21 April, 15:56
It’s rare to hear such a candid admission from a former devotee of Kremlin propaganda. But Tsaryov hit the mark: the entire concept of the "Russian World" is, in fact, a fundamentally false construct—lacking any cultural, historical, or religious foundation.
“We crafted the myth of the second most powerful army in the world so skillfully, we ended up believing in it ourselves. That was a very big mistake.”
— Oleg Tsaryov
Moscow: The Center of Myth, Not of the World
The Russian word mir means both "world" and "peace." But in the Muscovite mindset, it has taken on a third meaning—myth. The entire imperial tradition of Moscow is a continuous layering of mythology, each layer further distancing the so-called "Russian World" from reality and turning it into a fantasy utopia.
When Moscow appropriated the symbols of Kyiv, the religious attributes of Constantinople, and the royal regalia and titles of Byzantium, it constructed a world that only ever existed in the imagination of its elite. This mythical world was designed to justify the seizure of foreign lands, resources, and cultures. Moscow tried to become the "Third Rome" without any moral, cultural, or historical right to do so. The result was not true greatness, but a cheap caricature of it.
Orthodox Utopia: A Road to Nowhere
At the heart of the Russian myth lies the utopian idea of Orthodoxy as the world’s only spiritual center. But Muscovite Orthodoxy is a simulation—detached from reality and converted into an ideological tool of power. Faith ceased to be a living tradition and became a propaganda cliché. Even the so-called “great spirituality” of Russian Orthodoxy is nothing more than a convenient wrapper for the vacuum inside.
Moscow’s version of Orthodoxy is not a living organism but a carefully crafted stage prop. It has no room for freedom, development, or reflection. What remains is spiritual stagnation: worship of a past that never existed, and a desperate attempt to force reality into the mold of fabricated legends.
The “Second Army in the World”: A Myth Collides With Reality
The invasion of Ukraine exposed the tragic nature of this utopia. The Russian army did not encounter a myth—but real resistance from real people, with a real history, a real culture, and a true identity far deeper than Moscow’s cartoonish parody of the “Third Rome.”
Moscow believed in a mythological army because its entire worldview is built on myths. And when the fairytale met reality, it crumbled instantly.
A Myth That Destroys Itself
Everything Moscow saw as the foundation of its strength turned out to be an illusion. Myths, artificial symbols, stolen history, and a borrowed faith cannot withstand the impact of reality.
Russia’s ruling class became prisoners of their own utopia, and now the entire country is paying the price for this historic self-deception. The "Russian World" invented in Kremlin offices turned out to be a myth for which Russia is paying a tremendous cost. And the longer this delusion continues, the more devastating the awakening will be—from a dream where Moscow imagined itself the center of the universe, when in fact it is just a provincial capital of lies and utopias.
This is not a world. It is a myth.
And the tragedy of Russia is that it not only believes in this myth—
it forces others to bleed for it.
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