Russia & the West.
Pt. VII:The Retrospective Foresight Saga (The Eternal Return of Russia Analysis)
Bhavacakra
A simple study of names and dates will prove that between the policy of Ivan III and that of modern Russia there exists not similarity, but sameness. […] At length Peter the Great coupled the political craft of the Mongol slave with the proud aspiration of the Mongol master to whom Genghis Khan had, by will, bequeathed his conquest of the earth.
Karl Marx, Revelations on the Diplomatic History of the Eighteenth Century(1857).
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When I first went to Russia it was in 1991, I caught the last couple of months of the Soviet Union before it came crumbling down, and I was in Moscow during the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, or the coup attempts, I should say, when there was this great optimism right after, that Russia would soon join…
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