> FSB: brainwashed 140 million Russian nation.
Cause the word "Russians" is a political generalization. You call Russian those who do not consider themselves as such.
In Russia, Russians self-name Less than 25% of the population (officially). In the Soviet Union in the passport could choose a nationality. In RussiaFederation does not, but this has not abolished self-identification.
The word "Russians" is a political substitution of concepts. I do not consider myself as Russian.
Now i will try to explain it to you. The English political term "Russians" is identified by two Russian words: русские (russkie) и россияне (rossiyane). Российская Федерация (Rossiyskaya Federatsia) legally now consists only of rossiyane.
Sometimes legitimacy is bought for money (~ $ 10 for any signature, all Russians understand that this is a farce, and if you need money - many people will use it opportunity). It is in the "civilized" russkie regions.
in the so-called "national" regions, there is no ceremony with the purchase of legitimacy:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aH7kYe3FmNo https://meduza.io/en/feature/2018/03/19/the-results-of-russia-s-2018-presidential-electionIn the last election, a whopping 99.8 percent of all ballots in Chechnya went to Putin.
https://gawker.com/5864945/putin-clings-to-victory-as-russias-voter-turnout-exceeds-146Elections and the collection of statistics - is primarily a way of earning for the poor.
There is a good word for the concept of Russian: simulacrum.
all that is written here is not true:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RussiansIt is on commonplace level.
Young people up to 20-30 years can call themselves Russians, thanks to the Prussian education system. But after this age, national (ethnic) identity is awakens and the person is no longer called himself Russians. Unless them are paid for it.
There are a small number of Russians who sincerely support this concept because of the oath given with obligatory military service in the regions of Russia, Most of the residents of Moscow and Petrograd (Leningrad), and of a couple of large cities - this is who publicly declare that they are Russians (rossiyane and russkie at the same time). Maybe 10 million will be. 20 - highly doubt.
and now i will try to transfer the semantic part:
single masculine forms of current nationalities on russian languge:
russkiy
belarus (belorusian means white russian, beliy - white)
gruzin (georgian)
ukrainets (ukrainian)
nemets (german)
anglichanen (englishman)
amerikanets
mexicanets
frantsuz
Masculine forms of words ends on consonants for all local nationalities except 'russkiy'. -iy - means that the word answers the question "whose?" or "what?". for example, "German Jew" on russian will be "nemetskiy evrey", nemetskiy - iy ("whose?"). By the way, in Russia the word "жид" "zhid" is considered unacceptable after the Soviet revolution, offensive, Jews call themselves "Evrey" like in "Evrope" (Europe). before revolution them was zhids and live in Pale of Settlement. Another by the way, i would add that Chabad Lubavitch is just local guys, from Smolensk region, "russkiy everey". but the word "everey" is not a nationality, the nationality is "israelityanen", consonant ends.
Or "american mexican" will be "amerikanskiy mexicanets", amerikanskiy.
There no any semantic masculine form of word "russkiy" in russian language.
Rossiyanin could be any northern slavaynin (smolenskaya oblast), fin, tatar (tatarstan republic), yakut (saha republic), karel (karelia republic), altayets (altayskiy kray and altay mount republic), udmurt, chechen (chechmnya republic), kabardin, evrey (evreyskaya autonomnaya oblast), armyan, osetin etc etc, many of them use russkiy yazik (russian language) for communication, but not all. Official statistics rigged. The data that the Kremlin delivers to international organizations - they are falsified.
I hope i managed to convey to you the idea why few people in Russia voluntarily call themselves russkiy or rossiyanen.
This is a modern status in Russia, without etymology and accounting for European languages, in which a Slav is a slave. In Russia, on the contrary, "russkiy" means "someone's" (belongs to someone), not "in itself."
https://youtube.com/watch?v=00PwnU8CKVg(with automatic translate it will be fine)
Well, add to this that the modern conflict between Russia and Ukraine (and especially the separation of churches) deducts 500 years from the civilized history of Russia (which is officialy 1000 years old, actually less than 200). most of the KGB consisted of Ukrainians (Russians with Ukrainians distinguish each other by last name, most Ukrainians do not know Ukrainian and speak only Russian). Ukrainians call "Russkiy" as "Moskal" (humiliatingly). Many residents of Russia also use this terminology in relation to metropolitan residents.
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