Zdravstvuyte, moi tovarischi greetings, my comrades! Do you know what date it is today? December 8, 1991. Does it speak anything to you? No? Well... Look at this map.
One thing I've noticed through all my interactions with Russians, especially when experienced at their own turf rather than abroad: to use such a generalisation, they're deeply spiritual and immensely intelligent, but very traumatised people. I know it's not nice, but one can't help but feel pity. And probably a little awe at their resilience.
Also they've got one of the most beautiful languages ever. Their culture is a treasure really, and probably one of the things that will keep their head above water until they reach better shores. Which they will, sooner or later.
I admire your faith in people. Separate people probably deserve more faith in them, separately. But taken as a crowd, well... There are some other factors sneaking in.
That's not to say the Russians are doomed. It's to say the road for them will be as painful as it has always been.
Let's not miss Belarus. Lukashenko may seem eternal there, but he's just Putin's puppy. He could go with a single snap of Putin's fingers and he knows it. But so far they both see more benefits from this symbiotic relationship than disadvantages. But Lukashenko should be aware by now that no-one is irreplaceable. Including Putin, by the way. A nice walk down memory lane, comrade.
I guess it helps having lived through it personally, if only in one of the peripheral satellites. But maybe it's better this way. Many Russians today are in total denial about these realities and they prefer to look at their own society through whatever ideological prisms they've willfully imposed upon themselves. But we can't judge them for that - it's too easy to say U R doin it rrong n00b when we're detached from the actual events.
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Also they've got one of the most beautiful languages ever. Their culture is a treasure really, and probably one of the things that will keep their head above water until they reach better shores. Which they will, sooner or later.
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That's not to say the Russians are doomed. It's to say the road for them will be as painful as it has always been.
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Mutra = mug. I.e., thug.
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I was expecting you to blow all historical points to smithereens!
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