Some origins of the “golden billion”
What is the golden billion, our enlightened reader does not need to “chew”. But I will share my personal concept about him using the right of the author.
This is a human multitude of gentlemen and ladies of fortune who accepted Calvin’s precepts and practical principles of Judaism about godly personal life success in any way.
The territory of resettlement "zlatomilliardikov" - the most promised of the promised land, consider its inhabitants and the envious of the high fence. It attracts not only the "common citizens" of the Atlantic world and cosmopolitans of different origins and religions, but also immaculate (according to them) patriots of not so prosperous countries, for whom love of country does not exclude eternal separation from it, as for that Turgenev hero, who grieved for his homeland among the Germans, looking at the bast of gold wire. I will take the example of the most famous in the world of Chuchkoy Abramovich, who changed the pure arctic air of the town of Whalen to London smog-shrouded.
The citizens of the superbillions of the Golden Billion, of course, could not remain without ideology. And her appearance was not long in coming. I will not enumerate its position - the place does not allow. But I will point out one of the cornerstones. They are supposedly the most obvious humanism of the founders, the original humanity from which various kinds of “tolerance” (for “racially inferior”, foreigners, Gentiles, dissidents, etc.) and, finally, Her Holiness Western Democracy, which does not tolerates any other democracy (the other is bombed, like Iraq).
Of course, in the notion of atlantodemokratoidov traditional Russian democracy, manifested in its highest performance when choosing the ruling dynasty in 1613, can, with many reservations, coordinate with the current principles of American-style democracy. However, among the reservations will necessarily sound "evidence" of the "natural" inconsistencies of the Russian "higher democratic idea." And among the main obstacles will be listed the unforgivable cruelties of the descendants of the legendary Rus, they showed on the historical path. The concept of “barbarism” unites them. Do not doubt that those that I list below will not be forgotten ...
First of all, our partners in the “unloading” point with a finger in the annals. Here is a testimony about the defeat of Kiev in 1169 by the great prince of Vladimir Andrey Bogolyubsky (the favorite topic of a certain part of periodicals in Ukraine). But about the no less devastation of the “Mother of Russia” by another prince, from Kiev, named Rurik, in 1202 (this case is unknown to historians for a good reason is silent). The Christ-devastation of Novgorod by Ivan IV, indignant, ruined by his personal decree, without trial, causes 4 thousands of souls of subjects (according to synodics), bloody "feats" of the oprichniki causes indignation. No “higher considerations” justify the execution of the infant, the son of Marina Mnishek and the impostor. Blood in the veins of blood from the massacre of Tsar Peter with the archers. Pugachev’s severed head, five Decembrists hanged, Sasha Ulyanov, a depressed young man (poor man, could not kill Alexander III due to inexperience), the royal family in the basement of the Ipatiev house, the victims of the Gulag, cause sympathy ...
And if you break away from the "selected" pages, get a grasp of the other? Are there blood everywhere, fires, screams of suffering? You can go crazy. But there is, common sense suggests, a saving means: to clear the mind of domestic dirt, looking in the Western chronicles. Already there, probably, the classic Christ-like barbarism began to get rid of itself 1000 years ago - from the founding of the first universities, from the "Academy" at the court of Charlemagne, from the Parliament in London, in short, with the advent of all that was not in Russia and it could not have been due to "the primordially barbarous nature of the descendants of the legendary Rus", as convinced by enlightened humanity with the most enlightened Yankees at the head.
So let's look at other people's chronicles with the help of A. Goryanin (“The Traditions of Freedom and Property in Russia”, M., 2007); K. Anderson ("Ireland, the year 1798 ...", Meetings with historyMG, 1988); B. de Las Casas (treatise 1542 of the “The shortest report on the destruction of India”); F. Eria (“The Boussardel Family”, IL, M., 1961); Henri Troyat (“Alexander I”, ZL, M., 1997); ; F.Nesterova, (“Connection of times”, MG, 1987) of other authors, who, in turn, used the available information, including witnesses of the events described. I apologize for recommending my works here as well (S.Sokurov, volume III, M., 2006; publ. In periodicals).
I. From A. Goryanin
Moscow-based publishing house Ad Marginem published in M. X. NUMX the work of M. Foucault “To Supervise and Punish” (on the cover - skinning off a person’s skin), with quotations from the regulations on the procedures of executions and public torture in different European countries right up to the middle of the past (XX ) century. European entertainers have used quite a bit of fantasy to make the executions not only extremely long and painful, but also spectacular - one of the chapters in the book is entitled "The Glitter of Execution." Reading is not for the impressionable. The engravings of J. Kallo with garlands and clusters of people hanging from trees are not a reflection of any painful fantasies of the artist, but of the genuine cruelty of manners in XVII century Europe (for the sake of truth, sophisticated torture was used in Russia, but more often “in the cells” during the inquiry ; publicly imposed as prologue to execution, rarely (SS).
Crusaders during the Albiguian wars massacred more than half of the population of southern France. The Prussian suppressor, Grand Master of the Order of the Crusaders, Conrad Wallenrod, angry at the Bishop of Courland, ordered the right hands to be cut off by all the peasants of his bishopric. And it was fulfilled! 16 February 1568 (the time of the oprichnina Ivan the Terrible's height) the holy Inquisition condemned to death all (!) Inhabitants of the Netherlands as heretics, and the Spanish king Philip II ordered the execution of the sentence. This was not entirely successful, but the royal army did what it could. Only in Haarlem, 20 thousand people were killed, and only in the Netherlands - 100 thousand (in the entire history of Russia, about 1000 heretics were executed. - C.C.).
Cruelty was generated by the constant devastating wars of the Western European powers in the new time, more ruthless. Thirty-year war in the XVII century claimed half of the population of Germany and from 60 to 80% of the population of its southern part. Pope temporarily allowed polygamy in order to restore the national population. The pacification of Cromwell of Ireland (in the middle of the seventeenth century. - SS) cost her 5 / 6 its population. Russia on its territory for almost seven centuries between Batu and Lenin did not know such bloodlettings and was not familiar with such unbridled ferocity of morals.
II. From B. de Las Casas
It is known that Christians (here - Spanish Catholics. - SS) ... killed over 12 million (!!! - SS) souls of Indians ... Christians were killed in two ways: by bloody war and conversion to the most severe slavery, which neither people nor animals have ever been converted before ... The cause and sole purpose of the killings and destruction was the enrichment of Christians with gold. For this, they were ready for any arbitrariness in the new lands ... And what I say, I know, because I saw everything with my own eyes ... Christians on horseback, armed with swords and spears, mercilessly killed the Indians ... they were beating who among them with one blow the sword will cut a man in two, or cut off his head, or open the insides ... In the village they built long gallows and hung thirteen people on each to the glory of the 12 apostles and Christ. The Indians wrapped the body with dry straw and set fire to or cut off their hands ... I saw these torments and an infinite number of others. Everyone who could leave, went into the forests and mountains, escaped there from the Spaniards - so inhuman and ruthless cattle ... When the [surviving] Indians were distributed among Christians, they began to convert them to the Catholic faith. They made them work, but they didn’t feed them, they gave only grass and vegetables - they don’t have the strength to work ... they used Indians as pack animals ... The milk of nursing women was gone, and soon all the children died ... the birth of children on the island ceased (about. Haiti. Then the whites settled it with slaves from Africa - SS)
III. From A. Goryanin
1 August 1793 Revolutionary French Convention issued a decree ordering “destroy the Vendée." At the beginning of 1794, the army got down to business. “The Vendee should become a national cemetery,” proclaimed General Turro, who led the punitive hellish columns. The crackdown lasted 18 months. Shots and guillotines (even children's guillotines were brought from Paris) were not enough to execute the decree. The destruction of people occurred, according to revolutionaries, not fast enough. Decided: to drown. The city of Nantes, according to Norman Davis, was "the Atlantic port of the slave trade, and therefore there was a whole fleet of huge floating prisons on hand." They invented to bring the barge loaded with people on a reliable cable leash at the mouth of the Loire, to drown it, then again to pull it to the shore with ropes and to dry it before new use. It turned out, writes Davis, "a wonderful reusable device for the execution."
It was not enough just to kill people to revolutionary entertainers. They found pleasure in tearing their spouses from their spouses and loading them in pairs before loading onto barges. Naked pregnant women were tied up face to face with old men, boys with old women, priests with girls, this was called “Republican weddings”.
To hide in the woods did not survive, but died of starvation, cattle were slaughtered, crops and houses were burned. General Westerman wrote enthusiastically to Paris: “Citizens are Republicans, Vendée no longer exists! Thanks to our free saber, she died with her women and their offspring. Using the rights given to me, I trampled the children with horses, cut out the women. I have not regretted a single prisoner. I destroyed everyone. ” Entire departments were deserted, from 400 thousand to a million people were exterminated. Sadly, the national conscience of France Vendée, apparently, does not torment.
“Before the Bolsheviks appeared in Russia, nothing resembling the Vendean hecatomb had happened (even with the suppression of the Razin and Pugachev riots. - SS). And then it happened: on the Don, in the Tambov province, in other places, ”noted A. Goryanin.
The genocide of the French against a part of their own people, it happens, is trying to “justify”: civil war, they say. But let's look at Goya etching No. 36 from the “Disasters of War” series. The artist was "inspired" by the consequences of the order of the French command 3 in February 1809, to hang up every second Spaniard who was captured by the invaders. How did the representatives of the “most enlightened nation” behave in other countries and what kind of revenge they had for it, a separate topic.
IV. From C. Anderson
“Over its history, the“ green island ”has absorbed more blood than rain. But 1798 year (Age of Enlightenment! - SS) covered it all over Ireland, like a flood. The executions were ahead of the sentences (hereinafter, by me. - SS). Trees burst under the weight of corpses. The gallows, overhanging the bodies of the executed, surged above the rivers like gallows. As if monstrous lanterns were sticking on the streets and squares, stakes with heads of insurgents mounted on them. The mutilated bodies lay in heaps beside them. Only as a sign of special mercy, families were allowed to bury loved ones. Breaking into the cities, the British slaughtered everyone who did not wear a uniform ... Yeomen (here Protestant farmers. - SS) chased after peasants for hours (here are Catholics. - S. S.), tirelessly cutting them down like weeds. They killed indiscriminately ... All the counties were covered with scaffolds. Deserted ruins blackened the city, the ashes reminded of the old villages. The land was littered with corpses that there was no one to bury. Not disturbed by anyone, wandering fattening pigs, trapping human remains ... Executioners and judges worked without rest ... "Enlightened classes" demanded a total shooting of "mad dogs", applauded the executioners. The Vice-King of Ireland wrote (to London. - SS): “Public opinion will calm down only with blood. Even at the dinner table, conversations are only about executions and the gallows, the news of executions is met with glee ... "The soldiers of His Majesty practiced the torture craft, displaying an uncommon wit. They mastered the whips with metal hooks on the ends ... they learned to put people barefoot on sharp pins and set fire to tar tar, carefully wrapping the head of the interlocutor with it ... There were rare masters of shoulder cases. Take Lieutenant Hepenstoll, nicknamed “the walking gallows,” who jerked “the Irishkas” not on the crossbar, but on his own shoulders ”... (The war did not justify these atrocities. Lord Moira testified in the House of Peers a year before the uprising. - S.C.) : “I saw in Ireland the most heinous tyranny ... I know cases when people were scourged until they lost consciousness, they rectified and scourged again to wrest confession out of the victim ... People were hung up, and then, weakening the rope, so that the fear of re-strangulation forced them confess to their attribution Feelings. And all this is happening openly. I have seen countries that were conquered by force to submission. But never with the conquered countries have not been treated so vile and insulting, as the United Kingdom with Ireland "(here highlighted K. Anderson.- S. S.)
V.Fot F.Eria, A.Truaya, S.Tsvetkova, and others in the author's retelling
Not only that the houses of the deserted Moscow were robbed, and the remaining residents were robbed, humiliated, maimed, killed by the marauding soldiers of Napoleon. Before the retreat, the emperor of the French gave the order to mine all the palaces and temples of the Kremlin, remove the cross from Ivan the Great's bell tower, taking gold for gold, blow up “this mosque”, as he put it about St. Basil's Cathedral. If it were not for the dedication of Muscovites, the center of the First Throne would have turned into a desert of ash and broken bricks. But some of the charges exploded. The towers cracked, the palace of Catherine collapsed completely. The tombs of the great princes and kings were plundered, their remains thrown to the surface. Deprived of salaries, turned into splinter icons. Orthodox churches were used under the stables. This list is endless ...
Immediately after crossing the Neman, Napoleon’s soldiers, still full of self-conceit, well-fed, not tired, well-equipped, distinguished themselves for looting and violence against the inhabitants of the western provinces, especially in Vilna. But there prevailed Catholics, who were waiting for the restoration of Poland and welcomed the "liberators". From the French and other "languages" in the robbery, the Poles of Dombrowski did not lag behind, who had previously extracted freedom for their people as part of the French armies, depriving them of the Spaniards and other victims of an insatiable Corsican.
Behind Minsk, where the Vilna events were repeated, "cities and villages were subjected to unheard of devastation," recalled Countess Choiseul-Guffier. “Churches are looted, utensils are pillaged, cemeteries are desecrated, poor women have been insulted.” In June, under the feed horses gave nevzreshviy bread in the fields. The bodies of dead animals were dumped into the rivers. Looting has become widespread, the fear of punishment has disappeared.
Grand robbery marked the first night of the occupation of Moscow. "In a huge, deserted and silent city ... soldiers smash shops and warehouses, walk along the streets ... drag someone who watches, someone bag of flour, someone basket with bottles of wine ... And suddenly the darkness of the night tears flames ... The streets are littered with pieces of furniture, trampled into mud by clothes , ruined chests, torn pictures ”(A. Troyat). “The soldiers, the servants ...” Captain Labs left the memory, “... went into the empty palaces and took away everything that could satiate their greed ... trooped down to the basements, broke down the doors and, drunk on the finest wines, left, staggering under the weight of the loot."
The picture of the Great Army (still great, 100-thousandth, combat-ready) at the exit from Moscow is at least a motley. It is still warm, roads are drained; on them move columns of foot and horse, carriages, carts, laden with good. The soldiers are dragging their possessions. Officers in women's salads and fur hats are fancy-dress characters. It seems that every creature is paired from all over Europe - a mixture of adverbs confirms. Henri Troyat correctly called this rabble nomads with prey, united by the fear that drives them into the unknown.
... Allied French provinces [1814] were ravaged by requisition, dozens of towns and villages looted. The German General York said with irritation: "I thought I had the honor to command a detachment of the Prussian army, now I see a gang of robbers." However, the king of Prussia justified his soldiers. Before the storming of the capital of France, Friedrich-Wilhelm let slip the “brother” Alexander, who feared for the life and property of the Parisians, that “there is no way to forbid such a convenient and long-awaited case for the Prussian troops” - to avenge all the misfortunes of their homeland. The leader of the “Tatar hordes,” as Russian regiments in the press of enemies and “friends” were often called, was shocked. He did not allow himself out of revenge to deal with the traitors-Poles, when he crossed the Neman. Moreover, back in Vilna, Alexander signed an act of amnesty to the Poles, from his subjects, who strolled to Moscow and back under Napoleon's banners, taking advantage of the income from estates in Little Russia and Belarus.
Now the Russian Tsar most of all wanted Paris not to suffer the fate of Moscow. This was his peculiar revenge. He did not miss a chance to remind the soldiers of their mission of liberation, pleasing to God. Even under the walls of Leipzig, where he was already killed in the famous Battle of the Nations, near the 20000 of his compatriots, the king traveled around the troops, calling: "Be generous to the defeated enemy and to the unfortunate inhabitants!" In another battle, he risked his life when the Allied cavalry chopped into pieces of Napoleon's recruits, who, having become in a square, fought back with bayonets. The king with an escort by some miracle, without taking out his sword, drove into the middle of the square and stopped the extermination of these more boys, brave but insane.
The Russians, as a rule, listened to such speeches of their commanders (especially the highest of them). The actions, like the one described above, made a good impression on them. “I can vouch for my Russians,” said Alexander. But the subjects of Friedrich Wilhelm, apparently, shared the "dissenting opinion" of their king. They have already gained considerable experience. In Nogent the Prussians tormented the clothier by stretching their limbs, trying to find out where he was hiding money; in Provins, a baby was thrown at the coals when his mother refused to give out a cache of jewels. The most hated word in France was the word "prusak". They did not lag behind the subjects of Caesar Franz, who, "according to the rules of good tone," sat out in Vienna, as the Austrian army now acted against his son-in-law (in 1810, Caesar bought off his daughter Marie-Louise from the Corsican monster). In the Vandevr district alone, occupied by Austrians, 550 people were counted dead from injuries and beatings. In response, the peasants, gathering in groups of frontiers, no less brutally cracked down on the rapists. The robbery of the Prussian units and divisions of the Austrian army stood out against the general background of the occupied territory, although all the winners had the “stigma of a gun”. For the sake of truth, you should point your finger at the Cossacks, who looked at the property of the vanquished as legitimate "trophies", and considered human blood, including their own, tinted water. Try to curb the Cossack, if he is an armed earner for its deepest nature.
To the luck of the French, the Cossacks were small in the ranks of the Russian army. The horror of bearded centaurs rushing with whistles and whooping with spikes at the ready was replaced by a sigh of relief if regular Russian units entered the village or town. They differed sharply and favorably from the divisions of other warring states on the side of the coalition of states, observing strict discipline even during the campaign. One terrible crime was noted: a hungry soldier stole bread from the bakery, for which he was shot. A distinctive feature of the Russian officers was self-discipline. F. Eria writes: “The Russians were closer to everyone in the capital (Paris.- SS.) Than other allies ... On the Champs Elysees, there was a pleasant atmosphere of friendly proximity that was not found in other bivouacs” (and the Cossacks, under supervision, behaved differently. - SS).
The cult of the French, mixed with fear of the winners, gradually giving way to sincere respect, resulted in gratitude in 1818. The commander of the Russian occupation corps, Count Vorontsov, was primarily concerned with the conflict-free coexistence of troops and civilians. But there was a problem: before sending the corps to Russia, Vorontsov revealed that the Russians “owed” to the French one and a half million banknotes. Vorontsov paid this debt from his own pocket by selling the most profitable of his Russian estates. Is there a similar example in the history of wars? Do not look!
From the author
Central Asia was not conquered from a third party, not joined to Russia with the consent of the rulers and the aspirations of its peoples, and, unlike most of the acquisitions of our sovereigns (from Daniil Alexandrovich to Joseph Vissarionovich), was conquered with the aim of stopping the British in their advancement from the Indian subcontinent to the north. It was occupied by small forces, without major battles (only the Turkmen fortress Geok-Tepe was taken by storm). Bukhara and Khiva did not have to storm, given the opportunity to choose a position in relation to Russia. Emir and Khan thought and chose a protectorate. At the side of the “white king” it is safer and quieter: clan wars ceased, on 200 days in a year, when all prisoners were sold into slavery; the farmer began to receive an incomparably greater profit from the peace field; new cities, river and sea ports and a railway (built by the only Russian division that controlled the entire region from the Pamirs to the Caspian) revived trade and agriculture; began to arise industrial enterprises; European medicine and education saved millions of people from the eternal, it seemed, sleep of the Middle Ages. A sensible policy filled with political morality called M. Simashko methods of managing the acquired territories south of the 50 parallel, when the imperial geographical society and Oriental scientists, at the helm of Eastern politics, thoroughly studied local conditions and the mood of the local Muslims, who made the correct prediction of the behavior of the conquered and gave recommendations of the behavior of the conquerors. From the very beginning of the campaigns, the Russians did not intervene without inspiration into the internal life of peoples and social groups, beliefs, customs, did not change the moral postulates to a new way. The only thing that was decisively banned, regardless of the thousand-year practice, was the slave trade. For the colonial officials, knowledge of the local language has become mandatory; for this increased salary.
Let us glance into Western Siberia, won back from Khan of the Blue Horde, Chingizid Kuchum, and the rest, which became Russian as a result of peaceful, with rare exceptions, peasant-Cossack colonization. Over three centuries, the scribes show a steady increase in the indigenous population (for comparison, the number of North American Indians has decreased by a factor of 10 (!) Times in approximately the same time). Already in Soviet times, the “colonialists” donated their writing to most of them, in bouts of donation, autonomous borders to some even primitive communal inhabitants of the campsites. The Kazakh nomadic hordes of zhuz also gained boundaries, as if with a hint that they should not be roamed beyond their borders (how it turned out to be another extensive topic).
In the Christian Transcaucasus, the Persians remembered for a long time how in 1797, taking Tbilisi, each Georgian woman had a vein on her leg, as at one time only 70 of thousands of men remained in Kartli and Kakheti after frequent visits of the janissaries. Therefore, wait a small Russian army did not annoy the Aborigines. New taxes were wiser than Muslims and partially returned to Tiflis. “I remember very well the time when in each regiment a large half of the officers ... there were local natives ... Georgians, Armenians, Tatars ... led the Russian soldier to the battles that so glorified the Caucasian army" (S. Yu. Witte). Under Stalin-Dzhugashvili, the Georgians, without meeting, of course, objections, occupied the niche of the most prosperous nation of the Country of Soviets, and remained in it until its end. Now, in conditions of total poverty and the expectation of scanty handouts from across the ocean, at Georgian feasts, the third toast toastmaster proclaims “for 37,50!” (The cost of the “Tbilisi-Moscow” ticket, which allowed every respected mountaineer to fly to the capital of the socialist camp for a day - to visit “Aragvi” ", Remove the blonde, bow to the dear grave at the Kremlin wall). Hundreds of thousands of Georgian families and after the "military" 2008, fed by earnings in Russia
The Muslim Caucasus and the Crimea, who lived almost autonomously, also felt the benefits of a stable life, which gave the social empire ... Here it must stop. The Russian empire differed from the European ones listed above in that it was social, not national. In short, the ruling classes of provinces joined under the name of provinces received rights and privileges similar to those existing in the metropolis for the nobility and clergy, and other classes supplemented the Russian row with the same set of rights (or disempowerment, as you like). Moreover, they received additional benefits: before the introduction of military duties, only Orthodox, Poles and Catholics of the former Polish possessions, including Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians, supplied the recruits. Serfdom was the lot of the subjects of the Greek religion and still residents of the Baltic provinces, enslaved by the nobility and the German barons long before the entry of Livonia and Courland, later Vilna in Russia. The self-governing Finns, "taken" from the Swedes, did not pay taxes, did not give recruits. The lament of the Ukrainians about slavery of plowmen imposed on Ukraine by St. Petersburg is pure hypocrisy. For a full hundred years before the famous decree of 3 of May 1783, "... in disgust of any escapes to the burden of the landowners ..." (from the territory of the land of the Ukraine, liberated from the gentry, together with the peasants got their hands on the landlords, from the Cossack petty officers and officers, in the citation!). In the Age of Catherine, Little Russian landlords become richer than Great Russians, not surprisingly: the colonel’s lords, bursting with the Lytsar title and their greedy for privileges, were surrounded by nobility to disregard usury, trade, all kinds of small profit. The army of landowners was raised to Catherine in noble dignity, but the fellow Cossack family Sashko Bezborodko (the future luminous prince and chancellor of the empire) became the secretary of the mistress of Russia, the dependent position of the descendants of those who determined Bogdanov's success was finally consolidated. mainly peasants transferred by their landlords from the central provinces.
As part of the “Polish heritage”, 700-thousandth (at the beginning of the 19th century) turned out to be 5-million Jewish people in 100 years — along with anti-Semitism, which had not been Russian before; on the eve of the collapse of the USSR, about 2-million people recognized themselves as Jews. Before the revolution, they lived according to the laws of the rabbinate within the limits of internal autonomy, engaging in trade and usury, Christians condemned. The introduction of their “Pale of Settlement” under Alexander III was caused by the unjustified attempt to avoid pogroms in Little Russia 1881-1883, when the troops had to shoot Christian pogromists (to the point that, from 1,5, thousands of 1250 pogroms were recorded during several decades had the Kingdom of Poland, Ukraine (approx. 1000) and Belarus, the belligerents of the Citizen are responsible for 250, the Great Russian provinces have a maximum of 5 (five!) Pogroms). There were no restrictions for the vykrestov: sit down wherever you want, get out of it even to the general (here's the chief of staff at Denikin Romanovsky and you served him). In 1886, among students at Russian universities there were 15% Jews (with 4% of the total population). They and other peoples of the empire, which were close to Western culture (Poles, Ostseeians, Finns, Protestants, people from Holland and German principalities settled two hundred years ago in Tavria, in the Kuban and along the Volga), largely formed the Russian intelligentsia and bureaucracy. At one time there were 17% Lutherans in the State Council, in addition, many Orthodox with German surnames. The Black Sea Greeks and the southern Slavs who had run in transit from the Turks through the New Russia from the Turks were socially active. The Jews constituted a significant part of the passionate foreigners who took an active part in the revolutionary movement, and in the second half of the twentieth century, Soviet Jews formed the vanguard of dissidents.
VII. From F.Nesterova
German peasants, attracted by the Teutonic Order to settle the Baltic States, immediately became the position of the people-master in relation to the local population. The same is true in the English colonization of Ireland, where the British appropriated the 7 / 8 cultivated land, the same in the French colonization of Algeria, the Dutch - South Africa, the Jewish - Palestine, etc. Russian colonization, predominantly peasant, was distinguished by the peculiarity that the settlers in the acquired lands took as much land as they could cultivate with their own hands, took, of course, as much as possible, but within undeveloped limits; all forces went into peaceful work, getting along with abrigens was beneficial. Not a single agricultural people, be it in the Volga region, the Baltics, Central Asia, or Transcaucasia, took away the land. Serfdom did not extend to the inhabitants of the acquired territories; it survived only where it existed before the arrival of the Russians. However, only the Russians continued to bear the brunt of the duties, incl. recruit. Natives, as a rule, were subjected to unhindered yasaknyh claims. Old men, sick and maimed, were freed from them; baptized could send public service. The enemy of autocracy S.Stepnyak-Kravchinsky in the study “Russian Peasantry” has to admit that after conquering or peacefully joining a new territory, Russian order is established, order is eliminated, slavery and racial discrimination disappear, equal laws are introduced for everyone, “respect for them is achieved by strictness, moderate justice, "managers appointed the best people," whose ambition is stronger than greed. F. Nesterov adds that the vital interests of the indigenous people were not infringed anywhere. On the contrary, during the years of starvation, the massive loss of livestock and commercial animals, the Russian grain became salutary for nomads, hunters and fishermen. The authorities understood this: “Through bread ... there is more benefit than all other means” (from the report of the Orenburg governor in 1749). Herzen noted: “Russia is expanding according to a different law than America ... Russia ... like water, bypasses the tribes from all sides ... The United States is like an avalanche ... a rod in front of everything; every step they take is a step lost by the Indians. ” And here are the “price tags” of such “steps”: Before the English appeared in North America there were 2 a million Indians, by the beginning. XX century. 200 thousand of them remained (in Russian Siberia, during this time, a repeated growth of the yasak population was noted). But what was worth the valor of the hunters of the redskins: for the surrendered scalp, the authorities gave out from 50 to 100 f.st. The child’s scalp was minimally assessed; the warrior was the maximum; women - in the range of these amounts. I remembered the hero of the glorious battles of the gallant US Army with the North American Indians F. Sheridan. This general advised the government not to risk the life of the Yankees in battles with savages. It is enough, they say, to distribute shotguns to the tribes of hunters, supply them with gunpowder and lead, as they will quickly destroy the entire population of bison in the prairies. Consequently, the Indians waiting for inevitable famine, and they will disappear after the ungulates, freeing the territory for the development of Yankee democracy, the most democratic in the world.
Lord Curzon, the foreign minister of Great Britain, the viceroy of India, called the colonial policy of the West "ousting the ignoble element more pure", and the expansion of Russia - "an alloy of hard metal with a weak". Very true definition of racist and Russophobe. In other, also figurative words, the British, Germans, French, Spaniards, other owners of colonies, breaking into someone else's house, drove the owners into cramped, non-residential premises or simply disposed of them. The Russians in the possession of their neighbors, as a rule, occupied a free “living space” and created with them a common household, where everyone did his own business. And privileges were received not by a single, most numerous, most active and successful nation-family, but by the ruling elites of almost all nationalities. Returning to Curzon, he wrote: “Russia undoubtedly has a wonderful gift to seek loyalty and even friendship to those whom it has subjugated by force ... Russian is fraternizing in the full sense of the word. He is completely free from the ... kind of superiority and arrogance. He does not shy away from social and family communication with alien and inferior races ”(therefore, apparently he does not shy away because there are no“ inferior races ”for him. - SS). Further, the lord notes in Russian a position of non-interference in the internal affairs of new subjects, tolerance for their religious rites, customs and prejudices. Yes, it is difficult to understand the “fraternization in Russian” to those whom they, having subjugated by force, frighten the sophisticated execution of their leaders. Recall a lithograph from Vereshchagin's The Shooting of Sipahi: the prisoner is tied with his back to the cannon; one more moment - and to shreds! The picture itself has long disappeared, bought by the "masters of the seas."
Viii. From A. Goryanin.
... The history of Western civilization ... Its practice was bloody and brutal. And not only in the distant past - in the twentieth century, too. In terms of bloodshed and atrocities, the twentieth century has surpassed any past. By and large, there is no guarantee that this civilization will not return to its usual practice. (I’ll add here: this practice will be preceded by the “War of Civilizations” predicted by thinkers. For it is not today that tomorrow the notorious political correctness in its development, generated not by humanism, but by the greed of capital, will put Europe on the brink of the abyss, and Europeans will have to choose whether jump into oblivion or push those whom she lured to herself with the comfort of life, the ghost of the “Golden Billion” (SS).
This is a much, much more serious question than our West-loving countrymen used to think. Knowing what we know about Western civilization, it is difficult not to say: its narcissism, with all its familiarity, looks infinitely strange.
Sounds unexpected? Then I will quote one of the most prominent historians of our time, Oxford professor Norman Davis: “Everyone agrees that the crimes of the West in the twentieth century undermined the moral basis of his claims, including his past claims”. Throughout almost the entire history, human life has cost just a little in Western Europe. Today, without immersion in special studies, it is even difficult to imagine the West European tradition of hardheartedness in all its gloom.
Conclusion
I, the author of this work, draw the attention of readers to a “fresh” event that, according to N. Davis, is one of those that undermined the moral foundation of Western claims, not only in the past and present, but also in the uncertain future. For that crime event, extremely inhuman and cynical, continues to this day, intensifying its negative impact on its direct participants and on humanity as a whole. I am talking about the forceful creation by the United States of a criminal, by all standards, the pseudo-state of Kosovo. This is the crime that completed the “Guernica” and “Dresden” of our days - the bombing of Serbia aviation NATO, supported the majority of European countries, demonstrating the solidarity of the Free World (and, in fact, a miserable dependence on a superpower), thereby signing up for accomplices in killings and pogroms. The crime of such “power-building” does not require proof (it’s strange to see the nods toward Abkhazia. Abkhazia as part of the GSSR is a creation of Stalin, the Abkhazians under the rule of Tbilisi briefly visited a long time ago, and Russia at one time did not accept Georgia, but gradually separate kingdoms and Principality "beyond the wall of the Caucasus"). But the creation on the holy field of Kosovo for all Orthodox Serbs of a foreign, foreign-speaking “sovereign Kosovo” of Gentiles, as an international crime, fades before the devilish essence of this ugly “product of democracy”.
Yes, be terrified at last by the spectacle of the market of human organs and objects serving it! After all, besides the shopkeepers at the stalls with bloody goods, there are rippers of corpses protected by the recognition of the West and inviolable borders and suppliers for processing of living goods, and supervisors-doctors with the Hippocratic Oath, stuck in the throat, and the faithful guard is slaughtered for two-legs, and the chief guard in the rank of distinguished prime minister. Why is he missed and not taken to the prison as a drug dealer President Noriega? I suffer questions, are there any more Christians among Catholics and Protestants? Do the Jews believe in their creator? In my country, before the era of the Gulag, the Orthodox God was abolished in the form of an order. Butchers and apprentices did not set candles for the repose of ruined souls, God was not commemorated in vain. Or is the duplicity of the West the divine sign of its collective soul?
PS I hope there will be readers of the aforesaid who will agree with my definition of some of the sources that fed and nourished the “promised land”, where the elected “Golden Billion” of seven billion humanity is still flourishing. Most of the earthlings are elementally undernourished and face a hopeless choice in the end. Or “to register among the well-fed (more precisely, those who overeat), which is simply impossible because of the limited resources of the earth, especially food. Or “take away and divide” (then briefly prolong your existence in the taken away “golden dream”). Or die in the throes of hunger and moral depletion, wasting energy on a useless race in pursuit of the well-fed and successful. But there are ways out of these dead ends. And whoever searches, he will always find, is known from the classics.
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