Posted on 03/23/2022 4:40:03 AM PDT by ptsal
Over his many years as the leader of Russia, President Vladimir Putin has dedicated a lot of time and effort to controlling history. The Kremlin works hard to ensure Putin’s constructed worldview, in which Russian greatness is derived from the country’s past glory and suffering, is taught in schools and shown in all media and academic discourse as reality. A shocking and important example of this was the closing late last year of the Memorial human rights organization, which investigated Soviet repression, with the prosecution claiming that Memorial “creates a false image of the USSR as a terrorist state and denigrates the memory of World War II.”
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But that’s the point. This is a simple version of history, put forward by a strongman determined to transform it into a simple version of the future: one in which all so-called Russians, including Ukrainians, bow before the might of the empire—and the emperor.
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When has there ever been a light version of Russian history?
Russians believe they are the Slavic master Race and feel entitled to rob, rape and murder their smaller neighbors. It has been so for hundreds of years and Putin is just the latest incarnation of their sick delusions.
I different version of history, Russia is just a Grand duchy of Muscovy.
All it is is a city of Moscow and environs. By itself a vasal of Kazan.
All the rest of Russia and all the “Russian sphere” claimed by Putin consist of brutally conquered lands by subsequent Grand Dukes, Tsars and Communist dictators.
The root of the problem is that the Russians in general, and Putin in particular, have not reconciled themselves to the fact that Russia is no longer a great power. Its GDP is roughly the size of that of Australia. The GDP of the US alone is $23 trillion while that of Russia is only $1.6 trillion. The combined GDP of NATO is 24 times that of Russia. Russia needs to put aside memories of past glories and start to cooperate with the west rather than attempting to compete with it. It cannot win in the latter case.
The Slav and the Hun take turns
Maybe they watched us and saw what happens to a nation that wallows in every failing it has rather than stress the things they are proud of.
Mark
The Germans figured out they can dominate economically and just buy what they want. Russians, apparently, are too stupid or corrupt to do that. Russia should be able to easily dominate Ukraine economically but they can’t because Putin’s goons have stolen Russia’s wealth.
The population of all Russia is less than the single Indonesian island of Java.
The economy of Russia is smaller than Canada and just barely more than that of Australia.
In point of fact, Russia isn’t
If Putin attends the G 20, he must be arrested and detained as a war criminal. According to “Law” he is guilty. If the law is not enforced, then we can conduct war wherever necessary. The Houthi’s and Hamas can be blown to smithereens and wiped from existence
Our DS, George Soros and Klaus Schwab have such a better idea of how to run Russia
The tragedy of Ukraine was worsened immeasurably by the two coups the US sponsored there in the past 20 years.
Putin is just the latest Russian dictator. No matter the name academics ascribe to a particular dictatorship or socio/economic system, they are all basically the same: a few people at the top (paranoid sociopaths) who rake off the best for themselves and leave everyone else fighting for the scraps. I believe he has never tried to work with the west because he sees the same type people running things here, and since he’s pretty much a one man show he likes that much better.
the only thing “great” russia ever achieved was receive stolen information from US traitors on how to build a nuclear bomb, and use stolen german tech looted after ww2 to create their space program.
You can just tell something is economically unhealthy when visiting Russia. There is very little retail outside of shopping malls/markets there, fewer products to buy than other EU countries, many different police buildings in the center of town, etc. Russia’s growth has been stunted due to corruption and intentional isolation of the Russian people by the government.
So what. Putin could have used that same tactic instead of invading. Putin is the bad guy here.
You are projecting the envious take of some Polish nationalists.
Nothing like that exists in Russia, at least not in sizeable numbers.
not a tsrrorist?
then what in the wide wide world of sports was Stalin and his buddy Berea???
what was the insemination of “russian agents as American citizens, including siring children” all about?
(i knew of this years before a cable channel made a tv series addressing this)
putin wants to white wash his own actions within the kgb.
putin’s legacy plans must make him a hero greater than Lenin himself!
There isn’t a “good guy” in this conflict.
That doesn’t justify an invasion on Putin’s part. Neither does it mean that the US should get involved to protect the Uniparty’s money laundering hub & catamite breeding facility we call “Ukraine”.
Oh, just wait until King Wladyslaw returns with his spectral Winged Hussars. He’ll teach those Russkies.
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