12-29-2021, 03:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-29-2021, 03:31 PM by Eric the Green.)
I agree with brower on this. I think world war two and the Stalin-imposed famines and purges extended the Crisis period in Russia that may be attributed to world war I and the Revolutionary War. The effect of this extended horrific crisis on Russia was to slow down their national saeculum and put them on the global calendar of the world's dominant saeculum (ours), as happened elsewhere too at this time. Our times since the 1890s IS the birth of the global society, and the great wars that brought down the old world and separate ouselves from it so decisively were the birth pangs. "A little messy" ha ha. Catastrophic, actually; more so than experienced by any other nation in those times. But, to some extent, the old cycle that was on an earlier schedule, as suggested by galaxy, could still have some relevance. Nations today still have their own unfolding, but they can't escape the larger global cycle now either.
Is Russia in a 1T? Does Russia even have a saeculum, as I wondered before? It is not a very good 1T. The nation is declining, and the people are not happy. That the Putin tyranny appears stable and increasing could fit, but are we to define a 1T solely as a period when a tyrant increases his grip on power and is able to suppress dissent successfully and dream of military expansion?
Is Russia in a 1T? Does Russia even have a saeculum, as I wondered before? It is not a very good 1T. The nation is declining, and the people are not happy. That the Putin tyranny appears stable and increasing could fit, but are we to define a 1T solely as a period when a tyrant increases his grip on power and is able to suppress dissent successfully and dream of military expansion?