Comments by "Tadas Blindavicius" (@tadasblindavicius8889) on "Bloomberg Originals"
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Russians have always worshipped their despotic leaders. Russians love self-harm, self-defeat or self-sacrifice - that is characterized as masochistic. The plight of "Anna Karenina", the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient religious tracts emphasizing humility as the mother of virtues, the trauma of the Bolshevik revolution, the current economic upheavals wracking the country-- these are only a few of the symptoms of what The Slave Soul of Russia identifies as a veritable cult of suffering that has been centuries in the making. Why has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. Masochism has become a fact of everyday life in Russia. Here is a compelling portrait of the Russian people's psychology. "The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering", by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, American historian. I would recommend this book for anyone studying Russian history, politics, psychology or literature. Anyone dealing with Russians in practical matters (e.g. business or other negotiations) will also benefit from it. This book is a must-read for all, especially for politicians.
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For those who have studied the character of the Russian government, knows that the Russian government is governed by mobs and gangs, where power is concentrated in a few hands. And wherever such a concentration of power exists, there you shall find great crimes and great criminals – that is to say, psychopaths.
This is the character of the Russian government.
In 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, power remained concentrated in a few hands. The government was not really accountable to anyone.
Despite this underlying reality, everything was arranged so that it all appeared to be moving in the direction of democratic capitalism and proper checks and balances, but nothing of the kind ever happened. The objective of making changes in the first place was to fool the West.
The problem of today’s Russia goes back to 1917 when the country was taken over by gangsters who called themselves “communists.” We must not be naive about the idealistic terms the Russian communists used to describe their “mission.”
They murdered, they stole, and they oppressed the Russian people, Baltic people and the Ukrainian people, and the people of Central Asia and the Caucasus, etc. The communists made themselves into a new ruling class under Stalin and his successors.
As such, the system was an enormous criminal enterprise in which tens of millions of innocent people were killed.
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