[PEN-L:1351] Re: Russian Swastikas

["Rosser Jr, John Barkley" <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

     Well, unfortunately six of the seven of the
ruling banker oligarch "semibankishchina" have Jewish
ancestry, Vladimir Potanin being the only exception.
Just what we need right now, a revival of the "Jewish
banker conspiracy" theory in Russia.
Barkley Rosser
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:53:01 -0400 Louis Proyect
<lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Russia's clergy are reaching extremist conclusions, writes Victoria Clark:
>
> Church leads march out of Western path AFTER seven years of sporting
> Western styles, there are signs that Russia plans to slip into something
> more traditionally comfortable - something more akin to an Orthodox
> priest's garb.
>
> Viktor Chernomyrdin, the Prime Minister, is creating a new government that
> few doubt will boast the unhealthy "red-brown", or national socialist,
> complexion of the Communist and nationalist Opposition. A key to
> understanding how these two - one led by Aleksandr Lebed, the nationalist
> general, the other by Gennadi Zyuganov, the Communist leader - can work
> together lies with the Orthodox Church, repository of Russian values.
>
> The burial of the bones of Tsar Nicholas II in July was an early warning.
> There was no mystery in Patriarch Aleksi II's refusal to share a platform
> with President Yeltsin and officiate at the burial service. As Father
> Vsevolod Chaplin, spokesman for the Moscow Patriarchate, said in July,
> Aleksi II simply wanted to "stay with the mood of the flock and his clergy".
>
> Father Chaplin defined that mood. "Our over-naive enthusiasm for the West
> has been replaced by a very negative attitude because our Government
> promised to effect these reforms overnight, and it seems to be acting with
> the authorisation and permission of the West," he said.
>
> It is a mood of bitter outrage at everything President Yeltsin has stood
> for, be it failing to ensure wage payments, allowing the rouble to crash,
> or allowing Nato to expand in the direction of Russia's frontiers.
>
> The old Church-nurtured distrust of the "heretical", soulless and money-mad
> West; the old Messianic belief in Russia's special mission, and the
> nostalgia for a God-the-father of a ruler is the common ground between
> Church, Communists, nationalists, the far Right and monarchists. They all
> want Russia out of her Western fancy dress.
>
> The more Russian churchmen one talks to, the clearer it becomes that they
> believe Jews are responsible for "deliberately engineering" trouble. Abbot
> Tikhon, head of the Sretenskovo Monastery in Moscow and a regular on a
> religious TV chat show, plucked a dollar from his cassock to show me a
> "Jewish cabbalistic symbol" on one side. He claimed it was proof Jews
> control the West and, increasingly, Russia.
>
> Sergei Kiriyenko, the reformist Prime Minister sacked by Mr Yeltsin, has
> Jewish blood. So does Boris Nemtsov, the former Deputy Prime Minister and
> stalwart reformer. George Soros, the wizard financier who first suggested
> that Russia devalue the rouble, is a Hungarian Jew.
>
> In such a traditionally anti-Semitic and conspiracy-minded society, a
> youthful and under-trained clergy is leaping to the old conclusions and the
> prospect of national socialism is not ringing alarm bells. Far from it.
> Father Tikhon is happy to see his articles reprinted in the newspaper of
> the growing fascist paramilitary "Barkashovtsi" movement, whose badge is a
> barely modified swastika.
>
> Father Dmitri Dudko, a dissident who served eight years in Communist camps,
> is now an apologist for Stalin. "When I see the destruction and decay all
> round me, I know I'd prefer to be beaten up in prison," he said.
>
> Scores like him have no trouble reconciling their nostalgia for a firm hand
> with the fact that the Communists were atheists who murdered the
> God-appointed Tsar. Today's Communists have embraced Orthodoxy.
> Furthermore, churchmen say the Bolsheviks were not "real Russians" but
> Jews. If the Church is anything to go by, Russia is unlikely to thrive
> until its powerful Jews have been ousted, with Mr Yeltsin.
>
> The author is working on a book to be published by Macmillan.
>
> (London Times)
>
>
> Louis Proyect
>
> (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
>

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Rosser Jr, John Barkley
rosserjb@xxxxxxx