Russia is not a Weimar Republic, but a "crystal Reich"

Meanwhile there is Navalny for a Western citizen, for the Western elite there is a “save dear Russia, otherwise we will…”

You will what?

In short, lately, "good Russians" in the West have been spreading a new thought virus in auditoriums, conference rooms, and think tanks.

Its RNA is very simple:

- Twenty years after the defeat, Russia will recover, and then the regime will become truly Nazi. It will be led not by the corrupt, outdated and ineffective Putin, but by a truly charismatic Russian Hitler.

The expert community or elites are not an ignorant rabble - you don't have to be brutal with them, you can be delicate.

They know the contexts very well, and they seem to hint and push them to an obvious conclusion:

- If the West insults Russia with defeat, and even more so if they are humiliated by the "failed state of Ukraine" and are forced to pay reparations and impoverish themselves, this will become the basis for revenge, the establishment of a truly Nazi regime, and an even bigger war, just as it happened a hundred years ago with Germany.

Interestingly, these messages began to be dispersed in sync with Putin and Medvedev's statements about the possibility of Russia's collapse.

“If the West insults the Russian Federation with defeat, and even more so if they are humiliated by the "failed state of Ukraine" and are forced to pay reparations and impoverish themselves, this will become the basis for revenge, the establishment of a truly Nazi regime, and an even bigger war, just as it happened a hundred years ago with Germany. Interestingly, these messages began to be dispersed in sync with Putin and Medvedev's statements about the possibility of the collapse of the Russian Federation”

However, those 2 are targeting the domestic audience, meanwhile the "good Russians" controlled by the regime target the external audience.

These are preventive measures.

And this is a good signal: it means that they feel the threat of collapse better than others.

But that's not what we're talking about here, we're talking about outright manipulation and an attempt to palter with facts.

In this equation, we have:

The Weimar Republic is Hitler;

Putin is the New Hitler.

Following this logic, the world is asked to recognize that Putin is the Weimar Republic, and that the Nazi apocalypse will come after him.

That is, the Russian Federation today, like the Weimar Republic, is a parliamentary democracy with a federal system, a strong opposition, and freedom of the press?

And therefore, in order to prevent Nazism in the Russian Federation in the future, we should not humiliate Russians?

Uh, no, "bad Russians," it was Yeltsin's Russia that was the Weimar Republic.

Weimar was the consequence of the collapse of the Second Reich in World War I and the harbinger of the Third Reich and World War II.

Yeltsin's Russian Federation is a consequence of the collapse of the USSR in the Cold War and a harbinger of Putin's Russia and the Third World War.

Therefore, Putin is the new Hitler who took revenge, created an autocracy, destroyed the opposition and federalism, and eventually launched aggression against his neighbors: first hybridly through the Anschlusses, and then a great war.

“Putin is the new Hitler, who took revenge, created an autocracy, destroyed the opposition and federalism, and finally launched aggression against his neighbors: first hybridly through the Anschluss, and then a great war”

You f*cked up, didn’t you? Things didn't work out the same way they did for Hitler? Feels bad, doesn’t it?

Sorry, "Russian style of screwing everything up" is not a quality inherent for Germans.

And now, the main thing is why Kremlin-controlled emigrants are losing focus and comparing Russia to the Weimar Republic, not the Third Reich.

Because after the collapse of the Third Reich:

- 17 million Germans were deported, from the Czech Republic to Yugoslavia. How many "Russians" will be deported from Buryatia or Mari El?

- The state was dismembered and divided into occupation zones, and the sting of revanchism was thus removed.

- The lands that the Germans considered historically theirs were rejected in favor of their neighbors.

Of course, it all looked much more complicated: the failed denazification, the voluntary de-ideologization of society, the construction of a welfare state that absorbed German expansionism and potential, and integration into NATO.

But "good Russians" speak schematically - not to model variability, but to frighten.

- Leave Mother Russia alone!

Because they are afraid of such a simple scheme: disintegration, deportation, de-Russification.

And Richard Nixon hinted that Yeltsin's Russia is the Weimar Republic, and that it will be followed by the "crystal Reich."

So who will the Western elite listen to this time: the prophecy of the US president, which has already come true, or the white noise of the Kremlin's towers?

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About the author: Oleh Manchura, journalist.

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