Posted on 09/18/2006 2:26:03 PM PDT by lizol
If Russia ever returns to imperialistic policy of the Soviet Union and tries to wipe Ukraine out from the map of the world, she will return to cold war again.==
Soviet Union and Russia are totally different entities. They cann't coexist. When Soviet Union reigned there were no Russia.
If you not noticed that Soviet Union was rulled by no Russians at all. Just out of your curiosity check the ethnic backgrounds of all soviet General Secretaries.
You'll find that except Gorbachev they all were not Russians. There were Georgian, 2-3 Ukranians, half Jew and so on. Why that if we all know that Poland was rulled by Poles the communists? Won't you deny that Jaruzelskii or Gerek were ethnic Polacks?
But Soviet Union was rulled by no Russians. That is the matter of fact.
FYI today Russia is the national state of Russians and few allied ethnicities. She no need no Ukranians and others. I think Russia needs to depart some more festered lands. Like muslims of Caucausus. Russian will be cleaner without them.
But it is the deal for future presidents.
1. "abandoning imperial tendencies" & "Slavic Empire" sound to me as two contradicting points.
2. "Perhaps one day a wise ruler in Russia appears, who knows, who knows"
This leads to the idea that Russia is proposed to play one of key roles in creating and functioning of the proposed union or state. Why should it? Is the proposed entity possible without Russia and why yes or no?
I think your idea needs expanding to show why the states (peoples) unite, and what charteristical features will the proposed entity have.
Look at the nations speaking languages of the German group - the Danes, the Dutch, the Germans and Scandinavians. They have never united as Slavic nations haven't either.
It seems you don't accept merging nations (e.g. if the Polish, the Czech and Slovakians merge re-creating Western Slavic ethnicity back again), so the present EU membership with open borders, means exactly you want to achieve.
That's a problem of any multiethnical state. Traditinally it's solved with sword.
Another solutions took place in after WWII history only.
Addition: and those alternative decisions were an affect that the leading ethnicity were ready to retreat.
I have tried to study the history of Poland and it is very confusing. I am unaware of any other country which as lost and gained land so many times. Just trying to keep track of their borders in the past 100 years is enough to give me a headache.
I think they both would answer you answer with Kalashnikow, or , at best, showing you their middle fingers :-)
That's nothing new to me. That's the case since the end of XIX century. Probably, even earlier, I just don't know.
But there's a more interesting question to ask:
Would you, as a Pole, like to live in a shared state with Czechs and/or Slovaks?
1. Alike languages,
2. Same religion (not the case of Serbs and Croats),
3. Similar cultures, I presume?
Something makes me think that Joseph Stalin will hardly get his "thank you", for this.
Ok, if you don't like this topic, let's quit discussing it.
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