Truer Words Never Spoken! Kurginyan: Fall of USSR Caused by Russian Gullibility and Lack of Pride!

Sergey Kurginyan, leader of the Essence of Time movement: I believe that the citizens of the USSR in general first of all, the Russians, as you put it were always the core population. "An unbreakable union of free republics, Great Russia has welded forever to stand" right? Two things were their undoing. The first was self-depreciation which is inherent to their religion. Kenosis, remember? With that comes repentance and so on. The second was their gullibility. They trusted too much. Due to the fact that their country was huge and powerful, they believed that a little self-depreciation was okay. What's wrong with a little self-depreciation? That's why the era of self-depreciation, repentance, endless suffering, self-flagellation and so on, was not an accident. Oh, and gullibility, the belief that there's a good and just Uncle Sam over there, who would come, cure us, help us, who would do everything for us and that his country is the best was inherent for us.

 

It all ended in horror. Our people had to suffer. Our people discovered the price of gullibility and realized that repentance led them into a trap. They won't go down the same road again. They discovered the price of their lack of pride and the price of being sympathetic to those who claim that Uncle Sam is the best and how we should create an alliance or whatever with him. "I want his help, I want to be cured!" Remember Kholstomer by Leo Tolstoy? "Perhaps you should treat me." The Americans are treating us and they're going to cure us.

And then, we discovered that they were robbing us that all of the values promoted by them are trash. And nobody stuck to them And that we lost so much and so on. That was the time when the newly returned patriotism was born. Today, nothing can kill our rediscovered patriotism. You can criticize it all you want, your words won't stick, it's made of Teflon. You can say all you want but your words won't affect us. You can search for sore points and poke at any wound, but it won't hurt us. We've acquired protection against all those things. The people have acquired a new immune system. And it's working. We might agree with them at first, but then, we look closely: “Oh, it's you again! You're full of it. Stop. That's enough." Those who were doing that during the previous era have been totally compromised. They don't even realize how deeply and fully they've been compromised. Our new pride and new feeling of patriotism appeared because we realized what we can lose. And that that instead of curing they want to kill us. The severity of these two realizations suddenly gave birth to a fiery love: "No, it's mine, there's no way I'm giving it away." Remember when Grachov called Yushenkov a weasel?

- Colonel Weasel.

- Weasel, weasel! But what triggered him? He suddenly realized that if a soldier doesn't take up arms in defense his wife and kids will get skinned alive. Rodionov and the others went to die in the First Chechen War. To my mind, the most important thing wasn't the heroism of the Second Chechen War which was clearly motivated and supported by the government but the heroism of the First War. Betrayed and fooled, those guys still sacrificed their lives for Russia. Those guys were the main heroes responsible for that wave of rediscovered patriotism. They were fighting for their Motherland.

It seems that self-depreciation and self-debasement represented a repentance. Remember the movie Road to the Church? There was a church-shaped cake there. The road ultimately led to a church-shaped cake. The movie was about our petty desires of having and not being. It all led to a huge catastrophe. That catastrophe could've destroyed Russia. But as the great philosopher, Miguel de Unamuno said, apart from the extra-history where we took the bait and joined the sabbath there was also the deep history of our people. This history survived. There was a certain class of the intelligentsia who loved the people. "The people are liberated but are they happy?" The saviors of our naive people. In the 1970s, they began to despise the people. I remember my internship mentor at school used to say: "Our hegemon is drunk again."

They felt deep contempt for the people. That intelligentsia was promoting contempt toward their own people and history. They committed a horrible crime. But there were two obstacles in the way of that crime: the people's spirit, Right? And the new class of intelligentsia. Now, the question is whether Russia can give birth to a new class of intelligentsia that won't be imbued with the spirit of people-phobia, contempt, and gravity toward the West and will be modern and able.

Sergey Stankevich, political expert: A new class?

- If those people... Yes, a brand new class created from scratch.

- Who will create it?

- The people will create it.

- Not some party committee?

- No, it emerges from within. It emerges from within the people. We don't know what miracle is behind that. We don’t know where these young people, who were taught to hate their history but love it more than the Komsomol-youth of the 80s, come from. Otherwise, all those terrible things wouldn't have happened. At a terrible price, Russia still survived because our people found that pride within them. It was rediscovered. We were cursing and humiliating it, but our mind kept telling us that there's something there. It based itself upon that thought and became the sole reason that our state didn't collapse. It's being reborn through torture. It's being reborn.