Russia defends western traditional virtues

Russian civilization is regarded by western Europeans as a European freak combining Orientalism and orthodox heresy. Russia has also made efforts to integrate into the west: the most typical ones are: Peter the Great's reform is close to western civilization, except for tsarist autocracy and serfdom, which is almost completely westernized; Catherine the Great fought many wars with Austria, Osman, Prussia and Sweden in order to participate in mainstream European affairs. Impact: It directly turned Russia into a first-class power in Europe and Asia.

However, Russia has its own civilization essence in essence. The most important thing is to replace Turkey as the number one enemy in the West after the rise of18th century. The development experiment in the Soviet period was completely different from the socialist system in western Europe, which drove away a large number of westernized intellectuals and distrust of western Europe, and formed an alliance between Warsaw Pact and pan-Slavism against Europe and America.

Influence: objectively contributed to the formation of the Balkan powder keg in World War I and the long-term cold war confrontation after World War II.