The Russians Do Not Fulfill a Mission, They Live It and Are It

The regime knows that, however bad things are at home, the russian people still long for an identity. And that yearning is driven by a sense of wanting a place in the world. According to the historian vladimir pastukof putin, has reawakened russians' messianism. The phenomenon largely disappeared after 19 91. Russians do not fulfil a mission, all the more so when it's unfulfillable. They live it and are its function. I find it particularly telling that president carter's national security adviser, has nef brazinski, should have chosen to conclude his memoirs with this quotation. For the us, too has