empire

33 years ago, when the coup failed (against Mikhail Gorbachev – br), I believed in the wonderful Russia of the future (PRB). Not now. I will paraphrase Disraeli’s famous thought: not to believe in the PRB then would mean you have no heart, and to believe in it now – you have no mind.

The Russian liberal is eternally and irresponsibly in love with the beautiful Russia of the future, as with the beautiful woman Alexander Blok. But it’s just a PRB

miracle, hallucination,

that inspires and ignites the imagination, but disappears when you try to get close to it.

From time to time, Russian liberals predict that the PRB is just around the corner, but again and again they are deceived in their hopes. In Russia, the liberals are striking again. But they are unpredictable and do not learn from their mistakes. If the eternal Russian liberal had existed, he would have been able to welcome the reforms of Alexander II, then go back into internal exile during the reforms of Alexander III, have encouraged by the October Manifesto of 1905, and despairing of the years of reaction that followed. He would experience euphoria during the February Revolution of 1917, then end up in a Bolshevik concentration camp, welcome warming under Nikita Khrushchev and emigrate under Leonid Brezhnev. The perennial Russian liberal would have been full of hope during the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev and Yegor Gaidar.
But the old violence returned with redoubled force. And even after that, the liberal continues to wait for a free, wonderful Russia in the future.

The Russian Empire (whatever it is called) a priori

it cannot be a free country

All its history shows it with certainty. The people living in the empire (including the Russian one) can only be free after its final fall. Yeltsin was very proud to have preserved the Russian Federation. He said that of all the politicians from his presidency, he was most grateful to Mintimer Shaimiev (the first president of the Autonomous Republic of Tatarstan – br), who stopped on the process of separation of Tatarstan from the Russian Federation and its prevention. a chain reaction, which would lead to collapse. It is now clear that by giving the independence movement to Tatarstan, Shaimiev helped Boris Yeltsin to preserve the empire​​​​ – infected with the old spirit of external expansion and slavery inside that was active under Putin.

Russian liberals have always talked about freedom and at the same time wanted it

to preserve the empire

The liberal patriarch of Russia, Pavel Milyukov, wrote after the beginning of the Soviet attack against Finland: “I feel sorry for the Finns, but I want the province of Vyborg. ” (Viborg is a city in Finland). If you want the Vyborg province, you have to love Stalin’s shoe.

Many liberals have not yet realized that freedom and the Russian Empire (falsely called the Russian Federation) are incompatible. Freedom can only come to the land of today’s Russian as it came to Germany after the war or Japan – after defeat in the war and the fall of the colonial empire. If you want freedom for the inhabitants of Russia today, do not deceive the people with the mirage of the wonderful Russia of the future, help the empire lose the war and die.
Translation: Faktor.bg