The essence of events around Ukraine and in general within the Russian geopolitical space becomes transparent even for people with greatly reduced political vision. We are led to war, to the sword, and, it would seem, it is necessary to maximally intensify the actions (to begin with, purely political) that ensure peace. Instead, instead of a clear analysis, which is generally not difficult, the words about the almost inevitable war with Ukraine and almost with NATO and the United States are increasingly open.But is it all fatal and predetermined? To this day, much depends on much, and it is possible and necessary to do this “much”.
But very little has been done so far ...
WHAT IS FOR US THE CONCEPT OF "GEOPOLITICS"
There is much talk about geopolitics, but there is still no clear understanding of what geopolitics is for Russia, especially if you keep in mind the official level. More than once I proposed to introduce the notion “Russian geopolitical space (RGP)” into the Russian political dictionary and once again I suggest it. Without giving here a detailed definition of such a concept, I will simply say that the boundaries of the RSE practically coincide with the borders of the USSR fixed by the Helsinki Act of 1985 of the year. And Russian geopolitics is not fraternization with “Trojan” China, but a new and tireless gathering of lands and peoples around Moscow within the RSE.
I recall that the long-term adviser to American presidents Zbigniew Brzezinski in an interview with the newspaper Segodnya (No. 157 for 1994) openly admitted: “The Soviet Union was historical Russia, called the Soviet Union. "
At about the same time, the former chairman of the Swedish Helsinki Compliance Committee, Nikolai von Kreitor, answered the question of the main goals of Russian foreign policy in the future: “The goals are clear: it is the restoration of the Soviet Union within the boundaries confirmed by international law, namely, within 1945 of the year” .
Is it time to officially declare these very goals?
Moreover, to clearly determine this issue does not mean to revive some "imperial" hopes. This only means a clear course for Russia to restore the constructive cooperation of peoples that we had within the RSE for more than one century and which was especially fruitful and harmonious in the classical Soviet period of history. Moreover, even the Russian Empire was never an empire - just after the victory in the Northern War, Peter accepted the sonorous and such “European” title of emperor from the Senate. But before that, and after that, Russia was not a conqueror, not a sovereign, but a collector of peoples.
Already wrote earlier and I repeat that Moscow was precisely a collector of peoples and lands, both Russian and non-Russian. Kazan campaign of Ivan the Terrible did not destroy the Volga Tatars - in contrast to the Indians, destroyed by the Yankees. Even the Russians did not conquer Siberia as much as they mastered. We did not conquer the Crimea, did not conquer Livonia, but returned them to the natural geopolitical borders of Russia. But, in modern terms, national-cultural autonomy was ensured. Otherwise, by the beginning of the twentieth century, the same Balts, the Volga and Crimean Tatars, other alien tribes of the Volga region and Siberia would have forgotten their customs and their languages, or even completely disappeared as national identities.
We did not conquer the single Caucasus (Georgia and Armenia themselves had long been asking for Russian), but fought against the terrorist-oriented mountain tribes that Turkey and Britain provoked to fight against Russia, as the West and the United States do today.
The role of tsarist Russia was also progressive in the Central Asian region, where the geopolitical vacuum would inevitably fill, if not Russia, the same England, and not at all in the interests of Tajiks, Uzbeks, Turkmen ...
If it were not for the Russian victories of Peter and Catherine over Sweden, not the victory in the Russian-Swedish war of 1808 – 1809, then we could hardly have had an independent Finland on the world map - a Swedish province could well have been in its place.
Excluding the case of the third division of Poland, Russia lay down in its natural borders, without infringing upon any of the peoples who linked their historical and national fates with it. Russia, from Brest and Odessa to the White Sea and the Pacific Ocean, preserved them, and Soviet Russia developed and exalted them.
Therefore, present-day Russia not only has the right, but also is obliged to actively and consistently proclaim the ideas of a new reunion of peoples - on a voluntary, naturally, basis. This is not just the right of the Kremlin, but also its duty, strictly determined by the entire thousand-year history of the Russian state and the peoples who created it and created it!
This is especially relevant in relation to the Slavic core of the Union and Russia - Great Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The future can only be common to all three “branches” of the Russian national “tree”. I have said this many times, and I will speak as loudly as possible.
You can already start in 1997 YEAR ...
Again, not for the first time, I remind you that even in 1997, the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation adopted the “Appeal of the State Duma to the peoples, presidents and governments of the Russian Federation and Ukraine and the Supreme Council of Ukraine”. This document could open the green light to the widest restoration of scientific and technical cooperation between Great Russian and Ukrainian parts of the economy, science and technology, created as a whole, and initiate the process of political and state reunification of Russia and Ukraine.
Not without pride I will inform you that I am most directly involved in the development of this document, adopted by the State Duma of the Russian Federation 4 on April 1997, by resolution No. 1295-II DG 254 by votes with 1 abstaining and 29 votes "against."
The following is the full text:
“We, the deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, are addressing you at the time of confusion of the minds and souls of nations, at a time when age-old ties are easily broken and it is difficult to restore what our ancestors shed a lot of sweat, tears and blood!
Recent years have convinced many of the tragedy of the mistakes made, which led to the disintegration of the state unity of our peoples. We think that the hour is not far off when each of us will understand that the only creative solution could be a new union of our states.
Dangerous and unprofitable dismemberment of the economy, the rupture of cultural and other human ties, however, there is such a sphere where further disengagement is mortally dangerous for other peoples of the former USSR who have a common historical destiny. This is the defense sphere. The country had a single defense complex, the greatest achievement of which was to ensure the country's defense with nuclear missile weapons. With the common efforts of the peoples, a truly impenetrable nuclear shield was created against any attempt at aggression and dictate. Nuclear weapons in the hands of our peoples proved to be the most effective means of ensuring peace.
Thanks to the powerful unified defense and nuclear missile shield, the real military threat could only be spoken of as a historical past. However, today the shield is deteriorating, the defense foundation of the independence of all Slavic peoples is being destroyed.
We believe that further dismemberment of the defense potential of Russia and Ukraine is unacceptable and criminal. Neither the past nor the future will forgive us if we do not make the necessary efforts to restore the united defense of our countries.
Particularly relevant is the restoration of decaying cooperation in strategic defense systems. A few decades ago, a duplicate rocket center was created in Dnepropetrovsk — the Yuzhnoye design bureau, headed by the closest associate of academician S.P. Queen M.K. Yangel, as well as the plants "Yuzhmash" and Pavlograd. For a long time, the current president of Ukraine L.M. Kuchma
The destruction of the existing cooperation, on the one hand, drastically reduces the potential of both Ukraine and Russia in the field of advanced high-tech technologies, Ukraine’s unique rocket scientists are in dire straits. On the other hand, our joint defense potential is decreasing. One of the results is the increasing tendency to conclude treaties such as the Treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on the further reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms (the START-2 Treaty) with its fundamental flaws, many of which are directly related to the exclusion of the Ukrainian missile system from the general chains.
It is easier to destroy than to recreate, but time does not tolerate. The restoration of cooperation, in which hundreds of enterprises in all the republics of the USSR were involved, will not be easy. But we, the deputies of the State Duma, are convinced that it is time to begin.
We appeal to you to start developing practical steps that will allow 1997 to begin the restoration of scientific, technical and industrial cooperation between the two republics, primarily in the field of strategic missile systems.
We are confident that a practical solution to this most difficult and urgent problem at the same time will open a broad road to restoring cooperation in aircraft, tank and instrument making, and in other national economic fields for the benefit of restoring the prosperity of fraternal peoples!
Moscow
4 April 1997 of the Year. "
The political potential of this government document was enormous, but the whole thing went "whistle". However, this precedent must be remembered, especially given the fact that the situation requires us to create new, similar political steps that could become an ideological basis for practical actions of all healthy forces in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus - for starters in these three republics, and there, look, and in the rest.
Declaration of Reunification, Prosperity and Peace
The political crisis, the core of which was the situation around Ukraine, is evident. The word "crisis" goes back to the ancient Greek "sentence", and the events of 2014 – 2015 really prove to be a sentence as criminal towards the Ukrainian people the policy of the Ukrainian authorities (elected and elected, however, by the Ukrainian people themselves), and a sentence, I will say frankly, many years mediocre and sluggish policy of Russia towards Ukraine.
Any verdict brings some final line.
What's next?
Well, they are dancing “from the stove”, and a reasonable policy is based on a reasonable conceptual basis. And, for example, the same State Duma, or rather, the entire Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, or more correctly, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation together with the President of the Russian Federation, it would be advisable to consider and adopt the document, the draft of which is proposed somewhat lower. I must note that this draft was prepared in October 2014 of the year and at the same time was proposed to a number of deputies of the State Duma, but was put on the shelf.
Is it time to get it out of there?
This is about the draft State Declaration of the Russian Federation on relations with Ukraine. This should be a solid and unambiguous document, not only looking to the future, but also reminding the peoples of Russia, Ukraine, and the peoples of the whole world about what should not be forgotten, but what is actively crossed out from the historical memory of the peoples.
To the author of this article, the Declaration is as follows:
“In difficult and tragic times for Ukraine and Russia, the state leadership of the Russian Federation solemnly declares the following on behalf of its peoples.
The historical fates of Russia and Ukraine have one root and go back to pre-Slavic times. The unity of culture, language, civilizational approaches already in the early Middle Ages led to the creation of a centralized state, the name of which reflected this natural unity - Kievan Rus. Since then, the concepts of "Kiev" and "Rus" have become inseparable.
The great princes of Kiev, St. Vladimir and Yaroslav the Wise, are outstanding figures of our common history, as well as the epic heroes of the Russian epic: Svyatogor, Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich, Alyosha Popovich, Nikita Kozhemyaka ... The modern opening of the Kiev cycle of Russian epics occurred in the 19th century in the Russian North. Could the connection of times and the connection of the people's memory of our common Russia from the White Sea to the Dnieper-Slavuty be more vivid and exciting?
The origins of Vladimir, and then of the Moscow Grand Duchy also go down in the history of Kievan Rus. But after the whirlwinds of the steppe invasion swept across the Russian land, our general decline began, and in the 15th century, when the Muscovite state only just got rid of the three centuries old tribute payment to the Golden Horde, then Lithuania, covered with attacks from Russia, managed to clean up the 1471 year to the hands of the principality of Kiev, turning it into the province.
Ukraine was once again deprived of other people's orders, and a century later, in 1569, according to the Union of Lublin, Ukraine was joined to Lithuania along with Lithuania ... "As a free country with a free population ..." - as the author wrote, Istorii Kozakiv "Ukrainian historian Dmitry Yavornitsky and himself continued:" So it was said on paper, but it did not happen in practice. Acting under the authority of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Ukrainian population found here, instead of "golden freedom", "inclusive slavery" ... "
The uprisings against the Poles of Severin Nalyvayko and Grigory Loboda were immediately entered into the history of Ukraine, but then the Time of Troubles came to Russia. And it immediately made a hopeless struggle for the national liberation of the Ukrainian people. Do we need any other evidence of the inextricable link between the historical destinies of Moscow and Ukraine, if the chronology itself proves it? There was Smoot on Moscow - there were no anti-Polish uprisings in Ukraine! And only after the strengthening of the Muscovite state the struggle resumes: the uprisings of Taras Trytilia, Ivan Sulima, Pavlyuk, Dmitry Guni, Jacob Ostryanin ...
And in the year 1648 begins the era of the great Bogdan Khmelnitsky. In the 1654 year, at the Pereyaslav Rada, he announces the reunification of Ukraine with Russia. However, as the same Dmitry Yavornitsky reports: “After Bogdan’s death, ambitious people pursued their personal interests, and it’s not surprising that such strife, turmoil and civil strife came at that time, as a result of which the Ukraine of that time could be called a“ self-interest fair ”, the authorities of its "self-devouring dragons" ... The people after the era of Bohdan Khmelnytsky were aptly named the "Ruin" ... The discrepancies came, however, not from the majority or the masses, but from a minority, "power" or "significant" individuals and higher clergymen of Ukraine: t GDS as the mass of Ukrainian gravitated to Russia ... "
The relevance of the old evaluation is obvious.
During the time of Peter the Great, the unity of the thoughts and actions of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples was already obvious, and the Ukrainian Poltava became the city of our common military glory. The Catherine's era gave Russia and Ukraine Novorossia — the original Russian lands conquered from the Turks, where Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson were set up at the same time ... Donbass is being developed ... The economic development of these lands began, brilliantly enhanced during the 20th century.
As a result of the common civilization work of Russians and Ukrainians, Ukraine has turned into a powerful republic joined up with Russia, with a developed industry and agriculture, with one of the most educated in Europe and the world’s population.
Ukraine of the 20th century is Zaporizhstal and Azovstal, Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant of Plants, Kharkov Tractor Plant and Dneproges, Kiev Arsenal and Dnepropetrovsk Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, the basis of the Dnepropetrovsk-Pavlograd Rocket-Building Complex ...
United in the same state as Russia, the twentieth century Ukraine is the largest coke and chemical production, turbines and Tanks, Kharkov and Lugansk diesel locomotives, space electronics, production of mercury, zirconium, manganese, titanium ...
Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Kiev became the largest centers of aircraft manufacturing. In the Soviet Union, aircraft engines, longer than Zaporizhzhya, and aircraft, larger than the giants Antei, Ruslan and Mriya, developed by Oleg Antonov’s Kiev Design Bureau, were not made ... Since Potemkin’s times the fleet Russian groups of Nikolaev and Kherson shipyards of world class.
Speaking about the level of science united with Russia of Ukraine, it suffices to recall the Paton Center for Welding, established for the needs of the entire Soviet Union. In Kharkiv, a world-class specialized research center of cryogenics was created - the Physico-Technical Institute of Low Temperatures, and the Kharkov Institute of Physics has been located in Kharkiv since the time of Landau UFTI. Is it possible to forget about the Kiev Cardiology Center named after Amosov, about the eye clinic named after Filatov in Odessa and many other scientific centers?
All this should not and cannot become the past. Today, the common mistakes of the last two decades and the subversive work of forces alien to Russia and Ukraine have led to the fact that one, in essence, an inseparable whole is beginning to be cut to the quick. In fact, we have today a large-scale and well-prepared attempt not only to geopolitical, but civilizational sabotage of the West in the person of the United States of America and a number of NATO countries against not only Russia, but also Ukraine.
We must not allow this attempt to be crowned with success, for the result will be the general tragedy of both Ukraine and Russia. And this can not but affect the rest of the world in the most tragic way.
The situation is aggravated by the fact that at the head of Ukraine today there are people with whom the state leadership of the Russian Federation, responsible for history, for the present and future of Russia and Ukraine, can maintain only minimal relations. People destroying civilians with heavy weapons, people bringing up young generations of Ukrainian citizens in blind hatred of everything Russian, people legalizing the fascist “Right Sector” cannot be considered in Russia as genuine representatives of the people of Ukraine.
The Ukrainians themselves must understand this and must themselves demand from the current Kiev rulers either a complete change in their foreign and domestic policy towards Russia, or a speedy departure from the power that brings misfortune to both Ukraine and Russia.
At the same time, we in Russia are experiencing burning shame for the great Ukrainian people with a distinctive culture - a powerful branch of all-Russian culture, which meekly accepts the supremacy of the Bandera last-minuters, who do not even know the true Ukrainian language, but have mastered only the fully polonized dialect.
It is also surprising how mindlessly many citizens of Ukraine are ready to accept the insidious "Dayan gifts" of the United States and the West and are ready to install a deadly Western "Trojan horse" in the middle of Ukraine.
No one in Russia is going to conquer the lands of Ukraine - they have long been conquered by the efforts of the entire Soviet people, the efforts of Russians and Ukrainians, in a fierce struggle against external occupiers.
No one in Russia wants evil and misfortune for Ukraine and its people. On the contrary, we in Russia want to see Ukraine prosperous, gracious, joyful - the way we used to see it once.
However, we in Russia firmly know that just as there can be no strong Russia without Ukraine, there can not be a strong Ukraine outside Russia.
Proceeding from all the above, the peoples of the Russian Federation suggest that the people of Ukraine should make our common supreme goal in the near future a new voluntary reunification of Russia and Ukraine within the framework of a single Union State in alliance with Belarus.
Confident in the good support of the people of Belarus, we offer the people of Ukraine this idea for free discussion and deliberation, and we hope that sooner or later this idea will take over the whole mass of those Ukrainians who love their homeland and wish it a confident future.
Glory to Ukraine and Russia - historically related and able together to continue their common history majestically! ”
This approximately such a detailed Declaration could be quickly adopted and brought to the notice by non-Kiev authorities in any way — they are somehow doomed renegades, but of the Ukrainian people.
As Napoleon said, you have to get involved in a fight, and there we will see ...
But the battle must begin in the sphere of politics, referring to the ideas of peaceful reunification.
Then, very likely, the sword will remain in the sheath.
And behind the word - the deed
As you know, at the beginning there was the Word, and this Word - the Word of peace and goodness - is the time to pronounce. And although it has long been believed that with the help of a colt and a kind word one can achieve much more than with just a kind word, for a constructive outcome of the Ukrainian crisis for the good of the peoples of Ukraine and Russia, it is necessary to use all the possibilities of a kind, precise and decisive word in the framework of an intelligent policy - the one about which is briefly stated above and which we are not yet observing.
However, only a society consolidated primarily spiritually and morally is capable of decisive political (and other) actions. It is the spiritual unity - with all the triviality of such an assertion I cannot refrain from it - the creative, healthy forces of the people determined the political, moral, economic and military victories of the Soviet Union.
This is not a nostalgia, not an opinion, but an immutable historical truth, confidently confirmed by any statistics: the Soviet social system, even distorted by Brezhnevshchina, had enormous reserves of development, and these reserves can still be restored.
Accordingly, any projects of "development", "revival", "modernization", etc. Russia has a historical perspective only if the Russian state pursues its domestic and foreign policy in the interests of the widest masses of Russia. Today, the assessment of the Ukrainian oligarchs as “bad” as an antisocial factor has become a common place even in official bodies in the Russian Federation. But what is the difference between Russian oligarchs? In Ukraine, Bandera became a mass base for destabilization. But a mass base of destabilization is also being formed in Russia, which is quite possible to counteract ...
This is still not clearly stated, but it’s time to move from still unspoken words to deeds! In particular, it is necessary to understand that Russia’s catastrophe can only be excluded:
- by restoring the constitutional rights of the people to the entire volume of national wealth (mineral wealth, forests, water, means of production, gross domestic product, etc.);
- having liquidated by nationalizing the position of oligarchic capital, as well as foreign capital in Russia;
- establishing a progressive tax system characteristic of the United States and EU countries;
- creating conditions for the restoration of that interethnic, if not harmony, then friendliness and stability, which were characteristic of the Soviet era.
Only due to this, it is possible to ensure the progressive restoration and growth of the economic, scientific, technical and cultural potential of the country. Such a “package” of political and social measures will almost automatically not only strengthen Russia, but also powerfully strengthen its foreign policy positions, including in Ukraine. A nation-based state stands on a solid base, and one of its kind will provide panic in the corrupt and mediocre official Kiev. The mere nationalization of large-scale industry in Russia will ensure the guaranteed elimination of the threat of any external aggression against Russia more reliably than the Armat connections - while, of course, ensuring full-fledged nuclear deterrence.
The foregoing does not exclude, of course, large-scale work on all-army construction. Moreover, in the conditions of fundamental social modernization, it will receive new effective impulses - in the name of, again, a durable external world.
The West and the United States give us ideas of war, provoke an appeal to the sword. The sword of Russia is needed, and not only nuclear missile. However, not a sword, but the world should be offered by Russia to Ukraine, proclaiming a new gathering of peoples and lands under the support of Moscow.