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Why does the VSN win and why do the junta militants fail? A good part of the reason is that the VSN fights for three things:
- they fight to defend their native land, for their homes and families
- they fight to defend their Russian nationality and their Orthodox religion
- they fight to bring forward a coherent and just ideology
The first two are self-explanatory; most Westerners are aware of the first factor, many are aware of the second one… however, no Westerner seems to grasp that the fight in Novorossiya involves a fight between two inimical ideologies. The junta has a mishmash of world-views within it… ranging from oligarchic self-indulgence to Galician Uniate “Consciousness” (a particularly vicious form of fascist integral nationalism). There are no Western-style “democrats” amongst them, although they mouth Western shibboleths in an attempt to gain support. Opposing them, the Novorossiyans have quickly coalesced around two similar movements… Essence of Time and Eurasianism. In the above image, war correspondent Graham Philips and VSN soldiers hold an Essence of Time banner. This movement strives to unite people with socialist/communist political views, who also hold patriotic views and Orthodox Christian values. The conscious aim is to create a spiritual synthesis of Communism and Orthodoxy. The goal of the movement is to bring to life the best of communism’s ideals… a society that provides for the awakening and development of the higher creative abilities of every human being. Eurasianism posits that the Russian civilisational bloc doesn’t belong in the “European” category (somewhat like the Slavophiles) and that the Bolshevik October Revolution was a necessary component to rapidly modernise Russian society. The original Eurasianists (in the 1920s) believed that the Soviet system was capable of evolving into a new national non-European Orthodox Christian ideology. These supranational communal idealistic ideologies face a narrow parochial selfish nationalism that embraces the worst aspects of capitalism and fascism. One can readily see the clash of good and evil here.
We as Orthodox Christians in the diaspora must face the fact that we have traitors in our midst who oppose godly social justice, who fight against the union of the Cross and the Red Banner implicit in the the two above ideologies (which are very close, by the way). We all know who they are… some sold out for filthy lucre or for a seat at the high table… some others sold themselves as hirelings to the papists… still others crawl on their bellies for the Western media machine. I don’t think that I need name the people involved… you know them well. However, none of them are as dangerous as those who betray us for the sake of their fanatical belief in Libertarian Neoliberalism… that is, Jonas Paffhausen and his ragtag band of konvertsy. These people wish to ally the Church with such Anti-Christian elements as Radical Sectarians (“Evangelicals”) and the warmonger wing of the US Republican Party. The sell-outs are bad… but controllable. The True Believers are dangerous. They want to suck out the interior of our Faith and replace it with Sectarian/Libertarian goo. They’re the ones we must wrestle with and oppose… as our coreligionists abroad must fight the Uniates, we must fight the semi-Sectarians. In both cases, the Church is at stake… which side are you on?
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10 April 2015. Which Side Are YOU On? You Can be Left or You Can be Republican… But NEVER Both at Once!
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What do you want? Do you want a feral world where the rich run roughshod over everyone else or do you want a world with justice and opportunity for all? Remember, Libertarianism is unbridled anarchy for the rich… if you have money, you can do as you please, and to hell with everyone else. If one had to choose, Communism is closer to Our Lord Christ than Libertarianism is… in fact, what Libertarianism teaches is the same thing that Satanism does… do reflect on that as you hear certain sorts try to affix such evil to Christ and His Church… do ponder it well…
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