7/9/2022: VALUABLE READING: Professor I.A. Ilyin: "Literature Of The Russian Diaspora": Some background to better understand what is currently going on, SO WRONGLY, in power-mad dictator Putin's captive post-Soviet Russian Federation, and ETC.
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From: Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com>
“The TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE!”
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From: Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com>
This professor has a whole series of related valuable articles, in book form it seems, apparently …in Russian and HERE translated by machine-English? BUT, though I know this text is very lengthy,AND FLAWED AT POINTS, that is why I sent it in its full English translation, as I am not sure how or where is its ACTIVE lSOURCE-Link. REGARDLESS< WHAT THIS MAN , Professor I.A. Ilyin, HAS WITNESSED AND TESTIFIES TO IS SUPER VALUBLE/EYE-WITNESS INFORMATION, available no-where else to my knowledge.
Daniel
http://internetsobor.org/index.php/istoriya/rptsz/arkhiv-rptsz/1947-2
Note: The reader of this and of the other of Ant-Communist & Orthodox Christian, Prof, Ilyin’s writings, can CHOOSE!... which of various major world languages to read this in: his original Russian or good English or….? -Through GOOGLE TRANSLATE….which I have on my computer program.
Literature of the Russian Diaspora
I. A. Ilyin († 1954)
Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin (1883-1954), famous Russian philosopher, writer and publicist, supporter of the White movement and consistent critic of the communist government in Russia, ideologist of the Russian General Military Union (ROVS).Born March 28 (April 10) in Moscow, in a religious noble family. He graduated from the Moscow University in the Faculty of Law and History and Philosophy (1912). Privatdozent (1909) and professor of philosophy (1918-1922) at Moscow University. By virtue of his Orthodox-monarchist convictions, he did not accept the February revolution and categorically rejected the October coup, becoming an active opponent of the Bolshevik regime. On suspicion of anti-government activities, I. A. Ilyin was arrested six times. After the last, sixth, arrest, he and a group of scientists, philosophers and writers in 1922 were deported from Soviet Russia to Germany. From 1922 to 1938 lived in Berlin. Professor at the Russian Scientific Institute in Berlin (1922-1934). Editor-publisher of the magazine "Russian Bell" (1927-1930). Since 1938 Author of more than 40 books and 300 articles in Russian and German. I. A. Ilyin published some of his works under pseudonyms: N. Ivanov , N. Kostomarov , I. L. Justus , Iver , S. P. , Old Politician , K. P. , Oslyabya , Peresvet , Pomѣshchik , Dr. Alfred Normani , Julius Schweikert. During the entire period of his life abroad, I. A. Ilyin was a faithful child of ROCOR. He had close and good relations with Metropolitans Anthony (Khrapovitsky) and Anastasius (Gribanovsky), Archim. Konstantin (Zaitsev), prof. I. M. Andreev. He died on December 8 (21), 1954 in Zurich, was buried in the Russian Church Abroad and buried in the cemetery in Zollikon (Switzerland). In the autumn of 2005, the remains of I. A. Ilyin were solemnly reburied in the necropolis of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.
Works by I. A. Ilyin
I. A. Ilyin († 1954)
The Soviet Union is not Russia.
( Memorable Theses, 1947 ) .
Preface.
And the author of this article, a Russian foreign scientist, lives in conditions of such lack of rights that he cannot not only publish it as a separate pamphlet, but also sign it with his own name. The majority of Russian scientists abroad find themselves in this position, and the author shares their fate. He understands that the full and real name of the author enhances the political value of any document intended for the struggle. But the time we are experiencing does not allow us to remain silent; and he thinks that the truth expressed here speaks for itself, whoever speaks it.
The historical truth expressed by him must sooner or later be recognized by all of Russia and other peoples of the world. Therefore, this article requires the most wide circulation.
In view of this, the author grants to everyone who reads this article and agrees with its main idea, the right to freely and free of charge rewrite it for distribution (by hand or on a typewriter) or print it (on a rotator, in a newspaper, in a magazine or as a separate brochure), and also to translate it into foreign languages (while omitting the first and last chapters, as less interesting for foreigners). He asks only not to distort his main Russian text with insertions or abbreviations and not to disfigure his thought with Soviet spelling that is detrimental to the meaning.
If the author succeeds in resettling in another country, or if death frees him from the position of a deprived foreigner, then his name will be published.
Author .
1. About Soviet patriotism.
We were not the first to utter this phrase: it was invented and put into use by the communists themselves and the foreigners seduced by them. They themselves called themselves Soviet patriots and by this determined their political nature and their place in the history of Russia. It only remains for us to reveal the meaning of this name and indicate to them our place.
From the usual, legally correct and politically literate point of view, this appellation is simply ignorant. The word "Soviet" denotes a form of government, nothing more. We know the monarchical form of the state and the republican . The Soviet state considers itself a republic: they say that this is a new kind of republican system - not a parliamentary republic, but a Soviet one. Developing this idea, the hurried and talkative Young Russians (not of good memory) have long been proposing to organize a Soviet monarchy: to accept the Soviet form of state and head it as a revolutionary "tsar" ...
With a legally correct understanding, the idea of Soviet patriotism turns out to be downright absurd.
Pthe atriote is devoted to his fatherland, his people, his spiritual culture, his national success, his organic prosperity; he desires its international independence, it serves its strong and valiant self-defense... But both a monarchist and a republican can be a patriot. In Switzerland and in the United States you will find many patriots, but you will not find monarchists. You will find no less patriots in England and Holland, but the "republicans" are a great minority there. The motherland is one, the fatherland is one; but people can think differently about the state form of their country. This means that the issue of state form determines not the patriotic, but the party affiliation of a person. Both monarchists and republicans can abide in the bosom of patriotic loyalty.They demand national patriotism for their country in one state form or another—some want a monarchy, others a republic.
But "Soviet patriotism" is something perverted and absurd. This is the patriotism of the state form . The "Soviet patriot" is devoted not to his real Fatherland (Russia) and not to his people (Russian people). He is devoted to that Soviet formin which Russia has been suffering and humiliated for thirty years now; he is devoted to that party-communist "Sovetchina" that oppresses and blackmails the Russian people from the very beginning of the revolution. Ask these people why they don't just call themselves Russian patriots? Why don't they name their allegedly beloved state - Russia? Why do they grant this precious advantage to us, who openly call our Fatherland "Russia" and themselves "Russians"? Where and why do they embarrassedly hide their national nature? Why did they proclaim themselves not the sons of their historically great homeland, but the adherents of the international communist party that took over it and shaped it in the Soviet way?
We ask ourselves again: what does the expression “I am a monarchical patriot” mean? It doesn't mean anything; this is politically ignorant babble.
It is meaningful to say: "I am a French patriot and, moreover, a republican"; then we know what kind of people the son is before us, for what national interest he will go into battle and what form of state he considers the best for his France ... But offer the Frenchman to love not France, but a nationless, international, and therefore from the correct point of view of the French patriot - the treacherous "Soviet" - and he will look at you as if you were a madman, and he will be right.
What do the words “I am a Soviet patriot” mean the same ? They mean that I am devoted to the Soviet region - the Soviet state, the Soviet government, the Soviet system - no matter what is hidden behind all this and whatever policy is pursued: Russian, non-Russian or anti-state, perhaps disastrous for Russia, bringing enslavement to the Russian people and extinction, famine and terror.
" Soviet patriot " is devoted to power , not to the motherland ; the regime , not the people ; party , not the fatherland . He is devoted to the international dictatorship that enslaved his people with fear and hunger, openly abolished his real Russianness and forbade the people to be called by their glorious historical name ... For Russia has long been no longer in the Soviet, its name has been officially erased from history by the communists, and their state itself is called internationally and anti-nationally: "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" (see, for example, the text of the Stalinist Constitution of 1936).
And now the Soviet patriot by his very name renounces Russia and the Russian people and declares his commitment and loyalty - not to him . He is a patriot of the international party : he serves it, he fights for it, he pledges obedience to it. Its very name contains an open, public renunciation of Russia and the voluntary self-enslavement of its non-Russian and anti-Russian dictatorship. If this is "love", then love is not for Russia, but for international communism ; if this is a struggle, then the struggle for the consolidation of Soviet slavery in Russia -the struggle for the destruction of the Russian people in the name of the international communist revolution; if this is "loyalty", then loyalty to the Soviet Union and betrayal in relation to national Russia!
And for the Soviet state is not Russia , and the Russian state is not the Soviet Union .
2. The Soviet state is not Russia.
This historical and political truth must be understood and felt once for all and to the end. This must be done first of all by all the Russian people, and then by all the peoples of the world. It is necessary to think over the non- Russianness of the Soviet region with the same consistency and determination with which the communists themselves did it. And then it is necessary to accept all the essential conclusions that follow from this.
When, at the height of the First World War, a defeatist resolution was adopted in Zimmerwald, when the historically well-known agreement between the Bolsheviks and the German headquarters followed (see S. P. Melgunov’s honest and responsible book “The Golden <German> Key of the Bolsheviks”), when Vladimir Ulyanov upon arrival in St. Petersburg, he announced his defeatist and revolutionary-communist program - then the gap between Bolshevism and national-historical Russia was already a fait accompli. This gap manifested itself in everything: in Order No. 1, and in the secret flow of money, and in the July uprising, and in the October uprising; all this and much more was a single system of anti-Russian policy, which has been going on continuously ever sinceuntil today . And when, in 1922, the renaming of Russia into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was finally officially announced, this only proclaimed the basic truth of the Soviet system: the Soviet state is not Russia, and the Russian state is not the Soviet Union.
Since then, the Communists have never, anywhere, called their state Russia , and they were right about that. Since then, only naive people or conscious deceivers have called the Soviet Union - Russia, Soviet pressure and oppression - "Russian politics", Soviet international revolutionary intrigues - "Russian disloyalty", Soviet espionage - "Russian intelligence", Soviet megalomania - Russian arrogance", Soviet territorial conquests - "Russian imperialism". And calling it that, mixing the Soviet Union with the national Russian state, they deceivethemselves and all others, blind their parliamentarians, ministers and diplomats, impose on them wrong judgments, suggest to them careless or simply disastrous decisions - and help those world revolutions ... And there are also such foreign journalists (of the most stupid or of the most deceitful) who hitherto repeat on every inopportune occasion that the policy of the Third International is nothing but "the age-old policy of the Russian tsars." But no one will teach these hacks moral shame or political reason—they will just disappear from the stage as slanderers and deceivers.
And so, once again: the Soviet state is not Russia .
In all human societies, all social organizations are determined by the purpose they serve. This applies to both corporations and institutions.
So , an ordinary cooperative is a purchasing distributor. But if he begins to organize robberies and smuggling, then he turns from a cooperative into a gang of smugglers; and then the sign "cooperative" becomes a disguise and a lie.
The photographic society cultivates photography as a technique and as an art. But if it arranges under this flag a "house of rendezvous" and trade in human goods, then it turns into a dark gang and will be closed in any democratic state.
If the university begins to engage in commercial speculation, then it is no longer a university, but a commodity exchange.
A sports society devoted to revolutionary propaganda is not a sports society, but a club of revolutionary conspirators.
According to this, a state that does not serve the welfare of its people, but abuses its forces for the "world revolution", is not a national state, but a perverted and anti-national organization. This is a community that is not loyal, not patriotic, but international revolutionary, treacherous in relation to its people and conspiratorial in relation to other national states.
And now, for thirty years the Soviet state has not concealed its purpose and its main tasks. Russia is for communists no more than a springboard for the spread of revolution throughout the world. This is a fortified camp for revolutionary attacks in other countries. It is for them like a haystack or a barrel of tar to kindle a world fire.
Russia is for them a means , not an end - a tool that is left to perish in the struggle of the communists for world power and which is not worth pitying. The Soviet government does not serve Russia, does not care about it, does not protect its culture: it destroys its ancient marvelous temples, it suppresses free science and free art in it, it tortures its nationally minded intelligentsia, destroys its able-bodied peasant forces and exposes its working class to such a sweatshop that no bourgeois state has ever heard of.
She needs Russian territory , she needs Russian raw materials , she needs Russian equipment , she needs a Russian army - for their own purposes, special, non-Russian, extra-Russian, "international", revolutionary. It is on these foundations that the Soviet school is built: so that children from young nails are prepared for their part in foreign revolutions. On the same foundations the Soviet army is built - this steamroller of the world revolution, Soviet industry - this communist arsenal against the foreign bourgeoisie, Soviet science - this enslaved nest of economic materialism and military chemistry. On the same foundations, communist-enslaved "workers' unions", fake "cooperatives", the Soviet budget, raped literature, servile art, a shameless press and, lately, a falsified church are built in the Soviet. The whole monstrous mechanism of the Soviet police serves this only, no matter how it is called - Cheka, GPU,concentration camps scattered throughout the country ...
There is nothing to prove or dispute here. It only needs to be brought to consciousness, spoken out and presented to the judgment of conscience. Let's think it all through to the end.
3. About the national territory.
The main elements of the state are: territory, power, people and the loyalty of citizens.
And in all these elements, the Soviet Union does not coincide with the national (for all its multinationality) Russia. On the contrary, he opposes it as a principled, consistent and destructive enemy.
Let 's start with the territory.
The Soviet Union has taken possession of the Russian national territory and uses it as its earthly den. But this does not mean at all that he accepted the Russian territorial heritage, understands its meaning and its responsibility and knows how to protect it. The Russian state territory is for him no more than a field for his communist experiments, which he, in his insatiable lust for power, seeks to expand to the whole universe. He does not understand that the territories of states are held by their mutual recognition , that international relations rest on the rightand on mutual respect that one who despises the rights of others will one day be deprived of rights himself, as happened with Hitler ... He does not consider the independence of other states and the independence of foreign territories. He invades foreign territories - both diplomatically and clandestinely abuses the extraterritoriality of his disloyal diplomats and tramples on the interests of national Russia: for he undermines the respect of other states for the Russian national territory by one disloyalty and compromises our territorial rights ...
Someone deliberately violates someone else 's rights, he undermines and compromises his own. He who creates a reputation for himself as an invader calls others to capture the captured, and even with an unlimited increase (cf. Germany after the First World War). But the most important thing is that the Soviets create such a reputation not for themselves , but for Russia. All their territorial and international politics is a continuous compromise of Russian national statehood; they squander her international prestige, they tarnish the good name of Russia all over the world, they give her a reputation as an international brigand, for whom everything is good, even the most dishonorable and ferocious means. For thirty years the Soviets have been suggesting to the whole world that Russia is the most dangerous imperialist, the world's intriguer, the contempt of international law, the saboteur of peace and order...
Meanwhile , open the minutes of the Hague conferences, trace in them the steady line of peacefulness and philanthropy that imperial Russia led, make sure that all the most important proposals leading to a real peace of the world came from the Russian imperial authority (for example, the draft international court or the prohibition to drop explosive shells from the air, proposed by Russia under Emperor Alexander II, in 1868). Make sure what authority, what prestige national Russia enjoyed at these conferences, how conciliatory, how weighty, how responsibly, how legally and politically every word was thought out. Weigh this and understand that the Soviet Union is doing the opposite of all this .that the international heritage of Russia was rejected and desecrated by him.
Soviet power despises the rights of other states. She constantly and defiantly tramples them and seeks to take possession of their territories. She believes that the Soviet Union must, without fail, sooner or later, by economic undermining, revolutionary decomposition or weapons, revolution or occupation, conquer the whole world and turn it into a single international-world tyranny. Soviet power puts all other states before a choice: either revolutionary decomposition , revolutionary robbery and revolutionary massacre - or war. There may be a direct attack by the Soviets (if they feel better armed and prepared), but there may also be an attack provoked and forced by the Soviets by other powers on the Soviet - in self-defense against the continuous revolutionary attack of the Soviets ... about intervention, about “imperialism of bourgeois states”, about the aggression of enemies, about a counter-revolutionary campaign against innocent Russia, etc., because then again, as in 1941-1945, the Soviets will remember Russia and hide behind her name and her interest!
The whole policy of the Soviets is this: as revolutionary termites, to corrode and destroy other people's state houses and at the same time assure everyone of their peacefulness; to undermine someone else's self-defense and declare it "militant aggression of capitalism", and in case of war to raise the Russian people against enemies, appealing to their patriotism, to their sacrifice, to their shrines and to their instinct of national self-preservation. The Soviets are playing with Russia in the name of world revolution and destroying millions of Russian heroes, placing their Union in the most dangerous international position and presenting their danger as an all-Russian one .
And in all this, the interests of the Soviet state are directly opposed to the interests of national Russia...
4. About the conquest of the world.
National Russia is not at all interested in waging bloody wars for the territories of other states that do not belong to it, or in conquering the whole world.
Russia 's territory is not needed ; on the contrary, they are economically and politically beyond her strength, nationally harmful, diplomatically burdensome, and strategically dangerous in the highest degree. And on the other hand, Russian power is not needed or desired by other peoples - neither Poland, nor the Czech Republic, nor Hungary, nor Romania, nor Yugoslavia, nor others. Other peoples have their own culture, their own special sense of right, their own faith and their own national ideals. It is historically and spiritually very important that, on the one hand, they preserve their free individuality, and that, on the other hand, we, Russians, cherished and developed their identity. It is spiritually and politically unacceptable and culturally inappropriate for one people to subdue other peoples, imposing on them their goals, their customs, their language, their faith and their culture. We were indignant at such attempts on the part of Germany. But our indignation was never explained by the fact that we wanted to take the place of National Socialists and set up a Russian steam-roller throughout Europe and other continents ...
We recognize for other peoples - ideologically and in principle - that freedom of national self-organization, which is necessary for Russia itself; we are sure that our state, upon its restoration, will not repeat its past mistakes. Our generations lived through the 19th century with open eyes and studied all the time. We saw the annexation of Poland and its tragic consequences: Russia acquired a hostile outskirts alien to it and not merging with it, many Polish patriots scattered throughout the country, hating Russia (enemies and semi-conspirators), not accepting their new statehood; a series of bloody uprisings, the most dangerous neighbor in the face of Germany and, to top it all off -reputation of a European rapist ... Why do we need all this? We do not need Poland as an internal enemy, but we need her as a friendly and trusting neighbor, as a cultural Slavic barrier, as an ally in the struggle against German imperialism and as a trading market, and her sovereign independence does not threaten us in any way.
The coming national Russia will not repeat this mistake on its outskirts. She will not surround herself with raped and essentially disloyal provinces. It will not flood its spaces with disloyal citizens, sworn internal enemies.
As for the conquest of the universe, Russia never thought about it and did not strive for it. She never imagined that she had for all peoples a single "recipe for happiness", a single socio-political stamp that she was called upon to impose on them, or a single power-saving religion. In Russia there has never been that insane self-confidence, that demonic pride, which is inherent in uneducated or semi-educated Bolsheviks. We do not need "world power". God, deliver us from her! And when the Russian tsars fought for access to the seas, they only sought free exit and entry into their own home. A huge continental country cannot do without the sea and navigation; and the famous plan of Gustavus Adolphus - to push Russia away from the sea and let her suffocate in the depths of the Asian continent - will be unacceptable to any Russian government, republican or monarchical. Russia needs a way to the sea - and this is the whole point of the so-called "Russian imperialism". It is insane and deceitful to attribute Soviet-like imperialism to Novgorod, Ivan III, Ivan IV and Peter the Great. This is a great historical lie.
The international program of Russia and the international program of the Soviets are directly opposite . And therefore, patriotically identifying with obsessed communists is insane and irresponsible. All their plans, undertakings and wars will bring nothing to Russia, except for blood, torment, extinction, humiliation, ruin, universal hatred and universal revenge. Not only will they not glorify and enrich Russia, but they can lead to its division and disintegration, to the loss of its original, historically and state-indisputable fiefdoms.
Let 's not be naive and childish. No one has ever succeeded in conquering the universe: neither the pharaohs, nor the Persians, nor the Greeks, nor the Romans, nor the Turks, nor the Arabs, nor the French, nor the Germans ... And if communist advisers can count on something new in this matter , then perhaps only on universal demoralization , on the madness of atomic bombs and on the criminal regime of totalitarianism. This disintegration of the spirit, this destruction of matter, this perversion of politics can give them initial short-term successes -and the deeper will be the subsequent sobering up of mankind, and the more terrible will be the reprisal against them... antidotes...)
HMankind is not one, but, thank God, it is diverse. And therefore it needs not a totalitarian despotism, but a legal organization, free and loyal. The great factors of space, time, human plurality, race, national identity, personal instinct, spontaneous love of freedom, religious diversity, diversity of languages and state-patriotic diversity will not allow this universal enslavement even if the moral decay of peoples takes on the temporary character of an “epidemic”. ". He who fights for such world villainy - no matter how much debauchery he spreads and no matter what partisanism he spreads in all forests and ravines - will suffer a crash, concentrate universal hatred on himself and finally cause such a radical purge, the memory of which will not fade in mankind never...
Now , we ask you: when and where did national Russia harbor such crazy, such villainous plans?
Never and nowhere! Why would she need it? Why should she arouse worldwide hatred and concentrate it on herself? No, she is interested in just the opposite. “ But she is not at all interested in paying the bills for the Communist-Soviet rampage either. She never staked on a universal revolution. That was not why she sent Suvorov to Italy; not for this she fought at Borodino and at Leipzig against Napoleon; not for this helped Hungary in 1849. It has never nurtured moral and political corruption in the world. It has always advocated the prohibition of cruel weapons, it has always sought universal peace, and has never promised the peoples a totalitarian system...
And so, national Russia and the Soviet state are the essence of political opposites .
But what could be more naive and stupid than to take the initial and relatively short-term successes of communist imperialism for the real and final successes of national Russia? What could be more stupid and frivolous than to imagine that the Soviet, which has turned the Russian people into an instrument and a victim of the world revolution (“perish, but revolt the universe!”), is gaining something for Russia? Soviet imperialism has a completely, completely different meaning. Vyborg, the Baltic states, Bessarabia, Kare, Manchuria, the straits - the Soviets need them only for the further conquest of the world, for the communist dictatorship over the peoples. That is why they are acquired by the Soviets (if indeed they are "acquired ...") without any regard for the national interests of Russia. People of catastrophicway of thinking, thrown out of the last cracks of hell for a short-term seduction, perversion and teaching of peoples - they never lived in the historical currents and interests of Russia, they never knew and did not understand its history. Russia is for them no more than dung for the world revolution: if it is exhausted, well, they will find themselves another dunghill, Germany or France. They are consistent and ruthless internationalists who have proven this unequivocally over the past thirty years.
And that is why it is completely indifferent to them that the very order of their captures is absolutely harmful to the Russian state. This capture by temptation, disintegration, deceit, revolution, violence and slaughter harms any future national Russian policy, sows mistrust, disgust and hatred towards innocent Russia and sets the whole universe against it.
One has to be a total blind man to imagine that Soviet occupation or infiltration made the Russian national state honored or "popular" in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Galicia, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania , Albania and Greece; as if soldiers' rape of women, Chekist arrests, removals and executions, planting political denunciations, beatings and executions of leaders of the peasant and liberal opposition in these countries, torture in prisons, concentration camps, false voting, as well as deliberate widespread inflation, socialization -are welcomed by these unfortunate peoples as the "dawn of freedom" or as "true democracy", as "desired gifts" of "great Russia"... In fact, the devil's seed is being sown in these countries and hatred of national Russia is growing.
World public opinion has not yet learned to distinguish the Soviet state from national Russia and the international communist government from the Russian people tortured by it. Everything the Soviets do fits into the imaginary conduit of Russia; all the "arts" and "qualities" of Soviet power are attributed to it ; and all the indignation of other nations accumulates against it. Her innocent name is cursed on the stones of the whole world; it is now perceived as a universal ulcer; countless troubles and sufferings, a third world war and revolutionary transformations are expected from her.
We , Russian patriots, have been mourning this for thirty years now, exposing this mistake everywhere and restoring the truth: the Soviet state is not national Russia . And the Soviet patriots know this truth as well as we do, they see the true state of things and take the side of the Soviets, helping them to compromise, rape and destroy national Russia.
But they are destroying not only Russia, they voluntarily undertake to serve the conquest and destruction of the rest of humanity, trying to actually involve it in the executions and oppression of the totalitarian communism hatched in Russia. And they can be sure that history will fairly evaluate everything - their voluntary self-enslavement, and their sudden admiration for the Soviet Union, and their false "patriotism", and their betrayal of Russia, and their insidious and dishonest five-colonism in the democratic countries that sheltered them. states where they first hid from the Soviet Union for many years in order to become now Soviet agents ...
5. About state power.
In the latter, the main element of the state is power .
And so, the Soviet power by no means continues the work of the Russian national government: it did not accept either its heritage, or its traditions, or its goals, or its methods of government. On the contrary, she squandered and ruined the heritage of Russia, she trampled on her traditions, renounced her goals and introduced her own methods of government, unheard of in history. He who loves Russia can only follow this administration with indignation and disgust and will never become a "Soviet patriot".
The Soviet authorities did not accept the state heritage of imperial Russia. This heritage consisted, firstly, in the vast cadres of state-minded, experienced and honest officials; secondly, in clear, maturely thought out, seeking justice and respecting the personal principle of laws; thirdly, in the system of institutions that built Russian national life, especially in a first-class court "soon, public and fair." All this heritage of centuries and decades has been destroyed, desecrated, canceled and replaced by truly nightmarish orders...
A lot of hateful, absurd and false things were said about the Russian bureaucracy of the imperial time, perhaps true for the era of Gogol's Dead Souls, but overcome in the second half of the 19th century. Here are some proofs.
In 1911, the German Society for the Study of Eastern Europe requested the consent of Minister Krivoshein to visit Russia and get acquainted on the spot with the progress of the great agrarian reform of P. A. Stolypin. Krivoshein made an unforgivable mistake and allowed the Germans this deep rear reconnaissance. She took place. The Commission of the Society, headed by the eminent German scientists Sering and Auhagen, traveled to the main centers of expansion of the community and resettlement in Siberia, returned to Germany and reported to the government of Wilhelm II that the reform was being carried out extremely successfully and that if things in Russia went in this order, then in 10 years any war with Russia will be hopeless. Russia will become a great peasant democracy and any revolution and wars will not be dangerous to her. Then in Germany it was decided to prepare a preventive attack on Russia by 1914, about which the State Duma was warned by one of its members at the end of 1912. In his reports, the Berlin professor Sering (one of the best experts on the agrarian question in Europe) wrote and said among other things: “The Stolypin reform is carried out by such a cadre of officials that any European power could envy, these are all honest, incorruptible people, convinced of the benefits of reform, experienced and knowledgeable..."
Anyone who understands public finances in any way, let him remember the wonderful reform of monetary circulation, so successfully carried out by Witte - it could only be accomplished by an experienced, educated and honest cadre of Russian officials.
In all branches of the state economy flourished in imperial Russia; Russian state-owned railways were a model for all of Europe; the wine monopoly justified itself; state horse breeding was at a considerable height; judicial bribery was unheard of. Russian military intelligence, which by no means involved private individuals and free citizens in its work (as is done in Europe), amazed foreigners with its awareness: it was she who prepared the victorious Galician campaign of 1914; it was she who warned Lord Kitchener that he was going to die in the North Sea from a German submarine, which happened, etc. Meanwhile, her departmental business requires, as you know, complete incorruptibility and selfless patriotism.
The shameful "Sukhomlinovshchina" was a scandalous exception in Russia.
Where is this precious cadre of the Russian service intelligentsia today? He died of starvation, was shot by the "emergency", was tortured in concentration camps, or died out in emigration. And the European powers and peoples must remember that their intelligentsia is preparing the same fate that is now understood in Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia ...
It would be foolish , untrue and harmful to the state to idealize pre-revolutionary Russia. We do not do this, we seek only justice and historical understanding for it.
ATIn the 19th century, the Russian people, stunned by the centuries of necessary self-defense, absorbing all their strength and not giving them time for a calm, creative arrangement of their lives, came to their senses and, led by their sovereigns, collected and systematized their laws (the deed and tradition of Speransky), prepared cadres of his intelligentsia (the case of Pushkin's genius and the glorious Russian universities), freed the peasants (the case of Alexander II and Milyutin), renovated and arranged his own court and embarked on a series of liberal democratic reforms (starting from universal military service and ending with popular representation). He still had a lot to do, but it was a lot (from a one-verst network of public schools for general education to plans for the industrialization of the country and extensive railway construction, hitherto not carried out by the communists),
Hthere is nothing to idealize. We have nothing to brag about. But we can safely assert that Russian state law was beautifully and maturely thought out, that the Russian Charter of Criminal Procedure can compete with any European charter; that the Russian court was at a very high level - both in the frame of judges, and in the level of the bar, and in its speed, and in its creative tendencies; that the cassation decisions of the Russian Senate are a remarkable multi-volume monument in the history of mankind of legally refined, Christian-minded and fair law-making; that Russian cities and zemstvos have enormous cultural merit; that Russian universities were in many respects European exemplary academies; that Russian medicine, with its empathetic, individualizing diagnosis, "organic" treatment and material selflessness was Russian national pride; that the Russian soldier combined his exemplary courage with personal initiative in battle; that Russian art (folk song hitherto unknown to the West in all its originality, Russian music, opera singing, painting, sculpture, architecture, theatre, dance, poetry, and belles-lettres in general) — that all this followed free and original paths and reached true artistic height; that Russian public charity can only be compared with American. painting, sculpture, architecture, theatre, dance, poetry, and belles-lettres in general) — that all this followed free and original paths and reached true artistic heights; that Russian public charity can only be compared with American. painting, sculpture, architecture, theatre, dance, poetry, and belles-lettres in general) — that all this followed free and original paths and reached true artistic heights; that Russian public charity can only be compared with American.
And all this grew and grew organically , together with the Russian people themselves, as their own culture , as their own life form, prompted to them by the spirit of their religious faith (Orthodoxy) and their national well-being...
Where is all this legacy of Russian national history now? Where are these creative traditions? Everything is destroyed, trampled, extinguished, scolded. The Bolsheviks rejected all this heritage and destroyed it. They needed something else, something completely different: an anti-national, international device that would turn Russia into an instrument and a victim of the world revolution.
And I needed a totalitarian state capable of conquering the universe for socialism. They needed to turn Russia into an arsenal of world revolution, and the Russian people into a poor, dependent, intimidated and impersonal herd, ready, like a herd of bison on the prairie, to rush forward - against other peoples - and trample on their non-communist culture ... But let them remember : they will not succeed, they will have a great crash!
And so in all of Russian history there was no moment, there was no such prince or sovereign, there was no such politician who would have planned something like this and would have determined the appointment of the Russian people in this way.
This monstrous policy - these ugly goals, these cruel and destructive means - all this for the first time emerges not only in the history of Russia, but also in world history. And the Russian people are not involved in this and are not guilty of this , they are not the creator , but the victim of this policy. And the very idea of this world communist revolution arose not in Russia, but in the West , it was formulated by Marx and Engels , who did not know Russia; it was invented in Western Europe, and Russia had the great misfortune of being its first experimental field.
Behold, from the very first days of the Russian revolution this disastrous idea has been knocking on the doors of the West ; it aspired to where it came from, to that environment of large-scale industrial capitalism for which it was invented ... Now the deadlines have approached, and it has already broken into the small states of Eastern Europe.
6. About the Russian people.
The Russian people has hitherto been an active subject of its history, and not a tortured and enslaved object , an instrument of world villainy alien to it. He lived, and did not die, created, and did not grovel.
Russia has never been a totalitarian state: it has never depersonalized its citizens; she never suppressed their creative initiative; she never attempted to extinguish in them the instinct of personal self-preservation, as well as the stimulus of economic labor. She never abolished private property, she never sought to deprive her citizens of religious faith, the power of personal judgment and independence of opinion, she never wanted to turn the Russian people into hungry, half-dressed, intimidated slaves who save their lives by false denunciations of their innocent neighbors; she never imagined that the entire Russian economy could be turned into a bureaucratic machine, and that all Russian culture could be subjected to the tyranny of a single center. On the contrary, the Russian government in its Christian attitude knew thatthe personal principle has a religiously indisputable significance , and that therefore it must be called upon both in the state order and in the economy. (One has only to recall the Russian national view of the soldier put forward by Peter the Great, learned from him by Minich and practically developed by Suvorov: a soldier is an individual warrior in whom one must honor an immortal, patriotically responsible soul and educate a spiritual personality - patriotic, conscious and proactive. This idea lives the breath of Eastern Orthodoxy, which affected in that era when almost all European armies, and especially the Prussian, adhered to cane discipline).
It is clear that the very idea of a totalitarian system could not have originated in national Russia.
But the most boundless Russian space ruled out its appearance. This idea could have been born only in the era of overpowering technology: telephone, telegraph, free aeronautics, radio communication. It was born only during the present revolution as an abuse of this technique, which for the first time made it possible to create such centralization and such an all-pervading statehood, which now awaits only technically and politically organized far-sightedness and far-sightedness in order to make a free life on earth completely impossible .
One must imagine that 50 years ago, a state courier in Russia rode from Irkutsk to St. Petersburg for a month and a half on horseback and the same amount on the way back ... And from Yakutsk? And from Vladivostok? Already after the construction of the Siberian Railway, completed in 1906, the mail went from Moscow to Vladivostok for twelve and a half days. And on the radio in Russia they spoke only before the revolution itself, during the war, and then only for military needs ... That is why the very idea of totalitarianism could not enter anyone 's head .
And the idea of a totalitarian system would not have been accepted or implemented in national Russia. It is, in its very essence, organically opposed to the Russian people, and, moreover, due to many essential reasons.
Firstly, by virtue of the Christian faith in a free, immortal and morally responsible personal soul ; secondly, by virtue of Russian national freedom-lovingness and by virtue of the instinctive commitment of the Russian person to private economic initiative; thirdly, due to the spatial and national diversity of Russia, due to its religious, everyday and climatic diversity. To change, or to ban, or to break all this could have occurred only to insane doctrinaires from Marxism, who never knew and did not love Russia. And the Russian man has always valued personal independence and has always preferred to build without state guardianship. He was always ready to protect his freedom by retreating into the forests or steppes. He always contrasted the strictness of the state with the dream of anarchist freedom.
There is a prejudice that Russia was historically built from the state center, by its orders, prohibitions and discretion. It is high time to put an end to this prejudice. In fact, the Russian state center has always lagged behind the people 's historically instinctive "overflow", shaping the processes that have already taken place. The state collected what the people arbitrarily planned, started, carried out and built. The people "spread out" (a word used by both Klyuchevsky and Shmurlo) - the state strengthened. The people created - the state organized. And now this state registration and consolidation, this organization, the people did not always accept willingly and not always obediently.
And historical Russia grew by popular initiative : peasant estates, enterprising craft, restlessness of the Novgorod and Pskov freemen, missionary and monastic feat, free settlement and resettlement, freedom-loving people of the fugitive, wandering "free and walking people", and settlers trade and merchant caravans along rivers and roads ... There is nothing to argue about here, and anyone who knows at least the history of the Russian "outskirts" ("Ukraine") will immediately confirm my formulas.
Two forces built Russia: a gifted, enterprising people and a gathering state . Who populated the spaces of the Russian-European North? Who was the first to move into the Siberian taiga? Who populated the empty Little Russia? Who was the first to start the struggle with the Turks for access to the Black Sea? Fight for Azov? For Ciscaucasia?
And no one ever thought about totalitarianism ... And the very reason for John the Terrible was only a small, albeit fierce, retinue, drowning in the vast all-Russian "zemshchina" with its special life, independent bureaucracy and free Cossacks (Yermak and Siberia). And even the tyranny of the Courland groom (Biron) with her servile regime of denunciations and torture -never harbored totalitarian intentions. And the whole estate-serf system, which none other than Klyuchevsky recognizes as difficult, but just, rested precisely on the demand by the state from the privately-initiative-working population of certain contributions, duties, services and sacrifices necessary for national salvation. One can speak here of a totalitarian system only out of ignorance and superficiality. Undoubtedly, serfdom was a long and painful manifestation, but one should not forget that almost half of the Russian peasantry did not know the serfdom at all, because at the time of liberation (1861) Russia numbered 10.5 million serf peasants, 1.5 million palace and appanage and 10 million state, so-called. "official" (considering the "revision souls" of the male).
Russian historical state power is subject, like any other power, to criticism, not to slander. She made mistakes. Where and what power did not make them? She did not always cope with her tasks - huge, difficult, historically complicated, like no other state. Western states and politicians have no concrete idea about these tasks, because they do not know our climate and our coastline ; they do not represent our space ; they do not understand the burden of our multinationality ; do not understand the heritage of our two hundred and fifty years of yokewith which Russia saved Europe from the Mongols, itself lagging behind civilization for two centuries; they do not know what incessant defensive wars our flat position without natural defensive borders involved us in; they do not know that Russia was forced to fight in the order of defense (according to exact statistics) two thirds of her life (out of every three years of history - two years for a defensive war).
In the face of such exorbitant tasks, in order not to disperse the state will, in order not to complicate and slow down its eternally hasty formation (for events were always rushed, and a defensive war followed war), the Russian historical state power had to build the state center authoritarianly (in Russian historical expression, "autocratically"), and not democratically . She understood well what the great commander of our day, Eisenhower, had just clearly formulated: "Democracy is never ready for war." But realizing this and not giving the historical self-defense of Russia to the vote of the people, the Russian national authorities never thought of totalitarianism and always remained true to national goals.
And it is precisely in this, fundamental and essential, that Soviet power is its direct and complete opposite.
But there is another prejudice that interferes with the understanding of Russia: that she herself did not know self-government and was built exclusively by an authoritarian bureaucracy . This harmful prejudice is immediately dispelled by the study of our past.
One day Russian history will be written as the history of Russian self-government , starting from the veche that elected and removed the princes, and ending with the Zemstvo and the State Duma. Anyone who has looked and pondered Russian history knows that the state center of Russia has always been exhausted under the burden of the main, urgent tasks and has always striven to organize progressive and any other self-government in the localities in order to relieve itself for the future . To the extent that the people's sense of justice matured, elective self-government expanded and expanded its scope. And at the beginning of the twentieth century, just before the revolution, the self-activity of the people became the main form of cultural life in Russia.
First of all, freedom of religion prevailed in Russia , formulated in Article 67 of the Russian Fundamental Laws. It was given to Christians, and Mohammedans, and Jews, and Karaites, and Lamaites, and "pagans" with the following rationale: "Yes, all the peoples living in Russia, glorify God Almighty in different languages according to the law and the confession of their forefathers, blessing the Russian State and its supreme power and praying to the Creator of the universe for the multiplication, prosperity and strengthening of the spiritual strength of the Russian People. And the peoples of Europe know only too well the importance of freedom of religion as the basis of true democracy.
And so, self-government flourished in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Andthe State Duma and part of the State Council were elected; loyal (i.e., non-revolutionary) political parties freely organized themselves; self-governed Orthodox parishes; church self-activity was also granted to other confessions, moreover, in relation to their individual characteristics (Code of Laws of the Russian Empire, volume 11); flourished Zemstvos and cities (Svod, volume 2), which spontaneously formed into all-Russian unions; self-governed nobility, merchants, philistinism (Svod, volume 9); peasant communities, villages and volosts had their own special self-government (Svod, volume 9 and a Special Appendix to it); Cossack villages and troops had their own self-government (Svod, volume 9); justices of the peace (vol. 16) and people's judges (vol. 2) were elected; they had special self-government as settled, so are nomadic small peoples (“Clan Administration” and “Steppe Dumas”, volumes 2 and 9); the barrister's "estate" had its own elected Councils of Attorneys at Law (vol. 16); the Academy of Sciences had its own autonomy, as well as higher educational institutions (volume 11); throughout Russia, a free cooperative movement developed with its regional congresses and the All-Russian center; the primordial Russian form of the artel (handicraft, trade, exchange, messenger, station, etc.) freely developed and flourished; all sorts of private societies arose and lived freely (scientific, literary, sports, photographic, merchant clerk societies, etc.); all sorts of economic partnerships and joint-stock companies were freely formed; on private initiative and private funds, all kinds of lower, middle and higher educational institutions were created, supplementing the main educational network - state, city, zemstvo and church ... The Orthodox Church was moving towards the revival of free Sobornost. Workers' unions have fought for freedom and have already achieved it...
And all this was one natural and necessary school of state self-government. Of course, all this was formalized in one way or another, or even controlled by the state center. But in what countries has it been and still is otherwise? After all, it was only the Russian intelligentsia, in their inexperience, who imagined that in Western democracies all this was being done lawlessly and without control...
The Russian people lived before the revolution as a great free organism, but did not understand this; but only now understood. And meanwhile, this organism was then faced with even greater freedom of respiration and labor.
And now?
The communists suppressed the creativity of the people, suppressed the initiative of the people, and killed private initiative. They drowned out the national instinct of self-preservation, imposing on it the alien, wild goal of the world revolution, and appeal to it only in the hour of great military danger... With them, anti-national power has become everything , and the individual and the people are nothing .
Nothing , or political straw, which can be burned irresponsibly, without hindrance and unlimitedly in the revolutionary night. This process of squandering the Russian people, expelling the population with hunger, cold, exile, backbreaking hard labor in concentration camps and direct executions has been going on for thirty years now ...
In from evidence.
According to the national census of 1897, Russia at that time had over 128 million inhabitants. Its normal-average annual population growth was before the revolution - and according to the communists, it still is - plus 17 people for every thousand of the population. According to this, its population was officially estimated by 1914 at 167 million, and by 1918, after deducting the military losses of the First World War (not included 2 million), at approximately 175 million. Russian statisticians calculated that, if this increase were maintained, the Russian population should double by 1941 compared to 1897 and amount to about 257.5 million citizens of both sexes.
But at the end of the First World War, entire countries and regions with a population of 29 million people fell away from Russia; and Soviet power took over Russia in 1918 with a population of approximately 146 million citizens.
The normal increase shown by the Soviets should have given by the beginning of the Second World War plus 50 million people; in other words, post-revolutionary Russia should have had by 1939 no less than 196 million people. Meanwhile, Stalin's statistical machine counted, after the annulment of the 1937 census, which did not please him (which, according to a preliminary calculation, imperceptibly 160 million inhabitants! ..) and on his repeated categorical order, 170 million people.
This means that the revolution destroyed in Russia in the first 22 years, according to its own calculation , no less than twenty-six million lives ...
That 's all: political shootings, and a three-year civil war (1918-1921); and associated epidemics; and the Tambov uprising of Antonov; and the execution of Bela Kun in the Crimea (1920-1921); and hunger (1920-1921); and the death of countless homeless children, whose number Krupskaya herself counted in the millions; and many years of pressure on the peasantry; and the collectivization of 1929-1933, which killed about 600,000 prosperous peasant families; and the terrible famine of 1932-1933; and countless "small" uprisings throughout the country, flooded with blood; and the "economic system" of concentration camps (GULAG); and the construction of the White Sea Canal; and Solovki with priests and believers of all confessions given over to freezing; and "alarm" industrialization, which did not prepare Russia for the German invasion, and the purge in the Red Army, and emigration ...
Since then, the Second World War has broken out, artfully instigated by Stalin through an alliance with Hitler, an alliance that untied the latter's hands.
Up to four million Russian prisoners were killed by the Germans by hunger and cold in the internal German camps. Innumerable were the "Eastern workers" deported by the Germans who starved and died in forced labor. The Russians killed by the Germans in Russia as "hostages" are innumerable. seven millionthe fallen were shown, obviously underestimating, by the Soviet authorities. Innumerable Russian people were shot in Russia by detachments of the Soviet NKVD during the re-occupation for alleged "collaboration" with the Germans. The Tatars liquidated by the Soviets (about 150,000) disappeared from the Crimea. Karachays disappeared from the Caucasus (about 16,000); Chechens (about 200,000) and Ingush (about 50,000) disappeared from the Caucasus. The Volga Germans disappeared (about 200,000). All these small peoples of Russia were partly killed, partly exiled to harsh Siberia for forced labor because they were waiting for the Germans to be liberated from communist slavery ...
And to top it all off, constantly replenishing, the ten-million All- Russian concentration camps groan, where a free person has no access, from where there are no letters or news, and where prisoners live on average no more than eight months ... The Soviet government strongly prefers an unpaid slave, a prisoner to death, to a free citizen who curses communism even in a whisper.
And now the Russian people, this living creative foundation of Russia, is being squandered, blotted out, harassed by the Soviet state; and, moreover, not due to oversight or inability, but due to the system , deliberately and deliberately: Soviet power needs obedient slaves and does not need people with their own thoughts, with a national heart, with an independent will and with faith in God. This villainous purge has been going on for thirty years: in Russia, her best people are being “purged out” so that their titles are gone. This is the essence of Soviet politics, this is what the Soviet state is built on - on the destruction of "non-communist-minded citizens."
People of all countries and all peoples must be sure that the same fate is in store for them if the Soviets win on a world scale.
7. About Russian national loyalty.
Every state is built on the loyalty of its citizens, that is, on their willingness to obey laws and decrees, pay taxes and serve in the army of their country. This loyalty fluctuates - and the state loses its living spiritual power, its strong-willed adhesion; then it has nothing to hold on to and it falls apart.
And the historical fate of Russia was unusually difficult: an open plain, a harsh climate, a Tatar yoke that lasted 250 years, endless invasions of neighbors from the northwest, south and southeast, cut off from the seas, lagging behind in civilization and technology ... There is a history of Russia a continuous stream of labor, ruin, struggle, new creation, new ruin, sacrifice and suffering - a continuous process of struggle for national freedom. And all this was overcome. All burdens were accepted and carried by the people. Russia kept its national independence and its original religious culture, defended itself, grew and gradually caught up with its neighbors in civilization. And this means that the Russian people had a healthy state instinct , that Russian national loyalty had a living and deep foundation.
But what was it built on? What kept Russia?
It was built on the instinct of national self-preservation , which took the form of Russian self-consciousness, nationalism and patriotism.
It was built on the Orthodox faith in God and in Christ, the Son of God - this faith taught love, humility, long-suffering and sacrifice, it strengthened in the souls a healthy sense of rank and readiness to obey the faithful authority , connected with the people by one faith and oath .
Russian popular loyalty was built on love for the tsars and on trust in their good and just will.
It was built on a personal, Christianly strengthened and cleansed conscience by repentance .
It was built on a healthy sense of national, estate and personal honor .
On a family basis with its instinctive and spiritual roots.
On private property , inherited “in kind and kind”, and on the free economic initiative associated with it, on the dream of honest labor to create a better life for your descendants .
What part of all this was recognized and observed by the revolution?
N nothing .
For 24 years, the communists have been propagating internationalism and trying to extinguish national feeling and patriotism in the Russian people, they realized it only in 1941, when it was too late and they saw that the Russian soldiers did not want to fight for an international Soviet; and they tolerate Russian nationalism only to the extent of its military usefulness.
For 26 years they extinguished faith , destroyed churches, exterminated pastors, killed believers; they called on the Orthodox Church for help only in 1943 and promised her tolerance to the extent of her unquestioning humility and complicity in the decay and conquest of the universe, with the aim of declaring again in the summer of 1947 that “the priest is the sworn enemy of the Soviet state” and that “ a religious believer cannot be a loyal Soviet citizen...”
They fundamentally replaced love with class hatred, and then with universal hatred; humility - revolutionary self-conceit and pride.
They trampled on and overturned the precious sense of rank , nurtured over the centuries, scolding the best people and pushing the worst to the top: ignorant, ferocious, careerists, corrupt, chatterers, sycophants, devoid of conscience and independent power of judgment.
They replaced the faithful government with godless tyranny and did everything to impress the people that the new government had neither good nor just will.
For thirty years now, the sense of personal dignity and honor has been trampled on about them - by terror, hunger, denunciations and executions.
They did everything to disintegrate the family , undermine its roots and multiply homeless children in the country, from whom it then recruited its agents.
They abolished private property and stifled economic initiative .
And they did all this in the manner of defiant experimentation, without pity, without responsibility, clearly counting on the inexhaustible long-suffering and great sacrifice of the Russian people...
On what basis did they themselves build a new “Soviet” loyalty?
On the general poverty of communism , on the ensuing total dependence of all on one party, on totalitarian power, on the socialist monopoly of state employment. Consequently, on the economic enslavement of the people . This turned Russian historical loyalty of conscience, honor and heart into forced slavish obedience , into the nightly trembling of a hungry man for himself and for his family.
This obedience they reinforced with general political espionage and forced denunciations .citizens against each other. The measure of active denunciation became for them a measure of devotion to the Soviet state; and he who does not insure himself by participating in political agents is doomed. Whoever does not receive denunciations is considered disloyal and becomes a candidate for a concentration camp; but this does not mean that every scammer is insured against exile or execution ... By this they undermined all respect and trust in the country - both mutual among citizens, and in relation to tyrannical power. Why do they need it? “Where there is no mutual trust, no political collusion is possible, there conspiracies are also impossible, there the despot “can sleep peacefully”... And so they built their system on the universal moral decay and created the most shameful of tyranny in world history.
And the system lives in fear , the fear of all before all. Party tyrants are afraid of the people and their free opinion and therefore intimidate the people. Out of fear, they sow fear with threats, arrests, prison, exile, political hard labor in concentration camps and outright massacres.
And the system lives on flattery : the measure of groveling, all-praising, glorifying party tyrants has long since become the measure of devotion to the Soviet state. So it was at the court of Nero and Caligula: whoever wanted to live must flatter without conscience, measure and taste. This is how things stand now in Russia. It is shameful and ridiculous to read what their journalists, "academicians", musicians and novelists write about "genius leaders", what stupid flattery their party and non-party civilians and military speakers utter about these "leaders" and "teachers" who in fact lived all their lives with other people's thoughts (of Marx, Engels, etc.) and in their entire life they did not express a single independent idea ... True, they are all unparalleled in political intrigue and recklesscruelty , but nothing more. Praise, compelled by fear, is imposed flattery, i.e., self-praise of the tyrant who imposed it. What imaginary "greatness"! What a pathetic self-promotion...
And x the system is kept by a lie : everyone lies, to whom life is still dear; they lie, submitting, insuring, appeasing, adapting, they lie daily, hourly, feigning sympathy for the Soviet Union. Loyalty to her and admiration for her. One can not lie in the Soviet only by plunging into silence and avoiding contact with people; but even this cannot save from provocation, denunciation and death.
What keeps the Soviet state on: the spiritual blindness of ignorant fanatics, the careerism of promoters and terror . This is his political system. These are its ends and means.
These are not the goals of national Russia, these are not its means. These are two completely different states . These are two directly opposite historical and political forces.
But one of them - the Soviet one - took possession of Russian territory, Russian national wealth and opportunities and enslaved the Russian people, abusing, to the death of other peoples, their talent, their patience, their endurance and ability to work and wasting their strength in the name of world revolution. There is no doubt: the final triumph of the Soviet state would be the final death of national Russia.
And indeed one must be politically blind not to see or understand this in 30 years. Blind... or shamelessly deceitful.
8. About "Soviet patriots".
What is the same, the Soviet patriots all suffer from political blindness? And who should be called a Soviet patriot?
With the Soviet patriots, one should only call those who call themselves that way out of their own good and free will.
The Russian people have just shown and proved in practice their Russian national patriotism , and we have absolutely no doubt that this healthy and deep patriotism of instinct and spirit, which saved Russia from being conquered by the Germans, prevails in Russia even now. We are proud of this; we bow before it and share this feeling.
But under the yoke of Soviet terror, this patriotism in Russia has to be passed off as Soviet: this is demanded by the communists themselves; the Soviet press lies in this spirit, and the national patriots themselves have to lie about this. You can't blame them for that.
We know this, we take it into account, and we mean something quite different.
We mean those who, with their hearts, betrayed Russia and clung to the Soviet region . We mean those who, by their conscience and will, preferred the Soviet state and surrendered themselves to it as slaves. We mean especially those who, having freedom abroad and not being in the clutches of the Soviet region, rejected their free emigrant status, stopped their foreign service to national Russia, to which he was called, and voluntarily went to serve the party tyrants of Russia, obeying their orders , prohibitions and demands, accepting "social orders" and "political orders" from them, pledging to promote their goals and not shirk their vile means and methods ...
This is the “Soviet patriots”. They themselves accepted this title. They chose their own ministry. These include everything that has been said and proved by us above. They changed Russia in the most tragic hour of its history , and by this they themselves determined their moral and political nature.
Oh no - joined . To whom?
In Russia now there are only executioners and victims.
And now some, in their low consciousness, bordering on political blindness, voluntarily join the victims : trusting Soviet propaganda that lures people to their hard labor, they "register", choose Soviet passports, take their junk, board steamships and are immediately convinced that that they have been deceived, that they have become slaves, and that from this slavery one can escape only by a new flight ... Then these fugitives reappear among us and with horror confirm everything that we warned them about: interrogations, questionnaires, and threats , and denunciations, and hard labor of life, and general humiliation, and the "sweatshop" of forced labor ...
Such is the fate of the political blind.
The point is that there were too many refugees in the Russian diaspora . A refugee is not an emigrant: he does not think politically, he is not a fighter, he does not understand what is happening and is not bound by any goals and ideas. He is a frightened and fleeing man in the street; he would only have to “take off his feet”, “settle down” and “acquire”; he follows the laws of mass psychology. Over the years and years, the flight became his habitual state; he is always troubled by the same question: “where to go” and “where is it better to settle down”? He was used to being afraid, he learned to "run"... And suddenly... another wind blew, the opposite. How can he figure out what is propaganda and what is reality?
He is lured , he listens. They promise him, he begins to believe. They persuade him, they press him, they promise and threaten him. Everywhere it's scary, everywhere there's a flight . But “there” is still Russia , native fields, forests, rivers, snowy winter and, most importantly, native language ... And now he runs back, seizing his acquired “bellies”, hoping that they will not be taken away, and not realizing that he himself will soon give them away, so as not to see his wife and children perishing from hunger ...
In essence, these are Russian patriots who got lost between Russia and the Soviet region...
But there are others, real "Soviet patriots". These know perfectly well the difference between a victim and an executioner and do not want to join the victims at all. That is why they are in a hurry to join the executioners . They go to them with all humility and readiness, flatter, glorify, accept orders, denigrate the disobedient and inform on the steadfast, publish dishonest Soviet newspapers, lie in them knowingly and shamelessly, form "unions of returnees" and "Soviet patriots", and sometimes help Soviet kidnappers. With all this, they pass the exam for "loyal fellow citizens", that is, for agents and executioners.
And when you watch their bustle and their newspaper obscenity, their efforts to “join” and “succeed”, you involuntarily recall the story of Leonid Andreev, recently read in his collected works. It is entitled "The Abyss": two tall ragamuffins are chasing a girl to rape her, and a lame and shabby one is running behind with a cry: "And I, brothers, and I! ..".
And such are the foreign "Soviet patriots" - with a name and without a name.
Let them not tell us that they still "write about Russia, and moreover, sympathetically." In fact, everything they do, they do only to the extent of the Soviet order or permission, i.e. they write about Russia insofar as it is beneficial to its enemies and enslavers, and "sympathize" with the Russian cause only insofar as it is beneficial to the communist propaganda. Therefore, their very writing about Russia, whether political, economic or fiction, no matter what they write out there and no matter how clever they are, is a betrayal .
Let them not tell us that among the Soviet patriots there are those who “still don’t take passports and don’t go to the Soviets”: they only visit embassies, they only praise in an undertone, and even when they have breakfast or celebrate with the Bolsheviks, they try to tell them on their "mistakes". All this is dead and crooked idle talk. These seducers are not far removed from the real "Soviet patriots": they sit in their Parisian villas and apartments, safe, risking nothing, and deceitful , seducing and inviting. These are voluntary advertisers of the Soviet region. These are not executioners, but only luring victims. They themselves have not been to the Soviet, have not been in it for a long time or never, or have not seen anything in it, they are busy rehabilitating Soviet atrocities, and naive people, reading the articles of these helpful Soviet false witnesses, believe them and go for registration. At the same time, the false witnesses themselves know very well that their praise is false and that they are lying, and they call their dark deed "a feat of lies" ...
And in vain do they admire (or only pretend to admire) the size of Soviet industrial construction: “What factories have been built, what structures have been erected, Russia has not seen anything like it ...”
We only ask: what is all this being built for? For what purpose? Answer: for the revolutionary conquest of the world at the cost of the destruction of Russia . That says it all. One cannot admire the means without sharing the ends. Whoever rejoices in the successes of Soviet industry secretly sympathizes with these world plans and is only afraid to say it aloud.
And we ask again: at what price is this construction paid? Answer: at the cost of the concentration camp regime, at the cost of the inhuman waste of Russian strength, Russian freedom, Russian talent and Russian honor. It is absurd, monstrous to admire the successes obtained at such a price, it is senseless to close one's eyes to such a ruin of Russia in the name of the successes of the Soviet state and the world revolution. It so happens that naive old men in the countryside rejoice in their daughter's "urban successes" without realizing what she does and where these "successes" lead her.
Russia is going through a painful, catastrophically developing and ongoing "industrial inflation" ... It corresponds to the ruin and decay of the Russian peasantry ... What will remain of this "inflation" by the end of the revolution? When and how will the Russian peasantry come to its senses and recover? A smart host "counts chickens in the fall"; a far-sighted politician understands that without a healthy peasantry there will be no Russian democracy. What are these people happy about? The coming "Caesarism" in Russia? Or its proletarianization? Or is it simply bad for the size, to show the constructed buildings?
Such are the "Soviet patriots". Such is the meaning of their politics.
And impartial history will never forget their "Soviet merits." It will establish unequivocally that the Soviet Union was never Russia , and that these are two states of a different spirit, different goals and different fates.
Source: I. A. Ilyin . Collected works in ten volumes: Volume seven . - M .: "Russian Book", 1998. - S. 323-358.
# RE: Иван Ильин: Советский союз - не Россия (1947) — Протодиакон Герман 23.07.2022 15:08
The article, of course, is wonderful, which is not surprising, like everything that I.A. wrote. Ilyin. Russia is not the USSR, the slogan that the Bolsheviks themselves picked up when they were still confident in the success of their diabolical experiment, but this slogan primarily reflects the deep feeling and conviction of all the bearers of the White Idea, in other words, true Russian patriots. The entire Soviet community even renounced the name of Russia, not only replacing it with a stupid abbreviation, but simply excluding it from their lexicon. They traveled "to the Union", lived "in the Union", and if someone took it into their head to say "in Russia", then such audacity would certainly fall under the law. Ilyin also writes wonderfully about Soviet patriotism. He has said everything to distinguish a Soviet patriot from a Russian patriot. The Russian loves his land, his people, his culture, his Orthodox faith, his language, and the Soviet patriot loves above all the Soviet system, which enslaved the people, a system which he is ready to defend with his teeth.
Everything is clear with Russia and the Soviet Union; I wonder what Ilyin could write about Ukraine. At first, it is surprising that he wrote very little about Ukraine, probably because he thought little about it. For him, apparently, this did not constitute a question: from time immemorial there was Little Russia, constituting one whole together with Belarus and Russia. And the fact that, at the behest of Lenin and Stalin, they began to talk about Ukraine, even creating an administrative unit under the name of the Ukrainian SSR, was just a political game, dust in the eyes, since everything remained under a common and very strong Soviet cap. It would certainly be interesting to read Ilyin's thoughts about the Ukrainian phenomenon, in the form in which it began to manifest itself over the past 10-20 years. One can guess for a long time, but from the little that he wrote on this topic, one can with sufficient confidence find the correct answer, at least on the basis of the thought read in the article "Fundamentals of the Struggle for National Russia", written in 1938: "Ukrainian separatism is an artificial phenomenon without any real basis. It arose from the ambition of the leaders and the international intrigue of conquest.
The international intrigues of conquest, persistently grinding away the Slavic Orthodox triune monolith, are well known to all who are interested in this historical question. In past centuries, these were the Vatican, Austria-Hungary, Germany, which were replaced by the United States with the obedient European Community. The topic is really interesting, and which should be developed.
Protode. Hermann
# RE: Иван Ильин: Советский союз - не Россия (1947) — Митрополит Агафангел 23.07.2022 16:25
There is almost no Orthodoxy left anymore, as Metropolitan Anthony wrote - "to the question" what kind of faith do you have" - they answer with references to the self-appointed heads of all kinds of schism in Moscow, in America and in Western Europe" - now it is already everywhere. If there is no Orthodoxy, then there are no Orthodox states and there is no Orthodox people as such. Ukraine is no longer an Orthodox country (even more so in the Russian Federation) - here Catholicism used to fight Orthodoxy, and now in the world it’s not that there is no Orthodoxy, but there is no Catholicism either. We are not persecuted in Ukraine, unlike the Russian Federation, and even then - thank God!
# RE: Иван Ильин: Советский союз - не Россия (1947) — Koctac 08.07.2022 19:15
So is the modern state of Ukraine - created by the Soviets and personally by Lenin in 1917-18.
# RE: Иван Ильин: Советский союз - не Россия (1947) — basil 09.07.2022 05:21
The states of Ukraine and Russia united in 1653. The Russian Federation did not even exist then. Here, just, Lenin worked.
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source link given on Internet Sobor is bad
https://russportal.ru/index.php?id=monarchy.iljin1947_01
Can somebody help find a link to the whole collection?
https://www.livelib.ru/review/1103631-sovetskij-soyuz-ne-rossiya-ivan-aleksandrovich-ilin
http://possev.org/jornal/izbran/?SECTION_ID=23&ELEMENT_ID=928
https://nasledie.pravda.ru/1202676-russophobia_in_russia/
https://m.vk.com/wall-213268657_52
https://politconservatism.ru/upload/iblock/ea4/ea470ba462a452f2f7b76bb1f108f581.pdf
https://topwar.ru/3302-russkie-pod-znamenem-vosxodyashhego-solnca.html
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