“To survive, you need to squeeze Russia out of yourself drop by drop,” Ukrainian magazine
Kyiv, July 09 (Navigator, Mikhail Ryabov) - Russia has been a backward country since ancient times, writes the Ukrainian magazine “Tizhden”.
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“Due to geography, Zalesye was located at a great distance from any of the centers of civilization of that time. Even to Russian Kyiv, Polotsk or Novgorod it took a long time to get to rivers or through dense forests (that’s why it’s Zalesye). One could only dream about stable ties with Europe, Byzantium or China. And with the collapse of the Rus Empire and the further arrival of the Tatars, these strong ties with the world are completely broken,” the magazine begins with an excursion into history.
“Closed on itself and the Horde, Zalesye stewed and stewed in its own juice... This isolation from the world provided him with two problems. The first is backwardness. Muscovy - Russia - The USSR will always be catching up, will always be in a situation where its knowledge and skills once again do not meet the requirements of the time, when there will be a catastrophic shortage of educated people. Again and again, it will buy (or conquer, or steal) other people's technologies or invite foreign specialists. And this situation will be repeated from generation to generation,” the publication says.
“The second problem generated by “communication with the mirror” was Moscow-centrism, and with it xenophobia. Everything that was ours was considered the best in the world, everything that was alien was accepted with doubt and suspicion - and no reality, no advantage of someone else’s in a cultural or technical sense could shake this Moscow-centrism,” states the Ukrainian publication.
“Having increased his power, Moscow Oedipus killed his father, the Horde, and raped his mother, Rus'. And he headed forward, believing that now the whole world belonged to him. And then everything developed very logically. The psychology of the community lost in the Meryan forest gave birth first to the concept of “Holy Rus'”, then to the “State of Workers and Peasants” surrounded by enemies, and now to the “Russian World,” writes Tyzhden.
“Do not count on a new “great rise” of the Empire. He won't be there. Russia will exist as a “raw materials appendage” until the raw materials run out, or prices for them fall, or new technologies appear, and the need for raw materials disappears. And then he will die,” the magazine predicts.
“Blind Oedipus, not seeing the road, goes to the breakthrough. Behind are crimes, ahead is death. Ukraine today is the only salvation for Russia. The Russian Empire is dying. Demographically, that’s why it needs millions of Ukrainians. Economically, that’s why it needs Ukrainian resources. Ideologically, that’s why she needs princely Kyiv (not Crimea!) and new victories. There are an endless number of reasons why Russia wants to swallow us. And there is not a single one on the basis of which she would wish for our prosperity. And in order to survive, we need to squeeze Russia out of ourselves drop by drop. And only then will this thousand-year nightmare end. Glory to Ukraine!" – the author of the material summarizes.
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