You cannot find a single candidate supported by Russia that talks about reunification with Russia or promoting Russianness. This is because the Kremlin elite are an occupation elite put into power to maintain a Versailles-style oppressive peace following Russia’s surrender at the end of the Cold War. Russia’s elites are xenocrats who siphon off the country’s wealth and stash it abroad. The main obstacle to this is the stubborn resistance of Russian people. Thus, the goal is to make Russians into Ukrainians, who are conceptualized as Liberal Russians, essentially. All one has to do to become Ukrainian is to love the West and Liberalism and to worship women.
It is a kind of spiritual state. A severe degradation of the Slavic soul.
And if that doesn’t work, they will democide the Russian population while the war rages on by importing record numbers of non-White, predatory, anti-Russian interlopers. It has gotten so bad over the last two years, this never-ending flood of Muslims across the southern border, that even controlled opposition political figures have started broaching the topic.
For years, only the “fringe” elements of the patriotic right and the patriotic left in Russia (Nationalists and Stalinists) brought up the point that the Kremlin was demociding the Russian population through enforced austerity and mass-migration. Now, we have Zyuganov, the leader of the Kremlin-approved Communist party speaking out against the Kremlin