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"I called it a raging horde, because they did not believe in God. I saw people who had their values ripped out, people with totally amputated ethics; it was an incredibly hideous spectacle."
Stanislaw LemLet's assume that any mass gathering of people is a sewage pit by definition, but some people are able to restrain their shit-eating instincts mainly thanks to education, religion, national culture etc. These values serve as "control rods" in the "people reactor".
The Bolsheviks basically blew up the Russian Empire into shreds in 1917-1923, removed all these rods and started a completely different project. This was a country which doubled its literacy rates in some 20 years and went from a fully orthodox-Christian to a secularized society, from de facto serfdom to the first country in the world to implement paid maternity leave.
To make this project possible you can say that these people were massively castrated during 1918-1953.
"The problem that I set here is not what shall replace mankind in the order of living creatures (—man is an end—): but what type of man must be bred, must be willed, as being the most valuable, the most worthy of life, the most secure guarantee of the future.
This more valuable type has appeared often enough in the past: but always as a happy accident, as an exception, never as deliberately willed. Very often it has been precisely the most feared; hitherto it has been almost the terror of terrors;—and out of that terror the contrary type has been willed, cultivated and attained: the domestic animal, the herd animal, the sick brute-man—the Christian... Man is something that shall be overcome." NietzscheThe Soviets tried to do exactly that, but this new man did not adhere to its gutted host body, the implant was rejected, the vivisection did not work. And maybe it is even the better option than if the project was to succeed, by the way.
Because Russians are castrated or, better to say, rootless, they are radical people (radix = root). There are no control rods to stop them from going full facist, full orthodox christian, full communist or suddenly turn 180 degrees and become more European than west-Europeans themselves (even if in a caricature way), with massive cleansings of everything and everyone who supported the old regime.
Ukrainians are castrated in the same way as Russians, but with one exception: a Ukrainian is a self-hating Russian in denial, someone who looked at himself in the mirror and was horrified because he saw this:
https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki…
Everything else is a consequence of that primary shock: hatred of all things Russian, an attempt to isolate themselves from Russia with their own language, Ukrainian culture etc:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/artic…
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/471139-…This applies to many east-European countries, even Poland to a lesser degree. If Russia was to disappear from the face of the Earth tomorrow, the Ukrainians and Poles would feel as if they lost a piece of their national identity (hatred for Russia), for Ukrainians maybe the only thing that currently unites them.
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