Russification and the Offensive Again…

Russia is not a mystery if you understand its long trends. Russia is an empire, a dying one, but still an empire. If not in reality, in the mythic space. This is the heart of Putinism, the return of Russia as a great power within the concert of nations.

This concept goes to the 19th century, if not earlier. This explains why Russia is desperate for land. The further out from the heart of the empire, the safer it is for Moscow. So, we enter into the absorption of populations into the empire. The post below is a common pattern going back centuries:

On September 1, in the liberated territories and in the Donbass, more than 320,000 children went to school, of which 29,500 were first-graders. This is one of the main achievements of the SVO. We wrested more than a third of a million children from the hands of brutal Russophobic propaganda . This is wonderful.

Last year, in the Kherson region, in the summer, people came up to me and asked what language they would teach in schools? I answered, a strange question, in Russian, of course. They did not believe me, they asked me again. Russian schools were closed, Russian was made a second foreign language, teachers worked half-time or less. Parents hired tutors to teach written Russian to their children.

Think about it — in a region where the entire population…