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Good read, but also a general concept that seems to repeat itself across time and space. It’s precisely when the old order has dissolved that propagandists find it the most useful to lionize it. Early medieval writers bemoaning the degradation of society due to the fall of the WRE and its greatness, Nietzsche whining that the new liberal elite lacked the epic heroism of the old feudal order, Chekhov parodied this mentality in The Cherry Orchard.
I guess when the old order finally dies out, then it’s safe for the new order to leverage its mystique.
Modern Russia uses the Soviet Union this way to an extent, although I'm not aware of any mythology built around it.