During the 1870-1871 war, E. Renan wrote the following grim prophetic words: “Russia will only become a great danger if Europe allows it to form shock-troops out of the conglomeration of the barbarian nations of Central Asia, – out of the nations who are at present powerless, but who, once they are disciplined, will, if one is not on one’s guard, be capable of flocking together and forming troops under a Muscovite Genghis Khan, as under the Apocalyptic Dragon… Consider what a burden would cause the balance of the world to totter if Bohemia, Moravia, Croatia, Serbia, the entire Slav population of East Europe, a heroic and belligerent race, who only need the right commanders, were to join the big Muscovite conglomeration… What would you say then?” (1)
This grim warning on the part of a prophet, who has long since been forgotten, rises up like a threatening admonition before the unsuspecting West of our day.
So far, the present elite of the Occident has failed to find an answer to this fateful question.
What is more, events happened of which neither Renan nor his contemporaries ever dreamt. At Yalta, Potsdam and Teheran, the politicians of the Occident themselves paved the way which led the Muscovite Genghis Khan into the ancient cities of the West, – Kyiv, Lviv, Prague, Budapest, Berlin and Vienna. Even during the tragic times of Ukraine (1917-1921), Poland (1920 and 1939) and Hungary (1956), the West, as if under a spell, remained silent and looked on indifferently whilst these nations fought their heroic fight against the Apocalyptic Dragon of history.
Moscow, whose representatives, together with the Western politicians, seek to restore the golden age of prosperity and world peace in the organization of the United Nations.
What is the reason for the continual retreat of the West before the Muscovite Genghis Khan?
What is the reason for the continual urge of Moscow to the west, to the east and to the north and south, in order to get all nations under its domination?
The reason for the Russian arrogance and the growing Russian influence in the West is immaterial and diabolical. Is it the power of an idea? Yes, indeed, it is! This idea, which mobilized the Russian hordes against the West has constantly changed. It has alternately been the “sole beneficial” power of the Russian shamanic “orthodoxy”, the “regulating power” of tsarism as compared to the turbulent West, Pan-Slavism – the “liberation of the Slavs”, Communism – the “liberation” of the nations subjugated by “Western imperialism”; the banner of the Muscovite Mohammed changed its colours and its emblems, but one thing remained unchanged, namely the idea of the “chosen” Russian people, a people of “supermen”, a “higher race”, which was to realize all the above-mentioned ideas and, under the leadership of Moscow, was to make all the “lower races” happy and bring them under Russian rule. The impelling power of the Russian urge was thus the idea but with certain reservations! An idea that constantly changes, which is a disguise and which is based on lies, gradually becomes something more than an idea. It becomes the sheer will to subjugate everything around one. The idea itself only retains the role of a disguise to deceive the naive world as to its carefully concealed aim. It is interesting to note that another prophet of the West already realized this fact a hundred years ago and warned the West accordingly. He was an expert authority on Russia, – Viscount Melchior de Vogue. He wrote as follows about F. Dostoyevsky’s famous novel The Possessed: “The greatest merit of this book lies in the fact that it gives us a clear idea of where the strength of the nihilists (the name applied to the Bolsheviks’ predecessors), lies. Their strength lies not in doctrine or organization, but in the character of certain men. The author (Dostoyevsky) vividly portrays the tense will of these men, whose souls are hard as steel. People feel drawn to them, mainly because of their character, even though their entire energy is devoted to evil. For their character promises the masses a leadership and guarantees a stable order, and this is the primary need of the human collective.” Considering the future, de Vogue adds: “If these nihilists go over to the propaganda of action, they will seem very similar to our own revolutionaries. But if we regard them more closely we shall discover the same difference amongst them as between a wild beast and a domestic animal. Our worst revolutionaries are merely vicious dogs, but the nihilists are wolves, in fact, raging wolves, which is far more dangerous.” (2)
The unlimited faith in their race “chosen by higher powers”, in their “sacred mission” as predestined to be the people to lead the “degenerate West”, combined with the savage strength of а raging wolf or a servant of the Devil, – these are the imponderables which give the Muscovite horde their impetus and at the same time, paralyze the resistance of all Western timorous plebeian souls against this two-legged Boa constrictor. To combat this fanatical power of evil, which is determined to destroy the Christian civilization of the West, it must be opposed by more powerful ideas and spiritual force, in the service of that higher power which, at the beginning of our Christian era, sent its envoys to sinful mankind on the earth. But, unfortunately, there are only a few people in the West who would be able or willing to bear the banner of this power. The eyes of the leading men of the West are dazzled by materialist idols. They are blind to the danger which threatens and they turn from those superhuman forces which could give our soul and our hands the necessary strength. The power of discernment of the leading elite of the West is dimmed by these materialist idols; this elite is thus demobilized spiritually and morally, and, despite the financial and armament strength of the West, physically, too, its will to fight is paralyzed, – that same will and also that faith before which the hordes of Genghis Khan and of Attila once retreated.
It is this same incapacity on the part of the present leading circles of the West to assert themselves as the champions of a great, uncompromising anti-Russian idea, that makes them indifferent, if not hostile, to the only saving watchword of today, to that of the nations of Central and East Europe who are fighting for their independence, – namely the destruction of the monstrous colonialist power, the disintegration of the barbarous Russian empire, the empire of slavery, of godlessness, of genocide and ignominy.
During the French Revolution, the famous English thinker and statesman, Edmund Burke, sadly wrote the strange visionary words: “The age of chivalry is gone, that of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded”, (3) and the words were meant more seriously than appears at a first glance. The leading caste of the West today are the “sophists”, that is to say, men who have no faith in a noble idea, for which one either stands or falls. The leading caste of the West today are the “economists”, that is, people who overrate the power of materialist things, of the economic factor, of money and material wealth, and fail to realize that it is the soul that is not broken and the appreciation of spiritual and moral values which make a nation strong. The elite of the West today are the “calculators”, that is, people who regard every conflict of international and historical importance in which one side is victorious and the other doomed to ruin, solely as a misunderstanding between two businessmen, a misunderstanding which could have been settled by some kind of fifty-fifty arrangement. These sophists, economists and calculators will never possess the necessary nobleness of soul, wisdom of intellect, far-sightedness and willpower to kill the Apocalyptic Dragon of Moscow. This could only be achieved by a new elite, an elite which possesses the characteristics lacking in the present elite, – the elite of a Charlemagne, a Richard the Lionheart, or a Joan of Arc. The West needs a new chivalry to defend the sacred values and traditions of Christian civilization successfully. The old elite, which Burke scorned, must make room for the new elite and must abdicate. The same applies to the mafia of Muscovite henchmen who poison the once-free air of the Christian West. One must bear in mind the profound words of Demosthenes to his half-hearted fellow countrymen during the fight against the Macedonians: “You must hate with all your hearts those in your midst who speak for Philip. You must understand that it will never be possible to overcome the enemy outside the walls of the town as long as you fail to overcome those in the town itself who stretch out their hands to him.”
1) E. Renan et L’Allemagne, par E. Bure.
2) Roman Russe.
3) Selection from the Speeches and writings of Edmund Burke (The Carlton Classics).
Dmytro Dontsov, «Дух Росії» (The Spirit of Russia)
Translation published by: «Der Geist Russlands» von Dr. Dmytro Donzow / by Shild-Verlag GmbH., München-Lochhausen,1961.
