Putin wants to see Peter I in the mirror, but someone else is there/Getty Images
Putin wants to go to the mirror and see Peter the Great there. The task is not easy, but seven miles is not a detour for a mad dog, you can try it.
You just have to squint very hard, because, not to mention anthropology, other proportions are also not impressive .
The window to Europe is boarded up with nails
Except that the current boyar children have long ago done away with Aleksashka Menshikov in terms of mastering the treasury, and terror against their own people is traditionally well established, but in terms of historical results, alas, nothing in common.
Window Putin hammered hundreds of nails into Europe for decades to come. An attempt to threaten the Swede led to the fact that the NATO bloc came close to the borders of Russia.
The shelter of a wretched Chukhonian looks with sympathy at the Vyborg landscapes, the economy is noticeably giving oak, and the list of geopolitical allies has shrunk to a small team of provincial tsars, and even they are already shunning their mentally damaged Russian comrade in authoritarianism.
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The capture of Azov, perhaps. Only, we note, on the other side of the front there was not Erdogan with the NATO bloc, but several hundred free Ukrainians, for the sake of whose destruction the Russian valiant troops wiped out an entire city with thousands of civilians from the face of the earth … Is this how our military glory looks now? Sparsely.
“Where are you galloping, proud horse, and where will you throw back your hooves?” (from later editions). However, a much more important question: when? Because the current imperial prancing on living people is very expensive for the world, and it will cost even more – for Russia, first of all.
And if you really peer into the reflection, looking for historical analogies there, then no Pyotr Alekseevich sticks out in this full-length mirror, and Ivan Vasilyevich. The one in which the Russian church for the first time clung with its whole non-Christian body to the Russian Tsar and gave him indulgence for murder.
The one that brought the oprichnina to power and drowned the European future of Russia in blood, preferring Byzantine hallucinations to Novgorod democracy . The one, after the senseless and endless Livonian war, which Russia lay flat for many decades…
That's what's there, in the mirror. Look, fool. Look carefully.
