Outcast Russia – Blogs – Echo of Moscow, 27.02.2022
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N. Berdyaev wrote in the Russian Idea: “Russian history is characterized by discontinuity … There are already five periods in Russian history that give different images. There is Kievan Russia, Russia of the temporary Tatar yoke, Moscow Russia, Petrine Russia and Soviet Russia. And it is possible that there will be another new Russia.”
Since then (1946), a new Russia has indeed appeared, and probably not even alone. The country infected after Soviet Russia was naturally called “post-Soviet” (more rarely “post-communist” or even “democratic”). This Russia is short-lived under Yeltsin and partly in Putin’s first two terms, rapidly collapsing out of the need for autocracy.
But since 2008, after the capture of Georgian observations, another one began to appear – neo-imperial Russia (far from the same as the pre-revolutionary “Russian Empire”, which Berdyaev called the “Russian Petrine”). In 2014, this neo-empire was given a sharp acceleration by the seizure of Ukrainian territories.
And now Russia has gathered into a new phase, which since February 24, 2022, I can designate as “rogue”. This country, or rather, its criminal elite, in the most bandit way, enters into force of international law, goes against the whole world – and the world turns away from providing a vast territory doomed to desolation on the territory.
The devastation has long since entered into all scales: the reduction of the population, the reduction in the number of points, schools, hospitals; but now, breaking the connection with the world, this process becomes catastrophic. So, necessarily, the “post-outcast” stage of Russian history in the perspective of three or four signs can be designated by the phrase of Saltykov-Shchedrin: “the history of a vast period of its own.”
However, it is possible that in the middle of the 21st century. The “President of the Federation of Russian Lands,” an eclectic state entity in the Eastern European Surveillance Zone, will kneel in front of a monument in central Kyiv — a monument to those Ukrainians Russia is now killing. And he will perform an act of historical repentance – it happened, as in 1970, German Chancellor Willy Brandt knelt before the monument to the victims of Nazism on the site of the former ghetto in Warsaw.