Introduction
There are 2 sources of
misunderstanding Russia in the West. These include conflating current Russian
Federation with USSR and uncritical acceptance of misinformation disseminated
from Western media and intellectual structures. In attempting to move beyond
both sources, this article attempts to draw important items from Christian
prophetic tradition to extend realistic understanding of 20th & 21st
century Russian geopolitics. Above all
this attempt makes a leap by extracting post-communism Non-communist Russia
from dominant & active canons of communism values currently ravaging the
West and many parts of the world.
Prior to the Spectre
The state of Europe was depressing
at the time Karl Marx was concluding his theories of communism which by the way
was not the alternative to capitalism rather a form of capitalism dominated by
the state. Nevertheless he was prescient enough to foretell accurately of the
‘spectre haunting’ the continent. He could only use his own environment as the
laboratory for implementing his theories and this includes then Russian Empire.
Statistically anywhere in the world had equal chance to becoming a test bed for
communist ideas. Communism was not meant
for Russia and vice versa. It is also
regressive and intellectually dishonest to place Russia as ‘designated’ for
communist infection, as if other European nations were no less suitable.
Pre-Revolution Russia
There is no debate that Russia
was already great power in the 19th century with a very strong
centralised authority invested in the Czar. Her influence and geographical
sphere was acknowledged by other powers including Great Britain, France, Spain,
Portugal and lately Germany. Most of her current borders are already fixed (to
be reduced later). Germany was a concept that became a territorial reality only
in 1871. Like other European countries of the time of which she is intricately
connected with an economy dominated by agriculture, Moscow dominated national
population concentration, where her intellectual and social traditions were
embedded within its religious ontology in the Russian Orthodox Church.
It must be acknowledged that
Moscow became the 3rd Rome after the fall of Constantinople in the
15th century, which translated as the last bastion of Christianity
and of course the Christendom. Pre-revolution Russia pedigree in domestic and global affairs couldn’t
be underestimated, discounted or now deliberately regressed. Nevertheless a combination of factors in both
domestic and foreign affairs challenged the order which drove her populations
to seek solutions from the Czar, communism was not one of the main/popular
platforms for improvements.
1917 Marian Apparition of
Fatima Portugal
As Europe conflagrated in the
industrial murders of World War 1, in a little town of Fatima Portugal Blessed
Virgin Mary appeared to 3 children and over the months of her appearance gave
them a number of prophecies including one that particularly mentioned Russia.
This prophecy had and continues to have huge geopolitical implications for the
world. She warned that ‘that if Russia
was not consecrated to Her Immaculate Heart as She requested, Russia would
spread its errors throughout the
world’.
A number of points need to be
clarified. The insertion of the name Russia could be viewed with rather a
reflexive disposition. Russia is to be perceived as a container for the emergence
and dissemination of an (atheistic) idea, a (value) system, state of mind and
strategy for national, international and geopolitical interest or rather
domination. Prior to the times there is no other place, country or empire whose
unique mode of (atheistic) ideological operation turned into rallying cry for
global domination. Of various periods in world history has provided vignettes
for weaponisation of religion/religious ideas.
What are these errors?
The errors prophesied are communism. It is the systems of thought and
operations that eliminate (Most High) God (of Jesus Christ) from human affairs,
which place human beings at the centre of affairs which overthrows millennia
long traditions/laws/practices in economic, (geo) political, military,
religious, social, intellectual and education dimensions of existence of a
state/nation. This core value or strategic initiative of communism negates or
opposes belief in God; it actually attacks religion as a mortal enemy as summarised
by Marx in the enduring dictum, “Religion
is the opium of the people”. This was rather a confirmation is of a moral distance
from Resurrection!
What is rather very significant
is the time of the prophecy and the state of Russia. The prophecy was given prior to 1917 October
Revolution in Russia when Vladimir Lenin took power. Russia was in a state of
upheaval, murderous WW1 was going badly for Moscow and the future looked bleak. Less than
a decade prior, Russia Empire suffered a crushing defeating by Japan. Russia
was in no state to be perceived as a serious global contender or world superpower
within a very short time talk less of exporting new ideas or fresh regressive thinking
in human affairs.
The 1918 peace treaty imposed on
her by Berlin at Brest-Litovsk is one of the biggest humiliations a country can
receive even though Lenin regarded it as a ‘breathing space’. It is very
important to present these contexts in order to juxtapose elements of
historical reality of the times with anticipated events rendered in a prophetic
text.
If communist theory and ideology
is strictly made to be coterminous with territoriality of states then any
argument for its existence will be narrow. Further than that, it is a body of
knowledge and system of knowledge unrestricted by time and space. Its ideas
transcend the state and boundary of states and aspects of its thinking
permeated the very territories of those that invested so much to eradicate it
as a state-based political phenomenon. Its
sociology couldn't be stemmed by boundaries.
Post USSR Communism
There is no doubt that by the
1970 despite Brezhnev stagnation state communism can be found in all
continents. Moscow was the fountain from which communist rain fell and other
communistic states took legitimacy from her association, endorsement and
support. As a body of knowledge and medium of observing and measuring reality
it’s really went round the world across all spheres of human endeavour. Its
head can be perceived in regressive secularism, dominant deicide, elimination
of God and faith in public space, feminism, legalisations of abortion and etc.
These examples present vivid templates by communism (party) to subvert
Christian faith and any faith across borders, territories and continents.
Post-USSR Russia is no longer a
communist state and no longer pursues foreign & geopolitical affairs to specifically
spread communist ideas/values as its objective. One can go as far as affirm
that emergent Russia in 1991 was hijacked by United States and her allies. The
main political persuasion in the country is pluralistic with market economy and
is open even to those purveying communistic disposition.
Except in few cases of defensive
action, Russia has not militarily sought to expand her territory or launch wars
of aggression against other states directly or by proxy. Since 1991 till present there is only one
country that has attacked other countries through pre-emptive unprovoked
assaults. There is only one state or
country committed with zealous aplomb to deny or eliminated other states’
independence and sovereignty by any means necessary including unprovoked
military assault.
It must be stress that even in
conflicts that took place during the communist era, such conflicts need to be
framed and reflected upon based on the unique set of circumstances rather than
taking biased hyperbolic generalisation that mostly favours anti-communistic/USSR
narratives.
Extra-Territoriality/Supranationality
of Errors
Therefore cessation of Moscow’s
role as the fountain and source of communism begs the question of what happens
to its existence beyond USSR and Russia. Other capitals and their national
parliaments bear full responsibilities for national strategies, policies and
laws that align with atheistic humanistic & materialist errors originally spread by 1917
Bolshevik Revolution. Any suggestion that continues to blame such decisions and
ongoing machinations on Moscow deserves to be revised, contextualised and if necessary rejected.
Governments’ especially Western hegemonic and regional powers whether
independent or dependent bear full responsibility for their freely signed legal
proclamations and statues.
Market economy and democratic
political persuasion of various kinds are not credible bulwarks against
atheistic humanistic ideas and practices. There is false sense of comfort and
delusion in those communities around the world especially in those that self-validate
their military prowess that the end of state communism is the end of the idea
or value. Russia is no longer the
geographical volcano out of which atheistic humanistic pyroclasts and lava
emanates first to her satellites and then to the wider world.
The biggest spaces for abortion
in the world include United States, EU, India and China. In the current
dispensation it will be laughable for United States and EU to harp on their
Christian credential which realistically no longer exists. These countries became exporters of the errors
which they inserted in their foreign policies as tools for power projections.
The legitimisation and expansion of the sex industry and elevation of unnatural
relationship respectively have reached huge proportions even in those formerly
brutalised territories in the ‘backyard’ which seem to be making progress in
GDP. Other errors include human genetic manipulations,
displacement and degradation of family rights, legalising unnatural relationships,
supporting multi-parent reproduction and etc.
The ongoing global economic
regression and depressions which escalated since 2008 offers interesting
intersect of analyses. An important feature of this pattern of economic decline
is the bifurcation of national economic space between rich and ever richer
minority and the poor and ever poorer majority. There is no justification to
elevate the essence of state to poverty imposition and its institutions to solely
implement austerity. The outcome where states are aligned with capital/banks to
wage attrition war against citizens is worrying. What happened to debt forgiveness? What happened to Jubilee year?
The praetorian guards of the
market, the new god, are now running circles on any victims like helpless Greece that all debts including odious debts must be paid. Why should debt be
held ad infinitum by the strong?
Therefore the new geopolitics in Europe and West is power projection via
austerity which apparently exposes the state to high level of vulnerability. No
genius is required to unravel its niche within atheistic humanistic agenda.
What happened to compassion? United States and EU eviscerates God and Christian
traditions while their suited armies march from central banks to hapless
victims in southern Europe & around the world for their collective dignity,
integrity and humanity.
There is obvious evidence of
convergence of political, economic, social and cultural processes around the
world. While some may disagree forms of plutocratic market democracy dominate global
political landscape with that bearded revolutionaries have disappeared from the
scene. Capitalism is the single economic system with a global architecture
powerful enough for entire nations and populations to be eliminated at the
least design. In parallel the elevation of consumerism (supported by
advertisement and encouraged by cheap credit) as a global ‘religious’ phenomenon
has evaporated any geographical limitation to its supranational nature which
has totally de-masked and exposed vulnerability of humanity.
Interestingly most international
passports now carry computer chips for uniform monitoring based on uniform
technologies deposited at all airports in the world. There is no need to elaborate on Internet
& telecommunication technologies as the global snooping machines with the
aid of numerous satellites are already deployed to capture in real-time all
telephone calls and Internet exchanges. These elements of global (uniform)
geopolitical metastructure only lay the foundation of atheistic humanistic
agenda to be finally operationalised through a global centralised
government.
Conclusion
With the background of massive global
uncertainty, harking back to prophetic proclamations of 1917 Marian Apparition is
one way of understanding the complexity and pessimistic trends of post-Soviet errors.
The theories, knowledge and values of communism have been freely appropriated by
the West as a means to advance strategic interest and projecting full-spectrum powers
across the world. Understanding these trends with unblemished historical contexts
including real-time confirmed signature removes ambiguity of the final destination
or outcome of the errors in time and space for the world.
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