7/12 2/6 I show how the modern usage of Russophobia dates to a bigoted 1982 samizdat essay by Igor Shafarevich, who blamed Jewish intellectuals for the spread of Russophobic stereotypes that treated Russian history as a continuum of despotism from Ivan the Terrible to Stalin & beyond.
1/29 The RS Special Police forces singing an ode celebrating i.a. the Christian cross, the Nemanjić dynasty, and the Serb fictional historical figure of Miloš Obilić today. No place there for anybody else except nationalist Serbs.
/My family were Slavic linguists and language instructors here in America. Many Russian profs were drawn from the emigré community. They imbued their American students with these views, which is probably why a lot of Russia experts still suspect Ukraine isn’t a real country
／And yes, I know he is called Oleg, but he has driven himself deep into Yegordom since his fawning reports from occupied Crimea and Donetsk for "Sputnik i Pogrom" fascist blog.
／I know some people from Russia who hate Putin and his government, but in general, they have the same Soviet mentality that doesn't respect the independence of Ukraine or other republics of the former USSR.
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