[Chad C. Mulligan]

Just after the WW2 Tehran Conference, Stalin said to a journalist, (roughly translated):

"It's high time the Slavic race was in charge of Europe."

Putin is channeling Stalin, and probably delights in it.

Never forget that Russian political culture is still largely derived from the Mongol hordes who over-ran the region in the 13th century. They never really left.

[reformedliberal]

Never forget that Russian political culture is still largely derived from the Mongol hordes who over-ran the region in the 13th century. They never really left.
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So is it Slavs channeling Mongols? Mongols possessing Slavs? And what became of the original Rus, who were Nordic?

Russia is huge, with plenty of non-Slavic peoples. It is multi-ethnic.