Forward from: Cemil Kerimoglu
Applies not only to the tsars, but to the whole bureaucracy, intellectual elites and those responsible for the whole infrastructure. Petrine Russia of the 18th and 19th centuries and what came to be known as the “Russian Culture” was essentially a German creation. It was a Pseudomorphosis - the superimposition of European cultural forms onto a populace that was alien to them.
If anyone should be proud of the “Russian Culture” and the achievements of that period, it’s actually the German people, not the Russians. But sadly, due to that artificial Europeanization that occurred in the 19th century, later to be reversed by the Bolshevik Revolution, Europeans fall under the illusion that Russians are one of them.
The true Russia is not Russian Ballet or the architectural splendour of St. Petersburg - they are not the accomplishments of the Russian people. The true Russia is the massacres of Bucha and Izyum, destruction of Mariupol, and the rapes, tortures, murders, beheadings, castrations of Ukrainians.
If anyone should be proud of the “Russian Culture” and the achievements of that period, it’s actually the German people, not the Russians. But sadly, due to that artificial Europeanization that occurred in the 19th century, later to be reversed by the Bolshevik Revolution, Europeans fall under the illusion that Russians are one of them.
The true Russia is not Russian Ballet or the architectural splendour of St. Petersburg - they are not the accomplishments of the Russian people. The true Russia is the massacres of Bucha and Izyum, destruction of Mariupol, and the rapes, tortures, murders, beheadings, castrations of Ukrainians.