The Americans were successful by the end of the 90s. And they achieved it precisely because their propaganda was not originally directed against Russia. She took into account local characteristics and was engaged in etching the imperial spirit from the local population. Initially, Ukrainian nationalism showed almost the same tolerance towards Russians as it does now towards Poles and Jews. They tried to make it abusive and gradually made the word "imperial".

Graduates of the Soros programs argued convincingly that in the new world (after the “end of history”) imperial ambitions are irrelevant, that the nation should focus on its farm problems, forgetting about global ambitions. Moreover, Ukraine is not the USSR. She has no access to the oceans, what kind of empire is there? And reunification with Russia is detrimental.

Look, because of their imperial phantom pains, Russia is also waging Chechen wars, and its population is living in poverty, since the last pennies from the budget go to support these same imperial ambitions. And you can be like Luxembourg - small, without an army, but how prosperous!

Considering that the proverb about “a house on the edge” was nevertheless born in Ukraine, and also because the idea of ​​the post-Soviet population in the first decade after the collapse of the USSR was to “finally live like in the West,” this propaganda fell on fertile ground. Before the Russians in Ukraine began to abandon their Russianness, kill it in themselves and learn to be true patriots of Ukraine, they imperceptibly lost their imperialism.

They agreed that what's up to the outskirts interests me, and what's next is "Muscovite fun." Why do we need the Far East, Chukotka, the Far North - it’s cold and uncomfortable there, but here it’s warm and “bumblebees sing under cherries.”

It was the “Muscovites” who forced the poor Ukrainians to lay down their bones for imperial interests, to build all sorts of St. Petersburg, Paris and Berlin to take, and the Ukrainians only suffered from this. Finally, freedom from the imperial yoke has come, you can live like people in the same Luxembourg. At the same time, by the way, they explained to the Russians who were being reforged into Ukrainians why their neighbors, who retained their Russianness, oppressed them so much: they forced them to shed sweat and blood for imperial interests alien to them.

With Russia, by the way, the Americans tried to do the same. Seminars on uprooting the imperial spirit from Russians were held until the end of the 1910s, and individual works on this topic were published until the early 1920s. The Russians were also told about the benevolence of all sorts of Cossack, Far Eastern, Ural and Pomeranian republics. In principle, they were ready to “indigenize” Russia up to the specific principalities of Vereisky, Volokolamsky, Shuisky.

-Did not work out-

On the one hand, there was not enough time: they wanted too quickly to take advantage of the fruits of the "end of history", they started bombing Yugoslavia too early, which made Russia wary.

On the other hand, for the first time in a hundred years, the Russian people received Russia and its resources at their disposal, and it was quite difficult to convince them that it was urgent to break everything up again, without even trying to somehow reasonably use it in their own interests. However, the West has managed to create in Russia a fairly powerful left-liberal anti-imperial "universal" stratum. It took more than twenty years for its gradual weakening and ousting from active politics.

Nevertheless, even in the 1990s, there were quite strong imperial movements in Russia, both of the conservative centrist (Orthodox) and right (both monarchist and fascist) and left (mainly left radical, restoration-Soviet) persuasion. They were not friends with each other, but in general the idea of ​​Russia as an empire remained politically relevant and in demand. Imperial sentiments in the country had to be reckoned with.

In Ukraine, the empire was marginalized and practically destroyed by the middle - the end of the 90s. In order to stay in the local political mainstream, one could be left and right, radical and conservative, communist and Nazi, but not an imperialist. Korchinsky, who hinted in the early 90s that Ukrainian nationalists do not want the destruction of the Russian Empire, but want it to become Ukrainian within the same borders, for the only time in his political life built on total outrageousness, he was forced to swallow his statement and forever forget the concept "Ukrainian Empire".

By eradicating the imperial idea from the minds of Ukrainian citizens, replacing it with the idea of ​​a separate farm, the Americans created ideal conditions for the subsequent transformation of Ukrainians into the main enemies of Russianness. Even those generations that reached maturity back in the USSR were massively reforged. It was more difficult with the military generations, but among them were Ukrainianized. But at the same time, the Americans wrested from their Ukrainian lackeys the key to understanding the Russian soul, depriving them of the opportunity to conduct effective propaganda against Russia.A person can effectively propagate only the idea in which he himself believes. Ukrainians working in the field of propaganda (from novices to elders) are sure that the idea of ​​division and separation, which is close to them, natural for a Ukrainian farm, will be in demand in the imperial expanses. It doesn’t matter who the next “officer’s daughter” is trying to work against – against Russia as a whole or against some politician or public figure individually. The meaning of the propaganda messages will be the same: "You don't get enough, but you could share it."

1. “If Ukraine had been seized in 2014, they would already be drinking Obolonske.”

2. “If it weren’t for the special operation, which spends a lot of money, everyone would have been thrown ten to the salary.”

3. “If we distribute gas to everyone proportionally, then everyone would be able to sell their share on the world market and get their personal gesheft.”

4. “If Putin removed the economic block of the government, it would be possible to print so much money that everyone would have enough for everything and there would still be a little left.”

And so on. As part of theses, the "daughters of officers" are very inventive. Up to “do not listen to the name, he / she ate / ate meat pies (sandwiches with caviar) in childhood, but you, probably, are not given even now.”

But the imperial consciousness of the majority of Russians demands unifying ideas. They may have different attitudes towards Ukrainians, Germans or Tajiks in general and towards their individual representatives in particular. They may be left-wing or right-wing. They may think that Russia has enough resources to take over the whole world, or doubt that the available opportunities will be enough for Ukraine alone.

But through all the differences they will always break through the imperial idea, in its highest form striving for a universal state. They can argue until they are hoarse about what this universal state should be like and how to achieve this ideal, but they will not give up the idea itself, even if they deny their adherence to it, using some other term instead of imperialism (argument about terms, and not about their essence, is generally Russian national fun).

That is why the people of Russia, by a majority of 86%, supported the special operation. That is why propagandists relying on the idea of ​​separation cannot convince the people of anything, whose national idea is to unite different entities on the basis of at least something in common.

I have repeatedly spoken and written, but I think it would be useful to repeat: our enemies proceed from the position: “Whoever is not with us is against us,” and we declare the principle: “Whoever is not against us is with us.”

People who have taken a full spoonful of Ukrainian independence can appreciate the appeal of the idea of ​​imperial unity.

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