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A Suicidal Civilization
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All comments appearing within brackets [ ] are editorial in origin.

THE IDEMNITY OWED BY THE WEST

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President Vladimir Putin of Russia has described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20^th century. I agree. The creation of the Soviet Union force me to buy four tickets to the witness stand to witness that tragedy: the loss of lives of four relatives, beginning with my father, maternal grandfather, a first cousin and her father.

Did you, Vladimir, know that my concurrence with you is likely to be seconded by millions of others who lost the lives of their mothers, fathers, siblings, and relatives, friends, not to mention our childhoods, to events of the Revolution and post-Revolutionary times?

Why do I count on such support? There are several answers:

1.    We are (in our pre-industrialist hearts) communists (and peasants and people of the wooed) in the sense that we believe that a civilization is justified in its existence only if it is egalitarian;*

2.    We believe that the potential of the USSR was seriously inhibited by the Total Peace program, in effect Total Militarism, of UFSA (United Federalist States of America) and the West. The militarist agenda of the fascist federalism nullified the sacrifice of lives by our elatives and attempted to dismiss the pain of those who were forced to bear it;

3.    We believe the tragedy is^squared , because none of the surviving leaders of the establishment of the USSR saw fit to sacrifice their lives as an atonement for the lives they were compelled to sacrifice to reach the first step toward the goal of Communism. The failure of the Bolshevik cadre of Lenin’s vanguard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguardism --to bear a comparable sacrifice to that of the people—was of no lesser magnitude than the one exacted by capitalist princes from those they compelled to gather them wealth, yatsak, and give them fuck.

4.    Fascism at its elemental level is a group come together for the sole benefit of its own only; thus it can be a group as small as the smallest tribe of aborigines, as large as a  Federation of States, as circumscribed as any agency, political party (whether small or come to a majority), or as the Communist Party of the USSR that stayed segregated from the People, of which you, Vladimir Vladimirovich, were a part, and, I trust, remain a part for the sake of correcting its unforgivable errors.**

5.    The last ( above) is why we second your criticisms, Vladimir, of those who wish to destroy Russia.  However, to keep faith solely on the basis of Reason or your present rationale for the State is to fall victim to your enemies.***

6.    The recommendation that Ukraine write a new constitution in which Crimea and other regions become sovereign and independent of a centralized fascist power positioned in Kiev is a sensible one—with one but. How do we guarantee that the People keep faith in their government, when no guarantee has yet worked as promised? http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_02_13/Ukrainian-regions-prepare-draft-constitution-3832/

The step that returns governments to becoming self-sacrificial institutions is one that cannot be escaped no matter how clever the lawyers employed in writing the Constitution are. People faced with a nuclear war (which means not only their annihilation, but possible annihilation of life on the planet) cannot afford to rely on Reason to keep Total Peace, which presumably will find Peace to be a Deterrent of continuous militarization and armament as has been the manner of our unstable ‘peace’ for three-quarters of a century.

The Federalization of States per se is no solution, President Putin!, but a path that leads to a straight jacket—enforced by ‘yatsak’, (a ‘skin tax’ that in the process of being collected murders life) once gathered by bands of hunters, now exercised by militarized banking institutions.

* (This footnote a repeat from previous blog.) Before God was divided into two halves, he was all of one piece, as he remains to this day in the Indonesian God known by the name of Mangalabulan. The two halves of the Western God, however, presented the mystics with the difficulty of a bipolar God; which is why they eventually eliminated the negative pole, the Devil, the poor man’s divinity, and made God identical with wealth for nobles only. The elimination of God of a Dualist nature in the West occurred as recently as the 13^th century in the Catholic Crusades (1208) against Languedoc and Livonia. This also occurred in the so-called Great Schism between the Eastern and Western versions of Christianity. Those interested in following further the nature of God as that of a Dual being, may wish to pay especial attention to the horse as a ‘divining’ figure, re, joiner of the two halves—not only in Indonesia, but also Livonia. The slaughter of the Devil (aka Communist) is memorably documented in the documentary “The Act of Killing”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHGbb64YxAk .

** Unforgivable error = Destruction of God as a bipolar presence; or as explained in above footnote—as a poor man’s, a peasants, and a ‘communist’s God.
*** Victim of ‘your’ enemies = The succumbing of he Eastern Orthodox Church to that of Western Catholic Church at the time of the Great Schism. The Eastern Church once had its John Basil, but denied him in order to replace him with a Catholic Jesus Christ who never was.

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Addendum 2—Putin’s Misidentity
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While I have the greatest respect for the difficulties that beset post-Soviet Russia in its efforts to make an economic recovery, and have generally perceived Russian President Vladimir Putin’s (b. 1952) http://eng.putin.kremlin.ru/bio efforts in this perspective, I remain skeptical of the direction Putin is taking.

One of the reasons for my skepticism about Vladimir’s leadership is not because I suspect him of dishonesty and lack of transparency, but—as readily noticeable in the above link—his obvious identifying of himself as an urbanite. True, his parents, identified themselves not only with St. Petersburg, but also with Pominovo, a village in the Tver Region, where Vladimir’s grandmother came from. Nevertheless, this is Putin’s family history, not a matter of personal experience.

The reason, why I emphasize Vladimir’s lack of experience with the Russian countryside is that while I was also born in an urban setting, the Soviet occupation of Latvia (1939) forced my family a year later to seek refuge and survival in the countryside, which is why at the age of seven, I became a country boy. At that age, I was still young enough to switch identities. That I identified with the city, at first, is evidenced by the fact that as a ‘city’ boy, I picked a fight at elementary school with a country boy, and paid for it with a broken front tooth. It introduced me to having new respect for the people who were dominant in my new environment.

More than seventy years later, I hold my ability to identify with the countryside as an essential ingredient for my geopolitical and economic orientation with regard to the future. My distancing from the urbanite set began early, at about the age twelve thirteen, when in Displaced Persons camps, I discovered that all the patriots of Latvia there were Latvian urbanites, mostly from Riga—even if they were born in the Latvian countryside. The latter can be ascribed to the fact that in those days the movement of countryside people to the more promising urban setting ended in Riga (up to the time of independence—1918) a German city. Of course, today a similar movement to an urbanite setting uses Riga as a city of transit only. Riga itself is dramatically losing population, down from about a million inhabitants to slightly over 600,000.

So, alright. What makes the countryside so important for the future, and what does it have to do with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin?

Briefly this: While the movement of people from the countryside to the city was already notable in Latvia in the 1920s and 30s, emigration as such had no yet reached popular levels. Such took place for the most part only within the context of religious belief; for example, many Baptists moved from Latvia to America and South America, because not only were many from the countryside, where the economic conditions were less promising for the future than in the city, but because religious discrimination by then dominant Lutheran Church was demeaning of personal achievement simply because of one’s religious affiliation. Incidentally, this same religious intolerance forced my grandfather (a descendant of Herrnhuters, now said to have morphed into the Moravian Church) to leave the countryside for Riga and almost never speak of religion. The way that I know of his religious affiliation with so-called dualist theology is that one of his sayings, passed down by an oral tradition, was—when urged not to work late at the office: “Don’’t worry about me, worry about my Devil.” Evidently, for him, the Devil was not a theological reality, but personal energy. Interestingly, that same saying has survived in America http://www.thefreedictionary.com/like+the+devil , re: “Work like the Devil.” Later Catholic Christian orthodoxy changed this to: “Work like the Devil for the Lord.”

When I am arguing that President Putin may not be the man to save Russia from the attacks of the West, I base my doubts on such small differences or what French historians call longue durée (long term) influences on history. That is to say, in the present economic setting, where the economy of the future is explained by the media and politicians to the public as more of the same as in the last hundred years http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20131125-rebuilding-the-future , moreover, in an increasingly urban setting, is likely himself suffering from the longue durée cultural virus in that he has no idea of country life and that it suffered a Stalinist like repression from a modernist movement known as urbanism.

It is worth while mentioning in this context that Pope Francis and the Vatican (an urban site since the 15^th century) have just identified capitalism (largely to be identified with urbanism) as tyranny http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25102720 . Of course, the Pope may have made the statement because of Israel, which (according to an article at voltairnet http://www.voltairenet.org/article181169.html claims: “It [Iran and its former President Ahmadinejad] feined “ignorance about the direction of the conference [planned to be held in Iran], which was to show that Europeans had replaced their Christian culture with the religion of the Holocaust.) Not surprisingly, Pope Francis may agree; well knowing that it was the Franks and the French who established the Vatican to try a hand at reestablishing the Holy Roman Empire of the East (Jerusalem cum Constantinople) in the West.