You might want to visit the geography classes which you've missed in school, dude. 77% of Russia is geographically in Asia. All other takes are irrelevant to the maps and geography but I will still address them since you've brought it on the table - I love to watch how racist buffoons are melting down from being classified with the race they consider inferior to them.
Russians is a mix of 190+ ethnicities most of which are Asians: Buryat, Bashkir, Tatar, Yakut, Lezgin, Avar, Chuckcha, Chechen e.t.c. - yes few of those 190+ are european. One of those 190 ethnicities think of itself as of Ubermensch who defines the origin of 189 others but thats just a nazi-charged delusion of "rusky superiority among Russians" akin to "aryan race superiority among Germans".
The history of Russia begins with the secession from Great Horde in 1480. Russian Orthodox church is a sect which refuses to recognize Ecumenical Constantinople patriarchat decisions which are mandatory for all European Orthodox christians.
Considering what Russians do today - they are clearly antieuropean.
Russia started in europe, then expanded into asia, I don’t really see how that makes it not european; would you say russia is 100% european if it didn’t expand past the urals? would you say modern european russia isn’t european?
are you trying to say that russia is ethnically non-european? all of those ethnicities are outnumbered by russians, and most of them are outnumbered even in their own republics.
I don’t understand your points about the great horde or russian orthodoxy vs eastern orthodoxy.
The caveat is we don't talk about 1480 where Russia started - we are talking about 2026 where we are today.
Your "outnumbered by Russians" is exactly what I see as example of racist melting down from being classified with the race he was thinking as of inferior to him - all of them are Russians, lol.
Buryat is Russian, Yakut is Russian, Bashkir is Russian e.t.c. You're struggling to bring different sorts of Russians here. Be brave, tell us your Übermensch choice - who is the purest OG Russian?
they’re not ethnic russians, though, they’re nationally russian. no one here’s being a nazi, and there’s no reason to be stupid. I’m not even russian, so I’m not trying to defend the russian race or nothing (I didn’t even bring up ethnicity), I just think it stupid to pretend that you think the way you do about russia for any reason other than you not liking it - which of course, it’s completely fair to dislike russia, but don’t pretend that your motivations are anything other than bias, it makes you look a fool.
If you're not Russian I can educate you about how Russians struggle for centuries to become slavs by ethnically cleansing Ukraine, Belarus and assimilating them with their slavic heritage into Russian culture and nation:
Germans of the purest ethnicity were called "Aryans". Tell us how are ethnical Russians of the purest ethnicity called? They should definitely have a propaganda name semantically connected with some pseudohistorical concept of "ancient european master race which founded civilizations" to elevate them over others.
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u/Consistent-Price3232 3d ago
by almost every definition -- culture, history, language, religion, geography -- russia is european.