On the issue of Russia's imperial status
For years, 20 has been hotly debated in our society over whether we need an empire, what is the imperial status of a power and what means it can be achieved. Let us try to understand why, when the word “empire” is concerned, some of our fellow citizens immediately have associations related to bloodshed, genocide, conquests and oppression of peoples, while others associate this word with progress, prosperity and harmonious coexistence of peoples.
As you know, the Soviet historical science and political discourse operated on the concepts of “imperialism”, “imperialist”, “imperialist war” (World War I), “imperialist aggression”, etc. All these concepts had a negative content, which was firmly entrenched in the minds of our citizens and even in the Russian language. The imperialists are the enemies of the Soviet state, they are the capitalist countries of the West, primarily the USA, the antipodes of the USSR. Soviet historical and political science did not associate the USSR with empires, which he, nevertheless, was fully.
The collapse of the USSR and the ensuing so-called “liberal revolution” and “democratization” of Russia made an equally significant contribution to creating a negative attitude towards imperial ideas and aspirations. Now the concept of empire began to become attached not to the Western powers, but to the collapsed Soviet Union, more often to those episodes of its history and the peculiarities of public life that are associated with political repression and other minuses. In addition, the myth of the aggressive nature of the expansion of the Russian Empire and the USSR was spread in the post-Soviet space.
A significant contribution to the fact that part of modern society does not take the talk about the restoration of the Russian Empire seriously, made, oddly enough, mixed political associations, the names of which include the words "imperial", "monarchical", "sovereign", etc. We will not list them separately. Let's say one thing: the goal of creating the absolute majority of them was far from promoting the patriotic views and ideas of restoring the Russian Empire, but to the exact opposite: to discredit them. Support for such movements is often considered not only bad form or eccentricity, but sometimes even threatens criminal prosecution.
So, there are plenty of reasons to not support or simply fear imperial ideas from the Russians. However, we note one thing. The vehement challenge to Russia's historic vocation as an empire, as well as rabid overt nationalism, is the lot of people who are not very educated. Any extreme is dangerous and stupid. People who do not recognize the imperial essence of Russia and its imperial future simply do not fully understand what is being said. They zealously argue that they are "for democracy", "against conquest", "for world peace." Meanwhile, imperial thinking not only does not contradict these positions, but also fully supports them.
It is necessary to understand and recognize that Russia has never built its empire from aggressive positions. Russia is a creative empire. The nations that have ever entered into it simply made their natural civilizational choice, always on a voluntary basis. The call of Russia-Empire is a call for good and creation, based on the idea of opposing the forces of world evil. Being in the imperial status, Russia has always coped and, God willing, will cope with this mission.
In order to verify the correctness of these words, it is sufficient to compare the constructive model of the behavior of the Russian Empire with the model of behavior of the present true empire of evil - the United States. “The Empire of Evil” is not the USSR, that’s what the whole world calls the United States now. The last country to have a worldwide image of the center of evil was fascist Germany. In the 21 century, this role was firmly established behind the States.
Behind the screen of democracy and US economic prosperity are hidden seas of shed blood. For example, according to independent experts, the number of victims among Iraqis for the entire period of American aggression is estimated at figures from 600 thousand to 1 million people! These figures are quite comparable with the number of victims of fascist aggression in Europe. This is not the only parallel that can be drawn between the United States and Nazi Germany. The Americans waged war quite fascist methods. According to some reports, during the first Iraqi campaign, the American aviation after the armistice, a powerful airstrike was launched against Iraqi columns leaving Kuwait. The use of depleted uranium shells, vacuum and cluster bombs is the black mark of the USA left by them in Vietnam, the Balkans and the Arab East.
Just imagine that Russia will ever allow itself to act in this way. This is simply impossible to imagine. The fate of the same Georgia and its people in this case would be very sad.
Germany lay at the feet of Russia, so that there Germany, half of Europe, and this happened more than once. However, the imperial will of Russia was favorable both to the French after the Napoleonic invasion, and to the Turks after the liberation of the Balkans, and to the Germans after the victory in the Great Patriotic War. The Russian soldier did not stain himself with the murder of women, children and the elderly.
Speaking about the empire, it is necessary to clearly distinguish between the concepts of good and evil, and, of course, remember the role of Russia in the destinies of the world, which is extremely simple: it lies in opposing the world's evil. This is proved by our whole story.
As you know, the Soviet historical science and political discourse operated on the concepts of “imperialism”, “imperialist”, “imperialist war” (World War I), “imperialist aggression”, etc. All these concepts had a negative content, which was firmly entrenched in the minds of our citizens and even in the Russian language. The imperialists are the enemies of the Soviet state, they are the capitalist countries of the West, primarily the USA, the antipodes of the USSR. Soviet historical and political science did not associate the USSR with empires, which he, nevertheless, was fully.
The collapse of the USSR and the ensuing so-called “liberal revolution” and “democratization” of Russia made an equally significant contribution to creating a negative attitude towards imperial ideas and aspirations. Now the concept of empire began to become attached not to the Western powers, but to the collapsed Soviet Union, more often to those episodes of its history and the peculiarities of public life that are associated with political repression and other minuses. In addition, the myth of the aggressive nature of the expansion of the Russian Empire and the USSR was spread in the post-Soviet space.
A significant contribution to the fact that part of modern society does not take the talk about the restoration of the Russian Empire seriously, made, oddly enough, mixed political associations, the names of which include the words "imperial", "monarchical", "sovereign", etc. We will not list them separately. Let's say one thing: the goal of creating the absolute majority of them was far from promoting the patriotic views and ideas of restoring the Russian Empire, but to the exact opposite: to discredit them. Support for such movements is often considered not only bad form or eccentricity, but sometimes even threatens criminal prosecution.
So, there are plenty of reasons to not support or simply fear imperial ideas from the Russians. However, we note one thing. The vehement challenge to Russia's historic vocation as an empire, as well as rabid overt nationalism, is the lot of people who are not very educated. Any extreme is dangerous and stupid. People who do not recognize the imperial essence of Russia and its imperial future simply do not fully understand what is being said. They zealously argue that they are "for democracy", "against conquest", "for world peace." Meanwhile, imperial thinking not only does not contradict these positions, but also fully supports them.
It is necessary to understand and recognize that Russia has never built its empire from aggressive positions. Russia is a creative empire. The nations that have ever entered into it simply made their natural civilizational choice, always on a voluntary basis. The call of Russia-Empire is a call for good and creation, based on the idea of opposing the forces of world evil. Being in the imperial status, Russia has always coped and, God willing, will cope with this mission.
In order to verify the correctness of these words, it is sufficient to compare the constructive model of the behavior of the Russian Empire with the model of behavior of the present true empire of evil - the United States. “The Empire of Evil” is not the USSR, that’s what the whole world calls the United States now. The last country to have a worldwide image of the center of evil was fascist Germany. In the 21 century, this role was firmly established behind the States.
Behind the screen of democracy and US economic prosperity are hidden seas of shed blood. For example, according to independent experts, the number of victims among Iraqis for the entire period of American aggression is estimated at figures from 600 thousand to 1 million people! These figures are quite comparable with the number of victims of fascist aggression in Europe. This is not the only parallel that can be drawn between the United States and Nazi Germany. The Americans waged war quite fascist methods. According to some reports, during the first Iraqi campaign, the American aviation after the armistice, a powerful airstrike was launched against Iraqi columns leaving Kuwait. The use of depleted uranium shells, vacuum and cluster bombs is the black mark of the USA left by them in Vietnam, the Balkans and the Arab East.
Just imagine that Russia will ever allow itself to act in this way. This is simply impossible to imagine. The fate of the same Georgia and its people in this case would be very sad.
Germany lay at the feet of Russia, so that there Germany, half of Europe, and this happened more than once. However, the imperial will of Russia was favorable both to the French after the Napoleonic invasion, and to the Turks after the liberation of the Balkans, and to the Germans after the victory in the Great Patriotic War. The Russian soldier did not stain himself with the murder of women, children and the elderly.
Speaking about the empire, it is necessary to clearly distinguish between the concepts of good and evil, and, of course, remember the role of Russia in the destinies of the world, which is extremely simple: it lies in opposing the world's evil. This is proved by our whole story.
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