Russia is not Europe. To understand that is a good first step towards understanding it. Europe is a hostile geopolitical entity to Russia and a fundamentally different culture.
Don't lecture us on who we are.
We are not your colony, don't forget that, Europeans. No one to lecture us.
You are not Russian and know little about our culture. Don't lecture me about my ancestry.
Your "fun" russiohobic friend on here, is your true brethen, at least speaks openly, what's on anglo minds. I know how racist anglis are, by decades of first hand experience
Makes me feel so good I can get away far from anglo and Europe stuff now, many time zones away. Like they say over there it's not Yuro-pean mentality here. That's what my ancestors fought for, to put more time zones between the Europe and us, shall we need that. Your Euro stuff, address that to Aziv fans in Mariupol.
I am not lecturing you. I am awakening you.
Maybe I don't know anything on whatever misled Asiatic, mongrelized or not, believes they pass for Russian these days, but they are not historically of the "Kievan Rus" which was the genetic basis for all Russia. If you are a white Russian and you don't know what the idea of Europa is, then you have been truly bifurcated from your roots. You keep repeating "anglos" like a broken record. Spaniards are not Anglo. Italians are not Anglo. Greeks are not Anglo. I really can't blame you, most of us were brainwashed with the same division tactics, but if you post this here you will be corrected. Your conception of Europe comes across as very crude and simple. That is not true Europa.
Here are some simple facts for your apparent identity crisis:
Let's start with the obvious. Russia is a Slavic country that speaks Indo-Slovak. Their are 13 countries considered to be official Slavic states including the Czech Republic, Bosnia, Serbia, Poland, Slovakia, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine (really just more Russia), Bulgaria, Macedonia (really just more Greece), Croatia, Slovenia, and Montenegro. Are all those countries in Europe that are Slavic not European? More obvious: the Slavic languages are a group of related languages within the Indo-European family, not Asiatic languages. Among the most common are Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene, and Serbo-Croatian (Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian). The Slavic languages which form the Slavic language group are divided into three main branches: West Slavic, East Slavic, and South Slavic. The ethnic Russians who make up the majority of the population in Russia are traditionally considered East Slavic, not Asiatic. They have historical ties to the Kievan Rus, a medieval federation of Slavic tribes, and are part of the broader East Slavic ethnic group, which also includes Ukrainians and Belarusians.
So who were the Slavs? What is the etymology of the word? There are multiple. The word "Slav" comes from the Old Slavic word "slově," which means "word" or "speech," which was used by the Slavic peoples to emphasize their shared linguistic and ethnic identity. In English, the word "slave" has its origins in the medieval Latin term "sclavus" or "slavus," which referred to a person from the Slavic regions of Europe who was captured and enslaved during the medieval slave trade.
The concept of Europe in the medieval period did not have the same geopolitical boundaries as it does today that has been purposely divided from their shared history. The genetics of Kievan Rus, are undoubtedly European. Who founded Kievan Rus? The Varangians, Nordic warriors, traders, and explorers. Their Scandinavian origins primarily came from regions now part of modern-day Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. The Rus' Khaganate, which became Kievan Rus, was formed from the intersecting of trade routes established by these Viking Varangians between the Slavs that had settled in the region and the neighborhing Finno-Urgic peoples.
According to the Primary Chronicle, a historical account of the Eastern Slavs, the Varangian prince Rurik was one of the founding figures of Kievan Rus. Rurik is said to have been invited to rule over Novgorod and later extended his authority to Kiev. The establishment of the Rurikid Dynasty marked the beginning of a line of Varangian rulers in Kievan Rus. This line is genetically European (Nordic and Slavic) to the founder of Russia's Christianity. It is as follows: Rurik (830-879) -> Oleg (879-912) -> Igor I (912-945) -> Sviatoslav (942-972) -> Yaropolk I (972-980) -> Vladimir The Great (980 - 1015). The East Slavic peoples, who are descendants of the medieval Slavic tribes of Kievan Rus, share linguistic and ethnic heritage, and their genetic makeup reflects this historical continuum. The Christianization of the Kievan Rus did not involve a massive influx of people from outside the region but rather an ethnic and religious transformation among the existing European population.
You can try to argue along "cultural" lines but these too are easily disproven. The adoption of Christianity in Kievan Rus aligned the region culturally and religiously with the Byzantine Empire, which was considered part of the Eastern Roman Empire, a distinctly European civilization. The Christianization of Kievan Rus brought about the integration of Byzantine artistic and cultural influences that were deeply rooted in European traditions. The construction of churches and the development of religious art reflected European aesthetic and architectural styles, not Asiatic.
You can try to argue along linguistic lines, but let's take a deeper look at the Russian language after the adoption of Christianity which had linguistic consequences. Old Church Slavonic, used in liturgy and religious texts became an important written language. The use of the Cyrillic alphabet created by Saints Cyril and Methodius further connected the region to the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition and is rooted in European linguistic and ethnic developments, not Asiatic.
You can argue against this "colonial" strawman but that is factually wrong. The Romanovs were European, the family originated from the boyar class (Russian nobility) and had European ancestry, with connections to various European royal houses. The family's European lineage is traced back to Michael Romanov's father, Patriarch Philaret of Moscow, and further back to the Rurikid dynasty I mentioned that ruled Kievan Rus and later Muscovy. Looking at the lineage over the centuries it is the Romanovs intermarried with other European royalty, they accepted this European identity and further strengthened their ties to the broader European aristocracy. The cultural, historical, and genetic ties of the Slavic people firmly place them within the European context, and this contributes to the admission of Russia as a European country.
Even Russian intellectuals like the poet Fedor Tyutchev and novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky in the 1800s explicitly expressed their view of Russia as European. Tyutchev in his poetry expressed the idea of Russia as a bridge between East and West. Dostoevsky, in his later works, particularly "The Diary of a Writer," proposed a vision of a united Europe in which Russia would play a crucial role. But that's not enough to convince you, let's see what the attitudes of the Tsars felt about Russia being European, without any "influence" from those dastardly "Anglos":
Peter the Great's had a series reforms in which he worked to adopt Western European customs, technologies, and administrative practices to essentially strengthen Russia. He moved the capital from Moscow to the newly founded city of St. Petersburg, designed in the style of European cities, to emphasize Russia's connection with the West. Alexander II was known for his reforms including the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, his reign modernized Russia in efforts to align with European developments, especially in terms of legal and economic reforms. Let's go further back and look at Ivan III the Great who started using the title of "Tsar," derived from the Latin term "Caesar," to emphasize the idea of Moscow as the Third Rome and a successor to the original Rome and Constantinople.
Your very sentiments of identifying separately from Europe (if you're not actually mixed-race that is) insult the Russian Christian men who died at all the battles leading up to the Great Standoff of 1480 on the Ugra River to throw off the Mongol-Tatar yoke under Ivan III. Were it not for Ivan III, some of your erroneous claims may have become historical fact. Not only did Ivan reject Asiatic Mongol influence, he also worked directly to further ingrain Russia into European culture. He invited Italian architects and artisans to contribute to the construction of significant buildings like the Cathedral of the Archangel in the Moscow Kremlin. If his engagement with Western European artistic and architectural elements did not reflect an aspiration toward European standards and a distancing from Mongol influences, then I don't know what is.
Here are some more influences that Western Europe had in Ivan's Russia. Those horrible Italians just couldn't stop giving things to Russia. The Renaissance in Italy had a profound impact on Ivan III's royal court. Italian intellectuals and artists were brought to Moscow to contribute to cultural and educational developments. The influence of Italian Renaissance ideas is evident in the court's patronage of the arts, emphasis on classical learning with the invitation of the humanist Filofei, and the incorporation of Renaissance motifs in illuminated manuscripts. Ivan also openly engaged in alliances with the Holy Roman Empire and the Papal states. And in turn, the Russian music, art, literature, and culture that grew out of the centuries of this introduction has returned back to the rest of Europe to greatly influence the rest. It is a unified culture and a race of nations.
Europe is not just one monolithic identity, which you proscribe to "anglos," but rather a series of them in parallel. It is an entire continent rich in a tapestry of languages, customs, histories, and traditions, of which Russia contributes to. Modern Europe would not be the same without Russia, it is just as essential in the continuation of the rest of Europe as the rest of Europe is essential in the continuation of true Russia.
I'm sorry if many "anglo's" treated you like you were racially different, but that begets the question, are you? And did you reaffirm their racial suspicions by behaving in a certain way? I'm inclined to think many Anglo British people, who have been opiated on consumerism and materialism would likely behave even less European. Do you have non-European (non-Slavic) physical features? Are you Asiatic? If you are, then it makes sense why you do not see Russia as European in the recent hodgepodge of mixing going on there. If you are not, then you are refusing to look further beyond the veil to see what is so obvious by just connecting a couple of simple dots. Many of the Anglos you criticize are also just as well in the dark, and very few of them understand true Europa either.
When I see all these Africans, Indians, and Pakis pretending to be German, Swedish, or French it warrants an exasperated sigh. These people are no more European than an Asiatic is a true Russian. They need to accept and be proud of their own true identities and not a usurpation. The netflixing of the races is done to confuse on purpose. You repeat these "colonizer" sentiments about all Europe, but these are jewish sock-puppet claims. The only people who moan about "colonization" in the west are liberal brainless whites or darker races that have had their flow of free milk from the government-teat interrupted. While you believe this nonsense, these jews are celebrating you all killing each other to fulfill their excrementitious prophecies:
"jews celebrate brother war between Russia and Ukraine"
This is probably in one of those estates in St. Petersburg that the Chabad rabbi was talking about their late night bangers going until sunrise.
"We will drag them by their hair and force them to fight our wars"
Since you keep bringing up the Aziv/Azov battalion, you also should know more about them. What you don't understand is that their alleged "ideology" has been banned in Europe from 1945 until this very day, and that the true ideology, which had nearly saved Europe, will still be banned as long as the parasites are in charge. Why would their silly beliefs be allowed to exist? Only because the jew has control over its use, purpose, and destiny. The Azov are basically a white CIA-funded jihad organization that wears Paganist colors and is allowed, permitted, and controlled within the confines of the Ukrainian military within the Ukrainian corrupt state. Their own beliefs about their organization are chock full of lies, they believe themselves as Ukrainians to not be Russian. The seeds of division between the Ukrainians and the Russians (both are genetically nearly identical) were planted by jews, and watered by jewish servants.
Are you denying that the Ukrainian-Russian war which really began in 2014 is not just another jewish iteration of a brother war with genetic Russians killing other genetic Russians on both sides, regardless if Ukraine is more corrupt and jewified? If you deny this then you are not living in reality.