https://moscowmigrant.com/tags/sovietization/Recent content in Sovietization on MoscowMigrantHugoenMon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/a-monster-civilization-russias-cultural-suicide/Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/a-monster-civilization-russias-cultural-suicide/Russia is not a self-standing 'separate civilization' but a derivative one — a non-self-sufficient offshoot of Europe that borrowed its culture and then turned against the parent. In this war it has committed cultural suicide: cancelling itself abroad, gutting the institutions a living culture needs, grafting Soviet archaism onto fascism, and producing death instead of life. Subtract Europe and the 'dry residue' is not a civilization at all but a monster.