Theses on Russian Federation

Recently I've started some thesises of my ideological opinion and observations as well as theoretical speeches I would present to the russian people.

 My first speech:
CITIZENS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION!

Glory to the russian(Rossiyani not ethnic) people! The first people who successfully rebelled against their  capitalist and dvoryan masters and left were the first to abandon poisonous victorian social-darwinistic ideas, religious and classist bigotry, thus unlocking a chance for the further development for human relations in the form of cooperation, justice, equality, and respect.

Unfortunately that chance chance squandered and eventually destroyed by the agents of the factions that had tried for more than 500 years to destroy or subdue us. More than 20 years ago our countries(the socialist soviet republics) suffered one of the greatest tragedies in our history. This was the destruction of the soviet union  which  condemned us since then to economic shock therapy, oligarchic classism, submission to and control by  the western empires, criminal rule , degradation of human relations and religious bigotry. Russia alone endured more economic and demographic losses than those inflicted by the nazis and their east european bourgeois lackeys.  Traitorous western agents and oligarchs sold out our economy and ruined the lives of millions of our people at the command of their overseas masters, descendants and glorifiers of the western colonial empires that tortured, enslaved  and murdered millions throughout 6 continents, and flaunted  their wealth from that exploitation as a fruit of so-called freedom of oppurtunity if their oligarchic capitalist system and of course the supposed superiority and righteousness of their race.

Russians are one if the victims of this policentennial global travesty, namely 100 years ago and today. The former was a process of installing  atlanticist pro-anglosaxon dvoryans and tsars, in the russian court who relied on the western technology and economy n, fought in their wars  sacrificing millions of russian lives for nothing and purposefully stagnating the russian economy and social development in exchange of their opulent western backed lifestyle. Thankfully these parasites were removed onece and for all by the brave russian working class and peasentry in the october revolution.  

This sort of process unfortunately happened to us again with the fall of the USSR when US neoliberal oligarchy took control. Although currently they're in political opposition to the western empire, their economic model still serves the west and themselves.

part 2:All this talk about restoring russian imperial and religious might is however meaningless. With the current trend of world politics, yes, you might have it: another state that exploits it's working class by oligarchs and bourgeoisie, this time replacing dvoryans . No concern other than petty capitalist and imperialist competition (only in our supposed small sphere of influence) and protection of short term interests, and doing  nothing to destroy once and for all the western empire's terrorism and  the global capitalist system that is enslaving 90% of us. No, comrades, our path should lie in the future and taking the role of advancing and leading the whole humanity culturally, ideologically  and technologically, sonce all others can't or acting against it. This makes have a unique position as the only possible  meaningful opposition to the global western ologarchy. China would seam like an alternative, but it itself is little more than sloghtly more authoritarian capitalist ologarchy. Besides, do you really want us to be a secondary regional  entity under china's leash?

Comrades, don't you want a new meaning to the word soviet? As a word that brings the strive for equality and justice, that heightens class conciousness, a word that breaks  exploitation and social darwinism, that brings undertsanding of and hope  for relieving the pain of exploitation and genocide, that respects and  values other countries without trying to warp or destroy them all the while bringing the unique, advanced and beautiful cultures of it's own, the cultures of the people of all the soviet republics.  Comrades, it's time for Russia to rise up to its fullest form and put in its hands the advancement and salvation of the oppressed people in the world  who are resisting the empire that the current capitalist and soon to be imperial Russia wouldn't bat an eye for.

Part 3: All our republics payed a terrible price for our defiance. We russians must rise up again just like we did against our arrogant and cruel dvoryans in 1917 and les 14 other peoples to cultrual and economic and cultural equality and progress unseen before, while all othersuperpowers were beating, shooting, and mutilating due to delusions of racial or class superiority. Today our objective would be to liberate ourselves  forever and demolish from western capital , our and their  ruling class, monarchist and faschist influence and the capitalist system.

To be continued...

Ill also post a few short thesises.


I can already imagine the rage and from Aryanwolf for not hating the jews but the anglosaxons and tsar instead, TRightwing for hating on neoliberalism, and NaziRus hating oligarchs and the bourgeoisie

Thesis #1
The Russian oligarchic system and it's western useful idiot monarchist  exceptionalist propaganda is preventing it from uniting politically and ideologically in solidarity with the rest of the world tortured by western imperialism and capitalism.
Thesis #2
Russia needs to completely resist the west culturally on all fronts, something it's oligarchic government is unwilling to do

Thesis#3 Russia's confrontation with the western empire spans beyond petty geographic spheres of influence and hard power. It's war of civilisations. That is why the only way russia can succesfully fight against the west it needs to globally project soft power into all areas whose people have been exploited by capitalism and the west.  Simply barking that NATO's army is at it's border and calling on the west's hypocrisy as today's oligarchial government is doing is a futile effort. First NATO, no matter how close it is, can always easily be defeated and is neither able, nor willing to attack. But  the russophobia of the east european bourgeois  nations with the force and west's imperialistic inability to respect makes it impossible to remove this harmeless PR stunt of an army. Second since the west simply has the power to ignore verbal criticism and it's financial and military power enable it to do so. Also it's population is far too brainwashed to register any negative facts about their empire. This is why complaining or exposing western imperialism won't actually stop it. The west only accepts real international power projection, be it soft or hard. It is in the form of supporting worker's revolutions against wetsrn puppet free market oligarchies(crucial for latin america), setting up as much military bases as can be afforded in freindly and consenting countries, massive effort at forming military and economic alliances in the 3rd world and socialist countries(russia's bourgeois and free market exceptionalism prevent it from doing so) and saling top of the line weapons regardless of neliberal government signed western restrictions. Domestically Russia should impose protectionism and a centrally planned economy focused entirely on R&D and domesticly developed technological manufacturing , renewable energy and synthetic materials with extraction industries(that are the main industry in Russia now because of the oligrachs) being ignored. Not doing so because claiming that the free market doesn't allow it, or that russia is morally superior and should completely be noninterfering will condemn Russia to be isolated, bombarded by 5th column coup attampts, endure wetsern caused economic terrorism and still be at the mercy on fossil fuel prices.

Thesis#4
This one is originally in bulgarian. Those who know russian will be able to understand it

Класовите икономически и властови   привилегии на буржоазията ограничават свободата и правата на работническата класа. Макар и да е технически възможно да се мине от по-ниска към по-висока класа, представителите на по-високата класа предприемат всички мерки които имат, били те икономически(остеритет, контрол над банковата система,контрол над целия държавен капитал,  неолиберални "реформи", спекулация ) или пропагандни(манипулации да се разрешат тези действия)  да затруднят този процес и да бъде практически невъзможен да се довърши, тъй като представителите на работническата класа са винаги разорени и са концентрирани  само върху оцеляването си . Така никого от работническата класа никога няма капитала да придобие или създаде свои средства на производство по капиталистическият начин и да бъде част от управляващата буржоазията.   Това е защото е в интересът на буржоазията да бъде по-малобройна тъй като  така има по-малко равна конкуренция в средите й, а също и да има по-голяма популация на работническата класа тъй като  тя става по- голям ресурс да слугува като работи в средствата за производство на които на буржоазната класа   са собственост.

English translation:
The class economic and ruling privileges of the bourgeoisie limit the freedom and rights of the working class. Even if it is techically possible to go from a lower class to a higher one, the representatives of the higher class use every means they have, be them economical(austerity, control of the banking and loan system, control of the netire country's capital, neoliberal "reforms", speculation)  and propaganda( manipulating the working class that such actions against them are legitimate and justified) to impede this process and for it to be practically impossible to happen, because the members of the working class are always bankrupt and fighting for their basic needs. That way no one in the working class has the capital to acquire or create their own means of production in the capitalist system and be a part of the bourgeoisie. This is because it is in the interest of the bourgeoisie to be smaller because that way there is fewer equal competion in  it's enviroment, and also for  there to be a larger working class population since it becomes a bigger resource for serving  the bourgeoisie which is the owner of the means of production .

My latest observation

Буржоазните исторически лъжи за СССР с които е бомбардирана Русия, накърнява националното достойнство на руснака, за това той се опитва  да компенсира националната си гордост като си "измие ръцете" от тези измислени "престъпления"  като той сам създава лъжи и конспиративни теории(например че болшевиките  били зли западни евреи) като се опитват да отделят  болшевишкото и съветското от руската идентичност . Защото е толкова голямо влиянието на буржоазната и олигархична западна пропаганда след саботажа срещу СССР, такива допълнителни лъжи са вече много разпространени и за съжаление вече оформят руското историческо самосъзнание. Това изиграва право в ръцете на буржоазията и западните империалисти тъй като хем кара  руското общество  да приема  като истини оригинално  западните лъжи за съветското му минало , хем кара  то да е по-агрсивно, нетолерантно, по-податливо към олигархична капиталистическа експлоатация, и прави също социалистическа идея да е мразена  дори ако икономическите, политическите, и социалните възгледи на по-голямата  част от руското( и въобще славянското)  население съвпада с нея и тези на СССР. Тази нелогична  ненавист към всяка лява идея  успешно намалява  вероятността на антикапиталистическа революция в Русия, един от най  големите възможни кошмари на Западната империя. Вместо това руското население  слага на власт  псевдопатриотични олигарси  и буржоазни паразити които изповядват обясненият преди постсъветски пропаганден образец за руската история( Царя и белите- божествени свети защитници на руската висша раса и религия, червени- зли западни подчовешки греховни предателски еврейски чудовища). Чрез корумпираното управление на тези капиталистически класи Русия винаги остава второстепенна сила, нещо което комунистите  можаха да преодолеят  след революцията на руския пролетариат и селяни.

Translation:
The bourgeois historical lies about the USSR  with which Russia was bombarded, damages the national dignity of the russia, that is why he tries to compensate his national pride by distancing himself from the "guilt" of these fictional "crimes" by creating his own lies and conspirative theories( the most common being that the bolsheviks were evil western jews on a mission to detroy Russian culture and race) that try to remove the bolshevik and soviet from the russian identity. Because the influence of the bourgeois and oligarchic western propaganda after the sabotage of the USSR was so big, such additional lies created by the russians themselves are very widespread and  unfortunately now for the russian historical consciousness.  This plays right into the hands in the bourgeoisie and the western imperialists because it makes the russian society to accept as truths the originally western western lies about it's soviet past, but in the same time makes it  more agressive, intolerant, more susceptible to oligarchic capitalist exploatation and also makes the socialist idea to be hated even if the economical, political and social views  of the larger part of the Russian population(and basically the whole slavic) are compatible with those of the USSR. This illogical hatred to every left idea succesfully reduces the chance of an anticapitalist revolution in Russia, one of the biggest potential nightmares of the Western empire. Instead the Russian people puts in power pseudopatriotic oligarchs and bourgeois parasites that  confess the explained earlier postsoviet right wing propaganda model about the Russian history(the Czar and the whites- godlike holy defenders of the russian superior race and religion, reds- evil western subhuman heathen traitorous jewish monsters). With the corrupt rule of these capitalist classes Russia always remains a second class power, something the communists managed to overcome after the revolution of the Russian proletariat and peasants.

Russia should continue even in the further to compete the world global, economic and in military actions to create a earth worth living on. All Russian's must be seen equal, both social in the Russian society and in a economic calcue. The Russian Federation should work against rascism, misantrophic behavior and other such current ideas which is treating the world peace and all humans opportunity to build a world worth living on. The Russian Army should continue to be the strongest in the world in order to maintain world peace and build a prosper, equal and peaceful world. The Russian identity and culture should even in the further behold and work for a cohesive Russian which work for common values such as against rascism, misantrophic behavior and a prosper world, both economic and cultural. The Russian Federation should work for a diversity of ethnicities global and in Russia in order to build a peaceful, equal and tolerant world. The Russian Federation should also continue to be leading in supranational cooperation, such as Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and World Trade Organization.

Russia should compete the world for green energy and should continue their development of nuclear power and compete above all USA and China for green energy, such as nuclear power with high safety and environmental requirements and also encourage the development of electric cars and other climate-smart solutions in the world. Russia should work for biodiversity in all it's form and for a living biodiversity in the world. The Russian Federation should work for a well trained, well equipped army, a strong and coordinated navy and air force and a strong and well equipped Russian army. Russia should work for economic politics worth it's name, Russia should focus on a strong economic growth where the Russian state open up for opportunities in all possible ways in the Russian society which will gain the Russian national economy. The transport in Russia should be a strongly possible option for Russians and should be more accessible and smarter expanded. Russia should also continue to dominate the world in science and technology and work for a high amount of graduate in Russia and for human progress at home and for a strong cooperation between the world's leading sciences founds. Russia should also focus on maintaing a relevant and homebased space program, at page of the Human Settlement of Mars 2025.

The infrastrucure should be build and the cities of Russia must be build and placed where they will gain the Russian society best and the growing national economy. The Russian language should be in priority in order to create a strong national Russia, but Russia must also accept other language and ethnicities in Russia. The religion police should be tolerant in Russia and the Russian state should work against LGBT-persons in order to uphold traditional human norms. The health should be built expanded and should cover the neccesary to hold Russians healthy. The Education must gain the Russian society and their different sectors and Russia should continue to be leading in education at home. Russia should behold a strong cultural assignment in the world in order to create higher tourism figures. The media must gain the Russian state and sports must be stimulated in the Russian society.

Eurasianism. The new ideology of Russia?

Eurasianism is a political movement in Russia, that is focused on the geopolitical concept of Eurasia.

Neo-Eurasianism

Neo-Eurasianism is a Russian school of thought, popularized in Russia during the years leading up to and following the collapse of the Soviet Union, that considers Russia to be culturally closer to Asia than to Western Europe.

The school takes its inspiration from the Eurasianists of the 1920s, notably Prince Nikolai Trubetzkoy and P.N. Savitsky. Lev Gumilev is often cited as the founder of the Neo-Eurasianist movement, and he was quoted as saying that "I am the last of the Eurasianists."

At the same time, major differences have been noted between Gumilev's work and those of the original Eurasianists. Gumilev's work is controversial for its scientific methodology (the use of his own conception of ethnogenesis and the notion of "passionarity"). At any rate, Gumilev's work has been a source of inspiration for the Neo-Eurasianist authors, the most prolific of whom is Aleksandr Dugin.

Recent developments in Central Asia -- with Russian geopolitical influence again rising, while US power in the region wanes – stand to invigorate a long-running debate over the philosophical foundation of the Kremlin's foreign policy. The turn of events could breathe new life into so-called Eurasianists, who argue that Russia has a unique identity and should thus embark on a development course apart from the West.

Since the Soviet collapse in 1991, Russian academics and policy-makers have struggled to develop a concept that could guide Russia's revival. Westernizers and Eurasianists have played prominent roles in the ongoing debate. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive].

Eurasianism as a political philosophy was first advanced by leading Russian émigré thinkers in the 1920s, including Nikolai Trubetskoi and Pyotr Savitsky. Today, the concept remains ill-defined – a hodge-podge of themes that have guided Moscow's development over the centuries. Inherent in Eurasianist thinking are notions of benevolent imperialism, Orthodox messianic qualities and a belief that a "third way" of economic development is possible – a path between capitalism and communism. In addition, there is a vital geographical component to Eurasianism, dictating that Russia should control the Eurasian heartland, including Central Asia and the Caucasus. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive].

Critics of the Eurasianist ideal say that its proponents are selective in their historical memory, tending to romanticize Tsarist Russia's imperial experience. Indeed, Russia's brutal behavior in Chechnya would seem to blow up the notion that Russia can act a benevolent leader of a cluster of states in search of a new development paradigm. Some say few differences separate Eurasianist thinking from the far-right ideology of National Bolshevism.

Modern-day Eurasianists, including Alexander Dugin, have steadfastly predicted that Russia and the US-led West are destined to clash. The two sides have "strictly opposing" interests, Dugin maintained in a June commentary published by the Argumenty i Fakty.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's stance towards Eurasianism remains murky. During Putin's first years in power there were high hopes among Eurasianists that he would steer Russia in a clearly Eurasian direction. After the September 11 terrorist tragedy, however, Putin pursued a moderate policy, Westernizing in its orientation, as the US rapidly expanded its strategic profile in Central Asia. [For additional information see the Eurasia Insight archive]. In 2005, however, the United States experienced a sudden geopolitical reversal in Central Asia, with regional leaders becoming wary, if not entirely distrusting of the US presence. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. Underscoring the drastic decline of the United States' regional position was Uzbekistan's decision in late July to evict US military forces from an air base at Karshi-Khanabad. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive].

Russia has rushed to fill the geopolitical vacuum in Uzbekistan, rapidly strengthening bilateral ties over the past year. Moscow is now considered Tashkent's chief political backer, as Uzbek President Islam Karimov seeks to stamp out all traces of democratization in the country. Russia's diplomatic success in Uzbekistan is raising hopes among Eurasianists that Putin's Kremlin will press a broad geopolitical offensive to push American forces out of Central Asia entirely, and virtually eliminate Washington's influence in the region. [For additional information see the Eurasia Insight archive].

Putin has offered evidence that he is again leaning in a Eurasian direction. During an August 26 celebration of the city of Kazan's 1,000th anniversary, Putin publicly praised Lev Gumilev, the historian and philosopher who is recognized as a founder of the modern Eurasianist movement.

At this time, when it appears that Eurasianist thinking is again on the ascendancy in Moscow, it is worthwhile to take a closer look at the ideological foundation of Eurasianism. The concept has been marginalized in Western scholarship, as there are no English-language books on Eurasianism currently in print. Meanwhile, there has been a steady stream of books on Eurasianism, and related topics, published in various parts of the former Soviet Union.
Before war broke out between Russia and Georgia in 2008, Aleksandr Dugin visited South Ossetia and predicted, "Our troops will occupy the Georgian capital Tbilisi, the entire country, and perhaps even Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula, which is historically part of Russia, anyway."[4] Ossetian president Eduard Kokoity is a Eurasianist and argues that South Ossetia never left the Russian Empire and should be part of Russia.

Alexander Dugin wrote:Today, Russia thinks of itself as a nation-state. Putin is a realist; nothing more. Walt is right about that. But the Theory of a Multipolar World and the Fourth Political Theory, as well as Eurasianism, are outlines of a much broader and large-scale ideology, directed against Western hegemony and challenging liberalism, globalization, and American strategic dominance. Of course, Russia as a nation-state is no competition for the West. But as the bridgehead of the Theory of a Multipolar World and the Fourth Political Theory, it changes its significance. Russian policies in the post-Soviet space and Russia’s courage in forming non-Western alliances are indicators. For now, Putin is testing this conceptual potential very gingerly. But the toughening of relations with the West and most likely the internal crises of globalization will at some point force a more careful and serious turn toward the creation of global alternative alliances. Nevertheless, we already observe such unions: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS, the Eurasian Union—and they require a new ideology. Not one like Marxism, any universalism is excluded, but also not simple realist maneuvers of regional hegemons. Liberalism is a global challenge. The response to it should also be global. Does Putin understand this? Honestly, I don’t know. Sometimes it seems he does, and sometimes it seems he doesn’t.

Alexander Dugin wrote:
Eurasianism is a developed worldview, to which I dedicated a few books and a countless number of articles and interviews. In principle, it lies at the basis of the Theory of a Multipolar World and the Fourth Political Theory, combined with geopolitics, and it resonates with Traditionalism. Eurasianism’s main thought is plural anthropology, the rejection of universalism. The meaning of Empire for me is that there exists not one Empire, but at minimum two, and even more. In the same way, civilization is never singular; there is always some other civilization that determines its borders. Schmitt called this the Pluriverse and considered it the main characteristic of the Political. The Eurasian Empire is the political and strategic unification of Turan, a geographic axis of history in opposition to the civilization of the Sea or the Atlanticist Empire. Today, the USA is this Atlanticist Empire. Kenneth Waltz, in the context of neorealism in IR, conceptualized the balance of two poles. The analysis is very accurate, although he erred about the stability of a bipolar world and the duration of the USSR. But on the whole he is right: there is a global balance of Empires in the world, not nation-States, the majority of which cannot claim sovereignty, which remains nominal (Stephen Krasner’s ( Theory Talk #21) ‘global hypocrisy’). For precisely that reason, I am a philosopher of Empire, as is almost every American intellectual, whether he knows it or not. The difference is only that he thinks of himself as a philosopher of the only Empire, while I think of myself as the philosopher of one of the Empires, the Eurasian one. I am more humble and more democratic. That is the whole difference.

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Articles/Detail/?id=186525

http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav080205a.shtml

Well whatever Russia's identity truly is, it seems Eurasianism is where its heading.

Ofcourse at one/some points, it was all about Slavic Nationalism.
But with the ending of the Warsaw Pact, that one is quiet, for a good while atleast.

To me, its a shame that the Slavic world is split. I mean the typical Russian has much in common with Slavic nations - by history, by language, and often by the branch of Christianity. Perhaps more so than some minority nationalities of Russia.

But even historically, Russia was at war with Poland, or in dispute with the Austro Hungarian (largely Slavic) Empire.

Largely, Russian Eurasianism is working ok. Ofcourse there are problems with Wahabist nuts, courtesy of Saudi Arabia and American terrorism sponsorship etc. (Anyone check that Chechen-Georgian terrorist in Syria who the US openly admit he was trained as one of their "main men" - I tink RBTH or RT had a story).

Ofcourse Russia has some big questions coming up. Can it draw European countries - Serbia, the Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania etc into the fold? Perhaps Poland, the Czech Rep further forward in the future. Perhaps the descendants of Russian emigres or even W Europeans drawn to an exciting future in the new Russia.

The other factors in it all are the future of the Caucus states, and Eurasian Union enlargement.
Things are further alongw ith some states than others. Hopefully, they will choose Russia rather than any rivals such as Turkey, China or the Middle East.

The East-West and North-South corridors may also shape Russia's future identity.
India is some way from being a real megapower. But it is a much better military partner for Russia than China. The problem is to settle connection issues (Pakistan, Iran etc mean that sea/rail connections etc aren't as convenient as those between Russia and China).

The Enterprise Zone in Russia's F East means that Russia can benefit from China, S Korea AND Japan. It could easily support 30million well paid jobs in 20 yrs time.

However, Russia doesnt wish (nor should it wish) to have an open borders policy, so that it becomes some Muslim/Chinese hybrid state. Most Russians are largely European culturally, and largely European genetically. Yes Russian politics is Eurasian and not EU style. Russia might be moving towards Asia economically, but I still think its much more European than Asian.

It will be interesting to see how things develop.

The reason why the western bourgeoisie never managed to balkanize Russia is its centuries long history civic nationalism where the various peoples of Russia had equal rights and mutual rights while not being assimilated, all under the unity of the Russian government. Eurasionism and the 4th political theory aims to further civic nationalism by glorifying the contributions of all nationalities on Russian territory and idealizing the Russian state as representative of the political and economic interests of the northern Eurasion territories.
Civic nationalism in Russia is the west's biggest obstacle in destroying Russia, and thats why for centuries it has aimed to foment separatism, racism and religious fundamentalism. Russian civic nationalism achieved its absolute perfection in the USSR. The fight against the disease of the free market formed a central part of the soviet multiethnic identity. The national identity of the proletariat wasnt shunned like trostkyists aimed to do and instead the aim for socialism was rightfully engrained in the culture of the various people of the USSR. The religious factor was perfectly removed by destroying the shitty mental poisoning of the various clergies and promoting atheism.


The west only understands ethnic nationalism and assimiliation. That's why it either aims for small unicultural nationalistic states that serve the interests of the global oligarchy like eastern europe, or assimilating multiculti hellholes like the US.

While the western empire succeeded in ruining civic nationalism in Yugoslavia but hopefully will never succeed with Russia. Its pathetic to hear ex yugos complain that Yugoslavia was destroyed because of the failure of multicultural statehood when in fact its destruction was caused purely by western mental poisoning.

TL, DR
This is a civic nationalism appreciation thread.

Challenges that Russia faced were massive, the Jews had destroyed Russia so much, it is amazing how Russia did what did to become powerful today. Russia did it under sanctions, threats, sabotage and ridicule. God bless Mother Russia and May God protect Mother Russia for eternity.


https://southfront.org/russias-long-road-toward-resurgence/

Russia has a special gravity, by Olga Andreeva, journalist, for VZGLYAD. 10.20.2024.

In the competition with bourgeois well-being, passion often wins. The main thing is to preserve this feeling of the Motherland and your own Russianness. Then you will definitely not end up on the sidelines of life.

When it comes to Russian civilization, we always risk falling into that zone of imagination where the desired is easily passed off as reality. The desire to give our love for the Motherland not a metaphysical, but a concrete-material character often leads us into the wilds of not particularly responsible propaganda.

That is why living and genuine evidence of what is usually spoken of purely metaphorically is so valuable. They are incredibly rare. But there are strange rapprochements, Pushkin said, and people of culture understand what he is talking about. I want to tell you about one of these rapprochements now.

Vladimir Nabokov has a wonderful, but not the most famous novel called "Feat". It is the story of a young man, whom his mother took out of Russia, engulfed in revolutionary fire, at the age of 16. On the way to Crimea, the boy had time to see the horrors of red and white life, and therefore left his homeland in confused thoughtfulness - and what kind of country is this? Nevertheless, his further fate was extremely favorable. The wealthy brother of the boy's father hospitably opens the doors of his luxurious chalet in Switzerland to the mother and son, who have lost all their fortune. The life of the Russian nephew turns into a quiet and virtuous paradise: tennis courts, morning horseback rides, books, foreign languages, the respectable Swiss society of rich old men, then admission to Cambridge. In Cambridge, too, everything is quiet and virtuous: first friends, first love. Everything is somehow measured and rather boring.

Somewhere in the middle of this almost uneventful descriptive novel, the reader begins to wonder why he is reading all this. Nabokov's protagonist, a young man growing up, is not distinguished by any boldness of character, nor heroism, nor an exotic character. Rather, he is in a strange confusion, constantly asking himself: who is he, where is he from, and why is he here?

The entire novel turns out to have been written for the last five pages. From them we learn that a young man, on the threshold of a brilliant career as a wealthy Swiss aristocrat, suddenly disappears. Investigation reveals that the hero has been carefully preparing for his escape for several months. He bought maps, met with various people, made provisions, until he finally bought a peasant dress and crossed the Russian border. There, in revolutionary Russia, the hero disappears, leaving his relatives and friends completely perplexed: what could have attracted a happy resident of the Swiss Alps to the dark, wild and impoverished Land of the Soviets?

Nabokov subtly hints to the reader that the main temptation experienced by his hero is the presence of meaning. It was Russia, so unfortunate, filled with inescapable tragedy, that could give him the right to a meaningful and passionate existence, which happy Switzerland simply did not know.

This phenomenon could be called Russian gravity. It does not always work and does not affect everyone. But emigrants are most familiar with it.

Either way, when I finished reading Nabokov's novel, I was sure that the great writer had come up with a brilliant metaphor for his nostalgia, embodying in the hero the impossible dream of returning to his homeland. Because it is hard to imagine a real young man abandoning a Swiss chalet for the modest and uncertain joys of meaningfulness.

That's what I thought until I read the memoirs of Andrei Trubetskoy entitled "The Ways Are Mysterious". Andrei Vladimirovich Trubetskoy, the son of the writer Vladimir Trubetskoy, unlike Nabokov's hero, had a huge list of personal grievances against the Soviet government. His father and sister Varvara were shot in 1937, his sister Alexandra and mother also died in prison in 1943, and his brother Grigory spent 10 years in the camps. However, the biography of Trubetskoy Jr. does not sound like a militant song of hatred for the Motherland.

In 1939, 18-year-old Andrei was sent to the Red Army. And already in the summer of 1941, in what was almost his first battle, Andrei was seriously wounded. He woke up already in captivity. At the beginning of the war, the International Red Cross was still working in the territories captured by the Germans and accepted Soviet prisoners of war for treatment. Trubetskoy ended up in a Red Cross hospital in Poland, where he spent several months. There was excellent care there, all patients received qualified observation and treatment. However, the Soviet prisoners who were discharged were automatically sent to camps, where they most likely faced death by starvation. Trubetskoy was to share their fate.

Fate, however, protected him. Just a few days before his discharge, he was found by a distant relative who had a small estate in Poland not far from the Belarusian border. The newly-found uncle took Andrei to his place and finally got him back on his feet. While Andrei was gaining strength on village milk, the uncle got him German documents – and the former prisoner became a full-fledged citizen of occupied Europe.

Having recovered his health, young Trubetskoy set off on a journey through France, Austria and Germany, where the numerous and extremely wealthy relatives of the princes Trubetskoy lived. He was introduced to the most aristocratic houses of Paris and Vienna. He knew languages, his documents were in order, so Andrei had no problems finding very tempting jobs. Relatives vied with each other to offer him shelter and easy service. Travels around Europe lasted more than a year. And then young Trubetskoy unexpectedly returned to his uncle's Polish estate, spent a long time looking for a connection with local partisans, found one, stocked up on peasant clothes and fled into the forest. The partisans helped him cross the front line, so Trubetskoy ended the war as a private Red Army soldier.

It is not hard to imagine what happened to him next. After the war he was imprisoned, but soon Stalin died, and mass rehabilitations began. Trubetskoy returned, got married, graduated from the institute and became a serious scientist. And this is no longer the fantasy of a great writer, but a real biography of a very real person.

It turns out that Nabokov did not invent anything. Russian gravity really does exist. Our Russian genetic habit of standing on the threshold of great history often does not promise us well-being. But it is always guaranteed to make our life extremely full of passionate reflection. The story of Nabokov and Andrei Trubetskoy testifies to the fact that in the competition with bourgeois well-being, passion often wins. The main thing is to preserve this feeling of the Motherland and your own Russianness. Then you will definitely not end up on the sidelines of life.

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The clash with the West helped Russians realize their civilizational value, by Vanessa Ghiazzelli Paim, Geopolitical Analyst, Brazil, for VZGLYAD. 10.29.2024.

How does a person and human individuality feel in Russia? I personally have verified that Russian people truly respect privacy and are not at all intrusive, although they are not as individualistic as people in the West usually are.

Russian is one of the fundamental languages ​​of the emerging multipolar world. And this is not surprising.

Language shapes culture and is itself shaped by it. Language is also influenced by the collective unconscious, which the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan described as a structured system. This system, according to the brilliant Frenchman, is itself a language. In the language-culture pair, culture is revealed and manifests itself in the space of language, in words, in linguistic metaphors, in how they are articulated and how they convey meanings. In essence, any language is always a picture of the world according to which its speakers live.

So, Russian culture, expressed through language, has a metaphor that is completely alien to the West and reflects a concept of the world unknown to the West. The English word World in Russian means Peace. But the English concept Peace in Russian is also Peace.

In addition, the word World can be translated into Russian as Light. The English Light is also Light in Russian.

I don’t want to be considered a bore or a bookworm, but we have what we have: in Russian culture, peace is perceived as peace and light. This is fixed in the language, and therefore in the national consciousness. Russian culture perceives peace as pacification, moreover, this Russian peace is universal, it is not limited by the borders of states, nations or individuals. Peace as peace, open to the whole wide world, to the whole world – this is the linguistic ideal of the Russian person. Peace as peace and light, and light as a universal universe, embracing all manifestations of life. This is how the collective in the Russian civilization feels itself.

Russian civilization is always an invitation. It is with this that everything begins in Russia. Note how civilized the formation of statehood was here, when in 862 the Scandinavian Rurik was invited to become the head of Rus. No, not by armed seizure of rich lands, not by hire, but by invitation, so that he would protect Russian possessions, making Novgorod his new home.

Russia today is East and West, Europe and Asia. The Russian Federation is a huge Eurasian nation with the richest historical roots. It is a unique combination of modernity with the most important achievements of all previous eras and outstanding Russian rulers, such as Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. These achievements were not solely the personal merits of the tsars. It is always the enormous work of the entire Russian people. This collective work is especially evident at the moment when the Russian Federation became the first country in world history where people's republics emerged. Of course, every historical period can be criticized. There is always something that can be improved. But the colossal collective experience itself, accumulated over the centuries, forms a nation ennobled by both the glory of achievements and the bitterness of lessons learned.

Russia, the first country in the world to oppose colonialism, dared to make the first communist experiment. It was the USSR that inspired China to create a system that today bears fruit, improving the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Of course, there were mistakes, how could there not be? It was so new! And yet, what a unique civilization the Soviet people built. This civilization surpassed everything that previous historical eras could have imagined. Among its symbolic achievements is Sputnik, the first satellite of the Earth. Yes, there were many victims, but that is precisely why the successes achieved cannot be neglected.

Then Russia's history took a sharp turn. The country immersed itself in neoliberal capitalism, tasted it, experienced it – and learned a lot.

Russians have seen what the Western “competitive market” means. And it’s not that they liked it. But, as Russian history over the last 30 years shows, the instinct for cooperation is very strong in the hearts of Russians. It is this instinct that has determined the difference between monopolies that serve the greed of their owners and monopolies that are the result of development in the interests of the nation.

This brings me to a very important concept in modern Russian culture – professionalism. For Russians, one of the main components of human dignity is professionalism. Whatever you do, be a professional! Every person is obliged to give their all in their work. And Russians know this.

Sometimes Russians can be too strict, critical of themselves and their country. This also happens. However, the clash with Western Russophobia and Western economic, cultural and military expansion against the Motherland has helped many Russians to realize the full civilizational value and uniqueness of Russia. However, this is still a lesson to be learned.

Confronted with the devil-Woland in Moscow at Patriarch's Ponds, the editor Berlioz and the writer Ivan Bezdomny react differently to this encounter. Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita" contains a warning: those who do not recognize the existence of God and the divine principle in life may not notice the devil's tricks. Moreover, the evil of foreignness flourishes only if its own ethics collapse. No one can defeat Russia, which knows itself and honors its values.

It seems to me that one of the most important features of Russia is the Russian faith – if not in God, then in the Motherland, in the great power of life, no matter what.

Here in Russia, education is a big deal. All Russians can read and write. Amazingly, this is not the case in rich, developed Western countries like the United States, where in 2024, 21% of adults are illiterate and 54% of adults are below the sixth-grade level of high school.

The emerging multipolar world is based on a very specific dimension – the economy of real assets. And also on very pragmatic principles, such as indivisible security. However, in addition to this, it also relies on our ability to think, imagine, plan and implement ideas. It is enough to look at the development of large Russian cities to understand how great is Russia's contribution to modern trends.

After visiting Russia, I, as a woman, have two undoubted favorites among all the cities in the world - Moscow and St. Petersburg. I have never felt as safe anywhere as I do in Russia. It is not only safety. It is also freedom. There I am free to be beautiful and feminine, because I am not afraid of aggression at all. Russian women do not even think about it. It is so familiar to them. But for me it was a completely new sensation. It is so strange and so pleasant - to be strong, expressive and subtly feminine at the same time. In Russia, I never felt that I had to protect my feminine nature, fearing that I could be taken for prey. I understood that I was appreciated, but it was sincere respect, not a threat or an attack on my freedom. In addition, I have never noticed that the strength and originality of someone's character is not welcomed in Russia. On the contrary, bright men and women are interesting to everyone here.

Russian society is very friendly and open. In the theatre, at the ballet or at the opera you experience a genuine sense of unity with hundreds of people you don't know at all. And it's so wonderful! I must say, it's not the same feeling as in a Western theatre.

However, this deep, unspoken, but sincere sense of community in Russia can manifest itself not only in the theater, but also in everyday situations, for example, on a metro ride. It is expressed in very specific support that people show towards each other. For example, when ladies offer to help a young foreign woman who has injured her leg and is limping along the streets of St. Petersburg. Or when a man, sharing a two-berth compartment on an overnight train with a foreign woman, behaves so respectfully that the foreigner feels absolutely protected. Or when at a Moscow train station several gentlemen of different ages kindly offer to carry the same foreigner's luggage from the platform to a taxi - simply because they are men, they are physically stronger and can help.

There are no fake smiles in Russian ethics. The expression of true brotherhood in the eyes is a common feature. One of the Russian cultural features that I find beautiful is the complete fearlessness in expressing sincere emotions. Russians are not only not cold, but deeply sincere. It is sincerity that they respect in others. Russian people are receptive and sensitive to any manifestation of sincere feelings, be it restraint or assertiveness. If they see sincerity in it and it corresponds to their ideas of justice, your claims and statements will most likely be heard, considered and respected. I could call all this emotional maturity.

Despite today's Russophobia in the West and the fact that Russia has had to defend itself from foreign invasion more than once, Russian culture allows for the existence of another person. The Russian word "drugoi" (other) contains the word "drug" (friend) - these Russian words have the same root and sound similar. "Drugoi" in Russian is, in principle, a potential "friend".

How does a person and human individuality feel in Russia? I personally have verified that Russian people truly respect privacy and are not at all intrusive, although they are not as individualistic as people in the West usually are.

The pronoun Я is also the last letter in the Russian alphabet. The last letter?! In the West, where there is a huge emphasis on individualism, this may seem terrible. But, mind you, this is not a derogatory point of view. Every author knows that the last phrase or word can be more important than the first. It is they who set the tone that will influence what was said before. Being last is an extremely polite, noble, even heroic position. It means that you can hold the door open for the entire alphabet, and the entire alphabet of ancestors will cover your back.

And what an interesting alphabet it is! It allows for a meaningful place to be given to the Self, to the author-personality. This place is supported by the entire set of letters. So we return to where we started: the Russian language is a friendly territory for others, a world that means light, a universe meant for peace. These are just some of the achievements of this country.

What is Russia for me? It is trust and faith. I trust the Russian soul. It provides a wide space for dreams and life.

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Russia has proven that nothing is impossible for it, by Elena Karaeva for RiaNovosti. 11.04.2024.

If Pushkin, our everything, whose 225th birthday we celebrated in June, and Lermontov, whose 210th anniversary we marked in October, had lived in the modern era, they would have answered the question about the Russian world and the Russian language independently. But judging by the behavior, both creative and human, of our two most famous literary classics, one can guess where each of them would be today. And what values ​​they shared. They, Alexander Sergeyevich and Mikhail Yuryevich, were never hindered by their "foreign", as they say today, provenance. One had Ethiopian roots, the other - Scottish.

These examples make irony and sarcasm, if and when the conversation turns to the Russian world and its moral and spiritual values, as well as skepticism regarding the Russian dream, irrelevant.

And the intonation – yes, it changes.

The Russian world, despite the dramatic and sometimes tragic pages of its history, has survived. And today it takes those who want to return to their roots under its protective crown.

The head of the Foreign Ministry, Sergey Lavrov, spoke about this at the XVI Assembly of the Russian World : "The line we have chosen for creation and unification enjoys the broadest support in the world. Even in the states that are taking unfriendly actions against Russia, there are many who sympathize with our country. We know this and value it."

The minister's words received a peculiar response in the Anglo-Saxon press. The conservative "Spectator" devoted several pages to the story of the Russians' return to their native harbor. Surprisingly, the already mentioned intonation in this correspondence was respectful and calm.

What is not surprising is that almost every day those who help Russians and their descendants return to their homeland consider no less than a dozen and a half applications from those wishing to return.

In total, during the period of various programmes, which were supported by the presidential decree signed this August, over a million people moved to Russia in search of protection, warmth and understanding.

The era when the press published ratings of various passports that allowed visa-free travel there and back, fortunately for all of us, has sunk into oblivion: today the red-skinned passport, as another of our great poets said, gives many more preferences and advantages. As well as the most important among them - the right to protection. No matter what happens, no matter where it happens, no matter when it happens.

We ourselves did not even notice how the Russian passport acquired this new status. It is not just a document. It is, first and foremost, for its owner a sign of belonging to a different system of civilizational values. Which existed yesterday. Which exist today. And which will be alive tomorrow. These values ​​will never be audited or traded by anyone. Otherwise, this is called confidence in the future. And that means you can calmly create families and raise children.

We ourselves did not notice how the balance of power shifted. Those features of Europeanness that were important to us, we (each of us) managed not only to recreate, but also to preserve. For example, religious and cultural tolerance and respect for other views. The best illustration is when one of the residents told journalists about the liberation of Lisichansk : "The first to come to the city were the Akhmatovites. If you hear "Allah Akbar!" - that means they are ours!"

It is impossible to see this in almost any country of the collective West today. There, everything is divided into quarters, in accordance with property and social qualifications.

And those for whom the common good and solidarity are not empty media slogans, but the essence of social life, cannot put their ideas into practice in Western countries today.

The disunity of the local society showed itself in the brightest possible light during the pandemic and the quarantines associated with it. While some countries of the supposedly united community stole PPE and vaccines from each other, others (that is, us) sent them — despite the sanctions already imposed on us — chemical protection units and doctors. For example, to the Apennines. There, Russian military specialists saved the elderly (in Italy, such units simply do not exist) in nursing homes infected with the coronavirus, and Russian doctors, having shared personal protective equipment with their Italian colleagues, carried out resuscitation operations together with them in hospital wards filled to capacity with COVID-infected patients.

We, among millions of accomplished deeds and redone tasks, did not have time to realize how we not only changed our own fate, but also showed an example of maintaining an uncommon expression on our face, thinking about the good of those near and far.

Individualism, as we helped everyone understand, led Western society to a dead end. And our work and heroism in the name of common goals turned out to be incredibly fruitful for moving forward. And not society - this is a linguistic marker of a different system of values. Our word is people.

The people, united and indivisible in the face of the common danger of globalization, gathered and calmly responded to those who wanted to cut us into a single comb. Solidarity helped us to endure at the beginning of the fight, then patience and courage joined in. Now, even though we are on the right path, we should neither relax nor celebrate the final and irrevocable victory. But one thing must be said with certainty today: we managed not only to revive the country and preserve its values, we showed the whole world what the Russian dream is. And that its implementation depends on each and every one.

People with Russian roots and without, but inspired by our example, therefore return or move to Russia. After all, we (and not once on our historical path) managed to prove - when we are all together, nothing is impossible for us.

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Why Russia is stronger than the West, by Irina Alksnis for VZGLYAD. 11.11.2024.

Despite all the variety of options, the West has only two fundamental alternatives: either admit its defeat, or get involved in a direct open military conflict with Moscow – in the hope that joint efforts will eventually succeed in bringing down the Russian bear. But even this is an illusion.

When discussing the reasons why Russia has successfully withstood – and continues to do so – the confrontation with the West, both patriots and opponents of our country often make the same mistake: they almost always talk about very important points, but miss the most important one. Of course, objective factors are of great importance, in particular the vastness of our country and its wealth. A colossal role is played by competent state leadership, which leads Russia through a ten-point storm. Of course, it is impossible to ignore victories on the battlefield, which once again show and prove to the world that it is useless and mortally dangerous to fight the Russians.

It is unacceptable to underestimate the significance of these and many other circumstances, but in fact they all stand on a common monolithic foundation - the unity of our people. It is precisely this that is the main reason why events are developing in this way and not otherwise.

Over the past decades, in a significant part of the world, the theme of national unity has become an ideological and propaganda dummy, with the West making the main – conscious and malicious – contribution to this state of affairs. Modern liberalism, serving the globalist agenda, in its fight against nations has placed its bets on the atomization of man, on the division of societies into minorities – ethnic, racial, religious, sexual and even gender.

What is characteristic is that this process concerned not only geopolitical opponents (the topic of separatism is one of the most convenient for undermining and weakening competitors), but also Western countries themselves. The reason why the globalists chose this strategy is simple: the more fragmented the society, the easier it is to manipulate it, and the smaller the country, the easier it is to force it from the outside to take any, even the most suicidal steps. The ancient principle of "Divide and rule" was raised to a qualitatively new level.

The main political concept and fetish of the modern world is democracy - of course, in the Western version, but in recent years the seamy side of this very Western democracy has come out. And it turned out to be not even unsightly, but worse - dead. In politics all over the world and at all times there was enough lies and dirt, but modern Western democracy has turned into an absolutely soulless and extremely mechanical political technology machine aimed at achieving a programmed result in elections and completely cutting off citizens from real influence on the politics of their country. And it seemed to have even worked - for a while: if you are black, you are obliged to vote for the Democratic Party of the USA, regardless of what kind of nonsense it spouts and what kind of wretches it nominates for the highest positions. But right now we can see how this machine is increasingly breaking down, and the American elections have become further evidence of this.

Worse still: it turned out that the Western establishment, by deliberately fragmenting and depriving its own society of subjectivity, thereby made itself vulnerable in the big geopolitical struggle. This state of affairs was quite convenient for it at the initial stage of the conflict around Ukraine, when it was necessary to provide Kyiv with weapons and resources, pumping its own citizens with propaganda and not allowing them to think about how good an idea the war against Russia really is. But now the question arises about further actions.

Despite the diversity of options, the West has only two fundamental alternatives: either admit defeat or get involved in a direct open military conflict with Moscow – in the hope that joint efforts will eventually manage to topple the Russian bear. But even this is an illusion, because there is no alternative in reality: a real war – and with Russia it is only possible to have a real one, not the “safari on the natives” that NATO is accustomed to – requires reliance on society. A holistic and united, mobilized, ready for deprivation and self-sacrifice, patriotically minded society. And where can the States and Europe get such a thing if they have diligently destroyed it at home?

Russia has not only preserved its own national unity. The difficult experience of recent decades and persistent efforts of enemies have not only failed to shake it. On the contrary: many of the idealistic rose-colored glasses of the Soviet and early post-Soviet times have shattered, revealing the homespun truth forged over centuries of national history: only in unity is our strength and our future – otherwise we will simply be devoured one by one, drowned in blood.

What has been happening in Russia since 2014 and especially since 2022 is a national response to a new challenge. The country works and fights, raises children and weaves camouflage nets, volunteers and delivers record economic performance.

There is a clear and distinct message in all of this:

This is our land, our country, our state and our power. We will independently decide our fate, deal with our own problems, overcome obstacles and cope with challenges. And to any well-wishers who come for our souls, we will remind the classic: "There is a place for them in the fields of Russia, among the coffins not alien to them."

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