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As a Moscow correspondent, I took this photo in Moscow in October 1993. The poster reads: “We are Russians - God is with us.”
A day later, Russia stood on the brink of civil war. At the cost of bloodshed, the authoritarian vertical of presidential power was restored.
Everything began moving back toward the foundations of empire, and a year later the state resorted to force in an attempt to rebuild that empire by crushing Chechnya’s aspirations for independence.
The sense of national chosenness and the intoxication of the state’s “Third Rome” mission have prevented Russia from breaking free from the chains of its past. Unfortunately, that remains true today.
And until Russia frees itself from this mindset, neither the state nor its aggressive determination to impose its will on others will change.
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War criminal Putin is killing Americans by providing Iran intel. Russia must be held accountable for mass chaos and death.
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Oh, let's talk St Petersburg, I dare you.
You know why this city feels so sad?
Because it is built on sweat and blood of Ingrians, Karelians, Ukrainians (who were brought there as slaves) and there is another city it was built on - Nyen. And then just vanished... Alongside the local indegious population.
That “romantic”, “European”, “cultural capital” built in 1703 after Russia captured Swedish Ingria during the Great Northern War. The Swedish town of Nyen and the Nyenskans fortress? Conveniently erased. History “loves ”a clean construction site.
The marshes of the Neva delta were turned into an imperial stage set by Peter I, who wanted his “window to Europe.” Beautiful idea. Slight logistical issue: it required tens of thousands of conscripted peasants, soldiers, and prisoners of war dragging stone through swamps where disease and flooding did the urban planning. Mortality was high. But hey — baroque façades age better than human bodies.
Before the palaces and canals, that land was home to Ingrian Finns, Izhorians, Karelians — Finno-Ugric peoples who don’t usually make it into glossy tourist brochures. Later centuries added deportations, repression, assimilation. Empires are very efficient at tidying up inconvenient populations.
And then came the Siege of Leningrad in WWII — over a million civilians dead. Starvation, bombardment, winter. The city has literally survived layers of suffering.
So yes, it’s stunning. Yes, it’s architecturally magnificent. Yes, it feels heavy, it literally suffocates you.
Because when a city is built as a monument to imperial ambition — on conquered land, on coerced labor, on erased towns — the ghosts don’t leave just because the skyline is pretty. They hunt you.
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Мы нашли в аннексированном Крыму ещё один дворец Владимира Путина.
Общая стоимость строительства — около 10 миллиардов рублей. Это взятка, оформленная в виде дворца.
Подробности — в новом расследовании: youtu.be/hq6Orw4nbjw
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