> therefore it does not have a cultural nor national identity crisis by definition it suffers directly from national and cultural identity crisis. look at the russian people living in lithuania for example, they are incredibly hostile and antagonistic. similar in latvia. these people were quite seriously invented by the soviet union. this is the stem of the crisis i mention. because it is an insecurity that was born from the collapse of the ussr, which is the foundation of the rf and the contemporary "russian" people.  > but russia was never an ethno-state this isn't really relevant, because pre-revolution russia was entirely different cultural element which was systematically exterminated during the bolshevik revolution, volga and holodomor famines, and of course the red terror and great purge. that entire identity was wiped out. the people that call themselves russian today were given identity by the bolsheviks.  but as i wrote earlier, the ussr wasn't destroyed through war or revolution it simply collapsed from its own failure. now imagine your entire existence and identity is collected within a framework that simply rotted out and fell. they were lost in the 90s and it showed, but putin came in and gave them their soviet heritage back, cloaked in rhetoric of revenge, victimhood, and imperialism. thus, they were easily led into a war with ukraine.
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