Translated and subtitled by Scott Humor
Sometimes, reading news makes you think that post-Soviet limitrophes see “totalitarian Russia” even in their dreams. Upon waking up, they write about their nightmares in blogs.
Sometimes, reading news makes you think that post-Soviet limitrophes see “totalitarian Russia” even in their dreams. Upon waking up, they write about their nightmares in blogs.
A recent example of how ruling classes in Russia’s neighboring countries suffer has been a native of Russian Kursk Pavlo Klimkin, an individual infected with the Bacillus Svidomizm. Here’s what this patient tweeted after the Federation Council decided to approve the law on the celebration of the day Crimea became a part of the Russian Empire.
“By yesterday’s attack on Crimea, Russia shows weakness, biting at the declaration of a number of civilized countries. A pathetic move: dig a little history to find a fix for today’s crimes. The Russian Federation is looking for arguments in its past, and the civilized world is looking at international law.”
Even if you ignore Klimkin’s illiteracy and inability to formulate a sentence, this statement will still reveal a pathological twilight of the Ukrainian Foreign Minister’s mind.
The “civilized world” Klimkin drools about, actually uses largely the Anglo-Saxon law of precedents. This means looking for arguments in the past, and on the base of these arguments making decisions in the present. Had the Ukrainian Minister not been an imbecile, he would have understood that he had written nonsense, and as a rule of thumb is better to keep silence, hoping to pass for a capable person.
Another example of a twilight of the minds lives in Latvia. This political figure, a Deputy of the Sejm, is named Alexander Kirsteins, who “Latvienazed” his last name by adding an “s” to it but left his first name to be “Moscals.”
It’s a shame, Alexanders. Because every Riga patriot knows that the king of ancient Macedonia was actually called Alexanders, but the ugly Russians stole the last letter from the European monarch.
Now, this patient tweeted the following.
“Only when Russia breaks up into small countries on ethnic composition, military conflicts will end, and peace will be established in Europe for many years.”
And again, we see an inability to evaluate what was written, exactly same as it was with Klimkin. If Kirsteins were sane, he would remember the history of Germany, thanks to which the Latvians received thir written language, and he would realize that a collapse of a large country does not lead to a decrease in a number of armed conflicts, but leads to massacre in the format of “every man for himself.” No… I know this is what Kirsteins and others like him wish to Russia, but you cannot be so stupid and not even being able to find your wish list under some appropriate historical analogy.
Our fellow citizens, for example, immediately found the answer to Kirsteins, pointing to the similarity of his statement with the program of the Third Reich.
“We have already passed that. Then, in the end, his skull will be hidden in the forests of Brazil and he will be considered a victim of dictatorship,» – mocking Kirshtejns a snide journalist Armen Gasparyan.
It is a sin to make fun of sick people, of course, but after all, Klimkin’s ailment, and mental illness of the Deputy of the Sejm of Latvia are clearly dangerous to others. No, not to us, but to the citizens ruled by these two, who after hearing this nonsense might start believing that they can “get to Moscow”.
It’s possible, crazies, it’s possible. But it looks something like this.
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Apparently, most did not bother to read the proclamation celebrating Empress Ye’katarina declaring Krimea as part of the Russian Empire. I was very young then, but if memory serves, this event was in the year 1783. The good lady got tired of the endless Tatari and Turkomani raids in to Malorus, looking for slaves and plunder, so she sent the Russian Army with instructions to have a word with them about the raids.
The caterwauling and tears over the proclamation remind me of some years ago when my grandmum used to sit on the front porch, smoking a good Cuban and knitting a barbed wire fence. If we youngsters complained about what someone else did, she’d just sit back in her rocker, smile her evil smile and tell us ” Well, //// ’em, sonny, just //// ’em”. Sounds to me like good advice for the current tempest in a teacup.
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I believe the Ottomans ceded the Crimean Khanate to Russia by treaty in 1774. After a longish war.
Katherine
The article is short and to the point. The former Soviet republics (Russia and Belarus excluded) suffer from the “post communist syndrome”, as I call it. During the communist period the bulk of the populations were dreaming about the West and the affluence it “offered”. They came to the simplistic conclusion that all they had to do is renounce communism and prosperity would appear overnight. This applied to all segments of society. The oligarchs who grabbed power got their prosperity at the expense of the general public. We now have an infantile situation. The general public is now horrified with what it ended up with, while the oligarchs realize they have a huge problem to deal with, namely keeping their ill gotten wealth and at the same time running the country. So, what do they do ? They blame Russia for the problems they themselves created. Now wouldn’t it be nice if Russia ended up covering the expenses of their individual countries. Sick logic.
Russia was both cursed and blessed with the rule of Yeltsin, who introduced liberal capitalism into the country, with catastrophic consequences. Russians are now wiser, remembering the Yeltsin years and dreading their return. As for Belarus, Lukashenko has, as far as I can see, prevented any liberal nonsense entering the country. Yes, he had some minor opposition from Belarus liberals, but they have no support in the general public, which is watching the situation in Ukraine, just like the public in Russia is watching the same.
The fall of the Soviet Union and that Western coup d’etat in Kiev will, in the long run, be a blessing to the Russian Federation, which can only gain, any way you look at it.
Yeltsin liberal capitalism was not an “unfortunate mistake” or something good gone wrong but a deliberate scientifical plunder of a defeated and conquered country, USSR, the same for the destruction of USSR territorial integrity and the deliberate surrender of every key national power center to the conqueror.
The question now is if “Yeltsin liberal capitalism” has been really dismissed or has been just transformed.
We know for sure a thing: soviet age has been clearly rejected but Yeltsin age, Yeltsin personnel, Yeltsinism has never been criticized and never rejected.
Michael O
And how can you “transform” liberal capitalism ? I am not sure such a thing is possible. Yes, Russia does have private enterprise, just like it has Government corporations, basically a partnership between the private and government sectors. It also has oligarchs. However, they are under control. There is no way you can compare what you had under Yeltsin with what you have now.
I suppose that the nowadays Russia power structure is simply a transformation, a more evolved form, of that of Yeltsin time. Not a completely different thing, not an opposite thing and it has its roots there. Not a complete blatant sell off but not a complete autonomous, indipendent, whole national interest “rodina” thing. Something in the middle. But firmly liberal and permeable to its “partners” like in the years of Yeltsin.
Michael O
What you have written cannot be accepted. During Yeltsins rule 70.000 factories were closed down, the oligarchs and Western corporations going after the natural resources of the country. The country itself faced dissolution. Putin reversed the process. The oligarchs were permitted to function, on condition they respected the laws of the country, payed taxes and decent wages and terminated all fraud. The attempt to privatize Government corporations and natural resources was – correctly – prevented. Even during Putin’s reign there were demands to privatize natural resources, which personally I found outrageous. This was not permitted. What you have now is a “partnership” between the private and Government sector, which perhaps is the best solution for any country. Now compare this to the situation in Ukraine, where oligarchs and Western corporations have gone on a rampage, placing industry under their control and using the rich Ukrainian soil to plant GMO crops, something which has been banned in Russia, and rightly so.
My doubt is because after Yeltsin there wasn’t a real change of the ruling class but a continuation. Certainly they have changed the mode but not the national system that remains that imposed by Yeltsin (i.e. by the West). The 70,000 factories are gone forever and the damage is done, never recovered but in official and public terms nobody has been blamed for that and for the rest. That means that for the new post soviet ruling class that was the right thing to do. Like is the right thing to buy expensive flats in the western capitals and send their offsprings to the most expensive western universities ready to rule the future Russia while the retirement age for the common people is extended. It is really very sad to compare the great scientific, educational, industrial, military and also social welfare structure of Soviet Union with what is left now. I agree for the GMO ban at least.
Scotts mistake : Transcript in Russian is here https://aftershock.news/?q=node/669090.
I am not surprised that these people keep peddling idiotic “night dreams”. It reminds me of Goebbels and his famous “if you repeat a lie enough times it becomes truth in people’s minds”. I am sure that Goebbels borrowed that saying from someone in history, but we will let him enjoy the moment of greatness. So, this is why they spit the venom hoping for it to spread around.
This also means that not only Russia but other countries have to be vigilant in preserving their territory. All we have to do is look at Yugoslavia in the 90’s. Georgia, Ukraine are not done yet. Serbia and Great Albania are in the news every day.
“…“Only when Russia breaks up into small countries on ethnic composition, military conflicts will end, and peace will be established in Europe for many years.”…”
This quote from the Deputy of the Sejm, Kirsteins, has a big problem, in addition to Scott’s observation.
Almost all of the lands in Russia are majority ethnic Russian. The vast majority of lands are at least 60 % and many are 80% or more ethnic Russian. Break up according to ethnic lines? All those other places seem to be happy to be in Russia, as they are safer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#/media/File:Russians_in_Russian_regions_2010.png
Kirshtejns and Klimkin are so 1993. Talk about people who live under the rock or something. The world has moved on and look completely different now.
Russians have to understand: you have to stop acting like these places exist. There’s other stuff to do. Address the security threats. Forget the rest.