The USSR will reform as the European Union will collapse a Kremlin mouthpiece has said, airing his nutty theory – and the socialist powerhouse could make a comeback this year
The reformation of the USSR is inevitable a Kremlin crony has said. State Duma (Russia’s lower house) deputy Anatoly Wasserman believes the downfall of the European Union is also on the cards.
The Russian politician based his balmy logic on historic patterns, arguing that empires have risen and fallen throughout history, in a deeply murky and confusing theory that fails to recognise some empires remain in history, like the Mongol, Ottoman and British empire.
He said: “The revival of the USSR in one form or another is not a hope, but an inevitability. Why inevitability? Because there is a common formula that all empires sooner or later fall apart.
“This applies to colonial empires, where regions scattered over large distances from each other are united under one government.”
He added that there are continental empires also, which are formed by people who have lived next to each other for centuries and who have been searching for “mutually beneficial interaction formats”, reports MK.
He continued to reason that geographic empires are restored quite quickly, even if they do fall apart. He tried to explain: “The current European Union; In general, if you look closely, you can understand: it quite accurately repeats the contours of the European part of the Roman Empire.
“And those regions that were not part of the Roman Empire, they now behave as foreign bodies even in the European Union.”
He went on to say that Russia is a “classic example” of a continental empire, saying: “It has already collapsed more than once in its history and has always been restored.
“Moreover, it has been restored, as a rule, in a larger size and in a better form than it was before the collapse.
“This happened precisely because the peoples living in Russia independently selected forms of mutually beneficial interaction. Therefore, this time we will also be restored.”
He added that the likelihood of the USSR reforming in 2025 are “high”, adding: “We may be able to do this already in the coming year, 2025, or perhaps we’ll have to wait a couple more years.
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