This kind of completely unhinged dehumanizing nonsense is bordering hate speech.
All gave up their psychotic empire-building games (or at least sublimated into forms not involving large-scale military conflict) long ago.
Russia's current regime, for some reason, has not.
They did not. They were subjugated by the current empire, the US and are all just fiefdoms nowadays, some of them are even occupied by military forces, called bases.
Russia isn't in that list.
Those countries are not "fiefdoms", by any stretch or interpretation.
Nor are they occupied, in any meaningful sense.
That's just delusional.
Russians, ironically, defeated the tartars when they managed to out-meritocrat the greatkhanless hordes somescore later,
-Then they basically reverted to divine right of kings*, aka the mandate of heaven..
-until the time of Lenin, when the cycle began anew..
*Apologies for ignoring the slight detour of Peter the Great** (known to be enlighteningly cruel) whose table of ranks could have been said to have set "his Excellency" (Prevoskhoditel’stvo) Ulyanov up for life
**but we should also pay attention to the current phenomenon of lionizing Catherine as a monarch more Christian than Peter
[Recall that the christians did not meritocracy until roughly... 1848 (again, ignoring the Glourious Revolution) over thence we had Weber retconning for his tribe]
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...and that Goldstein basically writes about the meritocracy* of the Inner Party, as set out in the non-fictional The Managerial Revolution (1941).
* Smith is in the outer party precisely because he did poorly on his A-levels.
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCs_c643qU
(not sure if the russian fleet really kept the royal navy away during the US Civil War; my impression had been that the Confederacy had waited too long to revolt, and the second-cheapest supplier of cotton [egypt?] for british mills was not much more expensive than the CSA would've been in any case)