One Russian phrase has bothered me since Russo-UKRainian War started in 2014. Translate into “them” [Ukrainians] A small boy who was not wearing anything other than underwear was attached to the cross. “
It sounds grotesque, like something from an eerie story. And It never happenedof course. But many Russian people may have it.
The Russian Army -The disguise of the “local uprising” -gs the eastern state of Ukraine, and the Russian state television has made this brave production. The story Viral Sed was not just a troublesome propaganda at work. It shows that the state, media, intellectuals, and “ordinary Russians” remain fatally intertwined in the colonial identity claim that neither the ruler, the ruler, or the ruler cannot escape. Ta.
Russia is not a country built for shared value, common beliefs, or purpose. It is an empire that has been linked by lies through the theft of other people's art, culture, and history, and gathered by supported power. It is true that conquests and cultural diversion are not new in the history of mankind, but the existence of past colonial crimes with other power does not justify Russia's attempts to erase today's Ukraine.
In 2021, Vladimir Putin wrote 5,000 essays Ukraine declares that it does not exist -not a culture, not a nation. He claimed that the Russian and the Ukrainian were “one”, as the emperor and the committee went in front of him.
However, this was not the entry of the parent SHIP. It was a threat. Ukrainians must accept that they are Russian or corrupt. President Putin did not just challenge Ukraine's self -determination. He framed it as an obligation to invade, kill, rape, and torture in Russia.
Moscow had many opportunities, but I couldn't take off the skin of the empire repeatedly. The defeat in the Crimea War and the Japan War did not encourage calculations. Unlike Spain, Portugal, and Belgium, Russia has regarded the loss as a temporary retreat, as he abandoned colonies and shifted to post -empire countries. Even the collapse of the Soviet Union after a humiliated defeat in Afghanistan did not disappear. Empire spirit。
Russian pioneers, Mascoby, have been obliged to rise in the 13th century in the role of Golden Hold's tax collectors, making the prince accumulating wealth and overtaking rivals. In contrast, Kiev has been prosperous for 600 years as a cultural and political hub before Moscow, which was founded in 1147.
In 1547, IVAN IV (“The Therrible”) separated one of the biggest disadvantages of history. He bears the “All RUS Emperor,” and declared Moscow as Keavan Rus of Keavan Rus and separated for the 5th century to support the golden crown. At first, Europe refused to play together. Diplomat, travelers, and scholars continued to call the area “Moscobia.” map and Manuscript From the times. The name “RUS” was not inherited by Kiev. I was stolen.
From the beginning, a historian Janusz Bugajski pointed out that Moscow was relying on control through power as a principle of organizationalization. Until now, Kremlin crushes the opposition, clinging to the past, and cannot provide the future. Moscow governs the rules through humiliation and repression, extracts resources from the state, and controls governance models that handle places like Siberia and North Caucasus. Internal colony。
Probably, it is a history intertwined with the western colonialism that makes us blind. The scholars have avoided the bloody heritage of the Russian Empire. Until recently, it seems that we are struggling to assign an institution to 40 million Ukrainians, a stateless country. Instead, let Russia (Metropol) assemble a discourse.
Many on the west prefer to think that Putin is a problem. Tyrant, thug, and human history sometimes cough and exhale. But Putin is no exception. He is a rule.
Russians are often regarded as passive prey of the state propaganda and are reluctant to be released by their government. However, “Russian war with Ukraine is popular among many Russians and is accepted by more,” Jade Maclin wrote in her book.Russian war。 “
McClin is observing Putin that Russians do not impose foreign views of foreign policy. He gives a voice to many of them already believe. The story from Moscow is not because it is enforced, but because it is exempted from acknowledging the unique accomplice of unjust, unjust sadistic and criminal war.
Russia's good war grew out of anxiety and weakness, and it is impossible to satisfy it. At home, they resigned with repression and indifferent Always victims。 However, when they turn their gaze outwards, the Russian federal residents are looking for the conquest of their neighbors, assuming the way of thinking of the colony. This is not a natural characteristic, but a twisted cycle of projection, which deals with the memory of the once -covered violence and gives violence to others as a means of oppression.
Today's battle in Ukraine is not a territory but a historical justice For the truth。 A small boy who is not wearing anything other than underwear cannot be attached to the cross, and Russian people must learn this. Moscow's criminal war forced the world to support the Empire and forced the Russians himself. The need for this aggressive re -articulation agent is overwhelmingly defeated.
Andrew Chahohoyan is Academic director At Amsterdam University. He used to work for the US government at the Millennium Challenge Corporation and studied at Harvard Ken Discur and Donetsu Castech University.
