Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Emil Cosman"
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@paulbadman8509
I have always had the impression that the core western countries have always viewed Russia as being somewhat on the periphery, a latecomer to 'western civilization', as well as being Orthodox and thus outside the mainstream of western European Christendom (Catholicism, Protestantism); that they were never quite accepted fully into the gentleman's club, as it were. The same for eastern Europe in general, something that was sort of reified during the cold war between East and West, with the Warsaw Pact being made up of slavs with their mixture of Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim – especially Muslim – religions, multitude of ethnicities (unlike the largely mono-ethnic cultures of western Europe) and the fact that they had never been ruled by the Romans (and therefore were not the direct heirs to the Greco-Roman patrimony, supposedly the birthplace of the West conferring status as a 'western' country) and had been ruled for a time by 'The Other', Mongols and Turks, something that had in some way contaminated their culture, cut them off from the current of western history and made less Western.
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