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Map of the Slavia
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Source: Slavia-slavialand.tripod.com
This looks impressive, I just don't know why are the Slavs affraid to do this.
I think that everyone got used to their own borders too much and are affraid to change it. Our individual national mentality needs to change to just one and we need to start refering to ourselves as Slavs - not as Slovaks, Czechs, Polaks, Croatians, Serbs, ...
True.
One thing i'm worried about in "ethno-political" meaning: it would be easy for the western Russia to become a part of the Slavia mentally, because the european part of country is russian actually. and it is closely tied to all european countries. But not sure about the eastern part, where are some of the non-slavic republics situated.
Russia just can't be a monolith Empire - we respect all cultures, languages and traditions here, saving them and making them equal.
Many people of the eastern republics are proud to be part of Russia, to know and speak Russian, as the first international language in the Eurasian space, but don't think they'd gladly positioned themselves as the part of the Slavic space.
So i think for Russia the question about Slavia isn't as easy, as it looks on the map. There's one way: Slavia must be something more, than just "ethno-political" unit, it must not be limited by any bounds and borders. It must be the big family, which consists of people - not countries.
So, yes, just wanted to say that i fully support your words.
Hi CookieStealer!
Yes, I thought about that already after reading that only about 60% or 65% of Russians are of Slavic origins.
Since then, my push was about uniting the Western and Southern Slavs into one Federation which would develop brotherly ties with the Rus Federation [BelaRus, Russia, Ukraine].
I know it would not be fair to force the rest of RF into a union called Slavia. I like RF the way it is. It's a beautiful federation of variety - something the Western and Southern Slavs should take an examle from.
I think it's alright to refer to ourselves as nations (as you say Slovaks, Czechs, Polaks, Croatians, Serbs, ...).
Of course, in my opinion it is a good idea to create one state but these nations have their own traditions and habits, their traditional clothes and languages. We just need to forget the past and forgive the other nations that we had a conflict with. :)
Indeed.
I think Slavian meant that "pan-slavic" self-consciousness (hope google translated this word correctly) must be higher and more important for all of us, than national self-consciousness. Of course we don't have to forget our nationalities and traditions :)
Frosty, our traditions and habits are so similar, it doesn't make sense to me to think of us as separate nations.
The fact that we do so, is a problem to begin with. Look at YugoSloavia and Ukraine/Russia problem.
If they learned in schools that we are Slavs instead of Croatians, Serbs, Slovenes, Ukrainians, ..., there would be much stronger unity among them all.
The way I see the NATIONAL question is this:
We all must become ONE NATION - a Slavic Nation, consisting of Slavs from various regions, NOT from various nations.
Slavs from the region of Slovakia, Bohemia, Moravia, Poland, Slovenia, the region of Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, .....
As much i would love to see this happen, all Slavs united, in one country, under current conditions it would be pretty much impossible. Slavic countries are distancing from one another, and those which are part of NATO, are de facto against the largest Slavic nation, the Russian federation, and in case of war, would have to fight against it. I am a Slav first and a Serb second and i put most of the blame for the breakup of Yugoslavia and most of the wars in the 20th and 21st century on the west(primarily NATO), not the direct participants.
The only way i can see Slavia happen is for the only slavic country which has the potential to do so, Russia, to crush the greatest evil since nazi Germany, NATO, once and for all.