n the words of historian and noted Russian scholar Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson, the Soviet Union was the only empire to fall without a war. To the ordinary Russian citizen, however, the 1990s were no less tragic as life expectancy, average income, and birthrates all plummeted as crime, alcoholism and unemployment all rose. As the nation descended into the depths of despair, a new Oligarch class emerged controlling the commanding heights of production, principally in the natural resource and heavy industry sectors, coming to dominate not just the economy but with politics under the Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Only until the current President Vladimir Putin rose to power, ironically with the help of major oligarch Boris Berezovsky who was later exiled along with many others, did the Russian people begin to recover economically and in national pride.
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Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 182 – The New Russia – Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson
— References —
– The Rise and Decline of the Soviet Economy, Allen (2001)
– Russian Populist: The Political Thought of Vladimir Putin, Johnson (2012) – http://barnesreview.org/product/russian-populist-the-political-thought-of-vladimir-putin/
– The Russian Revolution and its Consequences – Dr. Matthew Rafael Johnson, Myth of the 20th Century (2019) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2019/11/27/the-russian-revolution-and-its-consequences-dr-matthew-rafael-johnson/
– The Orthodox Nationalist: General Alexander Lebed – TON, Johnson (2019) – https://www.radioalbion.com/2019/03/the-orthodox-nationalist-general.html
– The Soviet Experiment, Johnson (2019) – https://barnesreview.org/product/the-soviet-experiment-challenging-the-apologists-for-communist-tyranny/
– Ukrainian Nationalism, Johnson (2019) – https://www.amazon.com/Ukrainian-Nationalism-Matthew-Raphael-Johnson/dp/1698191618
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. -Francis Parker Yockey
As one who is Orthodox, has numerous lifelong Russian friends, reads the language, knows the literature, musick, and culture of Russia, I can tell you this – you cannot have a hope of understanding that country without putting years of research into it, or going to live there.
Moreover, there is no one single way to view Russia, as those who are either members of The Russian Orthodox Church, or supportive of it, see the country, and particularly Vladimir Putin in a very different light than do those who are not.
Some basic tips?
#1. Don’t look to Russia to verify Modern ‘American’ values, because they never will.
Long after The United States of America is pushing up daisies, The Russian Empire will still be.
One way or the other, they survive it all.
#2. Understand that, though he is far from a perfect person, and though he readily admits to his failure at having been unable to truly resuscitate a truly national economy, Vladimir Putin is the best Czar (what he really is) that they, The Russians, have had since at least Catherine The Great – or, perhaps, ever.
What Vladimir Putin has achieved, after being handed a country on it’s knees in 2000, in every respect is one for the history books.
#3. The Russian people are a great deep, loving and extremely cultured people, but, simultaneously, they have a very very self-destructive dark side, and, though they are rebuilding their morality after 75 years of Judeo-Bolshevist cancer, they still have a very serious problem with rampant sexual degeneracy, substance abuse, and corruption.
#4. The media in The West country will always criticize Russia, so long as Putin is in charge. Why? Because the media is owned by Jews and it was Putin who threw out of power those Russian Jews which had usurpt the entire Russian Nation during the disaster years of the Yeltsin Presidency during the 1990s.
That Putin is, himself, half Jewish, does not matter to the Jews in The West, (they have a blood feud with Gentile White Russia for over 2 centuries now) because they hate him for resurrecting their oldest and most ferocious enemy – the Russian Orthodox Church, that institution, which the Western Governments are busily at work attempting to undermine by creating schisms in The Ukraine, paying off the Orthodox church in Greece, and, as well, the Arch-Patriarch in Constantinople, and by vivisecting The Serbian Nation and it’s church.
When Czar Nicholas was killed by The Judeo-Bolsheviks over 100 years ago, there were 30,000+ active Orthodox churches in Russia. After communism fell, in 1989, there were only 300 left that were functioning, and most Russians, who still actually dared to hold their faith at that time, did not like to go to services, for not only were they harassed by the KGB, their confessions were extracted by the same service from the priests.
Today, 30 years after Satan’s grip began to be loosened from Russia (when the Soviet Union fell) the number of Orthodox Churches has returned to Czarist levels, and over 70% of The Russian people now once again publically identify as Orthodox Christian.
To rub salt into their wounds, Putin is a legitimate congregant of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Worse, still, Vladimirovka regularly thwarts Judeo-Western skullduggery, the most recent examples his thwarting of the sacking of Serbian Orthodox Churches in Montenegro (Serbian by any historic measure) the successful defence of The Crimea, and the destruction of the attempts of the Turkish, Said, Israeli, and United States’ governments’ attempt to destroy Syria.
The list goes on and on, but, there are some quick things for you to know. –