Iirc he was antisemite and proponent of central Asian nationalism? Something like that. Still, i think he did first proper marxist analysis of history of the nomads.
Do these people also claim Vladimir chose orthodox Christianity because other religions forbid alcohol?
Some of them do, although even polish history books (and said professor) have more sober look on it, probably because it mirrors reasons Poland (and most other european pagan countries) adopted this or that version of christianity.
In old western historiography, up to like 40-50 years ago Mongols were often portrayed as wild savages, "scourge of god" etc. Socialist historiography was more neutral on them (like Lev Gumilev or Stanisław Kałużyński). Recently westerners did close to a 180 on them though, as part of the historical revision trend going for at least 3 decades (most of that trend is actually not that bad, for example new critical look on ancient roman sources, still a lot worse than marxist view but a lot better than uncritically quoting Suetonius for example). From the top of my head read anything by John Man or Justin Marozzi.
"Based vikings ruling over the Russian savages" is often accompanied by "and then the savages took the worst from Mongols and became an asiatic horde and that's how Russia was born" which also don't prevent them from praising Mongols themselves.
Common opinion in polish internet and not only, i once heard that even from actual medieval history professor ex cathedra in university, just without the loud said slurs, those were only implied in his case.
Also Varangians weren't exactly this prominent in Byzantium, they were kept apart from rest of society (which often hated them because it's their axes that were chopping up the citizens heads in every significant riot) and they weren't even kingmaking as much as one could expect from a Byzantine throne bickering.
In USA the party in power is always the worst warmonger, and the other party pretend they wouldn't be in their place. It's worse kind of tribalism than football psychofans.
Animal intelligence and its products and human intelligence and its products are fundamentally the same. If beaver dam is natural then Three Gorges Dam is also natural. Difference is only in degree of sophistication.
I love how all the yesterday liberal pacifist are braying for WW3 now.
Everywhere i look i see a fucking NATO of all things being trashed for their smallest fig leaf of "we don't admit UA now because it would put us in the state of war with Russia".
Also "Ukraine will join NATO after war" is literally the same as saying "Now Russia will have to annex entire UA or have another war in a decade, world war this time"
In the current NATO summit they said basically that Ukraine will be admitted to NATO after war. I do belive it was absolutely purposeful thing to said because it basically blocks all possibility of peace without either complete annexation or at least far going regime and administration purge in Ukraine by Russia.
And Zelensky was furious at this. This will probably radicalize the less cynical ukronazis and however that war will end, they will then move unobstructed into the west with a massive knife in the back grudge.
Wew, i do know he had some bad takes about Khazars, but not that he coined that vile theory.