蘇丹馬哈茂德二世，然後是奧斯曼帝國和土耳其的凱末爾主義者，都採用了同樣的“視覺（？）”現代化理論。它們是“Deli Petro”的成功版本。*出於智力和情感原因，我反對這種方法。我不想花時間解釋理智的原因。情緒原因是我的皮膚似乎很容易流血，大多數理髮師和我自己在剃須時都會割傷皮膚。
腳註 *：彼得大帝的這個土耳其語名字的意思是瘋狂的彼得，但我不認為這是一種侮辱。例如，我們稱年輕有活力的人為“delikanlı”或“crazy-blooded”，這並不是侮辱。我感到自豪的是，在 1877 年至 1878 年的俄奧斯曼戰爭期間，我的第四代和第五代祖先都作為難民逃離到安納托利亞西北部，現在的保加利亞地區被稱為 Deliorman 或“瘋狂的森林” ”。
不好意思跑題了
我覺得有趣的是，彼得大帝和列寧對俄羅斯的看法都是親西方的，而且他們都為最終成為超級大國的帝國奠定了基礎。
你對此有何看法？
一般來說，人們的心情是複雜的，也有一些蘇聯愛好者和仇恨者。
蘇聯是其公民的成人幼兒園。人們沒有多少獨立性，他們無法擁有寶貴的財產，也無法以自己想要的方式掌控自己的生活。但另一方面，國家總是會給人們工作和居住的地方，不管他們做什麼。這種情況造就了一個非常幼稚的社會，人與人之間的關係非常簡單直接。當現實世界闖入，人們終於不得不長大成人時，有些人就是我們
希望不是！
Let’s all hope Russia does not become Westernized, the US does not become Easternized, Norway does not become Southernized and Nigeria, Northernized.
(As I wrote this, my browser informed me that Easternized is not even a word and offered to add it to the dictionary - about time!)
What’s wrong with remaining ourselves?
That’s different from modernization. Nations are living, growing, and unfortunately not immortal organisms which need to evolve, but evolve according to their own blueprint, not someone else’s.
One person who had already tried to westernize Russia, Peter the Great, a Wester
If you haven’t witnessed a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Russia, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
This is a grand opening ceremony of a dumpster in Novokuznetsk. With a ribbon and party balloons and speeches. It gets only curiouser from here.
Old dumpsters got a new paint job and an aluminum fence around them.
See the back of an executive class Mercedes by a decrepit hut on the left? Three local officials drove to an inaugurating ceremony of the three dumpsters. This just proves that not every Russian official is corrupt.
These honest, hard-working officials gathered for a grand opening ceremony in a Crim
Domestic russian here.
I think Chinese people are numerous (every russian knows there are lots of them, we even have jokes about it), cunning/wise (in “eastern way”) and hard-working. They are also resilient (russians admire this trait), and they managed to pull their country from a hellhole while we plunged our country in it (i know life inChina in 1950 was far worse than in Russia in 1990-ies). China has hard-working people and (relatively) wise, even-minded government, and that is great. China’s ideal of harmony is also admirable (compare to the US ideal of world domination). China doesn’t u
Not many Russians think about it. I will express the opinion of only a part of Russians, which, in my opinion, prevails. It seems to us that you have overdone it. Do not misunderstand me. I believe that you need to respect other cultures and be capable of dialogue, but they should not decide for you how you live in your country. They come to live in your country, not you to them. They should respect your laws in the first place, your culture, traditions, people, etc. If they don't, then it seems to me that you have the right to deport them to their homeland. Such people will do nothing for you
Not being a woman, I share some observations that a bi-cultural Russian-American lady Diana Bruk has made about Russian men. I vouch for all her points below.
Persistence
- “You do not meet a Russian man, you are chosen by one. You could be sitting in a banya, or at a café, and a man walks by, puts a fruit salad on your table, and gruffly says, “Enjoy.” If you eat the salad, it is a sign that you would like him to come to talk to you. If you don’t eat it the salad, it doesn’t matter, because you have been chosen.”
- “The average American man tends to stop pursuit once you indicate that you are repuls
Westernism and Slavophilism are two main competing socio-political trends tracked throughout all centuries of Russia’s history. There are also other minor trends in Russia as well, however they never get into a mainstream.
Both the Westernists and the Slavophiles had mixed successes & declines, triumphs and collapses in Russia. Both are specific with positive and negative features. E.g., the Westerners used to bring acceleration & achievements to Russia but also exhaust it with bloody internal policies & grand wars; while the Slavophiles brought peace, recovery & accumulation but also caused de
These last times, I told you a number of Russian jokes.
What I will tell in this answer is not a joke. It is absolutely serious. But it will sound as a joke. Be ready.
When I was a kid, Britain (sorry, Scots and Welsh, we the Russians call it Angliya, England) was seen as a land of gentlemen who drink tea with milk at five o’clock and play soccer. And, of course, the land of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
Russian Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes as played by Vitali Solomin and Vasily Livanov. Russians are fiercely proud of them. Livanov has even been made Honorary Member of the Order of the Britis
The common denominator of what the average man in the street in Moscow has absorbed from history lessons, his travels, his buddies’ tales, and the media, is something like this:
- Western Europeans have much milder, sunnier weather. Which is why they beat us at football and their streets stay clean all year around.
- They live in a remote, cozy corner of Eurasia, safely protected from wild nomadic hordes by us. Spoiled by this safety, they couldn’t do anything about Napoleon and Hitler until we came and saved their sorry effeminate hides.
- WW2 showed that they don’t really know how to fight. This make
Deep down inside, we don´t really get this Western-style democracy thing.
The voting part is all right. You arrange your supporters to proclaim from all rooftops they want you as a leader. If anyone starts arguing why you are bossing around, you point at the rooftops. We understand it: the more people say they are on your side, the more power you get. They call it majority, we call it the voice of people. (Sometimes they outvote you, but no worry. We know how to fix it if the ballot box is in the right hands.)
But the part with accountability is tricky. You are the boss 24/7/365, you sit with al
As a Russian, I like Xi Jinping. He is continuing China’s amazing economic growth, Russians really admire China’s economic success. He’s also developing closer ties and cooperation between Russia and China. Xi Jinping was opposed to the West’s attempts to sanction and hurt Russia’s economy for its annexation of Crimea. China helped us out through that dark period, we thank China very much for that. Both Russia and China face sanctions from the United States, we know it's our best interest to help each other and oppose American dominance. In addition, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin get along ver
Enemies, by the looks of it.
Please note: no one is under the impression that the Russian people support the aggression, or that their opinion was ever asked. Relations can be repaired, under a different leadership.
Let's start with the fact that Russians had a good opportunity of getting high education for free and even getting stipend about 1/2 of a modest salary - if academically successful. College and university students studied Marxism no matter what their major was. As a student in electronics engineering I knew quite a bit about communism and similar stuff, even though I didn't want to.
As a result, many Soviet people knew definitions of communism, socialism, capitalism, etc. For example, communism is about a moneyless, classless, and stateless society with distribution principle "from each accordi
If I had to explain to Westerners, and Americans in particular, what do I think of V.I.Lenin, then I’d simply call him “Russian George Washington”.
You may hate him. You may hate all our country for God’s sake. But think of it: before him, Russia was a monarchy. Kingdom. This man made it a free land of common man. Not personally. Not for altruistic reasons, probably. Not in the best possible way, either. But still - he did. He shaped us into what we are today - and in a good way, too. Most of you should understand and approve the transition from autocracy to republic. That’s what it was.
I’m not
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