered themselves no different from people in other countries had fallen, while the opinion that Russia is surrounded by enemies had grown stronger.

Homo sovieticus ( псевдо- lat.— « гомо совєтікус», буквально «людина радянська»)— саркастичний і критичний термін, що вживається до середньостатистичної людини, яка народилася в Радянському Союзі або в одній з країн Східного блоку [1] і яка сприймає навколишній світ, використовуючи виключно систему мітів Радянського Союзу.The country was tired of ideology, and he did not force it. All he promised (and largely delivered) was to raise incomes; to restore Soviet-era stability and a sense of worth; to provide more consumer goods; and to let people travel. Since these things satisfied most of the demands for “Freedom” that had been heard from the late 1980s onwards, the people happily agreed to his request that they should stay out of politics. Though Mr Putin was an authoritarian, he seemed “democratic” to them. Historian Mikhail Geller defined homo sovieticus as a set of qualities and character traits characteristic of all Soviet people in varying proportions. According to Geller, the Soviet-type system, carrying out "social training", promotes the development, growth and dominance of these qualities. Geller listed the following features of the "Soviet man", as they were officially described by the Soviet ideology: the primary importance of work; boundless devotion to the Motherland; membership in the collective; constant interest in the life of neighbors, from housemates to neighbors on the planet; the state takes full care of this person. Geller believed that if you remove the advertising rhetoric, then these features completely coincide with the description of Zinoviev, and cited the following version of the text from the book "Homo Sovieticus": [10] [11] However today the concept acquired another meaning. It is described as a mentality shaped in the totalitarian communist system, the complex situation of transformation, and universal social processes. Processes of indoctrination, habituation, selective memory and the constant change of situation made the homo sovieticus who he is today.

The virus is called "Homo Sovieticus," and it has been present in Russian society's core system for almost a century now, despite the collapse of the Soviet Union.Revolusi memicu reaksi emosional dan intelektual yang sangat istimewa dari para peserta dan saksi revolusi: semangat membara, ledakan mobilisasi massa, optimisme, perasaan perkasa, kegembiraan, dan aspirasi melangit serta utopia masa depan. Prie tokio muziejaus įsteigimo idėjos dirbo ne tik Genocido ir rezistencijos tyrimo centro istorikai, Lietuvos gyventojai. Norėčiau padėkoti savo kolegoms Eugenijui Peikšteniui, Rasai Čepaitienei, Valdemarui Klumbiui, Arūnui Streikui, Virginijai Rudienei, Margaritai Matulaitytei, kurie buvo pirminės idėjos, vėliau išrutuliotos kartu su kitais mūsų istorikais ir autoriais, sumanytojai“, – interviu LRT.lt sakė muziejaus vadovė D. Lauraitienė. Fictional characters and presentations of contemporary celebrities embodying this model were prominent features of Soviet cultural life, especially at times when fostering the concept of the New Soviet man was given special priority by the government.