The myth of the Swedish Vikings-lords who created the Russian state
Ilya Glazunov. Grandchildren Gostomysl: Rurik, Truvor, Sineus
The victory of the Russophobic theory of Normanism
If in pre-revolutionary and Soviet times the Normanists and anti-Normanists argued with each other, putting forward more and more new arguments, then in liberal Russia the Westernizers somehow immediately prevailed. In the 1990s, people came to power in Russia who represented "universal" and "common European" values and interests. And the dispute between Normanists and anti-Normanists ended immediately at the political level. The advisers instructed in the West decided the dispute in favor of the Norman theory, according to which the Scandinavian Germans (Normans) brought civilization and statehood to the Slavic Russian lands. Allegedly, all the first "Russian" princes (Rurik, Oleg and Igor) were Normans who conquered the "wild" Slavic tribes and created Novgorod and Kievan Rus - the Old Russian state.
As is known history the winners write. The West prevailed over Russia in 1991 by winning World War III and began rewriting history to its advantage.
The most striking example is the history of the Second World War. Back in the 1980s, Russians were the winners, liberators of Europe from fascism. But already in the 1990s and 2000s, they were transferred to the category of "occupiers" and "rapists", the same invaders as the Nazis, or even worse.
Other pages of the history of Russia are rewritten according to a similar scheme, and especially the most significant, sacred ones, on which the historical consciousness of Russians is based.
So, literally in a few years, the history of Kievan Rus' was taken away from us, attributing it to “Ukraine-Rus” - a historical chimera created in the interests of the West. Torn away from us hundreds of years of history, a significant part of a single Russian superethnos (Ukrainians-Little Russians) and significant historical Russian territories with our ancient cities, the ancient capital of Kiev. Oleg the Prophet, Svyatoslav the Brave, and all the Kiev princes are taken away from the Russians. Russians are declared "distant relatives" of those ancient Russian-Rus. They say that their true descendants remained only in Ukraine. And today's "Muscovites" are a mixture of Slavs, Finno-Ugrians and Mongols.
That is, the old theories of the Polish lords (with the blessing of the Vatican) and the Austrian masters, who two or three centuries ago tried to tear away Little Russia-Russia (Ukraine) from a united Russia, are being adopted. To create a new "Ukrainian nation" and thereby play the Russians against the Russians for the joy of the West.
Another powerful blow is the victory of Normanism.
Gradually and at first imperceptibly, but thoroughly and firmly in many new editions of textbooks, reference books, encyclopedias, the dispute was resolved in favor of Western Europe and the Normanists. They began to talk about the Slavic theory as about a historical half-forgotten anecdote. They say that during tsarism and Soviet totalitarianism there was such a point of view imposed by ideology. On the whole, anti-Normanism is supposedly the legacy of totalitarianism, communist propaganda and Great Russian chauvinism.
Norman theory began to prevail in works of art as well. For example, the 2016 Russian film Viking, which has become one of the most expensive projects in the history of Russian cinema.
In children's encyclopedias, often translated, they began to write about the brave Scandinavian sailors, the Vikings, who allegedly discovered new lands, brought civilization and culture to the savages. We agreed that the very name of the ethnonym "Rus" began to be traced back to the Scandinavian word "rоþsmenn" or "rоþskarlar" - "rowers, sailors". And clever Finns, having found out about it, began to call this word "ruotsi". And this word was already borrowed by the Slavs. As a result, the word "rus", which at first meant only sailors-Normans, allegedly came into the Russian language from the Old Norse language, and then gradually "passed" from the Norman elite to the entire Slavic people.
Are the Swedes - the founders of Russia
It turns out that the "wild and foolish" Slavs-Slovenia, mired in strife, having heard from their Finnish neighbors about rowers - "Ruotsi", brave and dashing Swedish (Scandinavian) warriors, called on them to rule, collect tribute and punish for crimes ... At the same time, they called themselves a strange word of unknown origin. Due to illiteracy and simplicity, they distorted a foreign word and became Russian, and the country was nicknamed Rus.
Who here suffers from stupidity - "wild Slovenia" or compilers of such textbooks, reference books and encyclopedias?
The diagnosis is clear. Obviously, this is not even idiocy, which is being introduced to schoolchildren, a "black myth", a historical sabotage in order to turn Russian-Russians into Ivanov, who do not remember kinship.
Beautifully illustrated, colorful children's encyclopedias by English, Swedish, American and other authors were published in huge numbers. These editions did not even mention other theories. Everything is written unambiguously and firmly. The corresponding "education" of children and youth began.
For example, in the book "Vikings", published in the series "Illustrated World History" (scientific and educational literature for primary and secondary school age), it was noted:
“At first, the Vikings plundered the Slavic tribes. But later they moved to a sedentary life, and the Swedish leaders began to rule over the Slavic cities - Novgorod and Kiev. "
Not only Rurik and Oleg are registered as "Swedes", but also Svyatoslav, Vladimir, Yaroslav and other princes.
In general, gentlemen-Europeans, "civilized and cultured", came to the Slavic barbarians, who "prayed to stumps" and mired in strife, and founded a large kingdom in Eastern Europe, called it Russia, from which Russia later came. The Vikings, it turns out, allegedly founded Novgorod, Smolensk, Kiev and other cities of Russia, opened the "way from the Varangians to the Greeks." Russia supplied furs and Slavic slaves. As a result, the allegedly Scandinavian dynasty of Rurikovich ruled Russia up to Ivan the Terrible.
War of the West against the North and East
The problem is that the facts tell a different story.
That the current "classical" history of the world and Europe was written by the winners, that is, first in Catholic Rome, then in Paris, London and Berlin. The story is completely edited in the interests of the West.
A myth has been created about the Swedish Vikings, civilizers-masters, “foolish slaves-Slavs”. This is a sophisticated and despicable lie, a conceptual and ideological "onslaught on the East" with the aim of completely destroying Russian self-consciousness. The ideological processing of the remaining unconquered and unassimilated Slavs. The XNUMX-year war of the South against the North, and then the West against the East continues.
We must remember that the worst thing weapon and the effective weapon of the enemy, which is used to destroy the Aryan Slavic-Russian world, these are not missiles, Tanks and NATO ships, and brainwashing. Ideological, informational and historical weapons. It affects entire generations, centuries to come. With these weapons entire countries and peoples are erased from the face of the earth: first, in the minds and memory, in the annals, it is distorted, then their past, their history is destroyed. The corresponding ideological, historical and cultural attitudes are being introduced into the mass consciousness. Then there is a direct linguistic, cultural and mental expansion.
As in the last three decades in Russia there is an Anglo-American linguistic, cultural and mental invasion. For example, our children and adolescents know who Spider-Man, Batman and other heroes of American comics and films are. The musical sphere is dominated by English-speaking singers and singers, and their Russian imitators.
Almost all programs, films and TV series are secondary copies of Western templates and much more. But few young people know who Perun or Chernobog, Svyatogor and Volga Vseslavievich, Sadko and the goddess Lada are. They do not know Svyatoslav Igorevich, Alexander Yaroslavich either. Many no longer know who Lenin and Stalin are. A deep degradation of historical self-awareness has taken place and is taking place. Russians are losing their own "I".
As a result, the people ceases to feel themselves as a single cultural and linguistic community, endowed with historical memory and ceases to exist as something single, integral. It is absorbed, assimilated, partially exterminated, in order to then swallow the remnants of the population.
Two or three more generations and the Russian superethnos will simply disappear, only its ethnographic remnants, debris doomed to complete assimilation, will remain.
To be continued ...
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