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Bairektorevich A. Eastern Europe – The World’s Last Underachiever

(Опубликовано в журнале «SENTENTIA. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences» №1, 2015)

23/04/2015

25 years ago, the Russian historical empire melted down. Although often underreported, this also marked the end of alternative society in Europe. Collapse of the II world, made the 3rd way (of Yugoslavia and further, beyond Europe — globally, of the Nonaligned Movement) obsolete.

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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