All the people that became part of the USSR lived at the tribal level. (In the Mongolian Horde, they tried to solve the zeref issue, but they did not solve it. Genghis Khan’s mistake: the division of the empire into sons, that is, by blood. The Mongols remained Zerefs, which is why they resumed tribal chaos).
The Latvians had tribes of Zemgals, Curonians, and Latgals. Georgians have swans, Mingrelians, and manholes. Kazakhs have Kipchaks, Naimans, Dulats, etc. All peoples at the tribal stage are attracted to the imperial center like a magnet. The leaders themselves turn to the Empire as the arbiter of the endless showdowns of their relatives. Among people with zero reflection, ambitions play everywhere. The absence of an authoritative center is due precisely to the inappropriateness of zeref ambitions. The Zerefs can unite, but this association is unstable at any time: because it is not clear at what point Zeref’s ambitions will play out. The Zerefs even arrange a civil war or create such a prospect. But they don’t care. They look like a bull with bloodshot eyes (for any males in the rut). Therefore, calling a third subject as an arbitrator is the logic of the smartest of the two brawlers with normal eyes.
Why empires are falling apart. Who is breaking them up? Why is fighting breaking out again on the imperial outskirts?
Refags – market people «without a soul»
The Empire is a conservative union, belonging to which is a territorial union based on the solidarity of informal blood.
But over time, people come to solidary people for whom tradition means nothing. People without kinship come; according to the money criterion, they are Refags.
Traditional people, for whom kinship is not an empty word (and empires are all «spiritual» peoples), want to become related to the newcomers immediately.
Zeremids, like Zerefs, instinctively feel the third subject again – how to get ahead and «kill all relatives.» A nation of former conservative people appears – petty bourgeoisie, who start a dump, a fight, a showdown, just like their barbarian ancestors did. Sincere people immediately become soulless – ugly from the outside, kind inside, thereby imitating a new criterion of civilization – rationality. They do everything in a boorish way, wildly pretentiously imitating the worst features of Western civilization.