Despite decades of Communist economic imperialism, it proved impossible to strip Russia of the spirit of Western Culture. Oppressive regimes and doctrines were not enough to rob the People and the Soil of the collective memory of Pan-Europa. It was impossible for young people with just a little knowledge of their heritage to walk through Moscow or St. Petersburg, St. Basil's Cathedral or the Hermitage, the Ural Mountains or the Siberian Plain -- without feeling that they could never be truly loyal to an alien creed brought to Russia by non-Russians. The spirit of Russia reverberates in the soul with the introspection of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, the grandeur of his 1812 Overture, and the zest of The Nutcracker. And the music of many other Russian masters --- Alabiev, Liadov, Glinka, Glazunov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Mussoresky, Ipp-Ivanov, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Balakirev, Prokofiev --- similarly stirs every empathic Russian.

The common teaching that Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg in 1703 -- his "Window to the West" --- in order to "Westernize" Russia is simply anti-European propaganda: Russia is and always has been Western. It was the Church and its schism of 1054 which divided Russia from the rest of Europe, a tragedy which Peter only attempted to rectify. Vyetchnaya Pamyat! The lie about "Westernizing" Russia is part of the agenda -- by both Church and financial powers -- to Asianize it. But as Pushkin admonished long ago: "After the foreign manner Russian corn does not bear fruit." This maxim was proven true in decades of International Communism. Now that the Iron Curtain which again cut Russia off from Europe is gone, a new Legion of Pyotr is needed to build bridges. Then, perhaps, we can compose some more Razmovsky Quartets.*

[* Andrei Kirillovich Razumovsky (1752-1836) was a patron of Beethoven, to whom the composer dedicated three of his most famous quartets (Opus 59), featuring Russian folk melodies.]

Russia has suffered much at the hands of foreign invaders, but the "limitless sorrow of the steppes" (Chekhov) has proven to be a source of immense strength. The Fatherland repelled the great Napoleon but lost most of Moscow in the process; and repelled Hitler, losing much of St. Petersburg in the 900-day siege. Now a new alien creed is encroaching: Americanism. America's message to young Russians is more subtle: comforting, passive, and sloganistic  promises rather than demanding,aggressive, and sloganistic threats. But sloganism remains primary, and de-russification is the aim. In spite of the glorious cultural renaissance brought about by the fall of the Iron Curtain , life in Russia can still  become just as financialized by American values as it was by Soviet values: The Iron Umbrella. It is Pushkin's dilemma: Three, Seven -- Queen of Spades. Russians intent upon remaining Russian must break up this veneer like March on the Neva, and force it out to sea.

In American/United Nations apparatchik semantics, the words "democracy", "human rights" and "peace" mean the total domination of the World Trade Organization and World Bank; whereas the words "dictatorship", "ethnic cleansing", and "terrorism" denote all actions that subvert the totality of this domination. This is why Russians were continuously ridiculed by the mass media in the United States for the war in Chechnya,
despite the fact that Chechnyan terrorists were blowing up apartment buildings in Moscow, but Americans were applauded for the war in Afghanistan, despite the fact that the terrorists who blew up the World Trade Center were from Saudi Arabia. Putin
tacitly approved this American Supremacy, and subjected Russia to it, by allowing America to invade Russia's sphere of Influence. Until Perestroika is complete, Glasnost is dangerous, because the United Nations is the last refuge of financial scoundrels. International financial powers based in America ntend to again bring Russian autonomy into a basement in Ekaterinburg....

The dilemma of 20th century political  activists -- "Reform or Revolution?" --- is not the dilemma of the Russian opposition to Globalism today. To believe in simply overthrowing the friendly  dictatorship of economic imperialism by force and to organize actions in pursuit of this goal is both unrealistic and dangerous -- the result of an egregious misinterpretation of the very nature of the problem. As the economic agenda remains hidden behind democratic masks and relies upon herd-mentality ploys, it is uninsightful to simply militate against it. In a certain sense, the enemy is ourselves. Nevertheless, we must recall those titans who gave themselves fully to Russian struggles in the past: Ivan, Pyotr, Catherine, Pugachev, Nevsky, Potemkin, Mikhail Bakunin, Pushkin, Kutozov, the crew of the Potemkin, Prince Lvov, Zhukov, and countless others.

The new financial imperialism --- striving to take from Russia with Capitalism what it could not acquire with Communism -- must be, like the cancer it is, first fully understood and then subverted from the roots. Such a daunting task requires a radical revaluation of society and a subsequent construction of a whole new order: what can be called a  Collateral Culture. The Collateral Culture will be the existential homeland of any activity which takes place independently of the program of the Globalist agenda. Phi-Corps obviously lives in this realm, and so do all culture-philosophers, Third Position thinkers, accultured artists and musicians, Nature Religions, and all manner of teachers who reject Political  Correctness in lieu of Truth. All Russia is our orchard. Let us meet regularly in Gorki Park or at Lady Liberty and recite the Book of Veles:

"Look , O Rus, to the Spirit, to a Spirit prepared,  The Spirit both great and a godly one is with us."

If the newly-restored soil of Russia is an ideological battlefield on which some of the first skirmishes in the undeclared war of Money vs. Culture is to be fought, who shall be the soldiers? Who will form the new Legion of Pyotr ? The answer is simple: Cultural Activists must assume this duty, and utilize as their arsenal the weapons of the soul: science, spirituality, art, community, family, individuality, integrity. These are the tools with which a Vanguard has always chipped away at the edifice of tyranny, and just as they thwarted and defeated the invasions from the West and stifled International Communism, so can they be victorious over the nascent invasion of Americanism. The creativity, honor, and patriotism of the fallen poet of Chernaya Rechka still flows in the blood of Russia.

Faced with yet another invading and leveling creed whose survival depends on the citizenry  surrendering its self-respect and autonomy, on giving up its heritage and honor in order to enjoy comfort and things, the most devastating weapons at the  Cultural Activists disposal are Truth and Duty. A new Collateral Culture must become living history; must awaken to conscious life the spirit of a Russia which looms over Eurasia as a symbol of primal  Western grandeur and diversity, beauty and freedom: the Marvel of the Steppes, Eastern Vanguard, an invincible force; strong but warm, fierce but enduring, large but calm. I sit on the shore and wait for the wind, says an old Russian proverb.

The people must come to remember Russia's mythic infancy, heroic ascendancy, and titanic future, steadfastly refusing to yield to the degeneracy coming from foreign would-be usurpers. No Russian should ever forget the treachery of October 1917 or the triumph of December 1991. With the trampling of the Iron Curtain, something terrifying and glorious has whispered in the Russian Soul and set roots in the Soil, and this New Life must out. New, new, new is the star of Third Positionism, and there is no post-modernity outside it!

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