philosophy

Whether to criticize or praise the Bolsheviks is not the position of a historian. Objectively speaking, without the Bolsheviks, Russia would have become a semi-colony in the 1920s. With them, it only became one in the 1990s. That's an extra 70 years for the country. Is that a lot or a little? And now, we lack an idea that could unite the country, and people who would be willing to die for that idea. Orthodoxy, communism – these can no longer be unifying ideas. Russians are old, and they won't even die for a piece of bread. And it is very difficult for Siberians to fight China one-on-one.