Russia itself was originally a colony. At first, the colony of Varyags, then of Tatars, since Peter I and untill 1917 it was a Western semicolony, ruled by German princes and princesses. And also after 1917 Russia was ruled not by ethnical Russians. Moreover any Russian ethnic nationalist movement was brutally suppressed both under Soviets, and under Putin.
Russia itself was originally a colony. At first, the colony of Varyags, then of Tatars, since Peter I and untill 1917 it was a Western semicolony, ruled by German princes and princesses. And also after 1917 Russia was ruled not by ethnical Russians. Moreover any Russian ethnic nationalist movement was brutally suppressed both under Soviets, and under Putin.
Outstanding article.
Thank you!