25.10.2024 – Translated from Ukrainian via Google and OFP

The Russian Foreign Ministry and z-bloggers have gone into hysterics over the inscription on President Zelensky’s T-shirt – Make Russia small again, in which he recorded one of his recent addresses. The reaction of Russians is so nervous because they understand that the situation with the “SVO” is reaching a dead end, they cannot achieve any of their goals, international isolation is increasing, and the economic situation in the country is worsening. All this makes them so nervous that any additional external irritant that further affects the general nervous state causes hysteria, writes Vladimir Ohryzko for glavred.info.

Russia is built on the thesis of a “great power”, great power status as a concept, on the fact that “we are great”. And this inscription is a blow to the bull’s eye, because it threatens the concept of greatness.

Becoming small for Russia means returning to the appearance of Muscovy. Russians say that they are Russia, from Kievan Rus, but we know very well how “Great Rus” began, how they stole the Ukrainian name – Rus, how they captured our history and are trying to capture our culture. Therefore, for them, this is a blow below the belt, and a painful one at that. This is what makes Russians tear themselves apart.

That is why everyone, including the well-known press alcoholic of the Russian Foreign Ministry, who has already resorted to personal insults, reacts so unexpectedly loudly to the Ukrainian president’s T-shirt. But this proves once again that this inscription on the president’s clothes hit a sore spot.

Zakharova wrote: “Small, like what? USSR? Russian Empire? Oh, I made it up! Like Kievan Rus.” But here she is wrong too, this is just a reason for her to say once again that “Kyiv is a Russian city”, and therefore it should belong to Muscovy, today’s Russia. This is simply elementary ignorance, ignorance of history, a desire to live in their own fictional historical myths.

This, in my opinion, should not be surprising, because Russians have long been living in a parallel world. And our goal is to return this world to reality. And we will do it.

How small can Russia become as a result of this war and the processes it has launched with this war? The answer to this question was given several months ago by the quasi-Führer, who said that the West’s insidious intentions are to return Russia to the borders of Muscovy. Putin understands perfectly well what is meant by the phrase Make Russia small again, what historical Russia is.

Historical Russia is the Muscovite Kingdom, from which the expansion in all directions began. Therefore, Russians understand very well what Make Russia small again means: it means returning it to the borders of the Muscovite Kingdom. And the remaining territories will fall away, because they were forcibly annexed, conquered, captured. Peoples were destroyed and colonized. And the fact that today there will be many representatives of these peoples who will say that it is enough to be under the colonial yoke is an absolute fact.

That’s why Russians are furious that the prospect of returning to Muscovy is quite real. And if this idea also comes from Ukraine, then they are furious squared.

The West, of course, does not support the idea of ​​reducing Russia to such a size, but it does not depend on it. The West did not support the collapse of the USSR either, but the Soviet Union collapsed anyway. The same will happen with the Russian semi-empire in its current form. Because this process does not depend on the will of Western leaders, but on the will of those peoples who live in what is still today Russia and have the full right to self-determination. Therefore, one can try to slow down this process, but it is impossible to stop it.

As for how acceptable and appropriate it is, from the point of view of diplomatic etiquette, for the president of a state to appear publicly in clothes with such inscriptions, one thing should be said. When there is a war, everything is appropriate. When it is necessary to mobilize your people and demobilize the enemy, all tools for this are acceptable.

https://www.obozrevatel.com/ukr/politics-news/chomu-rosiyani-bistsya-vid-futbolki-zelenskogo.htm