…where Ukraine protects it’s sovereign borders, there is mention that Putin is interested not in returning the Soviet Union so much as the Russian Empire.
The one sincere reply to that idea is The Krazial Massacre of November 23, 1892.
Propaganda has been cultural with Russians a long time. Basically, the czars used it to assimilate people into the Russian language and culture including book confiscation and destruction of the knowledge in them. Under the Russian Empire the people resisted vehemently and created “knygnesiai” (book carriers) a very dangerous devotion that included older children. The punishment included a lifetime in Siberia.
What we are seeing with Putin and his violent genocide goes back three centuries. Russia never wins because culture runs deep and people asked to suppress it will never give up the very basis of their beliefs, personality and often religion and God.
While, “The West” is frequently blamed for resistance of Russian occupation, history tells a very different story. It ain’t The West, it IS Russia.
