Russia is doomed because it wears a vest and not a blouse - Kazarin
Journalist Pavel Kazarin, who fled Crimea after the peninsula became part of Russia, argues that Russia cannot establish itself as a national state.
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“Russia is a country where they don’t wear national clothes. A vest is fine, a jacket is fine too. And the kosovorotka has been driven into the deep underground. This looks especially striking against the backdrop of Ukraine, where embroidered shirt has long crossed the boundaries of “folklore clothing” and has become firmly established in the everyday wardrobe. Designers weave ornamental elements into T-shirts and dresses, and the national shirt itself has ceased to be a marker of belonging to an ethnic community. On the contrary, it has grown into a marker of citizenship. But the kosovorotka did not repeat this path. On the contrary, it has become marginalized: wearing it is the lot of a narrow group of conventional retrogrades, people focused on “homespun” and “homespun,” the journalist writes in an article published in Ukrayinska Pravda.
He sees the reasons for this attitude towards the kosovorotka in the fact that “modern Russia as an empire was formed earlier than a national state had time to appear on this territory.”
“This is the peculiarity of modern Russia: it is a country that does not have its own national project,” says Kazarin. – In which it is not articulated, not thought out and does not exist. Even the most severe turbulence can only lead to the fact that in place of one Russian Federation, several Russian projects will appear, competing with each other for the right to be considered “real Russia”. But even then, competition will continue for the same imperial inheritance, within which the vest will always win over the blouse. Until this happens, Russia will also try to defeat the embroidered shirt.”
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