Originally appeared atKomsomolskaya Pravda. Translated by Julia Rakhmetova
The author is a famous Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reporter who resigned from this US Congress funded propaganda institution after some of his stories were censored by what he describes as "RFE/Rl Gestapo” – Ukrainian Service
Post-Soviet Russophobia has one extremely simple explanation. One would think that all countries that become independent would finally breath a sigh of relief: “Thank God!” doing what they had been dreaming of for centuries. They could immerse themselves in their nation’s culture, with its abundance of traditions, restoring what they had lost during the imperial epoch, as they fostered a lonely, self-sufficient pride. But no, they have been dancing in a circle around a state that hasn’t belonged to them for a quarter of a century, cursing it, stoking fear of the simple fact of its existence.
I would call it loss syndrome. Subject cultures are left like orphans, having with the help of childish revolt, created another state with breathtaking horizons, without which life in the new reality would have been devoid of taste and colors.
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