Moscow leaders have been hollering about the “spiritless” West for the past nine centuries already – all just to preserve their right to power.
That’s according to Russia’s acclaimed opposition figure, political scientist and publicist Andrei Piontkovsky, who spoke with Espreso TV, RISU reported.
“The historians are right when they say that there was in fact no victory over the Mongol-Tatar yoke. Khan’s administration simply moved from Sarai to Moscow. And the new khans, the kings of Muscovy, took the Yasa as their Constitution. This is a document that completely subordinates an individual, squashing them with the government press machine. And this was at a time when the West and that part of Kyivan Rus, which had been part of the West for two happy centuries, were moving towards the implementation of the Great Charter of Freedom. Meanwhile, the Russian khans constantly needed to defend their right to power. And this claim of a “spiritless” West has persisted for all these nine centuries,” he said.
“It is interesting that the first such speaker was Filofei of Pskov. And now there’s Tikhon of Pskov, his new reincarnation, who at 3 o’clock in the morning is having a conversation in the Russian leader’s monastic cell, encouraging him on geopolitical feats,” the political scientist added.
According to Piontkovsky, Metropolitan Tikhon is a Russian version of Nazi Germany’s Rudolf Hess.
“Tikhon, in addition to becoming Filofei of Pskov, instructing Russian statesmen, also plays the role of Russian Hess, along with Volodin, who even before Tikhon claimed there would be ‘no Russia without Putin,’” Andrey Piontkovsky emphasized.
It should be recalled that Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov), who is considered to be a part of Vladimir Putin’s entourage and a very likely candidate for replacing ROC Patriarch Kirill in the top church post in Russia, expressed regret that Putin is “not immortal.”
