/View.information/ Prof. Dr. Darina Grigorova is a lecturer on the College of Historical past of the College of St. Kliment Ohridski”. Writer of the books “Freedom and autocracy. Russian liberalism on the finish of the nineteenth century”, “Eurasianism in Russia”, “Phoenix Empire”.
– Prof. Grigorova, the world has not been in such a pandemic disaster because it skilled in 2020 for a century. All international locations are affected, however to not the identical extent. Who’re doing nicely? Why did we overtake China in mortality? Do you agree with the assertion of the Russian president that Russia has performed it extra efficiently than Europe and the USA?
– The data tsunami concerning the corona horrors remains to be flooding us and the disaster has not been skilled to see what the harm is. China’s success is for China, Russia’s success – the vaccine, is for everybody – this can be a conceptual distinction. With the very important clarification that covid vaccination stays a proper of selection.
Bulgaria and China are incomparable magnitudes to be in contrast. The reason for a person human demise can solely be given by the pathologist, all the pieces else is a statistic with floating standards. In our nation there’s asymptomatic poverty, continual social inadequacy, the mortality from the lockdown is but to present itself and will overtake that from covid.
– The world is in a rush to ship the nightmare 12 months 2020, however perhaps we should always keep in mind it? As a historian, do you consider that humanity remembers for a very long time, grows wiser and learns from what occurs?
– Reminiscence is selective and is determined by the worth system, as a result of it determines the hierarchy of the vital and the secondary, of what we remind ourselves so as to not overlook, and never retailer it in a memo locker. Therefore, our perspective in the direction of this surreal 12 months will rely upon how we handed the check. It is rather particular person, however for everybody 2020 will drag on into 2021, the chronology is an illusory barrier/masks.
– Has the corona disaster already modified us or are transformations coming?
– He knocked us over. Dividing strains have been uncovered: of the Mohicans of actual life – offline, in opposition to the digital imitation with a compulsory character, the cherished digitization. The particular person or the avatar?
The rift can be between traditionalists – whether or not left or proper in conviction, whether or not with Atlantic or Eurasian sympathies, however all of them are statesmen in opposition to gender ideology, on the one hand, and motley postmodernists with a floating/constructed identification and with a continual lack of ideological toughness, on the opposite one other. The person and the girl or the postman?
The lockdown additionally revealed the beforehand theoretical stratification of future castes: “native” versus “planetary” (see Andrey Fursov). For now, along with the correct of free motion with digital entry, different “rights” with an digital expiration date comply with. However there’s additionally resistance, attributable to the haste with digital measures, by the underestimation of individuals, massively unwilling to dwell in “ecosystems” like in a pc recreation with a man-made intelligence overseer and with a person ranking (“success” of China).
– Do you’re feeling a shift in geopolitical balances? Will the corona disaster or the change of the White Home have a larger influence on the West’s relations with Russia sooner or later?
– The corona disaster is barely a brand new software for the perspective in the direction of a separate nation normally, not solely in the direction of Russia, however this will probably be a part of a brand new protocol or “corona” ranking, if you’ll. The geo-economic balances are shifting, however we nonetheless do not know who the winners are and what are they – international locations or companies?
– Once more we expelled a Russian diplomat with a motive for espionage. Do these espionage scandals have an effect on the Sofia-Moscow axis?
– The Russian pipeline has simply been quietly accomplished – with long-term success, and the Russian “spy” was instantly kicked out noisily – with a short-term impact, however to the enjoyment of our Atlantic companions, that we’re feeding their troopers, don’t fret ! Diversification in response to Ganovsky.
– In your opinion, is the geopolitical position that Bulgaria will play within the subsequent decade already taking form? Will warships or sailboats float within the Black Sea?
– Each, the query is whose ships and in whose waters? However since we all know whose Crimea it’s, it is okay.
– The “Three Seas” undertaking is gaining momentum. In 2021, we may also host the initiative. Will Europe divide this undertaking? Does the undertaking have a future and what do you count on Moscow’s response to be?
– The Three Seas, or the Mediterranean, is a Polish international coverage doctrine with imperial roots, which within the twentieth century was activated briefly after the collapse of Russia (1917), in the course of the First Polish Republic (1918–1939), and revived after the collapse of the USSR (1991 ). The purpose is a sanitary cordon between Poland and Russia – their widespread border is barely the Kaliningrad area. The Baltic states, Belarus, and from the Black Sea Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria should play the position of this anti-Russian buffer.
The Trimoret doesn’t divide Europe, as a result of solely Jap Europe participates in it, which the Poles now name “Central-Jap Europe”, however not Previous Europe – Western. The triumvirate separates the EU from Russia and kinds a military-political infrastructure – anti-Russian.
If the that means of the Trimoret for the Poles was traditionally defined by the worry of “Russian imperialism”, now the enemy is the “Russian risk” (reference NATO). Belarus thwarts the closing of the “three-sea” ring and the Polish exercise in opposition to Lukashenka is with out outcome.
Why ought to Bulgaria take part on this odious undertaking with North Atlantic fanfare and Balkan fanfare? As a substitute of smoothing over the contradictions between Brussels and Moscow, and Sofia nonetheless having the capability to provoke a Russian-European dialogue, we turn out to be an confederate with out exterior stress – self-consciously, in an anti-Russian construction underneath the ideological management of Poland. Not second, third gear, simply out of servitude.
Is there a future? After Crimea’s accession to Russia (2014), the Trimoret has no future, however it’s harmful for EU-Russia relations. Nevertheless it extends the life and finances of NATO.
– What, in your opinion, is the occasion outdoors the corona disaster that “sunk” into it, however can have a structuring significance for world politics?
– I do not see that far, however the WHO emerged from the corona disaster as a supranational construction with parallel authority in a worldwide scope, one thing like WADA and Rospotrebnadzor mixed. The patron paradise is being radically changed by a medical paradise. The person turns into consumed/consumed, the best way is paved with caring intentions, reminded with the insistence of an promoting mantra: “the brand new regular”.
– There is no such thing as a manner, making a abstract, to not ask you concerning the heated disputes with the Republic of North Macedonia, which dominated the final two months. Did Bulgaria purchase subjectivity in European politics, lastly clearly expressing its pursuits and defending its place, regardless of stress from influential powers comparable to Germany?
– Bulgaria defended its nationwide pursuits and proper to historical past, which must be reminded of the EU whether it is changed by a Bulgarian-phobic one, as is the case with the North Macedonians. Nonetheless, it’s puzzling that we did all the pieces for the RSM to enter NATO, at the price of historic amnesia, and now we did all the pieces doable to forestall the RSM from becoming a member of the EU. On the danger of being skeptical of diplomatic braveness solely as a show of inspiration, it appears to me that the query is which exterior energy does the EU want to forestall it from absorbing the post-Yugoslav lands together with the Albanian ones? If post-Yugoslavia stays solely inside NATO, that is tantamount to American management, Albright’s rhetoric however. France doesn’t have robust positions to affect, though there’s such a model alongside the Albanian query. Turkey’s exercise within the RSM wouldn’t be the identical if the latter grew to become a part of the EU. However on this state of affairs, the coincidence of our pursuits with these of an exterior issue is optimistic for Bulgaria.
There may be additionally a unfavourable nuance, NATO doesn’t assure territorial integrity (reference Greece), not like the EU.
Accusations of “nationwide selfishness” are an ideological cliché for a double normal. When it’s a few small nation, it’s “nationwide selfishness”, when it’s a few massive nation, the identical is named “nationwide curiosity”.
The suitable to historical past is a proper to the long run – nationwide, not colonial.
– What would be the phrase that may outline the 12 months 2021 for Bulgaria. Change?
– Return.
“As a burden threw the black weariness,
what bleak days bequeathed you…
Humbly entered the room acquainted,
your final haven and refuge,
to whisper tender phrases within the silence
stared into the outdated icon…”
DEBELYANOV
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