Russia likes to be compared to the USSR and strives to be similar to an empire. But between being and seeming is an irresistible chasm.

This is written by journalist Pavel Kazarin in his blog on the website "Crimea. Realities ".

"The same Soviet Union lived with the self-awareness of an alternative to Western civilization. He did not just try to look like a sovereign - he tried to be. This involved not only engineering and military-industrial complex, space program and sports. The USSR had its own civilizational proposal and actively tried to promote it, "he wrote..

"We can argue as much as we like about the quality of this proposal, but it was. "Friendship of Peoples", "internationalism", "planned economy", "state distribution", "free education" - the list can be continued for a long time, while there will be both supporters and opponents of these ideas. And for some, and there is not at all - it is difficult to protest against the abstract "friendship of peoples," he said..

At the same time, Kazarin believes, it is very difficult to delineate the ideology of modern Russia.

"Traditional values? Orthodoxy? All these phantoms are easier to discard immediately - they are suitable except for the exaltation of Natalia Poklonskaya. It is enough to look at the statistics of divorces, to be convinced of the falsity of the first. It is enough to check how many people make the sacrament to discover the fectiveness of the second. Traditional values ??have become a cover for homophobia, and the ROC is a way of capitalizing popular ritual, "the journalist said..

In addition, Kazarin noted, Russian values ??are intended for the "internal market" and for export "it's not for sale".

According to him, the USSR promoted itself as a full-fledged alternative to the West, and Russia is not such an alternative, therefore all its propaganda is not so much the advancement of its ideology as the destruction of a stranger.

"Cynicism and deideologizirovannost - these are the two main exports of modern Russia. Its foreign media projects solve the problem of opposing the West. Blur the facts. Substitute Reality. They sow confidence that "there is no truth anywhere" and "all the same". The USSR proposed an alternative. Russia only opposes another's truth.

She does not offer a counter-conception, but throws in the media field a variety of options designed to bury the fact. Its task is not to convince everyone of its rightness, but to make it doubtful that it is right. If the Soviet Union waged positional wars, Russia is betting on sabotage, "he concluded..

As reported by the "Observer", earlier Pavel Kazarin predicted what Ukraine is waiting for on the way "to Europe".

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