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Gogol, who was Ukrainian himself, is not really popular among Ukrainians...
From the same book^:
"Russia, Russia, from my beautiful home in a strange land I can still see you! In you everything is poor and disordered and unhomely; in you the eye is neither cheered nor dismayed by temerities of nature which a yet more temerarious art has conquered; in you one beholds no cities with lofty, many-windowed mansions, lofty as crags, no picturesque trees, no ivy-clad ruins, no waterfalls with their everlasting spray and roar, no beetling precipices which confuse the brain with their stony immensity, no vistas of vines and ivy and millions of wild roses and ageless lines of blue hills which look almost unreal against the clear, silvery background of the sky. In you everything is flat and open; your towns project like points or signals from smooth levels of plain, and nothing whatsoever enchants or deludes the eye. Yet what secret, what invincible force draws me to you? [...] What do you want of me? What is that mysterious, hidden bond between us? Why do you look at me like that? And why does everything in you turn eyes full of expectation on me? And men­acingly your mighty expanse enfolds me, reflected with terrifying force in the depths of me; my eyes are lighted up with supernatural power—oh, what a glittering, wondrous infinity of space the world knows nothing of!"According to Dugin, Russians define themselves through space (Russians can only be Russian together, ie. if you're not within Russian borders you're not Russian, heritage means nothing).
Maybe the reason to why they are obsessed with taking back those Russian-speaking areas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ru…Discuss
- They will split in over a dozen "states" many of them with nuclear weapons...grafician