In the Kremlin, “spirituality” these days means the craving for unlimited domination and encouragement of President Vladimir Putin’s imperial ambitions. And in fact, this has always been the case in the country because Moscow simply inherited state administration traditions of the Golden Horde, not the state of Rus.
That’s according to a U.S.-based political expert Andriy Piontkovsky who spoke with Espreso.TV.
“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.
Piontkovsky adds that Metropolitan Tikhon in Russia does the same work Rudolf Hess did in Nazi Germany.
“In addition to resembling Filofei of Pskov by instructing Russian statesmen, Tikhon also plays the role of Russia’s Hess, along with Volodin, who even before Tikhon claimed there would be ‘no Russia without Putin,’” Andrey Piontkovsky emphasized.
