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Still
Evil
This article clarifies why the contemporary Russia
may be justifiably characterized still as an Evil Empire, inheriting
this
"title" from her predecessor USSR
– though with a few differences. The main difference is in the color of
the imperialism.
The
USSR
was a strictly ideological nation, whose imperialistic actions took
place under the slogan "Proletarians
of the world: unite!" so that the
imperialism of the USSR
took form of spreading the Socialism in the world.
On
the contrary, the contemporary Russia
formally dropped the
ideology of Socialism becoming a klepto-autocracy.
Russia still adheres to imperialism, but under a different color:
the color of imagined greatness of the former Russian empire and its
particular spiritual mission.
Here
is why the contemporary Russia
is still an empire and the evil one at that.
- The Russian government and Putin
explicitly declared that the goal of Russia
is to restore the former Soviet empire and possibly wider (up to the
borders of the Tsarists Russia) – against the will of now independent
nations, which seceded from the USSR
at the first opportunity in 1991. It's worse noting that the
Constitution of the USSR
explicitly admitted the right of all its republics for any level of
autonomy up to secession, so that in the 1991 the former Soviet
republics merely exercised their constitutional right. Not good: it
upset Russia so much, that...
- Russia's propaganda treats the
collapse of the USSR
(the evil empire) in 1991 as a greatest
disaster (sic!) of the 20th century! Russia longs for the former
empire!
- Russia longs for the former empire of
evil so much that it has set a goal to grab back all the break-out
republics by subversion and
military force.
- Russia deserves to inherit the same title of the Evil
Empire (of
the former USSR) also because Russia refused to repent about the entire horrible past of the USSR even after the Perestroika (a
sudden liberation coming with Gorbachev). It must be noted that after
Stalin dropped dead in 1953, in the end of the 1950s the CPSU under
Krushchev unexpectedly decided to (partially) repent about Stalinism
(something unthinkable for such notoriously immoral and cynical people
as Bolsheviks). The short epoch of the so called Thaw followed the 20th
and 22th Congresses of the CPSU. However the contemporary Russian ideologues and the
government under Putin curse Krushchev for
damaging the
image of Stalin and the USSR, just as they curse Gorbachev!
- They have reached the bottom of baseness in their
whitewashing of
the terrible past of Russia: now they glorify even such a
monster as the tzar Ivan IV (the Terrible), erecting a monument to him [1] (something that was unthinkable even during the
Russian
tzars).
- In their imperialistic obsession now they believe that ...
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Russia has the right of going to war against independent
nations which Russia doesn't like for whichever reason. In particular...
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Russia has the right of going to war against independent
nations to "protect" a minority of ethnic Russians there, and to annex
the area where that minority lives compactly. At that...
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the entire world conspired to destroy or damage Russia;
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NATO is
an aggressive block (just as the Soviet propaganda claimed); and...
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it is OK to blackmail the world with nuclear war if it dares
to get on the way of Russia (something that even the USSR had never
dared to do).
- Here is a list of aggressive wars by
USSR/Russia only in 20-21st centuries:
USSR
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- against Poland and Ukraine in 1918-1920 (during the civil war);
- against Poland together with Hitler, in 1939, starting the WWII;
- grabbing Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in 1939;
- against Finland in 1940;
- against Hungary in 1956;
- against Czechoslovakia in 1968;
- against Afghanistan in the 1980s;
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Russia
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- grabbing a part of Georgia in
2008;
- grabbing parts of Ukraine:
Donbass and Crimea in 2014;
- an all-out war on entire Ukraine
in 2022.
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Therefore, Russia fully
inherited the
title of Empire of Evil.
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