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The main point is to realize that it wasn't Stalin, or any leaders of countries north of the Black Sea, who set an example of imperial organization of life for the world. It wasn't Stalin, Hitler, or Ivan the Terrible who first taught the rest of the world to burn people en masse in furnaces and put them under saws. It wasn't them who covered the walls of captured cities with the skin of prisoners. This was done by the "gentle" Israeli king David, his Assyrian colleagues, their predecessors, and their closest followers in the very First Empire and the countries that arose from its ruins.

The system is "man-to-man." This is typical for this entirely propagandistic work. For example, before this, Khomyakov spends a long time and comprehensively proving the conventionality of official history, citing facts, and it seems that he naturally leads us to the thought that the further back in time we go, the more uncertainty, vagueness, and speculation there is. But, as if nothing had happened, at the end, he inevitably has to mention King David and his Assyrian colleagues. Isn't this an attempt to form a conditional reflex – King David is the source of evil, cruelty, destruction, etc.? This statement is certainly false, not because King David or the Babylonians were not cruel. They probably were. But to seriously consider them teachers for future generations of kings, emperors, and monarchs can only be done by a person who has become dull from the ideas of nationalism.

And this is the case for the ENTIRE monograph.

P.S. The same chapter begins with the words

Undoubtedly, the Great Patriotic War was the central event in the history of the USSR and Russia in the 20th century. Without a correct understanding of this war, nothing can be understood in our recent past.

Oh, how interesting it would be to read the "professor's" opinion on this topic. But no – perhaps he was told to write about it as a partisan. The customers of this article did not allow him to dwell on such topics. Instead, you will be provided with a lot of paranoia of a different kind. Enjoy!