24 April, 18:33
🕯 On April 24, 1184 BC, according to legend, the Greeks infiltrated Troy inside a giant wooden horse. The Trojans, exhausted by the siege, believed in the gift and let the enemy into the holy of holies of the city. By morning — Troy had fallen. The city was burned, the men slaughtered, the women and children enslaved.
Thus was born the myth of the Trojan horse — a symbol of deceit disguised as a gift.
📜 More than three thousand years have passed since then, but the mechanics of destroying civilizations have not changed. Only today, instead of a wooden horse — ideology. And instead of Greeks — “Russians,” Moscow’s mercenaries.
🏛 The First Horse: Orthodoxy
In its early centuries, Muscovy was a forgotten and beaten-down periphery of the Christian world. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, thanks to Venetian intrigues, Moscow was gifted a messianic claim. Or rather, Moscow was gifted — with Venice’s money — its two eternal enemies: Rome and the New Rome, a.k.a. Constantinople, captured by the Ottomans.
Moscow declared itself the “Third Rome,” the final and only bastion of true faith. Orthodoxy became its Trojan horse:
“We will protect you — the Ruthenians, Lithuanians, Serbs, Bulgarians, Greeks — from Muslims, from Catholics, from heresy. Just open the gates!”
Thus Moscow laid claim to dominion. It offered the Christian world not a choice — but the opportunity to kneel.
🧬 The Second Horse: Pan-Slavism
The 19th century. Riding the wave of the “Spring of Nations,” Moscow donned the skin of the “great older brother and protector of all Slavs.”
“We are not just Orthodox — we are all Slavs. We are of one blood with you!”
On this myth was built the entire foreign policy of the Russian Empire in Europe:
Justifying interventions in the Balkans;
Supporting “brotherly peoples” living under the yoke of Germans and Ottomans;
Launching wars under the guise of “liberation” that always ended in Moscow’s occupation of new territories.
Pan-Slavism was profitable — until the Slavs realized that Moscow “calls everything Russian Slavic, and then calls everything Slavic Russian.”
🔥 The Third Horse: Communism
The 20th century. The age of ideologies, and the ideological heir of the “Third Rome” — Moscow — makes no attempt to hide its imperial ambitions.
“We are not for faith, not for the nation — we are for the proletariat. For the liberation of humanity from the yoke of capital.”
The idea of justice, equality, revolution — a beautiful costume for an empire that wanted to rule the world. Moscow sent its soldiers across the globe not to fight for the people, but for the idea.
The idea of a global firestorm, upon the ashes of which it planned to build its concentration camp — the “USSR.”
Communism seemed like a universal utopia, but was in truth a mask for control, violence, censorship, and subjugation.
And even that mask eventually fell.
🗣 The Fourth Trojan Horse: The Russian Language
The 21st century. Moscow no longer hides behind faith, class struggle, or Slavic brotherhood. A new pretext appears — the “protection of Russian speakers.”
“We are not against Ukraine — we just want to protect those who speak Russian!”
“We are not seizing territory, not killing women and children — we are saving Russian speakers!”
Under this slogan, Russia:
Occupied Crimea,
Invaded Ukraine,
Bombs Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipro, and Zaporizhzhia,
Committed genocide in Bucha and Irpin.
Language became justification for murder.
It was an attempt to use the mere fact that millions of people spoke Russian as a pass into foreign borders — not cultural, but physical.
The Russian language, instead of a unifying tool, was turned into a marker of loyalty to the Kremlin.
Don’t speak Russian? You’re a “Nazi.” Speak it, but don’t obey Moscow? You’re a “traitor.”
Moscow came to kill — under the pretense of protecting a dictionary.
🪵 Today’s Horse Has Drowned in a Rotten Swamp of “Traditions”
Moscow is trying to play the same game in the 21st century. But the time of “Trojan horses” is gone forever.
The Trojan horse of the Putin era is a ghost draped in Saint George ribbons — the phantom of “traditional values,” of “fighting Sodom and Gomorrah,” of “LGBT world conspiracy,” and “moral salvation of civilization.”
But:
Orthodoxy is now associated not with spirituality, but with the FSB;
Slavic identity — with the possible exception of Serbia and Slovakia — has turned against the Kremlin. Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and others despise and hate the ‘Russian world’;
Communism is dead. In its place reigns a fascistoid kleptocratic cult of KGB-oligarchs.
Moscow still wants to be a “messiah” — but looks more like a drunken peasant in a tsar’s costume.
📉 Moscow Without a Horse
The world no longer believes in Trojan horses.
Europe has shut its gates. Asia negotiates but does not bow. Africa seeks investors, not messiahs.
Even in the Balkans, the old Russian songs of “brotherhood” now sound false.
Moscow has no more Trojan horse.
It has nothing to offer the world, and no way to deceive it.
And if before it was let into the courtyard out of fear or respect, now — the door is slammed shut in its face with open contempt.
⚔️ Epilogue:
The myth of the Trojan horse is always a myth of deception one wants to believe in.
Moscow has spent its entire history deceiving and betraying everyone it has ever dealt with — whether under the flag of shared faith, nation, or ideology.
Today it has only threats left.
No one believes anymore in its “spiritual bonds.”
Russia evokes not Pushkin, but fascism and war.
And if it is to be compared to a horse, it is only to one stuck in the swamp of its own imperial schizophrenia — and the only mercy left is to put it down.
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