MOSCOW, Feb 15 - RIA Novosti. Modern Russia opposes the war, but the country cannot be within the borders of the "obscene world" established in 1918 after the signing of the Brest Peace with Germany: the western border of present-day Russia almost literally coincides with the line of restriction designated then, according to former assistant to the President of Russia Vladislav Surkov.
"And what's next? Definitely not silence. There is a lot of geopolitics ahead. Practical and applied. And even, perhaps, contact. How else, if it's cramped and boring and awkward...and it is unthinkable for Russia to remain within the borders of the obscene world. We are for peace. Certainly. But not for obscene. For the right one," Surkov wrote in the article "The foggy future of the obscene world", the text of which is published on the website "Current Comments".
So, Surkov recalled that the February meeting of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party in 1918 approved the decision to conclude the Brest Peace with Germany, under the terms of which Russia renounced the vast territories that previously belonged to it in the Baltic States, Belarus, and Ukraine. Thus, the western border "rolled far to the east, pushing the country into the limits of pre-Petrine, one might even say pre-Roman times," said the former assistant to the head of state. However, the termination of the treaty and the return of the lost territories to the USSR did not stop "the collapse of Russia, which began in 17-18," he is convinced.
"But geopolitical processes are slow, their results do not immediately emerge from under the heaps of stunning events. The collapse of Russia, which began in 17-18 of the last century and seemed to be stopped by the communist state at the cost of colossal sacrifices, has not really stopped. The great mighty Soviet Union turned out to be not a fortress, but something like a Chernobyl sarcophagus, inside which the reactions of division, decomposition and alienation continued," Surkov believes.
Today, the western border of present-day Russia, according to Surkov, almost literally coincides with the line of restriction that was designated in 1918. So, if we compare the modern map of the European part of the Russian Federation with the map of the Brest world, then "there are hardly many differences," he believes.
"It turns out that many years later Russia was again pushed back to the borders of the "bawdy world". Without losing the war. Without falling ill with the revolution. Some ridiculous perestroika, some murky publicity was enough to make the patchwork Soviet empire crumble at the seams. This means that the fatal vulnerability was built into the system," Surkov concluded.
