“It turns out the Soviets — er, the Russians — won. The U.S. has become Russia, not the other way around. The U.S. lost the Cold War — not to communism, but to autocracy.”

Imagine a liberal version of “On the Jewish question”, but Russian instead

{The Russian Federation} reaches its highest point with the perfection of {aUtOcRaCy}, but it is only in the {Western} world that {aUtOcRaCy} attains perfection. Only under the dominance of {the West} , which makes all national, natural, moral, and theoretical conditions extrinsic to man, could {aUtOcRaCy} separate itself completely from the life of the state, sever all the species-ties of man, put {aUtOcRaCy} in the place of these species-ties, and dissolve the human world into a world of {totalitarian} individuals who {obediently supervise} one another.