Russia seeks to be reborn as an empire. The Empire must disappear. The war for Ukraine is the last battle of the empire... We repeat these or similar phrases so often that we do not leave ourselves the slightest doubt about the imperial character of the neighboring state. In the end, until 1917, with the light hand of Peter I, this country was called the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union left no doubt about its imperial essence, writes Vitaly Portnikov for the publication “Zbruch”.
The following is the text in the original language. If there is an empire - perhaps the remaining continental empire, since we cannot come into existence - why is it such a strange thing The largest region of the world, which has historically been left uninhabited in its non-European part, even though the fate is fighting for Avdiivka and Kostiantynivka, naftodolars are spent on us in advance. Well, good, this is the God of Putin. And in the 1990s, if there were no pennies from the word, Russia, with the help of another powerful army, retained control over Transnistria and Abkhazia and was ready to resolve the conflict with Chechkeria. And the 1920s are the rocks of the past story! Ruin, famine, complete catastrophe - aka Chervona The army is trying to renew the imperial cordons, and the Bolshevik leaders cannot calm down literally until the 40s of the 20th century, until the annexation of Tuva... At which point.
Russia and the truly wondrous empire. There are two imperial types in the history of the world. The first is the “donkey” empire, which overpowers the army using foreign resources, an eternal history, one might say, from Rome to Great Britain. And the other is the nomadic empire, since we are fighting for living space first, and don’t particularly care about resources, the stink is not the first priority for it. And the brightest butt of such an empire - the Golden Horde.
A remarkable mutation occurred in Moscow. The Muscovite princedom appeared as a donkey outskirts of the nomadic empire and its political culture was declining. The decline of the Golden Horde began at the same time, when it began to expand unpreparedly over new territories and began to literally shrink, disintegrate into the crusty surroundings. The happiest and cruelest of all was Moscow itself, the whole history of which is a continuous and irresistible expansion that began literally from the first days of the transformation of the princedom into an independent power.. In spite of which it is impossible to say that Russians need living space - they cannot master the European part of their land, I’m just talking about Siberia and the Far East. And despite this, it is impossible to say that they are waging a meaningful war for resources - everything is based on the principle of behavior of the beloved Russian Kazk hero Emelya, who will pursue his career without depriving his native liver. When deposits of naphtha appeared in the buried territory - it’s a miracle, we will live for naphtha and there will be new tanks with tanks, so we can dump more. And if it didn’t show up - well, good, because the territory “compared to almost France” was buried, he! Everything may be great and immeasurable - the tsar-garmata, which has never shot, the tsar-dzvin, which has never been called, the tsar-territory, which has never been settled or conquered.
Therefore, I think that the whole point is that this is not a stream of expansion, but not in the empire. The need to collapse in order to disguise the civilized impotence, the impossibility of doing anything on one’s own, the need to constantly inherit and steal - and the collapse gives the opportunity to see theft for one’s own. Therefore, the communist revolution could effectively overcome the battle itself in Russia, since it embodied the idea of expansion and was - not to forget - the “light” revolution itself, and not the Russian revolution,. Stalin replaced the main ideologist of the “light revolution” Trotsky, having firmly opened up the forces of Radyanskaya Russia and realizing that they would be eliminated from the renewal of the old empire under new rules,! As soon as the Radyansky Union fell into the middle of defeating the Other World War, expansion began, which Trotsky himself applauded - Central Europe, China, Piv-Korea, Cuba, and then Angola and Mozambique! Everything began to fall apart in Afghanistan, but the reason was not only the ill-conceived war, but the fact that Moscow simply appeared unknown before the development of the country in the new great sphere in the influx, not before the emergence. Vaughn brought them to degradation and degraded herself - and on the right she was not only in communism like this, but in Russia herself. It is enough to simply compare the level of life and the implementation of people in the communist Yugoslavia of Marshal Tito and in the neighboring countries of the Radyansky camp, so that everything can be understood. And I remember well how in the Christian hours many intellectuals would dream about such Yugoslav socialism, not realizing that the main problem was in the essence of Russian expansion, and not just in.
It would seem that the collapse of the Radyansky Union would have been a lesson for the Russians - otherwise it would not have become! They simply didn’t notice the stink of this collapse and believed that they would now live with the SND. And if they found out that they had finally settled in Russia, they decided to expand this Russia, even to the cordons of that same SND. Russians supported Transnistrian “independence” literally for several months after the collapse of the Radyansky Union. They sent troops and “volunteers” to the Caucasus. This year there was a war in Georgia, annexation of Crimea, Ukraine - and during which a Russian man stole a toilet in Buchi!
In the remaining days of the unsuspecting catastrophe in Crimea for Moscow, I will think about the fact that they will work, they will hesitate, they will not be able to overcome Ukraine and the disturbances will cause expansion.
The stinks of the building are starting to fade away, because the expansion is the essence of our marvelous and wild civilization? Why will they work without expansion, if everything they worked for so far was for the sake of expansion To bring evil to non-Russian peoples, so that they would encourage them to become stronger and new opportunities would appear for “collecting lands”? Chat with each other? Or just grit your teeth, look like everyone has understood, find yourself a new young Putin and prepare for a new war and a new expansion?