Evening with Vladimir Solovyov (№ 431807)

Regarding the Russians, Americans, Chinese. The Americans frighten us with the fact, and openly, that they say, look carefully with the Chinese, they will capture you, and generally subjugate you. This is not true. Among the reasons for a different geopolitical nature, there are reasons of a deep, cultural and historical nature. The fact is that most Russians do not and will not feel secondary to the Chinese. They are completely different. They are different. They can be friends, colleagues, they can be enemies, but they will never merge into a single whole. As for the collective West, it is the West that imposes on Russians, Russians the idea of their secondary nature. Like, you are the same as us, only you have something wrong in history, so you must renounce this story, throw out of yourself everything that is conventionally considered Russian, and become a part of us, but at a lower level, as junior crawlers. And from the point of view of self-identification, there is a more serious danger than in the case of the Russians and the Chinese. With the Russians and the Chinese, there will never be such a situation that has arisen and periodically arises between Russia and the West. The endless discussion of Russia - the West or not the West, how much of the West is in us, and how much of the non-West, has been stirring up our brains for many centuries. With the Chinese, this is not and will not be.