"The Russian Empire and Its Typological Analogies" Topic

"Among all fundamental watersheds of the World's history we hardly will find a more important threshold than a short period of time immediately before and after AD 1500. The discovery of America in 1492, the discovery of the sea route to India in 1498, and a number of similar and simultaneous events laid the foundations of the Era of Great Geographic Discoveries, which at the same time became the era of the formation of large colonial empires. Most of these empires lived for four centuries more and disintegrated only in the 20th century. Spain and Portugal were first to have emerged in this row, to be followed by England, France, Holland, and very soon also by Russia. Russia was lagging behind the leading countries of the Western Europe in this aspect only by a few decades. The conquering adventures of Yermak Timofeevich took place in the second half of the 16th century, and by the end of the first half of the 17th century the Russian explorers and sailors came to the shores of the North-Western Pacific, and sailed through the Bering Strait. The report of the latter discovery only due to the inefficiency of the Muscovite bureaucracy remained unnoticed and the Bering strait had to be rediscovered almost a whole century later…"

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Armand

Interesting. Putin is certainly authoritarian leaning into totalitarian.

And a criminal too…

Armand

FAR WORSE THAN A MERE CRIMILAL.

(smile)

Armand