A message on the topic of the destruction of the traditions of state power. Destruction of the religious basis of Russian culture. in the formation and development of personality

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The current situation in Europe is not something extraordinary. She was predicted. And several times, and by people who had opposing views on the political structure in this part of the world. The only difference is that some saw the creation of the EU as a systemic error, while others saw it as just an intermediate stage for the further process of the disintegration of nation-states and the creation of a global civil society.

The two points of view are now being embodied in the European crisis, and the further development of events largely depends on what the point of the geopolitical bifurcation will be.

Let's consider both cases with concrete examples. As a comparison, we will take ideas expressed in works with similar titles - The Breakdown of Nationsand Breaking the Nations.

The first was published in 1957 and the second in 2003.

The first book was written by a lawyer, economist and political scientist of Austrian origin, who for about twenty years served as a professor of economics and public administration at the University of Puerto Rico, Leopold Kohr, who became the inspiration for the "Small is great" movement. He himself called himself a philosophical anarchist, although he never promoted anti-state activities. He was opposed to major projects, including European integration. Leopold Kor in 1941 predicted not only the fallacy of creating a supranational system in Europe, but also the collapse of the Soviet Union. Even during the Second World War, he analyzed the balance of ethnic groups and came to the conclusion that both the Nazi and Soviet regimes were doomed. As you can see, his analysis was accurate. Although few people turn to the theoretical provisions of this author.

Kora's approach to the Swiss Confederation, which is not a confederation of ethno-linguistic groups, but a confederation of regions, seems rather laconic.

“In fact, the basis of the existence of Switzerland and the principle of the coexistence of various national groups is not a federation of its three nationalities, but a federation of 22 states, which represent the division of nationalities and thus create an essential prerequisite for any democratic federation: physical balance participants, approximate equality of their number. The greatness of the Swiss idea, therefore, is the smallness of its cells from which it draws its guarantees.

People who advocate the unification of nations in Europe, because they believe that this kind of union has been realized and thus proved feasible in Switzerland, have never based their beautiful schemes on the principle of cantons or small state sovereignty. The national idea has so greatly confused the minds of political thinkers that, by comparison, the concept of the state is far more flexible, adaptable, and applicable to many areas than the nation has completely fallen into disuse. The power was to see only big and even bigger, while smaller objects were recognized as the source of all troubles and evil ... We learned to praise the unification of France, Great Britain, Italy and Germany in the hope that they would give birth to a single humanity. But they created only great powers,” he wrote in his work “Disengagement immediately”.

Kor stands for a principle that glorifies the sovereignty of the smallest and not the largest state entity - Kleinstaaterei, as the Germans say. He notes that no one knows what the term "humanity" really means and why one should die for it. Unionism and colossalism will not lead to anything good.

Unionism is just another expression of totalitarianism. It is a one-party system that has been transplanted into the international sphere.

“Not only history but also our own experience has taught us that true democracy in Europe can only be achieved in small states. Only there can a person retain his place and dignity. And if democracy is a worthwhile idea, we must again create conditions for its development, for a small state, and give glory to sovereignty (instead of destroying institutions from which no one wants to leave) down to the smallest community and as many people as possible . In this way it will be easy to unite the small states under one continental federal system and thus satisfy all who wish to live by universal principles. Such a Europe will be a fertile inspiration and a grandiose picture, unlike the modern one, which is painted according to a dull pattern. It will be like a mosaic with exciting variations and variety, but at the same time the harmony of an organic and living whole.”

But this is practically the idea of ​​a Eurasian confederation, albeit expressed in other words!

However, his most famous work was The Destruction of the Nation-States. In it, he presented philosophical, political, cultural, economic and administrative arguments in favor of small state actors.

In the part on philosophical questions, he says: "It is no coincidence that smallness is not only a convenience. It is a design created by God. The whole universe is built on it. We live in a microcosm, not in a macrocosm. Perfection was granted to only a few. Only in the direction of the minuscule we shall someday come to the end, to the finite, the boundary where we can conceive the ultimate mystery of existence.In the direction of the colossal, we will not get anywhere.We can add and multiply and produce larger and larger numbers and substances, but we will never reach the end, because there is nothing that cannot be doubled, although doubling in the physical sense rather means collapse, decay, catastrophe.There is an invisible barrier of size beyond which matter cannot accumulate.Only non-existent mathematical shadows can penetrate somewhere further Separation, on the other hand, eventually leads us to an existing, albeit invisible, ultimate essence of all things, to particles that do not lend themselves to further separation. They are the only substances with which creation is endowed with unity. Only they are indivisible, indestructible, eternal. Lucretius called them the first bodies or primary particles in his "Nature of things".

Although at first glance it seems that Kor appeals to the ideas of the atomicity of Democritus and the individual (which, in a sense, can be transferred to the practice of liberalism and multiculturalism), this is not so. Unfortunately for many anarchists who are nihilist materialists (especially following the ideas of Peter Kropotkin, who tried to give scientific examples as a justification for the anarchy of power), Leopold Kohr always spoke about God and His will, which must be tried to be understood from the position of a state organization.

“There are two ways in which balance and order can be achieved. One is stability and the other is through mobile balance. When properly managed, both are self-regulating. A stable balance is a stagnant and huge balance. It creates an equilibrium, whereby two objects are in a fixed and unchanging relationship with each other, like a house with the earth, or a mountain with its plain. Instead of creating harmony, it forms its various parts in unity. Being a rigid and fixed balance, it could only be conceived as a universal principle if the universe were motionless and lifeless. Then the existence of only a few large bodies would make sense and, for that matter, the presence of one would be enough. But in the bottomless vastness of the abyss of creation, it could only be preserved by the conscious will of God Himself, who, in order to prevent it from falling into nowhere, would have to be constantly kept in His hands.

Since this was clearly not His intention, He instead created movement, breathing, and a dynamic universe, maintaining order not by unity, but by harmony, and based not on the steady balance of the dead, but on the mobile balance of the living. Unlike a stable balance, this balance is self-regulating, not because of the immobility of its relations, but because of the coexistence of countless mobile little parts, none of which was allowed to accumulate enough mass to disturb the harmony of the whole.

Kor associates the political structure with the idea of ​​internal democracy, which is based on the community. “A small state is, by its very nature, democratic… The rulers of a small state can be said to be neighbors of the citizen…”.

Kohr's ideas are cited rather little, although the example of Switzerland could serve as proof of the correctness of his ideas.

Moreover, it can be added that most of the current nation-states of Europe also need to be defragmented in order to finally eradicate from them the bourgeois spirit and false attitudes of nationalism, which during the Enlightenment era intensively destroyed the traditions and cultures of European peoples, planting bureaucracy in their place.

The author of another book with a similar title, Breaking the Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century, is British diplomat and strategy theorist Robert Cooper. At the time of the release of his work in 2003, he served as Director General for Foreign and Political-Military Affairs in the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU.

Despite identical titles, the ideas and approaches in the two works are quite different.

If Kor proposes to strengthen sovereignty from below, then Cooper, on the contrary, believes that sovereignty should be destroyed as much as possible.

"The sovereignty of a post-modern state is the right to a seat at the negotiating table," he argues.

Much of his work is controversial. For example, he states that "liberalism and nationalism can go hand in hand, as they did in the 18th and 19th centuries in countries that were parting ways with some form of imperial rule." Why is this possible? To completely destroy national cultures or to manipulate movements and parties that appeal to national identity? Cooper seems to have both in mind.

In the second part, he argues that "most people bow to ideas, not force", but later in the same section argues that "European structures for international cooperation strengthen sovereignty through increased security ... the EU policing agreement provides for police action in other countries." Where is the rule of law and ideas here, even if "the EU member states have lost the exclusive right to adopt laws"?

He also speaks with caution about Islam, which could become the basis for a new imperialism. And he mentions the Pacific region, where there may also be a request for amalgamation. Both, according to Cooper, pose a threat to Western interests, and ultimately to the West itself.

Consequently, Cooper advocates the ideas of Western hegemony, which is transformed into something new. For him, the postmodern state is the quintessence of the ideas of liberalism, which at the previous stage opposed various forms of collective identity associated with class, nationality, race or state affiliation.

Cooper argues that communism and fascism were attempts to contain the effects of the modernization of society caused by the ideas of the Enlightenment and the technological innovations of the industrial revolution. Hence his confidence that all industrial and post-industrial countries carry the potential for postmodernity.

In the end, he reveals the cards and affirms the need for the triumph of the individual.

"Chaos is pacified by empire; empires are broken by nationalism; nationalism, hopefully, is preparing to give way to internationalism. The ultimate goal is the freedom of the individual." On the same page, he clarifies that we are talking about an open society, which, in fact, is identical to postmodernity.

Those. this is practically the same thing that George Soros spoke about and is trying to put into practice through various projects.

In addition, Cooper makes a confession regarding US interests and the difference between American and European perceptions of reality.

"European countries are based on nationality and history. For Americans, history is nonsense. They are not aimed at the colonization of space, but at the colonization of time, that is, the future."

This colonization was successfully implemented in Western Europe through a system of political, economic and military dependence on Washington.

"The American plan was to develop a world community of open markets and international institutions, in which the United States would play a leading role ... In general, the United States realized these goals through the Marshall Plan, the creation of the European Union and international financial institutions, especially the IMF and the World Bank" .

Pay attention to the phrase - "the creation of the European Union"! Did the European countries, starting with the Union of Coal and Steel, understand that the Americans were behind it all? Of course, some actors were able to benefit from such a combination, but for how long? The fragility of the European Union has already shown itself in Brexit, the inability to cope with the problem of migrants and terrorist attacks, as well as the dependence of a number of countries on the financial dictates of European commissioners.

And what does Robert Cooper propose for the next political agenda?

"In politics, it is necessary to contain manifestations of the pre-modern or alien; reconciliation of interests is possible with the modern state, but lasting peace can come only with a post-modern fusion of identities," he writes.

For the EU, this means the continued erosion of the cultural code of all peoples and countries, as a result of which a new type of homopoliticus should appear. But this is only in theory. In reality, weak identities will be replaced by stronger ones, which are now represented by numerous migrants, who almost always position themselves as the bearers of Islam and show little respect for native Europeans.

Perhaps such external aggression will help the inhabitants of Europe to rethink their role in world history and they will try to recreate their old identity and sovereignties as much as possible under the current circumstances.

Religion is one of the traditional non-coercive bonds of statehood. Religious basic foundations are historically found in virtually every modern state. For some - like, for example, non-secular Israel - this connection has more obvious forms implemented in managerial practice. In others, as in the United States, it is not so obvious. But is it really possible to adequately understand the semantic foundations of American statehood without the legendary plots of the Protestant migration? For Russia, Orthodoxy undoubtedly acted as a confessional state-forming force.

Religion as a factor of state viability. From a worldview point of view, religion endows a person with the highest transcendent meaning of existence: axiologically, it instills in him the values ​​of common life; ethically - establishes the coordinates of good and evil; regulatory - sacralizes in the form of traditions the optimal standards for the functioning of the corresponding cultural community. Accordingly, in order to destructure the state, the foundation of religion should be knocked out from under it. There is a correlation between the religiosity of the people and state stability. Appeared at the end of the XVIII-XIX centuries. As a country of permanent revolution, France occupied at the same time the avant-garde positions in the world in spreading the ideology of secularism. It also historically acted as the first state to face the challenge of a long reproductive decline in modern times. Being a more socially stable organism in the 19th century, Great Britain retained at the same time - unlike France - a more accentuated adherence to traditional religious values.

Russia then was a country of absolute popular religiosity. But since the beginning of the 20th century it was she who became the main addressee of the spread of atheism. How was it possible for more than seventy years of existence of a state built on the paradigm of an atheistic worldview?

The fact is that, unlike power state institutions, religion is much more inertial.

The All-Union census of 1937 can serve as a clear evidence of such inertia. The question of religious affiliation was included in the questionnaires on the personal initiative of I.V. Stalin. The results obtained were so stunning that the authorities did not dare to publish summary statistical materials. Two years later, a second census campaign was carried out, which no longer contained a clause establishing a person's belonging to any religion. This important question was missing in all subsequent censuses, including the 2002 census. According to statistics obtained in 1937, the majority of those who agreed to fill out the corresponding item of the questionnaire (56.7%) self-identified as believers. Obviously, one should also include among them those who, when asked about their attitude to religion, generally refused to give any answer. Those of the total number participating in the census accounted for up to 20%. This group can be identified as the hidden believers. Refusal to fill in the corresponding item of the questionnaires, as well as non-participation in the census in general, was determined by religious motives. On the one hand, there was the fear of persecution of all those who confessed their religiosity. On the other hand, an entry in the questionnaire as an unbeliever meant religious apostasy (the archetype in this case was the New Testament story about Peter's denial).

Religious figures representing various confessions appealed to the people to avoid participation in the census campaign. The census was carried out on the very eve of Christmas (January 5-6), which served as an additional source of increased exaltation tension among the believing part of the population. Thus, by 1937 at least 76.7% of Soviet citizens remained among the religiously identifiable. Apparently, their proportion was even higher, because for many believers, considerations of personal security turned out to be a rather weighty circumstance when answering the corresponding item of the questionnaire. Thus, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the victory in the Great Patriotic War was won by a people who retained primarily their religious identity. The authorities, we must give them their due, having received the relevant static materials, were able to effectively use the resource of the religiosity of the people for national purposes. The neo-institutionalization of the patriarchy was a direct consequence of this reassessment. The strategy of erosion of the traditions of Orthodox religiosity in modern Russia. Modern Russia, it would seem, is much more religiously oriented than Soviet Russia. The media have already sung the anthem of the Russian religious revival more than once. However, an analysis of the trends that have developed in the worldview sphere allows us to assert that faith itself has undergone significant erosion.

The turn towards a tolerant attitude towards religion, sanctioned in 1988 by the authorities, was used in the specific conditions of perestroika destruction as a factor of state disintegration. Through this step, another, which became one of the decisive blows, was dealt to the integration potential of the communist ideology. Religious identity - as an alternative to Soviet unity.

Religion, as one of the traditional statist bonds, being taken out of the framework of the integral Soviet system formation, was paradoxically used as one of the detonators of the collapse of the USSR.

It is no coincidence that especially active support from the West in the spectrum of Soviet dissent was given to the direction of church dissidence. The human rights movement included, in particular, the activities of the Christian Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Believers in the USSR. However, it was not possible to create any kind of broad opposition from the Orthodox flock.

Obviously, the paradigm of the statist orientation of the ROC had an effect. The operation, successfully implemented in relation to the Baptists or Pentecostals, failed in relation to the Orthodox. “But,” stated this failure, a member of the human rights movement of the 1970s, an émigré historian L.M. Alekseev, “among the Orthodox intelligentsia, an ironic, squeamishly suspicious attitude towards human rights activities, as well as “Soviet heroism”, “everyday fair” and even as “satanic good” has always been widespread and intensified in the 80s. Not being, by its very nature, a force in opposition to the state.
The church was used in a big geopolitical game against its own interests. But the fate of the "Moor" who did his job is well known. The nominated religious revival of Russia turned out to be nothing more than a simulacrum. According to opinion polls conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation, at least 26% of Russians identify themselves as non-believers. These are not those who doubt, namely those for whom the denial of the existence of God is a worldview axiom. Moreover, in the capital, the share of atheists reaches 43%. Another 5% of Russian respondents found it difficult to give any answer to the question about their attitude to religion. Representatives of this category of the population cannot be classified as believers associated with a certain confessional group. Their worldview, as a rule, is individual, which is why it does not fall under any of the known religions. Thus, the level of religiosity in modern Russia is even lower than in the atheistic USSR of 1937. Particularly significant in terms of its destructive potential is the spread of the phenomenon of unbelief among the Russian population.

Such a state, in which the state-forming people are largely deprived of religious faith (despite the fact that the national outskirts demonstrate a relatively high level of religiosity), is doomed to disintegration. The dichotomy of a non-religious center - religious outskirts was a model for the disintegration of many world civilizations. Given that Russians make up 79.8% of the population in Russia, and the peoples of the Orthodox cultural area as a whole - 86%, only 59% of Russians identify themselves with Orthodoxy. And how does Russia look according to the criterion of religiosity against the world background? Among countries belonging to the same Christian cultural type, it turns out that the Russian Federation is one of the least religious states. In most other Christian countries of the West, the proportion of unbelievers, together with skeptics, does not even make up a quarter of the total population. Only Russia, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic exceed But who are the Russian believers? Finding out the specifics of their comprehension of religion makes the fact of their confessional affiliation highly questionable.

Traditionally, the spread of Catholic proselytism was nominated as one of the most pressing threats to the Orthodox world. The point here was not only in the orthodox rejection of everything alien. The living memory of the people reproduced, as an edification to posterity, numerous historical precedents of Latin expansion. More than once, Orthodox statehood, in view of the direct aggression of adherents of Catholicism, was on the verge of death. The most striking episodes in this series are Constantinople in 1204 and Moscow in 1612.

The attitude towards Catholics in tsarist Russia was even worse (and to a large extent) than towards representatives of non-Christian confessions.

The papacy was consistently defined as antichrist and associated with various kinds of eschatological projections. The transition from a strategy of direct aggression to a stake on missionary activity did not mean a change in the overall target setting of the Vatican towards Russia. The former generations of adherents of the Russian Orthodox Church understood this well. However, the new Orthodox flock's sense of the threat posed by Catholic proselytism turned out to be atrophied. An indicator of this metamorphosis can be the results of public opinion polls regarding the prospects for the visit of the Pope to Russia. Only an insignificant part of Russian citizens spoke negatively on this score. The number of respondents who positively accepted the idea of ​​the arrival of the head of the Catholic Church, turned out to be 8 times more. But, perhaps, the personality of the Roman pontiff crossed out the challenge of Latin proselytism at the level of mass consciousness? The question addressed to the Russian society about the attitude towards Catholics in general allows us to state that it is precisely about the atrophy of the Russians' sense of the threat of other confessional expansion.

The indifference of the majority of respondents is quite consistent with the secular paradigm of modern society, but the positive assessment of Catholics by almost a third of all respondents is difficult to explain otherwise than as the result of appropriate propaganda processing. Most often, they understand faith as their own individual religious-surrogate worldview, not attributable to any of the known confessional practices. This is evidenced by sociological surveys to reveal the degree of churching of Russians. Persons “professing non-Christian religions” were excluded from the sample. The results obtained are discouraging. Only an extremely small number of Russians regularly visit churches (7%), perform the sacrament (1%), observe all major church fasts (2%), pray church prayers (5%), read the Gospel and other biblical texts (2%). Thus, 59% of self-identified Orthodox turn out to be nothing more than a fiction. The true number of the Orthodox flock in Russia does not exceed 7% of the population.

The position of the Church in this regard is much worse than it was under Soviet rule.

Behind the outward mass character and official respect, Orthodoxy, as the traditional religion of Russia, turned out to be almost destroyed. One cannot consider an Orthodox Christian a person who does not even have an idea about Christian prayer. Characteristically, in the United States, believers are considered to be people who regularly read the Holy Scriptures (daily - 20% of Americans, at least once a week - 30%), as well as attending church with weekly intensity and regularly participating in the sacrament of the sacrament (in those religious directions, where it exists).

The ideological state of modern Russian society evokes unwitting associations with the Roman Empire during its decline. Against the background of the breakdown of the traditional system of worldview, occult practices that are inherently destructive are spreading. By exploiting the religious feelings immanent in the human psyche, various kinds of charlatans receive a broad public platform. Extrasensory programs are regularly given a place in the hourly grid of federal TV channels. Meanwhile, the nature and nature of extrasensory influence on a person is not fully understood by science today. The Church categorically rejects such experiences as satanic practice. However, the leadership of television channels, with the strange connivance of the state authorities, considers it possible to conduct mass experiments on the consciousness and mental health of Russians. Neo-occultism directly destroys the coordinates of traditional religiosity. The neo-occult worldview is a direct competitor to the religious worldview. Suffice it to say that today in Russia the proportion of people who believe in extraterrestrial civilizations is higher than those who believe in the immortality of the soul. Moreover, even among those who identify themselves as Orthodox Christians, many do not share the basic thesis of the Christian religion about the afterlife. Only a third of Russians deny the phenomenological reality of the occult. The vast majority found themselves, to one degree or another, involved in the occult atmosphere.

In the place of Soviet atheism, therefore, came not religion, but precisely occultism.

Bearing in mind assistance in its information promotion, it is appropriate to talk about the operational nature of the introduction of a new worldview. Judging by public opinion polls, the hierarchy of popularity of neo-occult concepts is built in modern Russia as follows:

1. Guidance of "damage", "evil eye" (witchcraft).
2. Omens that come true.
3. Predictions on the lines of hands (palmistry).
4. Predictions on the location of stars and planets (astrology).
5. Diagnosis and treatment of diseases by the biofield (extrasensory perception).
6. The manifestation of otherworldly forces, ghosts, brownies.
7. Alien activity on Earth (duology).
8. The transmission of thoughts at a distance (telepathy).
9. Communication with the souls of the dead (spiritualism).
10. Moving objects with the power of thought (telekinesis).
11. Spontaneous movement of inanimate objects (poltergeist).
12. Human flight without any devices (levitation).

But the matter is not limited to a mere hypothetical statement of the probability of paranormal phenomena. Almost a quarter of Russians were directly involved in occult practices. 23% of respondents admitted to visiting magicians, sorcerers, psychics. This is more than the number of Russians who take part in church sacraments. Organizationally, Orthodoxy is losing to its ideological opponents. Today, about 300 thousand various kinds of magicians, healers, psychics are registered in the country. According to the sectologist A.L. Dvorkin, their actual number reaches 500 thousand people. Ideologically opposed to this army of occultists are 15,000 Orthodox clergy. “Such a number of actually pagan magicians,” writes a prominent researcher in the history of the church D. Pospelovsky, “in a market economy means that the demand for them exceeds the demand for the Orthodox clergy by 30 times!” In Soviet times, of all religious organizations operating in Russia, 62.7% were part of the ROC. The new religious movement was represented by associations of Hare Krishnas, Baha'is and Mormons, accounting for less than 0.2%68. In 2007 the situation was fundamentally different. Associations in the structure of the ROC already accounted for 54.3%. The number of organizations representing new religious movements increased to 3.5% (increased by 17.5 times over the years of reforms). This is more than the number of Buddhist (0.9%) or Jewish associations (1.3%) associated with religions traditional for Russia.

Thus, the answer to the question of who won as a result of the transformations that took place seems obvious. In any case, this is not the Russian Orthodox Church. According to 2003 data, in Russia during the post-Soviet period of its history, up to 500 new religious movements spread, covering 800,000 adherents. The missionary department of the Moscow Patriarchate gives different statistics: 700 denominations and up to 5 million people of active adherents. Without the appropriate patronage of the authorities, such a rapid spread of neo-occultism and sectarianism in Russia would have been impossible. The extremely lenient rules for registering religious organizations that were in force in the Russian Federation led to the legal legitimization of a significant number of totalitarian sects banned in other countries of the world. Prior to the introduction of relevant legislative changes in 1997, most of these organizations had customs privileges and were exempt from paying taxes.

The activities of such public associations as the International Association for Religious Freedom and the International Civil Commission on Human Rights (the latter was established with the direct participation of the Church of Scientology) have a “sect-protective” orientation in the Russian Federation. In fact, the green light for neo-occult imports to Russia was given by the laws adopted in 1990 in the USSR "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations" and "On Freedom of Religion." Only in 1997, this expansion, in view of the recognition of the “dangerous consequences of the impact of certain religious organizations on the health of society, families, citizens of Russia”, was partially limited through the adoption of the Federal Law “On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations”. The leitmotif of the changes introduced was the deprivation of denominations that had a period of distribution in Russia of less than 15 years, tax preferences that existed before and the right to rent premises. This decision was implemented through the differentiation of confessional associations into religious organizations and religious groups. Interested in the religious erosion of Russia was not slow to show up.

As a response, the US Senate decides to reduce financial assistance to the Russian Federation by $200 million B.N. Yeltsin, under the pretext of contradicting the Duma bill with constitutional law, initially vetoed it. But still, in the future, a softened version, despite the external and internal liberal pressure exerted, was signed by him.

However, the fifteen-year period established earlier has already lost its relevance. For 1997, the 15-year limit meant cutting off from extending the status of a religious organization to the numerous neo-occult foreign groups that emerged in Russia in the early 1990s. Now all of them have already received the appropriate rights to legal legitimization. Confessional associations that emerged in the Russian Federation in the period 1991-1993 can already now be legalized as religious organizations. The theme of the new occult expansionism, which has temporarily fallen off the agenda, should be updated again in the near future. However, the current Russian authorities apparently do not have a foresight of the coming threat. What kind of protection of the interests of traditional Russian confessions can we talk about if such politicians as Anatoly Chubais and Alexander Voloshin figured at different times as chairman of the Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations under the President of the Russian Federation? The ROC also loses in the competition with its ideological opponents for the younger generation. The number of spiritual educational institutions among Russian Muslims is almost one and a half times greater than among the Orthodox. Almost as many as the ROC have such institutions and other religious organizations in Russia. With the relative propagandistic passivity of the Moscow Patriarchate, educational institutions of the middle and higher levels are actively using organizations representing a new religious movement as a springboard for disseminating their teachings.

Scientologists, Moonies, Hare Krishnas, followers of the Anastasia sect, and others have a direct practice of cooperation with universities and schools in Russia. But someone at the level of leadership in Russian education opened the gates for them, showed interest in spreading sectarian influence on students!

The activity of the Church of Scientology is the most active in the educational field of Russia. It is education that constitutes the main revenue item for the functioning of Hubbard's organizational structures. In Russia, according to experts, the income of the Church of Scientology reaches $50 million a year. Arguing about how many Russian citizens, judging by these means, the propaganda of the teachings of Dianetics is spreading, forces us to formulate the question of Hubbardian activities as a direct challenge to national security. The structure of the Church of Scientology includes several of its own educational institutions - "Hubbard College", "Center for Applied Education", "Rodnik Boarding School Non-Governmental Non-Profit Educational Institution". A special program implemented by the Moscow Dianetics Center is to translate Hubbardian concepts through a special processing of teachers. The doors of Moscow State University named after M.V. M.V. Lomonosov. Joint programs connected them - in particular during the period of institutionalization of the organization - with the Faculty of Journalism. Moscow State University even acted as a venue for the so-called Hubbard Days. Meanwhile, in Germany the Church of Scientology is regarded as a "criminal commercial organization with elements of psychoterror" and placed under special police supervision. In France and Spain, the activities of the Hubbardians became the subject of legal investigations.

The sphere of activity of Scientologists is not limited, however, to the education system. No less successful attempts were made by them to introduce their programs in medical institutions. At the level of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, they received, in particular, permission to implement their method of toxin cleansing of the human body. Hubbardians were even given the opportunity to treat children affected by the consequences of the Chernobyl accident, which made up a video sequence of Scientology presentation videos. The most resonant connection between the spread of neo-occultism in Russia and the activities of state authorities was highlighted by the example of the phenomenon of "Aum Senrique".

The veil hiding the fact of active cooperation between officials and sectarians was removed only due to extraordinary circumstances - a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway.

Having gained popularity in Russia since 1991, after several years, under the patronage of representatives of the highest echelon of power, the Russian AUM associations counted three times more adherents in their ranks than in Japan itself. The institutional cover for the followers of Shoko Asahara was established on the initiative of M.S. Gorbachev, with financial and organizational assistance from the sect, the Russian-Japanese University (originally the Russian-Japanese Foundation). Gorbachev's sympathy for the Aumovites was shared by B.N. Yeltsin, who, by a special Decree of November 13, 1991, equated university employees with "categories of employees of government bodies." Oleg Lobov, head of the Expert Council under the President of the Russian Federation, acted as the direct patron of Aum Senrique in the top Russian state leadership, as shown by a judicial investigation.

It was he who organized the communication of the sect with some Russian defense enterprises, as a result of which the Aumovites received the appropriate technological developments for the production of the gas used in the Tokyo metro - sarin. Later, a combat helicopter and a Russian-made gas analyzer were also found in the arsenal of the sectarians. Not only O. Lobov met with the leader of the sect, Shoko Asahara, but also other prominent representatives of the state establishment of Russia - Vice President A. Rutskoi, Speaker of Parliament R. Khasbulatov, head of Ostankino E. Yakovlev, rectors of leading Moscow universities (MSU, MGIMO , MIREA, MEPhI). For the symphony orchestra created under the auspices of Aum Senrique, the site of the Olimpiysky sports complex was provided. Asahara himself spoke from the stands of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses and the conference hall of Moscow State University. TV channel 2 2 during 1993–1994 AUM provided weekly broadcasting opportunities. Despite the injunction, the successor organizations in relation to Aum Senrika still function on the territory of the Russian Federation.

According to Japanese law enforcement agencies, it is in Russia that a group of internationally wanted individuals involved in the terrorist attack in Tokyo is still hiding.

No less large-scale influence on the Russian establishment at the turn of the 1980s–1990s. provided by the Unification Church, better known as the Moon sect. The head of the organization Sun Myung Moon was personally invited to the USSR in 1989 by M.S. Gorbachev as a state guest. In the Assumption Cathedral, still closed for liturgical practice at that time, he was even given the opportunity to perform the ceremony of consecration (“salting”) according to his own Munite rite. Moon-Gorbachev cooperation (in particular, through the Gorbachev Foundation) continued even after the latter's resignation. In addition to the ex-president of the USSR, among the participants of the Moonite forums there are also such persons associated with a certain political spectrum as A. Yakovlev, G. Popov, S. Shushkevich. Experts say that in order to attract the "powerful of this world" the Moonies are actively using the practice of providing super-large fees. In 1992, the Unification Church conference was held mainly at the expense of the organizational resources of the Ministry of Education, which ensured the participation in the conference of delegates from public education departments of 60 Russian cities. What, it would seem, can connect the educational national system of Russia and the religious organization of the Korean missionary?!

How does this kind of cooperation correlate with the declaration on the separation of religion from schools, which is so often mentioned to justify the inadmissibility of spreading Orthodox educational programs?! Meanwhile, the Moonies held hundreds of seven-day seminars for teachers, covering more than 60 thousand representatives of the teaching staff of secondary and higher educational institutions in Russia. A peculiar point of the triumph of the activities of the "Unification Church" was the introduction, since 1993, into the educational program for high school students of the course "My world - and I" specially developed by the Moonies. More than 2,000 Russian schools were taught in this subject in a short time. In the Republic of Kalmykia, the course "My world - and I" was at one time even established as a compulsory discipline. The preparation by the Moonies of a special textbook for military personnel, "The Inner World of a Soldier," also deserves special attention from the standpoint of national security. The decision to create it was made at a conference held jointly by the Unification Church and the Higher Humanitarian Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Further munization of Russia was stopped only by a number of scandals abroad related to the exposure of adherents of munism in financial extortion. Harmonization of non-force bases: both religion and science. Various bonds of state life can be combined with each other. The hypertrophied development of one component, which is out of touch with others, leads to disharmony and can lead to the death of the entire system. It was in this way that the Russian Empire was brought to the collapse of the state system in 1917. There is no doubt that religion is one of the most important components of state viability. But when its position in society is established to the detriment of other non-coercive foundations of statehood - such as, for example, science or education - this can have the most negative consequences. The Russian Empire acted in the world as a kind of brand of high Christian piety, Orthodox theocracy. In the West, this image was strongly supported.

Your strength, the Western “Russophiles” told Russia, is not in science and education (the lot of materialistic Europe), but in religious spirituality.

In general, stay with banners and crosses, but do not claim the path of technical improvement monopolized by the West. Positioning itself through the image of the defender of Orthodoxy, the tsarist authorities fell for this trick, which resulted in the strengthening of the obscurantization paradigm in terms of management. The disparity between religion, on the one hand, and the sphere, including science, education, and secular culture, on the other, had the character of a catastrophic fracture. The subsequent Bolshevik anti-religious campaign was objectively a reverse modernizing reaction to the previous disproportions in development. The analysis allows us to state that, behind the external cover of the reports about the religious revival of Russia, religion, as the backbone of Russian statehood, has undergone significant erosion over the past two decades. The design component of destructive processes in this area is traced. The main implemented stratagem is to blur the core of traditional Russian religiosity, to equate traditional religions with a neo-spiritualist surrogate, and to replace them with the latter. Violation of the optimum of pluralization in religious life resulted in the undermining of one of the most important non-coercive foundations of statehood.

“In order to change the government, it is necessary first of all to change or change the people who created it. Change it by gradually diluting it with foreign peoples, or change it by “cleansing the brains” of several generations from childhood” (V. Raevsky, 2014)

Message 1. Creators of the people and state of the United States (introduction to the topic).

The USA was created by immigrants from England (ethnic Anglo-Saxons), deeply religious Protestants - a branch of Christianity that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the 17th century. The main principle of this faith is the recognition of the exclusive authority of a single Holy Scripture - the Hebrew Bible (the Basic, Original Testament, slyly called the "Old" Testament by the Roman Church) and the Additional Testament, called the "New" by Rome. As a consequence of this principle, strict observance by Protestants of biblical moral norms in everyday life, which became the basis for the formation of the American people (Anglo-Americans):

“Of all the inclinations and habits that lead to prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable pillars ... National morality cannot be preserved with the exclusion of religious principles.

So said George Washington (1732-99), the first President of the United States (1775-83). Today's 44th President ("Stranger in the White House") destroys this religion and this national morality.

The significance and priority of the Jewish part of the unified Judeo-Christian Holy Scripture (Original and New Testaments) for the formation of human civilization was also emphasized by the 2nd President of the United States (1797-1801), John Adams (1735-1826):

Jews have done more human civilization than any other nation ... It was the Jews who were chosen to store and transmit to the whole world the idea of ​​​​the Higher Mind, mighty and wise, ruling the Universe, which is the basis of all morality and as a consequence - the whole civilization».

As a consequence of their faith, the founding fathers of the United States of America understood the importance of restoring a Jewish state in its homeland for the advancement of civilization:

"Returning the Jews to their homeland is a noble dream shared by many Americans." Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), 16th President of the United States, 1861-65).

The first of the presidents to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (of those times, 1906, and not today's parodies of it) Theodore Roosevelt, (26th President of the United States (1901-1909), emphasized the connection of US national development with Jewish religion and morality and the spiritual unity of the Protestant (Anglo-American) and Jewish population of the USA:

“The United States is a country that, from the very beginning of its national development was aware of its duty to the Jewish people ... For Washington and its associates, the founders of this republic, there was no military or civil battle in which citizens of the Jewish faith would not play an important role in the benefit and honor of our country.

And this tradition of spiritual kinship and unnamed union is being roughly destroyed by today's 44th president - the first non-Christian president of the socialist ideology, who does not mention God at all in his speeches.

Finally, the concluding galaxy of the founders of the United States, Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), the 28th President of the United States (1913-21), 50 years after Abraham Lincoln's statement about "the dream of many Americans -" return the Jews to their homeland ", could proclaim: “I have the honor to hand over the Holy Land to those to whom it should rightfully belong. The re-establishment of the State of Israel… is obedience to God and a unique precedent for the establishment of democracy.”(1921).

So, dear readers, the "Holy Land", and not Palestine and not the West Bank, but Holy Land of Jews and Christians, with its root region: Jerusalem-Judea-Samaria , today not an American and not a Christian, the 44th President of the United States is trying to take it away from Jews and Christians and transfer it to another people - the Arabs and another religion - Islam, enemies and America ("Great Satan"), and Jews ("Small Satan"), the enemies of the Jews, Christians and their civilization as a whole. Transfer, that is, completely destroy the "unique precedent of democracy", placing it under the rule of a dictatorship that destroys all types of democracy.

On the basis of the above norms and morality of the unified Judeo-Christian Holy Scripture, the founding people of the United States and its leaders developed forms of socio-religious and state-political government of the country: each person is free (individual freedom - Biblical "freedom of will"), but he before God and people is responsible for their behavior and sins. It is in this principle that the fundamental difference between the Protestant faith and the main principle of Catholicism is that you believe in Christ, and this is enough so that all your sins can be forgiven (removed from you) by a priest. Catholicism, under the auspices of Obama, today filling the United States from Latin American countries - a people of a foreign faith, a foreign language and a foreign ethnic group (as well as President Obama himself).

The first settlers, Anglo-Saxon Protestants, like Abraham in biblical times, led by faith and not willing to obey anyone but the Lord, left " your home and your country and traveled to uncharted lands. Only strong people are capable of such an act, confident in their self-sufficiency in order to build their society and their well-being with God's help. They are distinguished by an unshakable faith in the One Creator, a deep knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, the holiness of the institution of the family, diligence, personal freedom, limited only by Biblical morality, complete economic independence and a ban on state interference in personal life. In other words, a firm decision to be citizens, not subjects of the state. They treated the family, traditions, the upbringing of the younger generation with special trepidation and with deep respect for the Jews - the only people who for thousands of years were completely literate and read the Holy Scriptures, the people of the Book.

These were the first settlers - the creators of the American people, its state and a special, American Judeo-Christian civilization. We repeat: they and their descendants, brought up by them, created in distant lands a new people called Americans, a new type of state - the United States of America and a new civilization - the Judeo-Christian civilization of Biblical morality. A civilization based on the priority of morality and the norms of a single Holy Scripture, where the morality and faith of Abraham-Ivri (Jew) served as the foundation, and where there never was and could not be enmity towards the Jews, who gave the idea of ​​the One God, enmity, known today as anti-Semitism. Finally, they created a new (not modern) "republican democratic form of government" - without universal suffrage (only taxpayers vote), a new state that became the leader of the Free World and the military, political and economic leader of all Western civilization as a whole. It was: " Firmly trusting in the help of divine Providence”(Declaration of Independence, 1776), it was they who, according to the Huntington formula - religion forms culture, and culture creates civilization (religion-culture-civilization), created precisely not the Roman Catholic, but the Judeo-Christian civilization, which it is correct to call not the world of Western democracies, but the Free World, the world of creative free citizens, and not the state of subjects who expect commands and handouts from the state. It was.

Unfortunately, the 20th century became the century of the destruction of the foundations of the Free World, “the century of the West’s gradual capitulation to the socialist (state) ideology” (Yu. political correctness and personal independence - total surveillance, destroys the national culture ("multiculturalism"), and then generally eliminates the entire complex of civil and economic human rights. Ultimately, this leads to the dictatorship of the state bureaucracy and the primitive unanimity of the obedient majority - a new breed of former people, the transformation of "homo sapiens" (a thinking person) into thoughtless zombies like "homo sovieticus", "unbaptized property" of the government or simply, "redneck" )

Today, the Democratic Party is claiming autocracy with the creation of a state dictatorship in the United States. This party is controlled by a group of billionaires (“Democratic Alliance”, “New World Order”) and since the 1960s they have been transformed into a socialist one (V. Raevsky “New Meridian”, No. 976, January .. Since the authorities are elected by the population, then, as mentioned above (see the epigraph), in order to capture it, it is necessary to transform the freedom-loving population into an obedient one - to destroy the ideology, tradition and morality of the "founding people". This is carried out by a combination of "brainwashing" with the gradual replacement of the indigenous population with an alien and hostile to traditions " founding people". Each of these paths is carried out gradually (the effectiveness of phasing was very figuratively shown by B. Gulko - "Frogs in the broth", EM. No. 1139, March, 2014).

Consider these paths

1. Replacing the traditional population with an alien to American traditions. It is carried out by encouraging legal and illegal immigration of peoples who are ethnically, religiously and culturally alien and mentally hostile to the spirituality and traditions of the “founding people”. This is the settlement of Muslims, Hispanic peoples of Latin America, immigrants of African and Asian origin. Today, out of 316 million US citizens, these groups are: Hispanics - 43.5 million, African Americans - 39 million, Asian Americans (including Muslims, Arabs) - 12.5 million. The rest, about 183 million, are of European origin. Of these, Americans of German origin - more than 48 million, Irish - 46 million and, only in third place, Anglo-Americans (including Scots and people from Northern Ireland and Wales) - 38 million, and the English themselves, i.e. Anglo-Saxons - only 25 million people (less than 8% of the population). However, until recently, they still held power in politics (75% of US presidents, almost 70% of state governors, about 60% in the Senate) and in business (close to 60% of the number of billionaires). At the same time, they do not have and never had any formal advantages - just the self-organization of generations of indigenous settlers. Today, this self-organization of the protection of traditions has practically already been destroyed (the transition of the quantity of strangers into quality, which is strongly promoted by the Democratic Alliance).

2. Transfer of the population from the American culture of freedom to the ideology of socialism, slyly called liberalism and democracy. It is carried out by “cleansing the brains” according to the “homo sovieticus” system (with the leader-messiah) similar to the Goebbels system. Both systems were intended to lead the people to a one-party ideology of socialism with subordination to the leaders and their party bureaucracy. Both are based on massive lies. Today, such a system is used by the Democratic (Socialist) Party (D/dP), along with the glorification of its professionally insignificant leader - Obama (false propaganda of "successes" and covering up failures). Today, this system has already ensured the almost complete capture of the D / s Party of primary, secondary and higher education and most of the media.

3. Weakening the economy and encouraging the “take and share” movement. It is carried out by a directed increase in public debt, a decrease in the status of the dollar, an increase in taxes on business, the approval of a minimum wage, which hits industrial business and sharply increases unemployment, and other anti-market measures of the ruling administration.

Three main factors influenced the formation of the character of the Russian people: the pagan nature of the East Slavic tribes (ethnic genotype); education of the people by Orthodoxy (spiritual archetype); uniquely harsh survival conditions that cultivated certain qualities (historical archetype). The genesis of the Russian people was determined not by ethnic, but by religious, cultural dominance, so the Russians united many tribes and peoples.

The Russian people was formed on the basis of a common religion, state and culture (language). Orthodoxy was the spiritual basis of all spheres of life; statehood and culture were formed on the basis of Orthodoxy. The well-known formula of Count Uvarov "Orthodoxy. Autocracy. Nationality" reflects this immutable historical fact. Each national-state organism has its own spiritual constitution, which determines its essence and allows it to self-identify. Uvarov's formulation denotes the main areas of national self-identification: 1) how the people are aware of their connection with the Highest Reality, with God - religiosity, or the spirit of the people; 2) how the people understand their earthly arrangement, their civilization and statehood - the earthly body of the people; 3) in what the people root themselves, see their kinship, how the people realize themselves, understand their mission in life and in history, which is expressed in various forms of national culture - this is the soul of the people. The triune sphere of national self-consciousness can be referred to as "Faith. Patriotism. Nationalism." Answers to the questions: What is our faith? what state are we building? what culture and civilization are we reviving? - these are answers to the question about the revival of the unity of the national spirit, soul and body, about our national existence.

From the deep religious faith (which is not always fully realized, but can manifest itself in latent forms), the basic spiritual and moral values ​​of the people stem, which are preserved in a secular society. The Russian national faith is rooted in Orthodoxy, which accumulates the spiritual and moral values ​​of Russian civilization. A people is alive as long as its specific national spiritual and moral values ​​are preserved, which manifest themselves in explicit or hidden forms, despite global social upheavals.

The feeling of patriotism - love for one's fatherland - encourages the construction and preservation of one's state house. Russians are characterized by the instinct of state self-preservation, traditional ideas about the form of state power, which in Russia has always been autocratic. In statehood, the will of the nation to historical existence is realized. Therefore, "the biggest vice for the state is weakness" (AV Gulyga). The collapse of the state body testifies to the spiritual and mental degradation of the nation.

The feeling of nationalism - love for one's people - connects the continuity of cultural, civilizational and everyday traditions, without which national self-awareness and self-consciousness are impossible, and hence the existence of the people as such. The majority of Russian people are united by a common feeling of love for their relatives, compatriots, for the small and large Motherland, affection for their land, a Russian person cannot imagine his life and self-realization outside the atmosphere of Russian culture. Today, the dismembered Russian people are united only by the Russian Orthodox Church. On the basis of the unity of Orthodoxy, it is possible to restore a common cultural, civilizational field and a single state.

To solve global problems, the people are required to exert super-effort, which Russian people are capable of in an extreme situation and in the presence of a super-ideal. In everyday life, Russians, as a rule, relax (otherwise they would not have endured the tension in the struggle for historical survival). A Russian person is not capable of super-mobilization for the sake of material goals, but performs miracles of heroism in the defense of the Motherland and sacred values, or in the fulfillment of a great historical mission. For Russian people, it is important that life be permeated with a higher meaning, which does not boil down to individual self-interest, but expresses the spiritual ideals and values ​​of local communities (small Motherland) and the entire people (great Motherland). When achieving a high goal, Russian people show ownership of a common cause, openness, trust and mutual support, sincerity and mutual understanding in personal communication. In conciliar unity in the name of high ideals, the best features of the Russian character are manifested.

The Russian people are spiritually mobilized in a borderline situation that threatens their existence ("until the thunder breaks out, the Russian peasant will not cross himself"). Until the German army reached Moscow during the Great Patriotic War, the people were not capable of full-fledged resistance. But both the presence of mortal danger and the awareness of it are necessary, but not sufficient conditions for a national awakening. For national unity, a strong-willed impulse of the supreme power is needed, capable of expressing and protecting the highest national interests, rising above strife in society and splits between society and power. "The Russian harnesses for a long time, but rides fast": when the mortal danger was realized and when the authorities called on the people to fight for the salvation of the Fatherland ("brothers and sisters ..."), the people won a great victory.

So once again the national archetype of behavior was revealed - the formula of Russian victory: a mortal threat; awareness of the threat by the elite and society; formation of a national ideal; the call of the supreme power to the nation; supermobilization of society; victory. Thanks to this, the Russian people withstood all historical trials and emerged stronger from them. A great nation is preserved in history, fulfilling its historical mission, responding to historical challenges. The deadly threat to Russian civilization is now evident. Each of today's global crises is capable of burying world civilization. They also pose a danger to Russia, because in our country all global problems respond in an aggravated form.

External threats - world crises that threaten the existence of Russia and the Russian people. The global ecological crisis leads to a technogenic overload of the planet, to the destruction of biosphere resources with the help of technical means, to the depletion of natural resources. Demographic crisis - overpopulation of the planet with limited world resources. The declining birth rate in the rich and the high birth rate in the poorest countries leads to huge migration and the erosion of the population of the Western countries of the yellow and black races. Over the sparsely populated Russian Siberia hung a billion-strong China. In the upcoming wars for world resources, Russia is a tasty morsel for many, because with 3% of the world's population, it controls 13% of the territory and has about 40% of the world's natural resources. In two or three decades, 1% of the world's population will live in Russia, who will have to protect about half of the world's raw materials from encroachment. The global economic crisis is due to the lack of planetary resources to provide for the entire population; the prosperity of the golden billion in opposition to the impoverished majority of the world's population; inevitable in the foreseeable future, the collapse of the world's dominant US economy and the collapse of the dollar pyramid. The conflict of civilizations causes terrorism and wars with a real danger of the proliferation and use of weapons of mass destruction. Unipolar globalization turns most countries of the world into a resource for the survival of the states of the golden billion. Russia, with its vast territory, richest natural resources, and highly skilled, unpretentious population, is for the ruling subjects of globalization a field of confrontation with competitors for sources of raw materials, an instrument of diplomatic struggle and a "lightning rod" for world terrorism. Russia faces deadly geopolitical dangers: the population of neighboring states is more than ten times the population of Russia, and most of the surrounding states are unfriendly or aggressive towards Russia. Three-quarters of Russia's borders are in countries with rapidly growing populations and increasing demand for raw materials.

Internal threats are rising in the country. The economic and technological lag behind the world leaders is increasing. The flow of disasters, accidents, man-made disasters is increasing due to the erosion of infrastructure and the inefficiency of public administration. In public administration, the destructive influence of radical liberals is still very strong. On the other hand, some forces are trying to strengthen statehood through statist stagnation or nationalist revenge. The danger of terrorism from Islamic fundamentalism is still strong. The defeat of the gene pool of the nation is aggravated by alcoholism and progressive drug addiction. Social tension is growing due to the widening gap between the rich and the poor. As a result of many negative factors, the mortality rate of the population is high, especially infant mortality, and life expectancy is low. Mortality in Russia is 2.5 times higher than in Europe, in 1994 the peak of mortality reached 15.7%, which has not been since the war. The symptoms of extinction especially affect the Russian state-forming people: in the early nineties, mortality exceeded the birth rate, the phenomenon of the "Russian Cross" was formed - the death line going up crossed the birth line falling down. As a result, the threats of ousting the Russian people from historical territories by Islamic and Chinese peoples are intensifying. The concepts of replacing the state-forming role of the Russian people with the rapidly growing peoples of Russian Islam are already ready.

All this carries the threat of the collapse of the country, the transformation of Russia into a raw material territory of the United States and China. The role of a zone is imposed on Russia, due to which contradictions between the leading centers of power are removed.

The moment of a global historical challenge has come again: either the nation will be inspired by a new mission in a new era, or the Russian people and Russia will cease to exist. If the army needs a fighting spirit to win, then the people need the awakening of the national spirit - that which gives people the will to live, to fight for self-preservation and to create. Only a burst of national energy will make it possible to overcome the spiritual and moral decay of society, civil apathy, and the decline in incentives to live. This obliges the supreme power to formulate the ideals of national salvation and induce society to spiritual mobilization. Spiritual ideals can become a powerful transformative force. The Russian people have an ascetic character, capable of self-restraint; in Russian society, moral and spiritual ideals have always been a priority over material and pragmatic ones.

The authorities should deal not only with the material side of the life of society - the economy and politics. The task of the state is to create optimal conditions for the spiritual and moral growth of a person, the formation of a free, creative, responsible personality. The spiritual health of the nation and the state of public morality are not only problems of private life or civil society, but also problems of the state. Communist totalitarianism gave a negative example of the introduction of power into people's lives - violence and lies. At the other extreme is the Western pluralistic society, where the independence of public and private life from the state is declared (although in reality the government strongly influences the state of society and the individual). The state should strive for the spiritual and moral rebirth of the nation. For state power rests not only on the strength of state structures, but on patriotism and the state consciousness of citizens. If our state does not deal with the moral and spiritual problems of the life of society, then hostile forces from outside inevitably negatively influence the most important sphere of life.

In Russia, the state created the conditions for significant achievements of the people. The modern task of the national authorities is to form a strategy for the development of the country, to determine priorities, goals and objectives, for the solution of which to use state resources and mechanisms. At the same time, the authorities must explain to society the meaning of their initiatives, the validity of their decisions. Therefore, not only independent mass media, but also the state should influence the formation of public opinion and offer the public a program. The supreme power is called upon to declare the historical mission of Russia in the modern world and, on the basis of this, a modern national ideal. This should not be another utopia covering up the selfish interests of the ruling clans. The supreme power in the name of self-preservation and salvation of Russia must express national aspirations, which can awaken national energies.

The healing processes in society that have been outlined at the present time can be significantly strengthened with the support of the state. To solve problems of historical significance, it is necessary to mobilize national resources and implement national programs. It can only be done by the supreme power. But all the highest state structures are focused on material tasks and are overwhelmed by the solution of everyday problems. State institutions close to humanitarian issues resolve issues departmentally and fragmentarily, limited by corporate interests. Not a single state authority is engaged in the strategy of the revival of the Russian state-forming people, problems that pose the greatest threat to Russian statehood and civilization. The supreme power is called upon to deal with the spiritual aspects of national security.

The enemy of Russia, Brzezinski, declared Russia "a big black hole on the world map", and after the collapse of the USSR he proclaimed with satisfaction: "Russia is defeated - it has no concept of being." Only the awakening of the self-consciousness of the Russian national spirit can refute this verdict. The treatment of the national spirit, or Russia's search for itself, should begin with the formation of the concept of the spiritual healing of the nation, which has the following main directions.

Religious revival. The ruling stratum and the authorities are called upon to realize that religion and religious values ​​determine the spiritual and moral health of society. At the same time, the Russian Orthodox Church is the main civilization-forming and state-forming religion of Russia, the spiritual leader of the people, the main defender of the integrity of the state and interreligious harmony, which has protected Russia for centuries. Russia is a secular, but by no means an atheistic state. The separation of the Church from the state does not mean the separation of the people from the Church, and the supreme power should serve as a guarantor of the protection and preservation of civilizational identity. Therefore, care for the welfare and independence of the Church, for the cooperation of religions in the field of social service is a priority task of the state. After many decades of state atheism and religious persecution, the state must return the historical debt to believers, which requires state support for traditional religions: the establishment of their fruitful interaction with the authorities and society in spiritual and moral education; fight against pseudo-religious anti-human sects; opposition to the erosion of traditional Russian religiosity; state support for the missionary activities of traditional religions, as well as support for the Russian Orthodox Church in its canonical territories outside of Russia.

Moral and patriotic recovery. A responsible, free and creative person can only be nurtured in an organic spiritual climate, in a society oriented towards eternal values, towards fostering a sense of love for the great and small Motherland, national pride, and civic responsibility. For without a sense of national belonging, without a sense of patriotism, a person is flawed: if there is no earthly homeland in the soul through which history and eternity are revealed, then there is no instance of responsibility, duty and conscience. The mission of Russia is to serve God and people, to preserve the land of their ancestors and to preserve the peoples who have united their destinies with the fate of the Russian state. The Russian people are a state-forming people, Russians are not an ethnic group. Since ancient times, all those who live in the vast expanse of historical Russia, considering Russia their Fatherland, have been called Russians and today they are called abroad. A Russian is someone who speaks Russian, thinks Russian and considers himself Russian. Russian national revival is a condition for the revival of Russia and a true guarantor of security for every ethnic group that has linked its fate with Russia, as well as a guarantor of maintaining close ties between the motherland and compatriots. The great superethnos - the Russian people - as a state-forming principle is the full owner of Russia's colossal resources.

Preservation and recreation of cultural traditions. The civilizational heritage of Russia, religious and cultural traditions are the basis of people's life, ensure the continuity of generations, serve as a guarantee of the future development of our state with a thousand-year history. It is necessary to realize that the Russian state is not fifteen or even eighty years old, that to this day the huge historical and cultural resource of the thousand-year-old Russian Orthodox civilization has not been claimed. The restoration of national self-identification is possible on the basis of the basic values ​​and vital traditions of Russian culture. Achieve the priority of culture in state policy, since cultural policy in Russia is not a separate industry, singled out according to the guild principle, but the meaning of all political activity in a multinational country. The state policy itself should be cultural. At the same time, the most important feature of the Russian civilization is a single language, information and educational space. It is necessary to move state and public institutions to purposeful activity in recreating Russian spiritual, religious, moral, public, state, and family traditions. Culture should not exist on a residual principle, because cultural achievements are the meaning and justification for the existence of civilization. It is necessary to raise the status of cultural heritage and cultural creativity. The restoration of traditional spirituality and culture returns the people to their national archetypes - it awakens the great talents of the great people and the historical activity inherent in it.

Restoration of national unity. The forcibly dismembered Russian people, with the destruction of the USSR, strives to restore state unity. It is necessary to develop programs for the peaceful and constructive reunification of territories where the majority of the population is Russian. In the name of national unity, it is necessary to consolidate society, overcome the disunity between the authorities and the people, the inculcated ideological enmity, narrow corporate sentiments, block separatist tendencies by cultivating national goals and ideals; to overcome the denationalization of some and the marginalization of other groups of intelligentsia through involvement in national programs, through awareness of the historical destiny of the Russian nation, uniting all the peoples of Russia.

Overcoming the threat of a demographic catastrophe is a spiritual aspect. To overcome the demographic catastrophe, it is not enough to raise the standard of living of the population. In a society that is deprived of basic life values ​​and has lost the meaning of existence, the birth rate and life expectancy are falling. Senselessness and aimlessness deprives the people of the will to live. The will to live is in the faith of ancestors and the memory of generations, in family values ​​and reverence for our elders, in admiration for the miracle of motherhood and childhood. State protection is needed from foreign and homegrown "missionaries" and false teachers who are destroying the spiritual order of life and family life and corrupting youth and children. There is a need for state and public programs of work with youth and parents, raising the social and moral status of the family, motherhood and childhood, supporting families with many children, combating the corruption of children and adolescents as one of the main causes of the demographic decline, establishing the cult of the family and a healthy lifestyle in the public mind . Life is the highest gift. And everything that destroys it - crime, drug addiction, cynical propaganda of violence and perversion, abortion and suicide - must be eradicated in the bud. The fight against social diseases and vices is a spiritual struggle that is not limited to police measures, medical assistance and social prevention. The development of humanitarian forms of combating crime, drug addiction, and suicide is the development of a sense of the value of life, a responsible attitude towards life's purpose, without which police and medical measures are ineffective.

Ecological safety is a spiritual aspect. Raising a thrifty attitude to the national natural heritage as a native habitat; mobilization of public opinion to counter the disastrous tendencies of consumer civilization, the destructive actions of power and economic structures. Every citizen should be focused on preserving his big home - the nature of the country and the planet. To do this, it is important to restore the traditional Russian sense of life, in which nature is not an alienated cold nature intended for consumption, but a living maternal essence.

Formation of the strategic resource of society. It is necessary to push the authorities to mobilize the active part of citizens for the implementation of vital national projects, which creates the possibility of educating a new national elite. A program must be created for the formation of a new generation in Russia - spiritual and dynamic, free and responsible, globally minded and patriotically oriented.

The solution of these problems leads to the formulation of a national idea. A new national ideology based on Russian traditions restores the historical memory and national self-consciousness of the Russian nation-former, forms the national image of Russia and sets the historical mission of Russian civilization; explains to the society where the Russian authorities are leading them; gives meaning to the existence of Russia and the lives of its citizens; is the spiritual basis of national unity; awakens the national will and energy as the main mobilizing resource for fruitful transformations. For without a lofty spiritual ideal, the Russian people are incapable of super-effort in the name of self-salvation and rebirth.

On the basis of the national super-ideal - the development of the ideology of the Russian breakthrough, or the ideology of world leadership. It is necessary to determine the place of Russia in the modern world and our possibilities of survival, which do not boil down to the fact that we must restore something from the lost, or catch up with and overtake someone, or enter the European home, into modern civilization ... Answering historical challenges of the new century (the expansion of the golden billion, globalization, informatization, world terrorism, Muslim, Chinese threats ...), it is necessary to mobilize national energies in the direction of a possible breakthrough and the creation of a civilization of advance, a civilization of global balance. Our spiritual, cultural, intellectual, scientific resources allow us not only to create the latest technologies, but also to form new civilizational attitudes, new paradigms of the world order. The Russian genius is now more than ever in demand by the era. Russia is called upon by the situation of the modern era to become a world power of a new quality, spiritually determining the fate of mankind.

Viktor Aksyuchits, philosopher, member of the Political Council of the party "RODINA"