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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 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Putin's Russia, there are no citizens, just subjects

This is how Russia has operated from the times of Ivan the Terrible, when the backs of princes and their princedoms were broken, ushering in an era of never-ending despotism.

Imagine living under such a political system, generation after generation, century after century, knowing that your own existence means nothing to lords, Bolshevik commissars, and finally, Vladimir Putin’s cronies.

[–] Toxic_Tiger@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

"And then things got worse."