Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

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Modernite’s comment on pan-Slavism:
 
See the recent events in the Bashkir Region:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/17...hkortostan
 
Half of Russia’s population (perhaps more) are Turkic people (not Slavs).
 
This is why Russia is not a nation-state proper but a federation.
 
That’s the only thing it can be. It’s a multi-cultural federation in which the Russian ethnic group is the main element.           
 
This pushes some people to believe that it has to turn into an empire once again. My view is that the Democratic Federation model is the most logical model in the short and longer term.

It is absurd to proclaim that half of Russia is Turkic instead of Slavic. According to the 2021 census, 81% of people are ethnic Russians, which is slavic.

I think that came from Nazi era propaganda depicting the Russians as “asiatic hordes” in the most derogatory sense.