ʻOi aku ko lākou makemake ma mua o ka makemake ephemeral a i ʻole ka makemake kamaliʻi o ka pō kauwela. Ua pāʻani ʻo Vladimir Putin i kahi pāʻani chess hauʻoli no nā makahiki he ʻumi. ʻO kāna neʻe hope loa, ka mea honi e like me ka 'Blitzkrieg' kūpono o Adolf Hitler i nā liga, ʻo ia ka haki ʻana o ka palena ʻo Ukrainian a me ka hōʻea ʻana i ka wikiwiki piha i kyiv; akā, ʻaʻole hou ka symphony a ua kani mua ia ma Crimea i ka makahiki 2014. I kēia manawa, ʻewalu mau makahiki a me kahi maʻi maʻi ma hope, aia kahi huaʻōlelo i hoʻopaʻa ʻia a puni ka honua: ʻo Rūsia Nui. ʻO kēlā hui huikau a pohihihi i lilo i El Dorado o ka lālā mua o ka KGB.
kū'ē i ka USSR. No ka pili o ka mōʻaukala a no ka hoʻopau ʻana i kahi Kaua Cold e kanikau. Eia naʻe, ʻo José M. Faraldo, he loea i ka moʻolelo o ka ʻāina a me ka mea kākau o nā hana e like me ka 'Against Hitler and Stalin' (Alliance) hou loa, e luku ana i nā moʻolelo a kūkulu hou i nā mea maoli. Ma nā ʻōlelo iā ABC, ua hōʻoia ʻo ke kaukaʻi o Contemporary History ma ke Kulanui ʻo Complutense, inā koho ʻo ia e koho i kahi manawa e hoʻopili ai i kēia huaʻōlelo, ʻo ia ke aupuni Lūkini. ʻO ka mea i hānau ʻia me Pedro I i ka makahiki 1721 a ua hoʻopau ʻia e ka hahau ʻana i ka makahiki 1917. No laila, ʻoi aku ka nui o ka czar o XNUMXst-century ʻo Putin ma mua o kahi hoa kiʻekiʻe.
Ma waho aʻe o ka hoʻonui kiʻekiʻe loa, ua noho ka imperial mass i 22.800.000 kilomika square a hoʻonui aku ma waho o ke kahakai ʻeleʻele ma Vladivostok, ma nā kahakai o Iapana. Ua uhi ʻia kona mau kikowaena iā Finland, Russia ponoʻī, nā Baltic States, Ukraine, Belarus, Polani, Bessarabia (ma Moldavia), Wallachia (i kēia lā ʻāpana o Romania), ka Caucasus, Turkish Armenia, kekahi mau wahi o Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan , Kyrgyzstan a me Uzbekistan) a me Alaska. ʻO ia ka ʻāina nui loa ma ka honua.
ʻO ka pilikia nui a puni nā ʻāina e like me Polani. "I ka wā o nā Tsars, ua māhele ʻia i ʻekolu mau ʻāpana no Prussia, Austria-Hungary a me Russia. ʻOiai ʻo ka mea nui loa ʻo Rūsia, ua manaʻo ʻia he ʻāina mōʻaukala ma laila", hoʻohui ka loea. ʻOiai he mea hiki ʻole ke hoʻokahuli, hiki i ka ʻāina ke lilo iā NATO mai 1999, ʻoi aku ka noʻonoʻo ʻana e pili ana i nā pahu kaua nui o T-14 Armata e hehi ana i ka ʻāina.
I nā hihia a pau, ʻo ka mea a ke kumu aʻo i maopopo ai ʻo ka tsar o ke kenekulia 2014 ʻaʻole ʻimi e hoʻohālike i ka USSR. I ka manawa mua, ua hoʻopili ʻia me kekahi mau ʻāina ma Asia Hikina. "ʻAʻole maopopo iaʻu he mea hoihoi lākou iā ʻoe," wehewehe ʻo ia. ʻAʻole hoʻi no ka ʻimi ʻana o Putin e ʻānai i ka manaʻo o Bolshevik i hala i ka wā e hana ana i ke aupuni hou āna i moe ai. I ka makahiki XNUMX, ua hoʻopuka ka pelekikena i kahi ʻatikala i kapa ʻia ʻo "On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians" kahi āna i hoʻopiʻi ai e like me ka pipi huhū e kūʻē i ka manaʻo o ka hoʻoholo ponoʻī ʻana o nā poʻe liʻiliʻi i waiho ʻia e Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.
"Ua hoʻokō ʻo Lenin i kahi hoʻolālā e hoʻokumu i kahi hui o nā repubalika like. Aia ko lākou kuleana e hoʻokaʻawale manuahi i loko o ka kikokikona hoʻokumu. I ka hana ʻana pēlā, ua kanu ʻia kahi pōkā manawa ma ke kahua o ko mākou mokuʻāina i pahū i ka wā i hāʻule ai ka pāʻina mai loko mai, "i kākau ai ʻo ia.
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Ua hahai ʻo Putin i ke aʻo ʻana i haku ʻia e Leonidas Brezhnev. ʻO ke alakaʻi Soviet mua i nā makahiki kanaono, ua makemake ʻo ia i ka ʻoiaʻiʻo ʻaʻole aliʻi nā repubalika o ka USSR a pono ke kuleana i ka makuahine nui ʻo Rūsia. "Ke ho'āʻo nei nā pūʻali o loko a me waho i ka socialism e alakaʻi i ka ulu ʻana o kahi ʻāina socialist e koi ana iā ia i ka hoʻihoʻi ʻana o ka capitalism, he mea hopohopo kēia no nā mokuʻāina āpau," wahi āna. ʻO kēia noʻonoʻo ma muli o ka Soviet Union e pale ana i kona mau wahi ukali o Central Europe mai ke komo ʻana i ka Marshall Plan. ʻOiai hoʻi, a ma nā ʻōlelo a Faraldo, ua ʻae ʻo ia i "ka hoʻouka kaua ʻana iā Czechoslovakia i ka wā e noʻonoʻo ana ʻo ia e pili ana i kahi socialism ākea."
Ua pili kēia paternalism i ke aupuni o nā tsars. "Ma ka manaʻo nationalist o ka XNUMX century, ua hoʻokumu nā poʻe e like me nā Ukrainians a me nā Belarusians i Little Russia: liʻiliʻi i kūkulu ʻia, piha i nā mahiʻai ... ʻO Russia nui, e like me ke kaikunāne nui, pono e pale iā lākou," i hoʻopau ai ka loea.
