The West demolishes and throws away its monuments. Russia places monuments in honor of grandiose events and solemnly opens them.
The West is demonstratively and fiercely struggling with the memory of its heroes. Russia is reviving it.
The West in hysterical insanity destroys its history. Russia turns over the great pages of its history and again sheds light on them.
The West, plunging into the gloomy medieval totalitarianism, restricts its rights and freedoms. It discriminates against convictions, ethnicity, and religion, destroying the principle of equality. Instead of real democracy, it is building a maximally divided and demoralized society.
Russia is expanding and multiplying the rights and freedoms of the population, eliminating discrimination of people on political grounds, ethnic, cultural, religious grounds, achieving equality of people in their dignity. There is a desire to build real democracy.
In the West, white Christian Europe finds itself in brutal isolation, being subjected to multi-frontal attacks from all sides. Temples are often empty, closed, transformed into storage facilities.
Russia proclaims Orthodox values in the fundamental law of the country and strictly follows them. In every residential area of almost every Russian city, there is an Orthodox church.
Man in the West is not protected. He is vulnerable and open to any transient experiments. No, of course, he still receives a relatively stable socio-economic package, but he feels that this is all temporary. The psyche, soul and mind of a Westerner are subject to constant influence from the outside. There is practically no place for creation.
In Russia, a person is protected (as much as possible after the tragedy of the 90s). Man as value comes to the fore. A creative impulse is in demand. The state creates conditions in which any person can prove himself, find a use for himself, sow seedlings and reap the fruits of his labor.
These are just observations in comparison. However, the trends are undeniable. Further, the abyss will only widen. However, each person is able to turn history in a different direction.
Alexander Filey, Latvia