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Ironically this is a pretty good point in favor of GP, since the “powers that were” in Soviet Russia retained a great deal of their power and connections, as si
by binary132 1y ago
Ironically this is a pretty good point in favor of GP, since the “powers that were” in Soviet Russia retained a great deal of their power and connections, as sibling comment noted. That said, I don’t think there is even a remote resemblance between the imperial might of Old Rome and its remnants in Italia. What did and does remain are the lineage of Romanized nations that succeeded it in Western Europe, and as many others have noted, the Church, which is a whole other subject in itself.
- pqtyw 1y ago> between the imperial might of Old Rome and its remnants in Italia After more than a thousand years that's true. But Rome remained the "universal [Christian] Empire" well into the middle ages. In a way didn't really matter if its capital was in Constantinople or Aachen or Rome. Or if its ruler spoke Latin, Greek or even German. Its ~35 years since the the collapse of the USSR, its cultural identity has pretty much disappeared.