“We don’t understand the concept of Slavic cultural unity...”
Oh jeez, this is real rich. The Russians have shown such Slavic cultural unity that the Poles, the Czechs, the Slovaks, the Hungarians, the Ukrainians, Romanians, Moldovans, and basically every other Slavic people except the Serbs and Belorussians want nothing to do with them ever again.
I don’t think Ritter is delusional - I think he knows he’s lying. But I suppose self-delusion is still a possibility, however remote.
And I don’t think many Belorussians are too keen on them either.
I think we're got a pretty good handle in what "slavic cultural unity" means to Russia. It means all slavs should be united under Russia whether they wish to be or not.
It also means that the Russian fetish with being ruled by a czar/dictator type means those other slavs must be ruled by that individual as well. And if any slav - Russian or otherwise - is deemed insufficiently committed to whatever is deemed "Slavic" policy at a given time, they must be either re-educated or liquidated.
I think that about sums it up. I