“Russia for Russians”: once it was built
November 4 Russian nationalists will again come to the "Russian marches." They will demand the construction of "Russia for the Russians", believing that this is the only way to save the Fatherland. Walking through the streets of Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities, they will not even think about the fact that the state of their dreams had already been built once. And it almost was the end of Russia.
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Russia is for russians
The idol of Russian nationalists is the emperor Alexander III. A real Russian patriot who, being offended, against Germans, Englishmen and ... for some reason Jews, decided to rebuild the motley empire of ancestors into the Russian national state.
However, it should be recognized that for the first time the national map in Russia was attempted to play even under his father, during the Polish uprising 1863 of the year, when the local intelligentsia who rebelled against Russian domination tried to raise the inhabitants of Right-Bank Ukraine against the empire by printing leaflets for them in the national language.
In fact, the idea of the emperor was, at first glance, very sensible. Assessing how quickly the divided Germans were able to unite their forces around Prussia and formed a monolithic and powerful German Empire (the birth and formation of which took place almost before the eyes of the future Emperor Alexander III), he tried to transfer this experience to the Russian soil. He did not take into account only the "little things" - the Russians, they are not Germans.
In 1880, Russia begins the process of intensive Russification of the population, which immediately launched (not without the help of foreign “partners”) the growth of the “national identity” of not only foreigners of the empire, but also among the seemingly native Russian population.
How did it all end? By the standards of the middle of the XIX century, unthinkable. Some fifteen to twenty years passed, and the “Black Hundreds” appeared in the cities of Russia, whose main goal was to protect the Russians from non-Russians.
But, as shown story, it was just flowers.
Nothing changed fundamentally in the national policy of the empire and the son of Alexander III, Nikolai II. Under him, the Russian self-consciousness successfully developed in parallel with the self-consciousness of other peoples, and, as soon as the power in the empire weakened, it was literally ripped from the inside. Something incredible happened for Russia. A country where, over the 30 years before, all nations lived without knowing national dissension and didn’t pay much attention to the differences between themselves, broke up into more than a dozen national formations that immediately began to quarrel with all their neighbors (and mothers (RSFSR)).
It got to the point that in 1918 year in scientific literature (published, by the way, in the capital of the Bolsheviks Petrograd) have already met on a par with the Dontsians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, Siberians and Perm citizens, whom the European opponents of Russia also prepared for the role of separate nations.
Thus, the three-hundred-year-old Romanov empire collapsed, 270 years from whose history the state grew and flourished, as a common home in which many nations saw for themselves good and meaning. And for 30 in recent years, nationalists of all stripes (including Russians), were able to break it into a dozen national scraps.
Russian is a state of mind
At the beginning of the 20 century, the great Russian scientist Academician Vladimir Vernadsky developed the noosphere theory. One of its apologists, the Russian historian Lev Gumilyov, proved the inextricable link between the landscape and the people living in it. According to his theory, not only man influences the biosphere, but the biosphere constantly influences man.
The simplest example is very clear to understand and about which almost everyone has heard. During Soviet times, Japanese companies, receiving for the development of a plot of taiga, were taken from it, to the great surprise of the local population, not only logs, but even branches with twigs. And sawdust, by the way, too. Because for Japan, all this is the greatest value. At the same time, the Japanese, who lived in Siberia for twenty years, began to look at the value of taiga wood in pure Russian. And really, who needs sawdust in the taiga?
Thus, Lev Gumilyov explained the fact that on the territory of present-day Russia, where the population interfered many times, always won, we call it conditionally, the “Russian spirit”. The descendants of the Tatar princes became the Suvorovs and Kutuzovs. The Germans, the French and the Dutch very quickly in the cities forgot about their origin and considered themselves Russians (while often continuing to speak at home in their own language).
We will not delve into the distant past and confine ourselves only to the history of the house of the Romanovs.
- In the Russian-Polish war 1654-67. The bulk of the Russian army was the so-called regiments of the new system. The overwhelming majority of them were commanded by foreigners: Germans, Swedes, Scots, Dutch. Yes, and they often served as officers in the same foreigners who were accepted into the Russian service, whose children and grandchildren became the associates of Peter I.
- The army of Peter the Great is a unique symbiosis of Russian traditions and achievements of European military science.
- In the 1709 year, in spite of the fairy tale invented in the West and often repeated among Russian nationalists, Cherkasy Cossacks of Skoropadsky, not accepting betrayal of Mazepa, exhausted their opponents with fights and clashes, and on the day of the Poltava battle in the ranks of the Russian army they were order more than in the ranks of the Swedish Mazepa.
- A descendant of the Tatar family Alexander Suvorov was the greatest commander of Russia (who does not believe in the official pedigree of Alexander Vasilyevich, I recommend visiting the wax museum, as they say, his pedigree is literally written on his face), and the heir of Peter I, taken from Ethiopia, Alexander Pushkin, the greatest Russian poet.
- The German Barclay de Tolly developed a plan for the 1812 campaign of the year, effectively implemented by a descendant of the Tatars Mikhail Kutuzov who had once come to Russia. They, thus, once again saved Russia from the invasion of Napoleon.
- And in the famous Battle of the Nations near Leipzig, the tireless Kalmyk cavalry of the noyons Jamba Taisha Tundutov and the Sergedjab of Tyumen drove the enemy for the last time. I drove to Paris itself, where these amazing Russians made an indelible impression on advanced Europeans.
In the photo Khosheutovsky khurul in Kalmyks, built in memory of the dead Kalmyk soldiers in that great war. Doesn't it remind anyone?
- Pole Felix Dzerzhinsky created the Cheka and actually brought order to the chaos-covered country (which, as we saw above, was a result of the growth of "national identity", including the Russian people).
- Georgian Dzhugashvili raised the country from the ruins and ensured its prosperity for decades.
And where among all of them are “Russians”? As the emperor Alexander I would say (he himself is far from being a Russian by blood), "they were all Russians." And it is very regrettable that his great-nephew did not understand what the true strength of the empire he inherited was. Under him, nationalism began to eat away the greatest country and destroyed it during the reign of his son. And it is still unknown what would happen to Russia if the real Russian man Joseph Dzhugashvili, together with all the peoples of the USSR, did not literally revive her from the ashes.
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