The meeting of the
Great Russia (Великая Россия) party and the participants of the Monarchist Movement of Russia (Монархического движения России) on February 4th was devoted to the problems of interaction with other organizations and the joint preparation of the rally, which is scheduled for February 23 and will be devoted to the protection of the territorial integrity of Russia, as well as the anniversary of the Ice Campaign (101 years). The meeting left a dual impression.
People who are not indifferent to some topics react quite violently, but some kind of balanced approach sometimes escapes, and we lose the topic for which we have gathered. The first question for monarchists who cannot have any other faith than Orthodoxy is the question of an acceptable degree of participation in politics and the very goals that an Orthodox person can pursue in political processes. One of the destructive (in my opinion) approaches is an attempt to evade political issues in general, declaring that we "do not follow the advice of the wicked." One of the participants in the meeting reasonably remarked that Christ did not shy away from preaching to sinners. Another format of “escapism” is references to various kinds of prophecy, even recommending to expect the rebellion of the relics of Seraphim of Sarov, which should be turned into a living old man, pointing us to the king. Here I have already responded violently, although it was impossible to explain on this topic in the conditions of the meeting. I believe that prophecies should always be treated with caution, including their interpretations. Many of the prophecies and the words of holy people are in fact just apocrypha. The Resurrection in the flesh, as we remember, must happen at the end of time. Lazarus was resurrected by Christ, but still not from the relics. And, it seems, no one can boast of knowing a case where the relics would become living flesh. In addition, the hope for such a revival (as one of the participants of the meeting reasonably told me in a private conversation) is too similar to the expectation of Moshiach, who will appear and solve all the problems of our people, pointing us to the king.
The king is already assigned to us by the oath of cattle of 1613 and the laws of the Russian Empire. The question is only in the consideration by the Zemsky Sobor of legal arguments in favor of one candidate or another and of weighing all the objections before making a decision on calling to the Throne. The second question is how far can the compromises that monarchists can go to, by participating in the common cause of all Russian people for the salvation of Russia and the expulsion of the invaders? Here discord creates serious obstacles. Personal grievances, unwillingness to forgive unreasoned words regarding the future of the
monarchy lead directly to an absurd sect, which may create some kind of smoothed historical reconstruction, but will in no way take part in preserving Russia and creating conditions when people understand that the best and only acceptable is the monarchical form of government. An attempt to determine the non-monarchical part of the "right" spectrum as accomplices of the communists is an extremely destructive position. Accomplicers are just those who are trying to mark people who are close in their outlook on the world with alien symbols. It destroys all cooperation.
Meanwhile, in the political spectrum of monarchists, natural allies are Russian nationalists and national patriots. As long as those and others do not mix with the “red ones” and do not slander themselves with their symbolism and rhetoric, cooperation is possible and necessary. The correct decision was the “Great Russia” and the NPSR movement not to participate in the “red” rally, supposedly dedicated to the protection of the Kuriles. Meanwhile, some monarchists at this rally, filled with portraits of Lenin-Stalin and other satanic symbols, nevertheless came. After this, it seems strange to repeat false information that our party and other organizations represented at the national-patriotic meeting allegedly cooperated with the communists in the elections by participating in the company of
Pavel Grudinin . The company participated, but did not cooperate with the Communists. At least, I vouch for the party “Great Russia”: we did not cooperate with the Communists, and they too did not cooperate with us. A couple of times we met with representatives of the leadership of the Communist Party at technical meetings. And the intention of this organization to blot the election with “red paint” we perceived as a direct task of their supervisors - the KREMLYADI. This was the reason that
Grudinin was not released to the second round. We have always considered and continue to consider the Communist Party of the Russian Federation traitors, and those who call themselves Communists and slander historical Russia are ordinary Russophobes. With them, of course, there can be no cooperation. The same applies to liberal-Western groups, as well as organizations serving the interests of the invaders. For our party, a priority would undoubtedly be an alliance with the organizations of Russian nationalists. But now there are no such people, since the project of the URN (managed by
Russian nationalism ) implemented by the Kremlin has brought some to prison, others to the ukrobanderovschiny and passionate separatist Russophobia. We are waiting for the emergence of new Russian organizations and are ready to cooperate with them. Our national "patriots" are our natural "left" ally, and the NPSR is the closest and most understandable organization in which people continue their activities, with whom we have been organizing many meetings and conferences, as well as the annual
Russian March , and all it is under the imperial banners, without any “redness” in words and symbols. Monarchists for us are natural allies "on the right." This cooperation is hampered by either direct betrayal and servicing of the invaders (first of all, talking about the pro-Putin, lackeys “Double-headed eagle”), or pride, shy of an educational mission in the “right” spectrum of society. At the meeting, we noted that the reproaches to the PDS NPSR can only be found to be insignificant to a small extent. The reproach that this non-monarchical organization is simply ridiculous. The Great Russia Party is also a non-monarchist organization. The reproach in the “red element” was partly true six months ago, but now, when the Communist Party’s treachery became obvious to many, “leftism” in the PDS NPSR began to fade - many previously “leftists” began to move to national positions. And this is a huge success of the leadership of the PDS NPSR, with which we are connected not only by a political union, but also by friendly relations. Of course, we were shaken and would be shaken, pulling out from our ranks those to whom “leftism” seems to be a convenient ally, behind whom, ostensibly, there is some sort of mass character. This is an illusion. Russia has long been a “non-aligned” country, and Russophobia is only covered by “Left-wing”. Ideologically, communism (like socialism) is dead. There are not the slightest signs of creative thought. Zombies are left from him, repeating only memorized propaganda stamps from the “Glory to Labor!” Series. Pushing PDS NPSR away, monarchists risk being left out of business and dissolving the “right” flank in the leftist simulacrum sponsored by KREMLYADI. The third aspect is purely practical. We are going to discuss something vigorously, but not everyone who discusses is ready to do something together. Take help, of course, rarely who refuse. But to help and not think. Not to mention the integration of many weak and heterogeneous projects into something holistic. This time, we again only declared the need to participate in a common cause - in preparing the upcoming rally. But those who offered to do something specifically and personally invest their strength, it turned out ... alone. And even the payment for the room where we had a meeting, which we always collected from school, this time had to be scraped up in our pockets. Apparently, the majority of participants decided that we have some sources of funding that cater for the desire of those who have gathered to talk in the spirit of "pique vests" and disperse without any obligations. It can be stated that so far our hopes that the formation of the Monarchist Movement of Russia (MDR), which took place this summer, did not materialize - a qualitative shift, activation, rallying of the monarchists, their return to political action did not happen. We are still at the level of discussions, which sometimes become a cause for discord. We came across not only the vagueness of orientations in the modern world for many of those who think that the Lord leads them in life, but also with the impossibility of simply agreeing on an even attitude to all Orthodox jurisdictions, among which there is no canonical continuity (including the Moscow Patriarchate). And here, instead of modesty and rationality, we also see the intention to establish a monopoly only of our jurisdiction, which comes not only from the priests, but from the laity who are trying to be holier than the Moscow Patriarch. Many of our "right" problems confirm that the idea in the "right" part of the political spectrum can only be
Russian nationalism . The remaining ideological complexes are not thought out and cannot become a point of attraction for the Russian intellect and the
Russian people as a whole. The social or national-state aspect of the worldview in
Russian nationalism is shaped to the details, and therefore national patriots and monarchists, as the two wings of the pivotal direction, should focus on
Russian nationalism . The Russian movement has no other way, Russia simply does not. Any other way is the collapse of statehood, the elimination of Russia and the Russians.
Andrey Savelyev
Great Russia
