Monday, August 18, 2014
Window on Eurasia: Russia Moves From ‘Evil Empire’ to ‘Empire of Hatred,’ Ukrainian Commentator Says
Paul Goble
Staunton, August 18 – Unless it discriminates against non-Russian peoples on the basis of cultivating hatred against them, an empire like Russia remains cannot survive and will collapse, according to Ukrainian commentator Oleg Shro. And because that is the case, Russia today is best described so much as “the evil empire” but rather as “the empire of hatred.”
Shro argues that the most visible manifestation of this is “Russian propaganda spread both officially and by ‘comrades with initiative’ in the localities in conformity with ‘the general line of the party and government’” and which “creates an information field of hatred in which Russians live” (nr2.com.ua/column/Oleg_Shro/Imperiya-nenavisti-78168.html). Read more