Four years ago, the Kremlin launched an invasion of Ukraine. Since then, Vladimir Putin has been repeating the need to overcome the “root causes of war”. The only problem is that in searching for the root causes, it is important for him not to come across himself, writes Pavel Kazarin for Slawa. tv.

The following is the text in the original language. Official Moscow has been celebrating the approach of Vladimir Lenin for many years, who, having formed the cordons of the union republic, thereby “gifting” Ukraine its statehood. It is customary for the Mausoleum bastard to bark for national policy and present it as an example of short-sightedness. But this is special because everything happened strictly at random. The fall of the Russian Empire was reversed due to the growth of national self-esteem in the national borders of the empire. There is nothing surprising to say that the national policy of the empire was discriminatory from the beginning. There were plenty of examples - for example, since 1889, a Muslim who had received a law degree could only join the bar after the special permission of the Minister of Justice was revoked. There was discrimination in the army - a portion of the Swedes, Germans, Finns, Latvians, Estonians and Virmens were not guilty of exceeding 20% \u200b\u200bof the total number of officers. Quotas were established in universities for Jews and the Russification of Catholic churches in Belarus began. ,, And the empire began to be hit - all the national voices that St. Petersburg had previously tried to drown out began to sound even louder.

As a result of the war on the territory of the huge Russian Empire, there were a small number of extinctions. The Bolsheviks, who were trying to restore a single power, found that they were opposed not only by the supporters of the monarchy, but by national identities. The same national identities that the fallen empire adopted as a window of opportunity for the creation of national powers. Vladimir Lenin's policy was borderline rational. There is no way to weaken the position of the “national separatists”. The Bolsheviks at that hour were playing the game “What sense do you have to fight for independence, since our state is ready to guarantee you the right to a national language, culture and proto-power? " You’ve had too much time to wait for their actual appearance on the map. This was the necessary intelligence that allowed the Bolsheviks, who fought against the adherents of the monarchy and the crony national powers, to reduce tensions on one of their fronts. Brains are needed to conquer the territories of the empire that have fallen apart.

As a result, the unitary empire was replaced by a union.

The Bolsheviks succeeded in freezing historical logic. At that moment, when other empires on the continent disintegrated into national powers, they began to lose most of the national borders by force to a single power.. Having paid for this obligatory tax in the form of " This includes Ukraine. This way, they managed to gloss over the historical logic, rather than detract from it.. The weakening of the Soviet empire unfrozen all those processes that were put on pause in the thirties of the twentieth century. The imperial gag was weakened - and national voices began to sound again. Floating identities began to flutter, and formal cordons became factual. When Vladimir Putin today talks about the “denazification” of Ukraine and “removing the root causes of the conflict,” he is simply signing off on his unknown history. The entire twenty centuries were marked by the collapse of the empire. The colonies gained independence, and the political map of the world became detailed and detailed.. The metropolises tried time and time again to forcefully destroy the territories they had seized, but soon the damned expeditionary adventure did not lead to the preservation of the status quo. ,, What's great about the Portuguese, British and French Empires? That's right, I don't know.

Moreover, it is clear that Moscow succeeded in regaining control over Ukraine, but this does not at all mean that the vain of imperial pride will come to naught. The Russian tricolor over Uzhgorod is not significant, so that the expanse of the “foreign” is no longer possible for Russians. Who can say in a sing-song manner that it is for Russians to pass between the imperial self-identity? “Not ours” for Moscow is not there, but they do not understand the Russian language? Where no soldier of the empire has gone before? Between the SRSR? Warsaw block? Russian Empire? And if the Russian autocrat wants to fix the causes of the conflict, he wants to turn back an hour. Rewind the historical hour to the centenary. Rotate India - Britain, South Timor - Portugal, Algeria and Vietnam - France. Skuswati Woodstock, sexual revolution and technological progress. If we are talking about “denazification”, we are actually talking about the nullification of the national identity of Ukrainians.

The very same principles to which the leader of the secular proletariat reconciled himself a hundred years ago. It is possible to capture it today without physically losing the identity of the very identity - and therefore Moscow looks like a request before the genocide. If Vladimir Putin identifies the “ultimate causes of the conflict,” his words contain a small part of a healthy heart.

It’s just that the reason for the conflict is this country and its own.