In the last section of the essay, immediately after praising Russians’ “resilience and solidarity,” Medvedev launches into a condemnation of internal enemies, expressing relief that the “alien toxic foam” that formed on Russian society is “gradually disappearing.” Any Russians who wish defeat on their own country and army are outright “traitors,” he says, though he leaves open a gray area for expats aboard “philosophers' ships” (an allusion to intellectuals expelled from Soviet Russia in 1922). “God will judge them,” concludes Medvedev, before finishing with more praise for the Russian economy and the state’s handling of weapons manufacturing.
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