Question: How has the collective consciousness in the Russians and the Ukrainians changed over the one and a half years of the war?
Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 Kazakhstan Conference.
Well, the biggest change has been in Ukraine. And that change started basically on the day the invasion started. Because before the war, there was a great division in the Ukrainian collective consciousness in terms of their relationship to Russia, where most people actually wanted to maintain a positive relationship with Russia. And that desire was shattered almost on the first day of the war. And it has just continued to erode so that there has been much more of a black and white attitude that has emerged in Ukraine towards Russia, where most people now realize that we cannot maintain a positive relationship with Russia and at the same time remain an independent nation.
And many more people now in Ukraine, except for the very eastern provinces, now have the attitude that we want to be a separate independent nation. And many more people have switched and realized that the only way we can be a separate, independent nation is to get support from the West, live up to Western democratic principles, Western economic principles, instead of trying to sit between two chairs, Russia and the West. There has been a considerable and very decisive shift among a majority of Ukrainians to switch towards the West and become more of a modern Western nation, joining the EU, joining NATO if possible. And this is something that was already started before the war, but it could have taken a decade or two before Ukraine was ready to make the commitment to join the EU or NATO. And now there is much more of a commitment. As we said in the webinar for Ukraine, there are some big hurdles to pass because there needs to be that commitment to eradicate corruption. Otherwise, Ukraine cannot join the EU.
Now, in terms of the Russian collective consciousness, regardless of what is said in the media, regardless of what people talk about, the start of the special military operation was still a shock in the collective consciousness—both in the emotional, mental and identity level. Many, many Russians have asked themselves the question, at least in their own minds: “Why would we start a war against a friendly nation that we claim to be our brothers?” And they have also asked the question: “Why did the West react the way they did this time, when they did not really react when we took Crimea? What was the difference? Why is the West now so determined to stop us from taking over Ukraine? Why is Ukraine so determined to fight against Russia and separate itself from Russia? What was the difference?” These are some of the questions that are very prominent in the collective consciousness, even if many people are not consciously aware of it. Then of course, in the emotional body, there is tremendous fear. What will the future bring?
There are some commentators who have said that there was a certain social contract between the Russian government and the people, where the people said: “You give us reasonable daily living conditions and we will not tell you how to run the country. You can do whatever you want in the political arena as long as you do not interfere with our daily lives.” And there is some validity to this.
Now that the war started, there is fear of what will the future bring? Will life be able to go on or will there be drastic changes? So far, most people think the changes have not been so drastic, but there is still the fear of what could happen. There is also the fear of how will the rest of the world look at Russia as a result of the war and after the war? How will this force us to look at ourselves, to change how we look at ourselves? And there is a very strong fear now of what the future might hold. Whereas before, there was a certain optimism that things are not so bad, things are maybe gradually getting better, and Russia is a great country and it is an important country in the world. And now there is a fear of what has happened to Russia’s standing in the world.
Now, most people in Russia are not consciously aware of the shift that has happened. We have talked about it before, how there was a decisive shift in the democratic world towards Russia when the invasion happened. Because suddenly, the hope that the democratic nations had that Russia would gradually improve was shattered. And the democratic nations were forced to admit that they had been naive. They have had a naive attitude towards Putin and his government. And this has been a difficult pill to swallow for many in the democratic nations. And it still is not fully resolved. And there is still uncertainty in the West as to how will the relationship with Russia be in the future. And this also affects what is going on in the Russian collective consciousness because people sense this unconsciously. They sense the insecurity, they sense the shift, but they do not know what exactly it means. And the problem, of course, is that there is no way to resolve this in the Russian collective consciousness because there is no free debate. There is only the government version that is being enforced so strictly, which is exactly the same that was there in the Soviet times so therefore, there could not be any resolution.
Now, you actually had, during Soviet times, a majority of the Russian people who were wondering: “Why do we have this kind of government? Why do we have a communist economic system?” And the majority did not really support it, but there was no way for them to express that, and it is the same today. The majority of the Russian people want what the majority of the people in the rest of the world want: good daily lives, good personal lives. And now they are fearing that this might be under threat, but they do not see any way that they can have an influence on it. And this ties in with what we already said about pacifying the people because they do not see what they can do about it.
Of course, if the Russian people would come together and stand up and demand change, the government would have to change, no matter what the conditions are. But the Russian people currently do not believe that this is possible, and that is why they are trapped. They feel insecurity, they feel the fear, but they feel powerless to do something about it, and what does that mean? The fear grows, the insecurity, the sense of insecurity grows, the sense of being powerless grows. And when you are powerless and see that there are inevitable changes, well, you feel more and more fear, unfortunately. None of us as ascended masters have any desire to see this. But again, when you have taken a certain development into the physical, there is little we can do but step back and allow physical events to unfold.
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