Text of the lecture for the global Foundation for Slavic Literature, Moscow, 30.01.25. sent by the Author-My friend from Russia.
When we talk about the unity of the Slavs, we either contact the past unity, or we make shy plans for the future of this unity, or we complain that present talking about the unity of the Slavs is simply ridiculous
The Past of Slavic Unity
Let us callback the second half of the 19th century, the time erstwhile it seemed that the ideals of Slavic unity were in practice feasible.
How can they be implemented? Give a chance to make national culture. Cultures of awakened nations. Helping Slavs to free themselves from both Ottoman captivity – in the Slavic south and German ones – in the Slavic west.
This awakening was not possible either earlier or later.
It must be understood that before the “Spring of Peoples” people – whether Slavs or Germans – thought in terms of political legitimacy and spiritual self-awareness. And they later identified with the tribe, i.e. language and blood.
And then the conditions arose erstwhile Europeans were replaced with politicism by religion, which had previously been the basis of self-consciousness. And ideology has become precisely what replaced the Christian faith, which has disappeared among Europeans. I mean religion not as a individual encounter of all individual soul with the Savior, but religion as the basis of cultural self-identification.
But if in the 20th century national self-determination frequently degraded to chauvinist forms, and even disappeared completely, replaced by liberal or communist ideas, that was not the case in the 19th century.
The national intelligence of the Slavic nations sought to awaken their tribemates and sought support. The Russian Empire could support it. As a Slavic Christian power.
At this point, we immediately say that erstwhile speaking of Slavic hope in Russia, we are not, of course, talking about all representatives of Slavic intelligence.
Unfortunately, Russian-Polish relations have always been and unfortunately remain, to put it mildly, very far from the brotherhood. possibly if there were more far-sighted politicians at the time of the partition of the Republic of Petersburg, they would not annex the Polish lands, limiting themselves to the Malurus and Belarusian lands. And then Poles, falling into German slavery due to Prussia and Austria, would see Russia differently. possibly then Russia, alternatively than France, would be seen by Polish patriots as a lighthouse.
But again we realize perfectly that in the 18th century (i.e. long before the “Spring of the Peoples”) no 1 thought in national terms. They thought in terms of political legitimacy and spiritual self-determination, so they shared the defeated spaces in a akin way as in Africa and later in the mediate East – almost along geographical meridians.
And it was not easy in the Balkans due to the pro-Russian sentiments. Bulgaria and Serbia (with the people of Montenegro, then inactive inextricably linked to the Serbian identity) are 1 thing, and rather another is the South Slavic region of the Habsburg Empire, where very professional people worked.
I besides mean the effective work of Vatican representatives, who have worked fruitfully to establish a political nation of Croats, which active a large number of Catholic Slavs, and that by opposing the Slavic Madziarom, Germany was seen as any kind of guaranty of the regulation of law. By the way, order (ordnung) happened whether anyone liked it or not.
Moreover, erstwhile referring to the creation of the Croatian political nation in the late 19th century, it should be remembered that this process would not have been possible if the Serbian-Croatian language had not been unified on the basis of “gajevica” and “vukovica”. The reformer of the modern Serbian language Vuk Karajić with his innovations broke Serbian from Russian and Bulgarian and created the conditions for completing the work of Croatian educator Ljudevita Gaja for the unification of Croatian language based on the Sztokavian dialect, which led to the creation of the basis for the formation of a uniform Yugoslav cultural and linguistic space. Needless to say, “Yugoslavic experiments” yet led the Serbs to retreat by a century and a half today.
I take this chance to say a fewer words in defence of the Orthodox confederate Slavs.
Slavic enemies love to mock the fact that, as they say, our “brothers” are ungrateful.
This is said either by people who uncritically accepted the celebrated book Constantine Leontev, or by people who are mostly very far from knowing the Slavic theme.
The reluctance of the Serbs to the San Stefano task to transform the Balkans is rather understandable. Since it was assumed that the region of influence of Russia and Austria would be the Serbian-Bulgarian border, it is perfectly understandable that our diplomats moved this border as far west as possible. As a result, it turned out that Germany began to be seen by the Serbs and Greeks as those who would reconstruct order. It was for this reason that the German “Ordnung” seemed more crucial than the Russian blood shed during the liberation of Bulgaria.
liberation of Bulgaria.
What about today?
We can see, then, that the hopes of any Slavs in Russia came from the hope of helping a large Slavic Christian country.
Can we number on something akin in the future?
Especially if it is taken into account that Russia constantly insists that our country is not supposedly Christian or Slavic anymore, but multinational and multi-denominational. I remember very well the reaction of our dear friends from Serbia to this propaganda. And how amazed they were at the state of consciousness of our students – these unfortunate young people, turned into zombies by the propaganda of "Asianism." The same is actual of our Orthodoxy.
That's one.
Second. If in Europe after the Peoples' Spring a progressive society thought in terms of national revival, which was seen as 1 of the main social ideas, it is perfectly logical that all participants in the large Games were seen precisely due to the function they play in the issue of national rebirth. They help, like Russia, or hinder, like Turkey and Austria.
Today – erstwhile everyone recovered from the joy of triumph in the Cold War – it was time to take on a fresh challenge. With fresh Islamism – far more dangerous for Europe than in heroic epochs, with fresh degradation – akin to what Rome experienced in the fall age.
The alternate is the fresh "old normality".
This fresh "old normality" for the remainder of white Europe will bring not Moscow, but Trump. He's already become the personification of the counter-revolution.
Moscow had a chance to become an alternate to both Eurosodoma and Arabo-islam, as prof. Zoran Miloszevic, attended the conference about 15 years ago.
But seemingly “hands besides short”.
Erdogan became an alternate to Arabo-islam, and Trump became an alternate to Eurosodom.
Therefore, present I do not see a single reason why the Russian Federation, moving in full steam towards the "Eurasian Confederacy", would become a signpost for the Slavs. Which, by the way, does not exist.
Yeah, there's Serbia. Yeah, it's Slovakia. There are most likely Slavic sentiments in Bulgaria and Slovenia. Croatia.
There is, of course, Poland.
But there's no specified thing as a unified Slav.
If there is any kind of Slavic identity in Slovenia, then in Prague – judging by what people who know about things say – unfortunately, and ah. Serbs and Croats are open enemies, Serbs and Bulgarians hidden enemies. Bosnia's future is integration into the Neo-Otoman world, the future of Montenegro and Macedonians is unclear and unopposed.
The future of Poland is most likely the creation of an alternate to the collapse of Eurosodom and the Russian World.
All of this makes it clear that there is no request for Slavicism among the Slavic republics.
Slavicism is not yet seen as an alternate to globalisation – as erstwhile the Slavic revival was seen as an alternate to Germans and Osmans.
Does Slavic Unity Have a Future?
But everything can change if there is simply a request to make a fresh centre for Europe's reunification.
Since political engineers in the modern Russian Federation in all possible ways implant a model of multiculturalism, Slavic culture is separated by a comma with cultures of tiny peoples surviving in the Federation, and it is not by chance that our fellow Slavic countries who come to Russia ask with surprise: is Russia a Slavic country?
Of course, political engineers can be understood.
They face circumstantial tasks and effort to solve them on the basis of the resources available to them. Both the situation in Europe of the end of the 19th century and the situation in Europe of the mid-20th century favoured Russia, and later the russian Union, utilizing Slavs as 1 of the tools for solving abroad policy problems.
Now the situation is fundamentally different.
Nevertheless, I would like those specially trained who, I hope, besides perceive to what is said here to realize that if opponents seriously start to manufacture any alternate to Eurosodomy, it is rather likely that this alternate will have external forms or a fresh Republic of both Nations, or fresh Austro-Hungarian ones. And these specialists will surely address the Slavic issue.
I met this in Ukraine 12 years ago, on the eve of the second Majdan victory.
When my friend Rusin of nationality explained to me how different Russian folklore is from everything that connects natural Slavs of east Europe. This means that Slavic doctrine can be utilized as a kind of rusophobia.
What are we talking about?
There may be a situation where the Slavs of east Europe are offered an alternate to what the EU is rapidly becoming. And the EU can yet turn either into Eurabia or, more likely, into a kind of "Fourth Reich" erstwhile Germany, brought to despair by the demolition of the economy and domination of immigrants, will yet revolt. And this uprising will, of course, take place under national-conservative flags. And given the level of dechristianization of modern Europe, it is not hard to imagine precisely what forms this fresh national awakening of the German planet will take.
Once again, I stress that the 4th Reich does not, of course, mean serving Rothschild/Rockefellers within NATO, but it is simply a rebellion against decay and against immigrants who are boiling in the depths of the West. And Europeans, as Mr Stiepanov stressed in the discussion, already have the experience of extremist right-wing regimes.
Eastern Europeans will either face the challenge of Eurabia or the challenge of the 4th Reich.
In this situation, the Slavs may gather around Moscow, but they do not have to. They can unite around a certain centre, which will be presented as a "centre for the re-collection of white Christian Europe". It could be either Poland (Indigenous), or the Habsburgs.
Therefore, I think that especially trained people in the Kremlin should seriously consider specified developments.
Unless our giraffes want the Slavs to unite around any conservative force whose possible can be exploited against Russia.
So it is time to take the Slavic subject seriously.
P.S.
The material is illustrated by the reproduction of the canvas by Czech Alfons Mucha “The foundations of Slavic liturgy” (“Zavedení Slovanské liturgie”. 1912), in order to reduce to any degree the madness of the most vulgar paintings in the kind of “Dolboslawy of the Parents”, which are posted on the net under the slogan “Slovakia”.
Paweł Wiaczesławowicz Tichomirov, Deputy Editor-in-Chief “Russian National Line‘
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