Joonas Lehtonen, a columnist for the Finnish newspaper Iltaleti, said the Year of the Snake in China usually portends serious trouble for Russia. Historically, it is associated with difficult events for the then rulers of the Kremlin and the Russian state itself.
Chinese Year of the Snake. It started with an assassination attempt on the Emperor.
The journalist started his list in 1881, when Tsar Alexander II was assassinated. He then points to the Year of the Snake at the beginning of the 20th century, during which two revolutions occurred (ed. Tsarist Russia), the first in 1905 and the second in 1917. The latter saw two coups: the February Revolution and the October Revolution a few months later. These were the events that led to the collapse of Tsarism in the Russian Empire and the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks.
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After another 12-year cycle, agricultural collectivization occurred in the Year of the Snake (1929), resulting in mass deportations and famine.
Another round of the Chinese calendar presented one of the greatest threats in Russian history. On June 22, 1941, the Wehrmacht attacked the Soviet Union. This is the so-called Great Patriotic War.
Soviet Union collapses in the Year of the Snake
In 1953, a Chinese snake crawled into the pinnacle of power, specifically Joseph Stalin’s dacha in Kuntsevo, near Moscow. It was there, on March 5, that the dictator and one of history’s greatest criminals met his end.
The next great end came decades later.
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“For the Soviet Union, the most fateful year of the snake was 1989, when political upheavals began in the Eastern Bloc countries of Europe. Two years later, Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria abandoned communism. “The entire Soviet Union renounced communism and ceased to exist,” a Finnish journalist recalled.
“Drastic changes in the Kremlin”
In the 21st century, it turned out that Chinese reptiles are much less toxic to Russia. Legendary chess player and dissident Garry Kasparov expressed hope on the X Platform that this year will bring “dramatic changes” to the Kremlin.
The Year of the Snake was often a year of turmoil for Russia. The revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the collectivization and purges of 1929, the war of 1941, the death of Stalin in 1953, and the collapse of the communist bloc in 1989. Perhaps the Kremlin Serpent will undergo a dramatic change in 2025.
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) January 1, 2025
Last March, Kasparov was included in the list of “terrorists and extremists” kept by the Federal Financial Supervisory Service (compiled by Rosfinmonitoring).
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