Russian Risorgimento and Strelkov as "reincarnation" of Garibaldi
We need to do more creative and offensive information war against Western shameless and uppish treatment of Novorossia events. This post is for intellectuals which don't forget European history.
Western trolls compare Russia to Hitler. But our respectable, certainly far too moderate, action are like to another
precedent. It is Italian Risorgimento,
Italian people were divided people till XIX century. Italy was to be reunited. Different great powers hindered that. Some of them were taken under the patronage by the Italian dwarfs. Austria simply owned pieces of Italian nation and territory.
This task had to be taken on his shoulders by the Sardinian kingdom. The task proved to be very difficult, and the Crimean War helped to solve it. Sardinia went to the "mindless" action to send troops to aid France and England in Crimea. Austria, in contrary, had been very cunning and calculating. She had betrayed Russia completely, but she was not getting involved in the war. As a result, Austria remained without allies and lost Russian friendship and support forever. France easily dealt with it by taking away part of the Austrian Italy and giving to Sardinia carte blanche to the peaceful accession of Northern Italian dwarfs.
A reunion of Sicily, Naples and Rome has been done at all like the current Novorossia: no regular Italian troops (yes, to tell the truth, the Italian regular army then and later showed itself utterly worthless, but saboteurs, guerrillas and bandits were Italians Classy). "Polite Red Shirts" had rise local population.
And also remember the hero of the Risorgimento, Giuseppe Garibaldi. He was not as fiery and radical revolutionary as Mazzini. He was desperate fighter for his people, and was ready to support any government that stood for the good of Italy.
Now its analogue is Igor Strelkov. I do not refuse my and others comparison of Strelkov with Che and Jeanne http://nepejvoda-n-n.livejournal.com/71064.html, but I wish him the fate of Giuseppe, who was also repeatedly betrayed by cautious allies, but he got his way.
Igor Stelkov (Игорь Всеводолович Гиркин). Like Garibaldi he is a passionary and noble warrior for his people. He defended Slavic people in Bosnia, Russains again Wahhabis in Chechnia and Dagestan. Now his little but valiant command is defending Slaviansk from Ukrainian genocidal invasion with forces 1:20 or even 1:100.
Russian variant of this note is http://nepejvoda-n-n.livejournal.com/72264.html