Rising

by Fenek Solère

  Inquisitorial eyes set in rheumy crinkles scanned the Professor surreptitiously. Herman’s protective instincts caused him to check out the man his grand-daughter had brought to him.

  ‘You were caught in the troubles?’ he asked.

  ‘Only a little’, she said soothingly. ‘We got off Nevsky in time.’ Herman pointed towards the television with an arthritic finger.

  ‘Rossia One coverage has been interesting.’

  International news media report that the Russian Army is mounting a coup;

  A spokesman for the Utro Rossii movement is quoted as saying, ‘We are working with the armed forces in order to stabilise the situation after President Babel’s death’;

  Konstantin Poltoranin, former spokesman for the Federal Migratory Service, dismissed for stating ‘the survival of the White race is at stake’, is reinstated and his views become federal policy;

  Members of the 45th Special Reconnaissance Regiment storm Building 14 in Moscow’s Kremlin, where the new President, Viktor Akulov, was holding an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis with high-profile representatives from Brussels, New York, and Tel Aviv;

  Later, the attendees at the meeting are shown being frog-marched out into Ivanovskaya Square, where Tos-1A MRL missile launchers are seen aiming at the ionic columned neo-classical façade.

  ‘I see events are moving in our favour’, Tom said smugly.

  ‘Don’t be too sure’, Herman advised. ‘I saw how the last coup d’etat under Aleksandr Rutskoy ended after Yeltsin awarded himself Extraordinary Executive Powers. Tanks from the Taman Division shelled Moscow’s White House, the mayoral office closed, and the Ostankino TV centre was stormed. Tens of thousands of Russians took to the streets of Moscow, including members of the National Salvation Front and militants of Russian National Unity. But when General Grachev went over to Yeltsin, it was all over for the short-lived Rutskoy-Khasbulatov regime and all those who tried to preserve the Supreme Soviet and the Constitution. The White House was assaulted by Vympel and Alpha units. Within hours, Yeltsin declared “the fascistic-Communist armed rebellion in Moscow shall be suppressed within the shortest period”. Afterwards, legislation was enacted by presidential decree, applying heavy sanctions against fascism, chauvinism, and racial hatred. The rise of Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party scared Yeltsin, though. Newspapers like Den, Sovietskaya Rosiya, and Pravda were banned.’

  Inside Herman’s apartment, the rooms were cold. It seemed the heating was constantly failing. ‘It’s freezing, Pappa!’ Ekaterina admonished him, fussing around the place. He waved her concerns away with a ‘Ba, soon I’ll be dead anyway’, type of reply. Then, turning to Tom, she said, ‘It loses energy through bad windows.’ From what the newcomer could see, the flat comprised two bedrooms and a lounge with a good, high ceiling and a chair placed so as to give a view back over the road they had just crossed. Tom realised her grandfather had probably been watching them walk hand-in-hand from the underground station. The bathroom was small and the kitchen even smaller. A St Andrew’s cross hung on the wall. Heavy curtains had been selected not so much for their aesthetic quality as their capacity to insulate. Nineteenth-century furniture was crammed full of books by Schwartz-Bostunich and Nilus. There were texts of all descriptions: technical, political, and historical. Tom read the spines of novels like Bryusov’s Pale Horse, Rozanov’s Apocalypse of Our Time, Solovyov’s A Story of the Anti-Christ, and Andrei Bely’s Vision of the Coming Kingdom of the Beast. There was a chess set on a coffee table.

  ‘My ancestors are part German’, her grandfather said in halting English. Then, noticing where Tom’s eyes had settled, he continued in Russian, with Ekaterina translating. ‘You admire the game?’

  ‘I play a little’, Tom replied.

  ‘Kasparov is a genius, but he should have stayed out of politics.’

  ‘And Karpov?’

  ‘A KGB mechanist.’ In that moment they understood each other. There was mutual recognition of kindred spirits across continents and generations.

  ‘Chess is not everything, but it is nearly everything’, he speculated. ‘I can remember when I came here with my first wife, Sveta, in 1956. It was just after Khrushchev had denounced Comrade Stalin at the Twentieth Party Congress. “Comrades”, he said, “we must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all”.’ The old man’s eyes meandered for a moment. ‘We never achieved that!’

  ‘Putin followed in that tradition.’

  The old man’s eyes flared. ‘Different tradition’, he wheezed. ‘It is true we have always had strong autocrats, but this did not start with the Bolsheviks. First there was five centuries of Tsarist absolutism, beginning from the time we drove the Mongol hordes from our land. Then there were people like Metropolitan Macarius and Iury Krizhanich, author of Politika, who believed in enlightened absolutism. Krizhanich died fighting with the Polish army defending Vienna from the Turks. Patriarch Nikon, Khomiakov, Feofan Prokopovich, and Tatishchev were also conservative Orthodox patriots of the pravoslavnyi variety. The Church was moving back then towards a national self-consciousness, nationalnoe samosoznanie. Even Pushkin himself regarded “inequality as a law of nature”.’ Herman draped an arm around Ekaterina to steady himself. ‘Then there was Shcherbatov, Speransky, and Karamzin. They were followed by Chaadaev, Gogol, and the Slavophile school.’

  ‘Very many thinkers!’

  ‘And many more, too! After 1855 there were Katkov, Samarin, Aksakov, Leontiev and Witte. Later, Kavelin, Chicherin, Gradovsky, Soloviev, Nesterov, Sergei Bulgakov, the Szemstvo movement, Struve, Shipov, and of course Stolypin, assassinated by Dimitri Bogrov at the Kiev Opera before he could save the Imperial dynasty.’

  ‘And Bogrov’s real name was Mordekhai Gershkovich, a Jewish provocateur.’

  ‘Yes!’

  ‘But anyway, I’m sure you would agree with me that the Paschal Edict was the beginning of the end. It killed the notion of the apostolic role of the Tsar. That perception was only partially corrected by the symbolic canonisation of the patriotic Patriarch Germogen in 1913.’

  ‘And four years later?’

  ‘The Revolution, of course.’

  ‘Another coup d’etat!’ he was corrected quickly. ‘My . . . ’ Then, looking over at Ekaterina, he corrected himself, ‘Our favourite author Solzhenitsyn said, “You must understand the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. Driven by ethnic hatred, they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of remorse . . . It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that the world is ignorant of or uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators”.’

  ‘Yes, even Israeli journalists now admit that 40 percent of the top-ranking officials in the Soviet system were Jewish Chekists. Gengrihky Yagoda alone was responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million Christian Russians.’

  ‘The percentage is much higher, my friend. Zionism and Marxism are brothers.’ Herman sighed. ‘And they still operate the same way. Your Robert Wilton, a British journalist for The London Times was here at the time of the Revolution. He said, “Bolshevism is not Russian. It’s essentially non-national. Its leaders belong almost entirely to the race that lost its country and its nationhood long ago. In April 1918, the Russian government, including 384 peoples’ commissars, was represented by 2 negroes, 13 Russians, 15 Chinamen, 22 Armenians and Georgians, and more than 300 Jews. Of the last, 264 had come to Russia from the United States during the Revolution . . . The revolutionary pseudo-Jews thus destroying Russia’s hopes of national revival and dragging the country into chaos”.’

  ‘I am familiar with his works Russia’s Agony and The Last Days of the Romanovs.’

  ‘Did you know his writing was censored? He named names, identified aliens operating under assumed Russian and Polish identities. After that, he was threatened with murder.’

 
‘I can well imagine, they operate like a mafia.’

  ‘They run the American and the Russian mafia. Who talks of the Ukrainian Holodmor? What did the former Sephardic Rabbi of Jerusalem, Ovadia Yosef, say about Palestinians at his Passover speech? “It is forbidden to be merciful to them, you must send missiles to annihilate them . . . the Lord shall return the Arabs’ deeds on their own heads, waste their seed, and exterminate them, devastate them, and vanish them from this world”.’

  ‘So much for their never again protestations about the Holocaust!’

  ‘Comrade Lenin was financed by the Warburgs, the plutocrat Jacob Henry Schiff, and the Khun, Loeb & Company banking house. The first Politburo was, like the Cheka, overwhelmingly foreign. Your own Winston Churchill said, “There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism by the international and for the most part atheistical Jews. It is certainly a very great one.” Just read what Hugo Koehler of the US intelligence mission said when reporting back to Washington about our gibel rossii, our supposed Civil War.’ Herman’s eyes flashed. ‘They say truth is stranger than fiction. I once read a novel called Biarritz . . .’

  Then, thinking he was talking too much politics, he tried to change the subject. ‘These districts’, he gestured out of the window, ‘were mikroraioni, little towns of their own, with their own shops and schools, and more and more people came and lived there. Hardly anyone had homes in the centre of town anymore.’

  ‘Indeed’, Tom said, picking up the old man’s thread, trying to place the conversation back on a literary track. ‘I think Berdayev spoke of Dostoevksy’s gestalt, something about faith requiring space unfettered by form, as being real Christianity.’ The old man, reassured that he was not being too outspoken, was not to be outdone.

  ‘“And now we stare into the abyss of modernity; constrained, no space for our inner soul. We still at least have a Russian soul. We see through the artificial plastic personalities so common in the West.” Dostoevsky was a pochvenniki, a radical native-soil conservative. In his Diary of a Writer, he talks of the unique natsionalnost of every people.’ There was a nod of acknowledgement on both sides before Herman continued his tale. ‘Dostoevsky recognised the enemy. He told the truth. “Jews are draining the soil of Russia”, he said, and he was right.’ Herman shook his wise head. ‘You see, he saw the graznye, the moneymakers, characters like Isay Fomitch Bumstein in The House of the Dead, for what they were. He put good counsel into the mouth of Shatov as he spoke to Stavrogin in The Devils: “Reduce God to the attribute of nationality? . . . on the contrary, I elevate the nation to God . . . The people is the body of God . . . The sole God bearing nation is the Russian nation”.’ Herman wiped away his wrinkles with the palm of a hand.

  ‘And speaking of today, do you see the same Zionist conspiracy?’

  ‘Well, you decide for yourself. It never ended. This war is eternal. Do you think such powerful positions in the current regime could be limited to a specific gene pool by mere chance? The Metropolitan of St Petersburg, Ioann Synchev, got their measure. Did you know that over 90 percent of Béla Kun’s dictatorship in Hungary were followers of the Talmud?’

  ‘Yes, I think David Irving wrote a book called Uprising which highlighted the fact that the same people were instrumental in the debacle of 1956.’

  ‘That was not an isolated case. Khrushchev said, “That very same year, the government has found in some departments a heavy concentration of Jewish people, upwards of fifty percent of the staff”. If you look further back, the Jews in interwar Romania were only 4 percent of the population, but controlled the export, transportation, insurance, textile, chemical, housing, and publishing industries. They also dominated law, medicine, journalism, and banking. The same people in Lithuania accounted for 75 percent of commercial activity. In Hungary, Jews represented over 30 percent of actors and musicians, 50 percent of attorneys, and 60 percent of the medical profession. We should be so grateful for their talents, don’t you think?’

  ‘And once they got out of the Pale of Settlement in Russia, they ran the black market in vodka and prostitution.’

  ‘And through the Black Sea port of Odessa, dominated the trade of white flesh to the east.’

  ‘I liked Konstantin Pobedonostev’s solution to the Jewish problem: by having one-third of them killed, one- third of them converted to Christianity, and one-third driven out of the country forever.’

  ‘If only. The Ginzburgs and Poliakovs diversified from vodka distilleries to railroads and made fortunes. Again, Dostoevsky predicted such things in The Adolescent, where he turned Stendhal’s The Red and the Black on its head, making the foolish Dolgoruky worship money and Count de Rothschilds as opposed to Napoleon. Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together followed a similar theme, and despite his obvious popularity as a novelist, it remains unpublished in English.’ Ekaterina poured tea she had prepared from a warm pot. Then Herman started again where he had left off.

  ‘I know these people’s tactics. Vladimir Purishkevich said, “They have an irreconcilable hatred of Russia and everything Russian”, and he was right. You see, I lived under their iron heel for too long, not to see behind the lies and deception. Like Dostoevsky wrote, “A long peace always breeds cruelty, cowardice, and crude, flabby egoism, and principally mental stagnation. During a long peace, only the exploiters of people grow fat.” Look how many of today’s oligarchs are from that sect. Even Yuri Kanner of the Russian Jewish Congress admits this. Who were Yeltsin’s post-perestroika string-pullers in the loans for shares scheme? Abramovich, Aven, Berezovsky, Friedman, Gusinsky and Khodorkovsky.’

  ‘Men who poured millions into Yeltsin’s re-election campaign.’

  ‘Men who ran ticket-scalping scams, Avva pyramid schemes, and drove the Menatap Bank’s records off a bridge into the Dybna River’, Herman added. ‘You know, I was one of the people to work with Vailyev on the public letter from Pamyat to Boris Yeltsin . . . “Your Jewish entourage . . . have already made good use of you and don’t need you anymore. You will share the destiny of Napoleon and Hitler, etc., who were Zionist-maintained dictators . . . The aim of international Zionism is to seize power worldwide. For this reason Zionists struggle against national and religious traditions of other nations, and for this purpose they devised the Freemasonic concept of cosmopolitanism”.’

  ‘Like you, I sympathise with Vladimir Miloserdov and former General Igor Rodionov, who demanded that the oligarchs “must return what they have looted in Russia and publicly repent to the Russian people for the crimes that Jewish terrorists and extremists have committed”.’

  ‘I am a historian of the Michael the Archangel Russian People’s Union. Before that, in the 1970s, I was active in the Vityaz, you say Knight Movement, with people like the artist Ilya Glazunov, the historian Malyshev, and Lebedev, a colonel in the MVD. We formed the National Patriotic Front in 1987.’

  ‘Is that the one Aleksander Barkashov’s people split from in 1990?’

  ‘Yes, that is so.’

  ‘And there was Valeriy Yemelyanov, who wrote the book Dezionisation. He was a neo-pagan, right?’

  ‘A mystic. Pamyat translates as ‘Memory’ in English, I think.’ Herman went on, undeterred. ‘Until recently, Germany was our chief trading partner, and the EU was the market for over 50 percent of our exports. Yet, so- called Westerners like Bernard-Henri Lévy, A André Glucksmann, and Alain Finkielkraut oppose our economic independence. In the centuries before these parasites began to feed off us, Russia controlled 8,660,000 square miles of land, the largest land empire in all of history, growing at a rate of 50 square miles per year for 400 years.’

  ‘Indeed, the conquest of Kokand, Bokhara, and Khiva brought the whole of Central Asia under Tsarist rule.’

  ‘But today, it is like we live in a science fiction story, Zamyatin’s We!’

  8.

  Rossiia Est Sviataia Rus.—John Vostorgov

  Tom stepped up to the podium, warm applause greeting him as he bent into the sp
otlight, reaching to adjust the microphone.

  ‘Good afternoon’, he began. ‘It is generally acknowledged by mainstream anthropologists, linguists, and archaeologists that our common ancestors spoke a Proto-Indo-European dialect some 6,000 years ago, in the very heart of Eurasia. Liberal and Left-leaning academics, particularly in Western universities, may choose to ignore this inconvenient fact, but they can no longer flat-out deny the efficacy of such an assertion or the extensive field-work carried out by Vyachislav Ivanov into root languages, and Gennadii Zdanovich’s archaeologists at Arkaim. Works by David Anthony and K Jones-Bley have led many great thinkers to the conclusion that the Sintashta-Petrovka culture, of which the Mandala City of Arkaim is the best preserved example, is in fact the ancient, 4,000-year-old capital of the founders of our so-called Western civilisation, those very Caucasoids who invaded Northern India, rode across the Gobi to trade with the Khans, and buried their flame-haired mummies in Urumchi. Our women were tattooed with the crescent moon of the goddess and our men with the sun representing the male god. I challenge anyone to look into the eyes of the beauty of Loulan, a woman born into the Tocharian culture of the Tarim basin nearly 4,000 years ago, and find a trace of Mongoloid blood.

  ‘She, like her Solutrean kin on the Atlantic rim, those adventurers who moved across the ice bridge to America, would eventually see their small, fragile settlements exterminated by second peoples, the Han, Goturks, and Uyghur tribes of northwest China’s Bogda and Tian Shan mountains in the first case, and the Yupik aboriginals of Beringia coming down from the Bering Straits in the latter instance. Could this very habitation at Arkaim be the one referred to in the Avesta and the Vedas?’