Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Well said, Donald. I neither know nor care who “Chay Bowes” is, but he wears the legacy of Walter Duranty well. Perhaps he, too, can win a Pulitzer for lionizing Russia.
Chay Bowes invokes Godwin’s Law out of the gate. Not the wisest strategy.
I’ve had several conversations with one Russian. It’s amazing how deep in denial this man was about the bad behavior of his people. I told him my maternal grandparents left what was then the Russian Grand Duchy Of Finland because of the ill treatment they received at the hands of the same. This man called my grandfather a fascist It was funny because grandpa left Finland years before fascism existed. He ranted against the Baltic states as well, also calling them fascist, too. And when I would contradict him, he would call me a liar, ignorant, and yes, a fascist.
Russia inherited both the arrogance of Byzantium and the brutality of medieval Mongolia. Hence its leaders visualize themselves as Emperor (Basilieus) of some Third Rome and (less consciously) Khagan of the Horde. In both cases the cause of extending the empire (propugnatum imperii) has become a tragic part of national identity. A Russia that ruled only Russians would have to face its own problems and not distract its population with having to carry some “Slavic’s man’s burden”.
BTW the Ukrainians are correct that Moscow was never the sole heir of the medieval Rus’, who constituted a loose and often quarrelsome confederacy held together by a common, faith, culture and ruling house, and whose leaders were far more open to the West than what developed after the Mongol interlude. The Muscovite princes got their start in the 14th century by being bagmen for the Khans e.g. Ivan Kalita (“moneybag”).
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