@Samarium_Helium@IAPonomarenko He compared the map of Russia to human anatomy and found Moscow somehere below the belt. Then he concentrate working on it, motivating that "Moscow is big".
P.S. I have never been his fan as a comedian, but apparently he does have some prophetic abilities.
@NatHills@MooreIAm Well, the described paradigm is obviously simplified and exaggerated. However it is way more consistent and historically grounded than the eclectic construct you propose.
@NatHills@MooreIAm Raising zombie is not equal to resurrection. Muscovite necromantic empire with no soul, faith or memory devouring everything and spreading mindlessly in all directions is a curse to humanity. Luckily it clearly reached its end and long-suffering Rus land gains a chance to life.
@NatHills@MooreIAm Novgorod was an important center of Russian culture. But Muscovy, a rape child of Rus and Mongolian Empire, hated all things Russian. In 1478 muscovites conquered Novgorod, wiped out the population and exterminated its great culture like they did to any other Rus city they reach.
@pdxweb@MooreIAm@FreeUkraine91 A foreigner hardly can differentiate Russian and Ukrainian pronunciation of this name. The difference is mostly in spelling. There are accepted rules of transliteration (letter-by-letter conversion) from contemporary Ukrainian, that gives "Kyiv".
@NatHills@MooreIAm The term was coined to differentiate the real historical medieval state of Rus, centered in Kyiv, from many later entities that claimed or continue to claim its heritage, such as the contemporary Russian Federation.
@DerekJMiller2@MeanwhileInUA Countries around USSR were aliens, "Europeans". Ru narrative says Russians are special civilizartion and democracy is not for them. Ukraine was always percepted as a part of a Ru heartland. Nearly every Russian had relatives in Ukraine. What she says is obvious for any Ru speaker
@ThomasVLinge The comon configuration for what Marx called bourgeois revolution. Lower classes ally with monarchy/old nobility against new rich/middle classes. Vendรฉe and stuff, you know.
@Ebsolas@TheStefanSmith So idolatry is uncritical perception of some object or being, attributing to it exceptional imaginary abilities, sacrificing one's resources (or lives) to it, hoping that it will use its abilities to your advantage, furious aggression towards the deniers of such abilities. Right?
@Osinttechnical What the heck means "earth above sky"? I didn't find in English such a fixed phrase. The original says literally "may the ground be for you like a sky" which can be transated as "rest in peace". "Eternal flight" is adecuate also but there is more literal phrase for it.