"Do the lives of Russians anywhere matter to the Russian empire? The answer is simple – they don’t," a political scientist says (web.archive.org)

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"The emperor only values his throne and will do anything to protect it, while all others are mere resources to be exploited," writes Aleksandar Đokić, a Serbian political scientist and former lecturer at RUDN University in Moscow. "In other words, the Russian empire is knowingly throwing its own people, people of its own nation, into a meatgrinder, a virtual abyss."

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[-] ASH3S@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Officially it did, but in fact Russia is still very much an empire with colonised lands and never stopped being one

[-] 0x815@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, already in the title we can read of " Putin's empire" and it's clear all over the analysis that the author doesn't refer with "empire" to the Russia before 1917. I guess @Johnny Wild misinterpreted the text (maybe intentionally? Unfortunately there are some people here on Lemmy who are intentionally misinterpreting some content, although recently this is becoming more and more better imho).

[-] Johnny_Wild@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Having lived in Russia for more than two decades, and having ancestors who lived in Commie times and Empire times I can say said labeling the current tyrannical regime with "Empire" is a misinterpretation. With the same level of success almost any country in the modern world, even if it hides behind the words "republic" or "democracy", can be labeled as an "Empire" too.

[-] SnowboardBum@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't see too many "modern world" countries, as you put it, attacking neighbors in a land grab. Russia has done so several times over the last couple decades in a very colonial way. Calling it an Empire might be glib, but isn't incorrect based on their expansion

[-] RedMarsRepublic@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I guess it's much better if you attack other countries for corporate profits.

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