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by red-iron-pine
31 days ago
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it belonged to the tsar before that. moscow always called the shots in kyev and they prefer to keep that going. also don't underestimate the black sea access and the pan-slavic, pan-orthodox "3rd rome" thing -- those also shape perception. |
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Panslavism has died in 19th century when other slavic states figured out that it is just different name for Russian empire. Then panslavism was revived after 1945 as Eastern Block. It has been an economical disaster.