Problem is we do have a clash of civilizations here, those who wish to
become modern vs the SOVOK enclaves.
On Monday, 10 March 2014, Anubis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Euromaidanpr <https://www.facebook.com/euromaidanpr>
> In fact, Ukraine remained the colony of Russia not because it paid for
> the gas and even not because its fourth president was the puppet of Kremlin
> but because the Soviet mentality of Ukrainians correlated with the Soviet
> mentality of Russians who turned out to be tragically unable to perceive
> the modern times. The failure of the Soviet mentality in Ukraine means the
> end of the occupation lasting from the times of The Council of Pereyaslav.
> It means the rupture with the past and the beginning of moving to the
> future.
>
> And this is what Soviet to the core and awfully provincial Russian
> political elite is simply not able to understand. This elite perceives the
> process of the establishment of the modern political nation in Ukraine as a
> tremendous triumph of the ethnic revolution". It does not notice that
> "ethnic revolution" has become just an element of the Ukrianian travel to
> the modern times.
> Vitaliy Portnikov, journalist
>
> Source: uainfo.org
>
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