Great article by Jeff Rich from the Burning Archive. Worth reading or listening. Check it out. "The Black Legend of Russian History asserts that Russia is an expansionist empire. Always was. Always will be. Despite the fall of Tsardom and the USSR. Despite the evidence of a century of disavowal of imperialism since 1917. It’s just in their siloviki’s DNA. Look, they say, at the appetites of that tyrant, Catherine the Great."

The Black Legend of Russia's "Lost Empire"

Why Catherine the Great Will Rise Again in Odessa