Benedychak is not a cremlinologist or sovetologist, from whom the analysis of the head swells and the image of Russia only darkens. And thank God it's not. He is, as he describes himself, a rusophile who hates putinism. He knows Russia more profoundly than an egghead from various East University institutes. So he sees things the erstwhile had not heard, so they do not affect their cognition and knowing of Russia. The speech of conclusions and assessments that the author contained in an highly interesting and unique book on Russia and the Russians, strengthened in 2022 the war-rvetes in Ukraine.
Listening to commentators in the media for years, it is hard to get an opinion about Russians. Why do they give Putin immense trust? Why did they support the invasion of Ukraine? Why do they think Ukraine is Russia and has no right to sovereignty? Where does the Russian genealogy of 18th-century imperialism and reasoning in czarski, feudal categories come from? Why did Russia declare war on the world? Is it only because, as he explained with naivety of the child, an experienced Polish diplomat, that Putin West had promised much and then failed to keep his word?
Benedychak, trying to scope the minds of the Russians, asks them a lot easier questions. If they are driven by “imperial cocaine” erstwhile they want to conquer the planet due to the fact that they consider themselves to be its navel, let them answer to each other: “Why in their country is the prevalence of HIV equal to the poorest African countries? Why does 22 percent of them not have a average toilet in the home and poop on a skier in a gap in the ground? How is it that the tiny South Korea in terms of technological improvement is as distant for Russia as the MacBooks for children from the Burundian school? What makes Russian hospitals look like they haven't been renovated since Nikita Khrushchev's era, and Russian soldiers not only rape and execution Ukrainians but besides bargain old washing machines and shorts from them?’
