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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the national idea of the country — the patriotism. According to the President, that is no reason all the time to concentrate on the heroic past.

“Yes, patriotism. I think that nothing else can be. Patriotism should not be leavened, musty and sour,.. This does not mean that you have to grasp only for our heroic past, we need to look at our no less heroic and successful future. This is a guarantee of success,” Putin said in the program “Moscow. The Kremlin. Putin”, a fragment of which was published by the leading Pavel Zarubin.

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the President in October 2019, said that thanks to the patriotism in the 1990s managed to avoid the collapse of the country. In December of the same year, the head of state expressed the view that patriotism is the only ideology of modern society. In 2018, Mr Putin called patriotism “the core of the genetic memory”.