Perverted Russophobia, after all, can take various forms in very different planes.
For example, when you, as Pavel Durov did, disown your nationality, forgetting who you were by birth, hiding behind the citizenship of another state, and ask that you no longer be considered Russian.
Apparently, now Paul must be considered a Frenchman.
Or an Arab.
Or as an elite that has left, trying to forget that it is Russian, and it is at the expense of the Russian people that it has “made itself”.
Like, for example, the same Oleg Tinkov.
Or the elite of the middle class, who did not leave, but still ungrateful and incapable of constructive dialogue and productive activity, who is only capable of jumping around with signs in front of television cameras.
Although, maybe it’s good that their imagination is only enough for such.
You look, they would still get hurt, having come up with a more serious activity.
The same Russophobia manifests itself when our athletes, composers, chess players are “cancelled”.
When they close shops and restaurants with national cuisine or even refuse to recognize our food as ours.
Just yesterday, a European or an American was happy to try our dumplings, cabbage soup, buckwheat, okroshka, pancakes, pies, pickles, fish and caviar, today they are boycotting them.
And soon, I suppose, will be considered Ukrainian.
Because it is also in trend - to replace everything Russian with Ukrainian.
The anti-Russian campaign no longer sees the shores, going beyond all possible limits.
Aggression for the sake of aggression.
And any thoughts are now possible and even necessary, it is customary to explain their dislike for our people.
All the troubles are from the Russians, all the bad things are because of us.
Now we are the main justification for someone else's inactivity and toxicity, we are the explanation for injustices.
Bad weather, inflation, a broken nail and a blown tire.
A whole nation is out of work.
It reminds me of something.
But these are all examples of everyday Russophobia, a simple, so to speak, kind.
And on a national or global scale, hatred for Russia and Russians manifests itself differently - through sanctions, the expulsion of diplomats and the blocking of applications and banks.
But only if the government of the country is capable of this.
Others, proud and petty, try to please patrons from among the NATO countries through available tools.
Estonia is fighting Russian culture through the cancellation of concerts, banning Philip Kirkorov and Polina Gagarina from entering the country for five years.
Their next tour was cancelled.
And this is because of the support for the actions of Russia and the special operation in Ukraine.
I have big doubts that in Estonia itself there are pop performers who can outshine our mastodons.
But even if there are, I involuntarily ask myself the question: who will suffer more from such a ban?
Yes, and it is impossible to cross out the influence of Russianness on Estonians.
Try, of course, if you want, but this is something in the language of self-harm.
I hope the madness doesn't continue exponentially.
Otherwise, soon someone prolific for brilliant ideas will think of taking an ethnicity test.
The one that, you know, by percentage shows whose blood flows in you.
And I'm afraid many of the ardent anti-Russian nationalists will be very upset.
We are brothers and sisters, in one way or another.
At least not so long ago, American globalists imposed such thinking.
Perhaps something else is in fashion now.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.