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"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)

submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.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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[–] 0x815@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SugarApplePie@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dunno how many people would take issue with that, I think a fair number of people here would agree that America is an empire too for example

[–] DreamerOfImprobableDreams@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

America's done some fucked up things in the last 20 years, don't get me wrong, but absolutely nothing comes even close to the horrors of the genocidal war of imperial expansion Putin's currently waging in Ukraine. There's absolutely no moral equivalency between the modern US and Putin's Russia.

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

Absolutely, America has done some fucked up things in the last 100 or so years, but there's no way to justify one crime with another which is what some posters here on Lemmy often appear to suggest. I feel such attempts to portray moral equivalency is another insult to the victims of these horrors.