(Опубликовано в журнале «SENTENTIA. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences» №1, 2015) 23/04/2015 That was a moment when the end of history [3] rested upon all of us, the day when the world became flat. The EU entered East, but only as a “stalking horse” of NATO. No surprise that Eastern Europe has soon after abandoned its identity quest, and capitulated. Its final civilizational defeat came along: the Eastern Europe’s peoples, primarily Slavs, have silently handed over their most important debates — that of Slavism, anti-fascism and of own identity — solely to the recuperating Russophone Europe.
Terrified and rarified underachievers
Is today’s Eastern Europe a classic case of indirect rule? Is that a deep imperial periphery of nominally independent native rulers, while in reality the true power holder resides outside, although is domestically supported by a dense web of NGOs, multinational corporations and locally handpicked “elites”?
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