Globalization vs. the Peoples’ Friendship

These days I often hear my compatriots say, “I have many friends in the States and in the UK, I love them, but I fear we will not get over it without striking Westminster and the WH, we simply don’t have that many people to fight otherwise”.

Now, don’t focus on the “strike” thing here, it was not Putin who first started flexing his nuclear muscles, not at all. First it was Zelensky, then Poland expressed willingness to deploy US nukes on its territory, then Liz Truss probably deprived of showerhead masturbation options as other European women are expressed readiness if not willingness to press the big red button on her joystick. NATO commanders often remind us of the Alliance nuclear capabilities.

I suggest you focus on “friends” and “love them” part. That’s how we took the end of the Cold War declared by the way by Churchill in his Fulton speech when he coined the term the Iron Curtain. And that’s how we saw globalization. Let me elaborate on it.

“We won the Cold War”, says the West

Nope, you didn’t.

I do remember the last years of the Cold War. Then a kid, I can recall the aftermath of Samantha Smith’s visit to the USSR, pen friends from the United States all Soviet kids wanted to have and the so-called children disarmament. Not sure the last concept is familiar to my foreign readers; it implied giving up toys and games related to war (toy pistols or tanks, for example).

We, the people of the USSR, were absolutely certain that there is a mutual understanding of the need to just end the Cold War and live in peace forever after. And we welcomed this idea with all our hearts, however pathetic this may sound. It was not about the USSR losing in the Cold War, it was about the Soviet people being led to believe that the Western bloc just wanted peace. “We lied, we cheated, we stole”, eh?

Globalization or Westernization?

Now, about globalization. We didn’t dislike this concept either when we first faced it. And I think our readiness to accept it stems from our mostly Soviet upbringing. Odd enough, I now see that Soviet people were actually quite cosmopolitan because racism was condemned, while peoples’ friendship, equal rights and peace were promoted as key values. Diversity at its best.

Diversity in the world where you can meet different people and make friends with them as your peers. Not a gray substitute for diversity that we are being dragged into with the liberal Westernization. The latter is a g(r)ay world where real identities are not welcome at all. Fake identities are being invented every day, imposed on the society to deprive people of their true selves, to hide the void and emptiness, if not greed and hostility.

You cannot be a proud Russian or French ready to share your cultural heritage, but you can be a proud gender fluid them/they person who is easily offended by a joke and is ready to pay lump amounts for gender reassignment surgery or make-up.

Sexual preferences, symbols or real identities are being weaponized as they are stripped of their actual meaning and used to create conflicts. Thus, Ukrainian traditional dress is used to show their difference from Russians, there even is the Day of Vyshivanka when all staff of the US embassy in Kiev wears those embroidered shirts. But you know what? In fact, Vyshivanka doesn’t show that Ukrainians are different from Russians, it shows how similar Russians, Belarussians and Ukrainians are, as all three people have embroidered patterns (often red and geometric) as part of the traditional dresses, in particular, of the shirt. See what I mean? Even Zelensky himself caused a scandal on Instagram in 2021 wearing a traditional Russian shirt (kosovorotka) instead of a TRUE Vyshivanka. It’s hard to tell them apart. The feud over Borsch is just another example. It was supposed to unite us, not to set us apart. Feminism that was originally a healthy movement is now the main source of “gender wars”, etc.

Real globalization fostering cultural and technological exchange, tourism and trade is probably not a bad thing, but turning people into a grey crowd is. Isn’t it what totalitarianism is about?

Image source: pixabay.com, by rihaij.


Maria Kondorskaya

Linguist, [very] professional Content writer, Russian (and even Soviet), Muscovite, patriot, internationalist. Passive aggressive, vivacious pessimist, optimist with a morbid sense of humor. Made in the USSR in 1982.

6 thoughts on “Globalization vs. the Peoples’ Friendship”

  1. I can’t unsee that mental image of Liz Truss now.

    By the way, about hitting Westminster, try to do it accurately, the National Gallery is nearby and it would be a shame to lose the paintings.

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  2. You did it again Maria, another excellent post. I can’t agree more.

    By the way, I love Borscht so much I’m learning to make my own.

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  3. For personal reasons this g(r)ay movement gets on my nerves, I’m glad there are still countries fighting against this LGTBI+Whatever bullshit, specially when children/teenagers are involved.

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