Posted on 01/31/2019 2:06:41 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Many people believe that nationalism and democracy are antithetical, Dimitry Savvin says; but the only successful transitions in East Europe and the former Soviet space from occurred where nationalism reinforced democratic ideas. The same thing will be true for a free Russia or such a state will not exist.
The émigré Russian nationalist says, the success stories in the former communist region have been Poland, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Georgia, in each of which democracy and nationalism reinforced one another.
In these cases, Savvin continues, “nationalist ideology, in sync with anti-communism and an orientation toward Euro-Atlantic standards of democracy gave society the necessary ideological motivation and guaranteed a link with a historic tradition and thus established a simple and easily understandable system of coordinates” for policy.
The situation in the Russian Federation has been different. There, nationalism and democracy stood apart from one another and even in hostile relationship to each other.
Initially, there were some expectations that Russia would move in the same direction as the success stories, “but then everything fell apart. It fell apart approximately at the same time when the social-political structure of the Russian Federation began to acquire neo-Soviet elements.”
A national state will inevitably come in place of the "neo-Soviet nomenklatura-oligarchic dictatorship" that now exists in Russia. “There simply aren’t any other variants. The only question is whether this will be a single state … of there will be complete disintegration into a whole raft of nation states.”
A Transbaikal person by birth, a Petersburger by calling, and now a forced émigré - Savvin says the 'Motherland' is not this or that portion but all of Russia, which he wants to see free and flourishing.”
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Nationalism is antithetical to government types in the same way the color blue is antithetical to car models.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.
This is what the USA faces.
Given that, sliding into socialism, or civil war, I pick civil war first and nation states second.
Fifty nuclear powers on the world stage.
I think some of the first statements were code for invading and taking over vast areas where in the Soviet days Russian Nationals moved and retained their Heritage and language like Estonia parts of Poland, Kazakhstan, more parts of Georgia, Moldavia, Etc. They’ll be in for a surprise when they tried to expand into Baltic Poland. Won’t be like Ukraine, more like Afghanistan.
If anything, EU style supranationalism is antithetical to democracy. The people vote for something and Brussels says "No!"
...the success stories in the former communist region have been Poland, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Georgia, in each of which democracy and nationalism reinforced one another.
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