1. Russia
today is a colony. And it has been a colony since the late 1980s or since
Gorbachev.
A
colony for the first time since the time of the Mongol-Tatar Yoke and
Enslavement. That’s also Sergey Lavrov, who played a great role in keeping
Russia locked in this colonial fold since the 1980s, defined the main political
meaning of the Mongol-Tatar destruction and colonization of Russia in his
article “Russia’s Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective” as follows: “Let’s
recall the policies pursued by the Grand Prince Aleksandr Nevskiy who
temporarily subordinated himself to the Golden Orde, which was religiously
tolerant, in order to protect the Russian people’s right to their own faith and
to chart their own destiny in spite of European West’s efforts to fully
subordinate Russian lands and deprive them of their own identity. I am
convinced that such wise, long-term policies have left a mark on our genetic
memory.” Lavrov calls here enslavement, subordination, and colonization “wise,
long term policies” and “our genetic memory.” Such is, indeed, the code which
the colonizers and their local comprador bourgeoisie with its new “diplomacy”
tries to program and inscribe into the DNA of Russia and its peoples.
2. What
does it mean to be a colony? It means not being a sovereign, independent state.
A colony is a formation the sovereign decisions over which are made by someone
else. It is a nation under the rule of other nation(s) and other foreign
powers.
3. A
colony cannot choose a path of its own development and it can’t have its own
foreign policy or diplomacy in the proper sense of that word either.
4. This
also means that the colony’s elite and its local leadership do follow, must
follow and are willing to follow orders from the outside and, by this token, politically,
psychologically, and culturally, such “elites” and leadership do not belong to
their people, but to their foreign patrons, handlers, and overseers.
5. Russia
became a colony as a result of the defeat of the Soviet Union in the Cold War. In
the modern, prevalent sense, a colony (as opposed to ancient colonies of
settlers from their mother countries or metropolises, as, for example, among
the ancient Greeks) is by definition a defeated, subordinated state.
6. Russia’s
transformation into a present day’s colony, one of the key result and meanings
of the Soviet defeat in the Cold War, was itself a result of the surrender of
the Soviet Union (i.e. Russia) and all the Soviet-led “world socialist system”
by the Soviet leadership and the regime’s elite guardians.
7. This
was thus yet another case of the proverbial turns where a people turns into a
Medusa raft, cannibalizing and devouring their own or where guardian dogs turn
into a pack of wolves predating on whom they were supposed to protect and
shield, thus turning the principle and idea of communist solidarity (“one for
all and all in it together”) into the few against all else with a tendency
toward the ultimate Hobbesian “everyone against everyone.”
8. Ever
since the leadership and the elite that sold and betrayed everything and
everyone they could tried to stabilize and perpetuate their rule by creating to
themselves an image of false legitimacy by faking, lying, pretending, and
deception, including a grandiose, Potemkin-village-like attempt at a new
personality cult.
The
main purpose of “perestroika” and the transition of the 1990s (the Yeltsin
rule) was thus not only to destroy the country as a superpower, but also to
turn the country into a colony through a corresponding systematic
transformation—accordingly changing all the laws, all the institutions, the
system of ruling and management and also the country’s culture. By the end of
the 1990s, such systematic colonization nearly destroyed the country itself.
In
its first phase, the Putin rule had the task to normalize Russia’s colonization—to
make it appear normal, solid and stable chiefly by making control over the
whole system more, better and more deeply established and by disguising the colonial
nature of the system. With Nazification of Ukraine following the Maidan regime
change in February of 2014, a new phase in consuming the soul and existence of
Russia began.
9. Is
there any way out of this political and civilizational debasement and
degradation that is undermining and threatens the very existence of Russia? Yes,
there is. First, speaking the truth to power is not enough if people cannot or
unwilling to speak the truth to themselves first. Second, no false regime can
stand if its lies are no longer accepted as truth and as a legitimate tender.
Third, in order to wean oneself from the lies, which enslave oneself and that destroy
the nation, each needs to grow back a conscience, a character, and what can be
called “the organ for truth”—a mind and soul of a free, dignified person who
cares about others.
10. Once this happens to a sufficient number of
people, the awakening, the truth, becomes a word, the word becomes a new
spirit, the word and the new spirit become a network reconnecting many people
from place to place, and the word and the spirit connected with each other will
become a network, a new practice, and a new community of the people working on
their liberation and emancipation. For every deed and every liberation is good
only as much as people do truly care about what they do and only as much as
they care for others. To will toward the truth, freedom, and justice, one has
to care about them and love them—honestly, truly, and vigorously—first. There
is no other way. This is the only true way. Without this prerequisite, nothing
else can be accomplished. Either Russia finds her way back to herself, back to
a sense and practice of shared justice and truth or she will be crushed and
crucified.
11. Moreover,
every love, every care, every commitment is then tested on its truthfulness,
validity and vitality by life and life’s struggles. The late Soviet leadership
miserably failed this test and, in failing, it failed the system and the
country as well as the legacy and will of those who heroically fought and
prevailed against fascism seventy years ago.
The
late Soviet leadership, moreover, failed not so much because it was mentally
weak, but because it first failed in its spirit, in its truthfulness, honesty
and honor—thus mainly because its character and morality utterly collapsed.
The
current colonial administrators of Russia differ mainly in that they no longer
need to fake any commitment to or respect for any previous Soviet ideals and
principles. While freeing themselves from the need to fake that, they still do
and need to fake their commitment to the country and the people whom, in
practice, treat as oligarchs treat their former free men turned into new serfs and
slaves.
The
truth is that Russian oligarchy is anti-national, and, for this new oligarchy
and its bandit mindset, Russia as a great, sovereign, and independent nation is
something which, with their stolen billions, they cannot afford and do not want
to afford. And their patrons and handlers do let them do it anyway.
Russian
oligarchy is leading Russia to a new fascism (with elements of new feudalism), disintegration
and bloody civil wars. The only thing that can save Russia is the replace the
will of the oligarchy and its masters by the voices of true patriots.
12. "Что
это за режим, который может рухнуть от слова?"
Всё зависит от того если найдётся храбрости и ума сказать народу и власти нужное, правдивое и праведное Слово--ясное, чёткое, сильное.
Без хотя относительного уважения к правде и осознания правды в головах властей страна становится больной и умриает. Без правды и истины в головах и сердцах народа народ становистя рабами.
Всё зависит от того если найдётся храбрости и ума сказать народу и власти нужное, правдивое и праведное Слово--ясное, чёткое, сильное.
Без хотя относительного уважения к правде и осознания правды в головах властей страна становится больной и умриает. Без правды и истины в головах и сердцах народа народ становистя рабами.
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