slavs will never be White. keep seething Ivan
"hurr le durr the ethnically homogenous population of the biggest European country is not huwite acktschualy!!1"
Look, I know "White nationalism" is not real and everyone believing in this bullshit is fucking retarded, but trying to argue against basic bitch biology is just as moronic as genuinely believing in the Amerimutt meme.
And the Russian Empire under the Romanovs wasn't a nation-state.
It literally was. Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality was our doctrine and everything in the country was built to function accordingly. You had to serve for years, even decades to become the part of our nobility. Every single territory conquered by the RE (except Finland and Poland) underwent the following changes: the minorities there were often Russified, their elites were offered a chance to join our nobility and their land was gradually populated with ethnically Russian peasantry and lower nobility - that's what happened in Siberia and the Caucasus, for example (now compare that to how commies de-facto built turnkey nations for every single ethnos in Middle Asia instead and what happened to the Russian people in particular and all the non-titulars in general in those freshly built republics in the 90s as a result). Orthodox Christianity was the official state religion and the Russian Orthodoxy itself is, by all means, acts as an ethnic religion. Russian Empire was, no matter how you look at it, a functional ethnostate. Yes, it was a flawed country and yes, it wasn't even a developed state, but none of those things matter because it was a NORMAL European country. Kinda like the US is now - despite all the flaws and liberalism bullshit, it's still a NORMAL country with independent courts, a prerogative of private property, proper gun rights and an absolute infallibility of the US Constitution. No matter how bad it may get, as long as you have your NORMAL country, you can always make a comeback (see: MAGA) because you have what it takes for the smooth and gradual progress of your society. On the contrary, if your country isn't NORMAL, it will sooner or later abysmally collapse into abhorrent ethnoreligious conflicts and decades of local dark ages - the USSR lasted a pathetic
70 years and Yugoslavian Republic - a laughable
50.