Alik Bahshi
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Alik Bakhshi
Russia and Putin are twin brothers
Russia and Putin are twin brothers
We say Putin, we mean Russia,
We say Russia, we mean Putin
Today the situation in Russia can be described similarly to the words of Mayakovsky: We say Lenin, we mean the party, We say the party, we mean Lenin. In Putin, the Russian people have finally found a Fuhrer (1,2) who fully corresponds to their mentality and who is capable of returning confidence in the future to the Russian Empire and its people. As a native of the people, Putin carries within himself everything that is inherent in the Russian mentality, this is Great Russian chauvinism and an imperial worldview, so to speak, the ideological and spiritual core of the Russian people. However, there is a difference between the German Fuhrer and Fuhrer Putin; if Hitler had to wage a persistent political struggle, create a party, then Putin does not need a political party, his party is the entire Russian people. Putin is not a member of any party. It was enough, as he said, to "drown Chechnya" to gain nationwide support and love.
After the collapse of the USSR, the Russian people began to fear for the future of the empire, and the appearance of Putin, who drowned the wayward Chechnya in blood, was perceived by the people as fateful. The Russian people found in Putin a leader who would manage state affairs, freeing the people from an activity that was alien to them - to participate in governing the state through free elections and other democratic tricks. Knowing the mentality of the people well, Putin strangled the shoots of the hated democracy, literally imposed on the people by Yeltsin, from which the Russian people coughed up blood.
The Russian people intuitively feel that empire and democracy are incompatible things, moreover, democracy is dangerous because it will destroy the empire, without which the Russian people will be lost. If we take into account that the Russian people can only exist in the conditions of an empire, then the disappearance of the empire threatened the very existence of the Russian people. Western democracy is a good thing, but not all nations are able to equally enjoy its benefits. Putin understands this perfectly well, which is why he called the Russian state system a sovereign democracy, that is, democracy for the sovereign, in other words, a monarchy.
Democracy requires the active participation of the people in economic and political activities, that is, what the Russian people have historically never done, and only thanks to the invitation to restore order and governance of the Rurik brothers from the Scandinavian tribe of Rus, did they acquire a state, or rather a principality (prince is a word of Scandinavian origin) called Rus, in which the entire indigenous population was in the status of Russian serfs. That is why, unlike a Frenchman, an Englishman, a Ukrainian, a Russian is an adjective. To the question, - whose serf are you? The answer was - Russian. By the way, the population of Russia in the status of weak-willed serfs essentially remains to this day. It just so happened that every Russian is timid in front of a government official of any rank. Uninitiated serfs don't need democracy!
Putin, who had previously concealed his ambitious plans, steeply mixed with patriotism, did not want to continue playing Yeltsin's role as a sham president, an executor of the oligarchs' will, and decided to stop the process of further disintegration and plundering of the empire, or even to revive it within its former borders. The vector of all his actions as president has one direction - back to the empire.
In English, unlike Russian, there are two different words: world and peace, so Putin does not need peace, because in conditions of peace Russia as an empire cannot survive, and the Soviet Union, which disintegrated into several countries without a war, is a very illustrative example of this. Putin understands well that long-term peace is harmful for the Russian people and their empire, peace leads to economic stagnation due to the pathological inability of the people to take initiative in economic and political activity. Hence his famous phrase - "Why do we need peace if there is no Russia in it (the world). True, under the conditions of democracy in Russia, economic development is possible, but in this case, due to the indicated reason, the country will end up in the hands of oligarchs, so to speak, not of Russian nationality, who will be concerned only with enrichment and the export of capital, quite reasonably foreseeing the unreliability of the political situation in the empire. Such a circumstance would inevitably lead to the impoverishment of the people, which could ultimately end in a popular uprising and Jewish pogroms. It is no coincidence that the oligarchs hastily left the country with the arrival of Putin, which prevented possible pogroms.
It seemed that having everything for the successful development of the country, it was possible to achieve prosperity in conditions of peaceful existence, but it is precisely peace that aggravates the situation of the Russian people and the reason for this is the inability to work rationally and the lack of innovations in technology. Only industrial espionage, or in Putin's words, tsap-tsap (3), made it possible, albeit with a lag, to produce goods, but unfortunately, traditionally mostly weapons, which naturally did not contribute to improving life, but allowed to seize someone else's, namely, underdeveloped countries, which is what the empire actually did, satisfying the imperial worldview of the people and robbing conquered peoples.
However, not everything was so rosy with wars for Russia. Russia, starting with Napoleon, has not won a single war. Russia lost all three important battles to Napoleon - Austerlitz, Smolensk and Borodino, surrendering Moscow. It should be noted that even when Napoleon withdrew his army from Moscow due to its unpreparedness for the harsh winter and isolation from France, the Russian army only accompanied the French army leaving Russia, not daring to give battle. Russia lost the Crimean War of 1856. Then, Russia, having decided to seize Manchuria and Korea, lost the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, both on land and at sea. In the famous Battle of Tsushima, Japan utterly defeated the Russian fleet, which was twice as numerous. Russia was defeated in World War I. Russia was unable to defeat Finland in the Winter War of 1939-1940, whose population was comparable in size to the population of Leningrad alone. Thanks to the courage of the Finnish people, today the world knows Finland as the most prosperous country. In World War II, Russia participated in a coalition with such powerful countries as America and Great Britain, which helped with the supply of weapons, fuel, food, and it is a big question whether Russia could have resisted the German army alone. By the way, thanks to Stalin's insidious genius, Russia is the only country that, in World War II, took advantage of the defeat of Germany and Japan to acquire foreign lands.
Unable to withstand the too long peaceful time for Russia of 34 years, the Russians invaded Afghanistan in 1979 under the far-fetched pretext of securing the southern borders of the Soviet Union. The war lasted for 10 years and ended in a shameful defeat for the aggressor. The Afghan people, without aviation, missiles, tanks and other attributes of modern warfare, at the cost of the lives of more than three million of their citizens, drove the Russian invaders out of Afghanistan. Russia learned a good lesson and, presumably, will no longer poke its nose into this country with its freedom-loving people.
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