A couple of (depleted ) empires imploded relatively peacefully after the Second World War and EU was an extraordinary project precisely as it offered a post imperialist vision that promised and delivered peace , democracy and prosperity.
Eastern European democracies born from the ashes of soviet domination succeeded proportional to doing the work to own, teach, remember and repent for the crimes against their own population during those dark years of communism.
Irrespective of the ideological structure Russian opposition builds in exile, what plan is there for the Russian population at large to own , understand and feel sorry for the treatment Russian dictators and a wide repression apparatus applied to their people but more than that, to the nations the federation keeps under its thumb or against which it wages war and considers second class humans?!
Without this hard inner work and truth that involves shame, regret, empathy at scale, how can Russian nation move into something else than versions of strong men dictatorships?! It’s the traumatised only recognising traumatic relationships as “love”/ “home”/ identity and preserving this wretched sense of superiority that forbids progress, healing, awareness.
The opposition also needs to contend with Russian imperial realities.
"Putin opponents Ilya Yashin and Andrey Pivovarov, who were also released as part of the prisoner exchange, made similar statements. Even after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Navalny, still in prison, continued to deny that Russia is an imperialist country. Navalny's line of argument was remarkable. He asked the (rhetorical) question whether all Russians had an ‘imperial consciousness’. It goes without saying that the answer to this can only be negative: It would be impossible to say that all citizens of any country, without exception, have the same attitude on any issue. Navalny's second argument was even more telling: if Russia is imperial, then Belarus must also be imperial, since the attack on Ukraine also originated from Belarusian soil. The absurdity of this claim is obvious, since Belarus's degradation to a vassal state is a consequence of Moscow's imperialist policy."
Good to be brought to the knowledge of any thinking beings, both closely & far concerned. Experimentedly suggesting point of view
Ok. So what do you propose, Mikhail?
A couple of (depleted ) empires imploded relatively peacefully after the Second World War and EU was an extraordinary project precisely as it offered a post imperialist vision that promised and delivered peace , democracy and prosperity.
Eastern European democracies born from the ashes of soviet domination succeeded proportional to doing the work to own, teach, remember and repent for the crimes against their own population during those dark years of communism.
Irrespective of the ideological structure Russian opposition builds in exile, what plan is there for the Russian population at large to own , understand and feel sorry for the treatment Russian dictators and a wide repression apparatus applied to their people but more than that, to the nations the federation keeps under its thumb or against which it wages war and considers second class humans?!
Without this hard inner work and truth that involves shame, regret, empathy at scale, how can Russian nation move into something else than versions of strong men dictatorships?! It’s the traumatised only recognising traumatic relationships as “love”/ “home”/ identity and preserving this wretched sense of superiority that forbids progress, healing, awareness.
Look at half of the US right now…
The opposition also needs to contend with Russian imperial realities.
"Putin opponents Ilya Yashin and Andrey Pivovarov, who were also released as part of the prisoner exchange, made similar statements. Even after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Navalny, still in prison, continued to deny that Russia is an imperialist country. Navalny's line of argument was remarkable. He asked the (rhetorical) question whether all Russians had an ‘imperial consciousness’. It goes without saying that the answer to this can only be negative: It would be impossible to say that all citizens of any country, without exception, have the same attitude on any issue. Navalny's second argument was even more telling: if Russia is imperial, then Belarus must also be imperial, since the attack on Ukraine also originated from Belarusian soil. The absurdity of this claim is obvious, since Belarus's degradation to a vassal state is a consequence of Moscow's imperialist policy."
https://efdavies.substack.com/p/anti-putin-does-not-mean-anti-imperial
…just as stupid americans
…americans have to learn terminology of the new era in their lives of the dictatorship
…RESISTANCE vs OPPOSITION
…which americans so often to neglect to recognize the profound difference
https://youtu.be/eTZW-kSCV0s?si=_5c3OJBNpxuvb59P
…same thing that americans lacking
…americans have to learn terminology of the new era in their lives of the dictatorship
…RESISTANCE vs OPPOSITION
…which americans so often to neglect to recognize the profound difference
https://youtu.be/eTZW-kSCV0s?si=_5c3OJBNpxuvb59P