Vladimir Putin prepares Russia for 'Eternal War' as the West continues to be maligned.

The road to Lake Baikal in southern Siberia winds past cemeteries with bright plastic flowers marking the graves of Russians slain in Ukraine. The conflict is always visible far from the Potemkin paradise of Moscow.

On the eastern shore of the lake, where white-winged gulls dive into the azure water, Yulia Rolikova, 35, operates an inn that doubles as a summer center for children. She is approximately 3,500 miles from the front, but ....