Aunque nos parece un país europeo más, Rusia es muy especial. Huntington la considera una civilización distinta de la Occidental. El hecho es que aparte de la religión ortodoxa, tiene una historia distinta. Solo en el s. XVIII se orientó hacia el Oeste, hacia Europa:
Russia’s relationship with the West has always been complicated. As writer Alexander Boot, himself a Russian by birth, states, Russia is only partially Western and has never gone through some of the determining periods of the modern West, the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Enlightenment. The country’s culture is a complex mix of Western, non-Western and a few anti-Western impulses. According to Boot, author Fyodor Dostoyevsky “sensed that Russia was irreconcilable with the Catholic West, which is why he believed that destroying the West was the holy mission of Russian Orthodoxy.”
Me han llamado la atención el fanatismo de las palabras de Dostoyesvky, comparables a las de cualquier terrorista islámico. ¿Destruir el Oeste? Es el sueño actual de los mahometanos. Sin embargo, deberían andarse con cuidado, no siendo que les pase lo mismo que a Constantinopla:
Perhaps the Russians should study more closely what happened to the Byzantines. In his book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), Robert Spencer discusses the sad case of the Byzantine Emperor John VI Cantacuzenes, who invited the Ottoman Turks into Europe to help him win a dynastic dispute. His invited guests overthrew his Empire about 100 years later, and have stayed in Europe to this day.
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