Podlodka77 wrote:Werewolf wrote:Podlodka77 wrote:
Well, I'll tell you what role it plays. We Serbs were under the Turks for hundreds of years, FAITH in liberation and religion kept us going. If religion has no role, then why do you declare yourself as a Russian ?
Being Russian has nothing to do with your religious affiliation or lack there off. Christianity is foreign religion by itself and had not originated from our slavic heads. We still have some "starovery" people in society and to part I am more sympathizing towards that, not because I am a believer, but because it is our history. It directly connects all eastern and to part western slavic people to one root and many old superstitions are rooted in the polytheistic system our ancestors believed and lived by.Geography is fate and tough fate for Serbs, unfortunately. I am fully aware of this and I am also very sorry to see that the Serbs have been treated this way and the weak position Serbs and Russia was and still is. Unable to protect our brothers and little effort put into it as well.Podlodka77 wrote:
We lost almost every other able-bodied man in World War I, but we defeated both the Austro-Hungarians and the Germans. In the Second World War, we embarrassed ourselves, but it was no longer the state of Serbia. There are few of us Serbs and we are in a difficult area.
Russia is not weak, but Serbia is surrounded by hyenas, hyenas of which there are simply too many. We are simply far away from Russia, that is a fact. I've been saying for years that it's a shame that Serbia isn't in Bulgaria's place, because with access to the Black Sea, Serbia wouldn't really care about the EU. Even more, I think that Serbia would then say to the EU "who the **** are you"..
Poland is blinded by hatred of Russia, but a goat cannot growl at a tiger - the result is known. Complex Poles, sickened by a sick hatred towards Orthodox Russia (only reason), although Germany certainly does not think well of them. Ukraine is an artificial creation and as such cannot survive within its current borders. The Greeks no longer have any balls or pride, they are over-indebted, while the Bulgarians are what they always were - sleazy. Romania was never clear to me, but Hungary is the closest to Serbia's views. Hungarians are looking at their own self-interest and I hope it will last. Croats hate Russia, be sure of that, because they see you Russians as "great Serbs", but they haven't forgotten that they were beaten by Russia at Stalingrad.
Russia is hated the most by countries that Russia won in wars and Russia's biggest enemy is Great Britain.
Russia will be able to get to Serbia only if it takes the whole of the Ukraine, or turns it into a neutral, demilitarized state that disavows any more conflict and allows Russia military and economic access.
Hungary won't enter an alliance with Russia but like you said it will look out for its self interest, and its close relationship with Serbia and desire for political expansion into the Ukraine and Romania gives it common cause to agree to whatever Pax Russia in the Ukraine and facilitate Russia accessing Serbia through themselves.
Poland has an Anglo regime and it's not going away - it's backed by an army of Sikorksi's among their ruling classes, or just straight up Russophobes like the Kaczinski's; who fan fear among their population. It's a political death sentence for any Polish politician to seriously suggest an alternative to Atlanticism. Romania too, although they're more fickle than Poles, and their regime's anti-Russian propaganda just holds less purchase.
Common Greeks are positively predisposed towards Russia but their ruling class is up London's and Washington's anus. And really their main worry is just money, not anything else.
Bulgaria will change sides as soon as an enemy army turns up at its border. Croats are too far away from Russia and have too little common history with it to have either a negative or positive opinion on it but do enjoy the money of Russian tourists.. and I never heard of any Croats at Stalingrad?