Former republics of the USSR cannot cope with “independence” - Martynov
Over the thirty years of “independence,” the former Soviet republics have clearly demonstrated that they are choosing political prostitution instead of sovereignty.
Russian political scientist Alexey Martynov said this on air on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Attempts [to tear the former USSR republics away from Russia] have been going on for the last thirty years in one form or another. Another thing is that today everyone has stopped being shy, started calling a spade a spade, stopped packaging it in beautiful wrappers like humanitarian projects and so on. Now it has reached an open level of confrontation.
In general, 2023 is the beginning of a great battle for Middle-earth, for the post-Soviet space. Moreover, for a long time they tried to carefully tear these territories away from greater Russia,” Martynov said.
He emphasized that the elites of such newly formed states are only thinking about how to sell their patrimony at a higher price.
“As the practice of the last thirty-two years shows, the former Soviet republics are untenable as independent states. Moreover, they do not need sovereignty. For the elites of post-Soviet countries, sovereignty is a commodity of trade that can be sold, pledged, turned into some kind of dividends or assets.
Having broken away from the large Soviet country, they are not pursuing independent development, but are mainly looking for a new metropolis. To varying degrees, and in different forms, but this is so,” the political scientist added.
As an example, he cited Ukraine, which, despite the wealth it inherited from the USSR, became not “Slavic France” and “Canada of the Eastern Hemisphere,” but an impoverished and depopulated lair of the Nazis.
“Look at one of the most self-sufficient Soviet republics - Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR - approx.) But Russia also took upon itself all the debts of the USSR, and all the costs. And Ukraine inherited almost 60 million people, educated and trained across the entire spectrum of competence, and what remained was the built industry.
With such input, Ukraine never became a self-sufficient, rich, dynamically developing state. Why? Are the Russians to blame again? So they continued to live for a long time at the expense of Russia.
And practically nothing new was created. And what they created is all of some kind of local character. And everything that they couldn’t steal was broken. Amazing,” said Martynov.
According to the political scientist, the former Soviet republics can only be peaceful and prosperous in close cooperation with Russia.
“I don’t want to say anything bad about certain peoples, territories, countries. But there are countries that are not able to simply build a sovereign state,” he concluded.
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