I could be wrong about this but the American establishment, particularly the media and politicians, try to create these heroes of democracy from other countries, and then sell to them to the American public. One time, Americans I met on my travels, upon hearing I am from the Czech Republic, would always start talking about Václav Havel. It happened to me multiple times. The Americans could not pronounce Havel’s name properly, and called him Vaklav.
This country has a large population of people, who don’t have a good opinion of Havel, and the people are often former dissidents. I personally believe Havel was a puppet of the secret services. Controlled opposition. One of the brothers Mašín said Havel was a “cretin pimped by the STB.” So these American’s were surprised I don’t fawn over Havel. Maybe these Muricans read a report in time like the one below.
Putin does not fear Navalny. Navalny has limited legitimacy even among the pro-Western crowd, many of whom are glad he is in jail. But Navalny is a petty criminal, who became a millionaire by creaming the system. It is said he grafted money from SPS, that was a party back then, not very successful. I guess you can’t do a campaign when you steal all the money and spend it on designer shit for your daughter and holidays in the Maldives.
Navalny got burned by fucking with YvesRocher. His faked poisoning was created to give him a chance to escape justice. Navalny is a crook, that’s all he is. Russians may be glad they are at loggerheads with America, so they wouldn’t be meeting many American telling them about Alexey Navalny. The Time is trash, close it.
For a while I have practiced this intellectual exercise, whenever I see an inane Russophobic comment I do a rereading of the comment by inserting the place of Russia, and Russians, Israel and Jews. So for instance, recent comment by Anthony Blinken:
“I think one lesson in recent history is that once Russians are in your house, it’s sometimes very difficult to get them to leave,”
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“I think one lesson in recent history is that once Jews are in your house, it’s sometimes very difficult to get them to leave,”
Does the second statement sound ignorant and hateful? That’s because Blinken’s statement was ignorant and hateful.
In another instance, I see Russophobic comments saying that Russia is surrounded by countries that hate it. This is somehow meant to show Russia to be hostile and criminal. But Russia was always surrounded by hostile enemies. Expansionist Westerners and opportunistic nomads in the East. Israel is also surrounded by countries that hate it, and East Europeans that live in Russophobic countries are the Arabs. How about some missile strike, wretches?
The Arabs are actually smarter than the East Europeans, at least the Jordanians, and the Egyptians are cool with Israel, and slowly but surely, East Europeans will hopefully be cool with Russia.
This is a story about my compatriot Jaroslav Dobeš, aka Guru Jára and Óm Nadsamec (Ohm Ubermale; I have not found this title on sites favourable to Guru Jára)…
Guru as a young lad
Guru Jára (pronounced: Yara) was born in 1971 in Příbram. When he reached 18, he emigrated to Italy for a short time, and there in 1991 in a hermitage in Acro, he achieved nirvana. After the Communist regime fell, Guru Jára returned back to Czechoslovakia in 1992 to take care of his ill mother. In 1995, he spent a night in the Pyramid of Menkaure and there he achieved Egyptian enlightenment. By 1996, Guru Jára was already recognised as a spiritual teacher. By 2005 he had 3500 followers. He teaches a “Way of Guru Jára” and draws on Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity, and other teachings. Guru Jára is actually an extraordinary man, and an author of more than 20 books. He is a true modern spiritual leader, and an enlightened man.
The most controversial practice of Guru Jára was so called “unhinging”, (oháčkování in Czech, literally unhooking but I went with unhinging because Hinge is a dating app) which amounted to tantric sex with his female followers. Guru Jára claimed the women are unhappy because of their past relationships, and to undo these problems they have to be unhinged through tantric sex with the master. It sounds bad but tantric sex is a legitimate practice and there does not seem to be an element of coercion in this. There is an element of manipulation through ritual trance but if we are to prosecute every man for manipulating women into sex, then there wouldn’t be any men left. Guru Jára may have had tantric sex with hundreds maybe thousands of women.
Guru Jára has a sidekick, Barbory Plášková aka. Šrí Barbora Durga, she is with him in the Philippines.
Guru Jára says they were doing this freely in the nineties, and reports have it that the Czech police became interested in Guru Jára only in 2007. Guru Jára and his followers were enjoying tantric sex rituals in relative freedom for almost two decades but with the new millennium, prudish Western feminism has made inroads into the minds of young women in the Bohemian Lands, and some of his followers reported him for rape. Guru Jára did not realise that you cannot make a Czech woman happy, that is an impossible task.
In the detention center in Manila, the Guru met a Japanese woman named Yoko, who is 13 years his junior, and married her.
But he realised he ain’t gonna get any justice in this country, and set up his shop in the Philippines. He was tried for his alleged crimes in absentia and sentenced to 5.5 years in prison. The last reports I can find say he is in a detention center in Manila, and the Filipino authorities are deciding whether to extradite him to the Czech Republic. Please Filipinos do not send this innocent man to this spiritual desert. There are demonstrations happening in Prague, which are attended by mostly women, and they say they want to be unhinged by the master. Please let Guru Jára set up a practice in the Philippines, so that Czech women could go there and get unhinged. If we cannot have religious freedom in this country, maybe we can have one in the Philippines. The witch hunt against Guru Jára is a persecution of an innocent man. Guru Jára did nothing wrong.
Hysteria is going around the Western media about an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine. I personally think that this is more the wish of Washington that Russia invades Ukraine rather than Russia. Russia actually does not want war with Ukraine and would much rather solve the Ukrainian question peacefully. I think that should there be war, it will be confined to Donbas, and the war will only start when the Ukrainian army steps up its military campaign against the Donbas.
Ukraine is in the midst of a serious economic, and political crisis, and it would be counterintuitive for Russia to invade and become the centrepiece of the Ukrainian drama. In fact, I would say the Russians never wanna involve themselves in a war against Ukrainians. Because Ukrainians are their kin. Just look how many people are around Putin with Ukrainian surnames. Kirienko, Kozak… Russians view the Ukrainians as crazy relatives that need to be slapped if they get militant.
I still remember what a certain Svidomite troll on my old blog, Austere Insomniac, said of the church of Dmitry Sydor. Dmitry Sydor was an Orthodox priest, and a Carpatho-Rusyn activist, and his church was struck by lightning which toppled the cross upon the dome of the church. He interpreted it as a sign of God’s displeasure…
Dmitry Sydor was then persecuted for separatism, that was still under the presumably pro-Russian Yanukovych, and allegations were made against him that he received money from the Russian World Fund. Meanwhile though, Western funds, Soros and others were operating freely and several years later, the people on Western payroll ousted Yanukovych. This is to remind anyone who thinks that Russia should have engaged in buying influence in Ukraine the way West did. Russia did not have an even playing field in Ukraine. Besides, going against the collective West in the game of buying influence was a losing proposition from the beginning.
The gods hate Bandera too, not just Poles, Russians, and Belarusians, and just about anyone in Ukraine and around it. Even more ominous image has been generated on the other side of the country, in Kharkov.
The wind has split in two the national flag of Ukraine. Funny that the Ukrainian flag is associated with the homeland of Bandera and contains in it the colours from the coat of arms of Lvov, that is a golden lion on an azure field. A variant of this flag was given to the people of Halychyna by Empress Sophie as a thank you for help in suppressing the Hungarian revolt. Emperor Franz Joseph called them Tyrolleans of the East.
The Tyrolleans were the epitome of loyalty in Austria because they stood loyal to the Habsburgs when Napoleon invaded. The Ukrainian flag was introduced to Russian Ukraine by Sichovi Striltsy, a group formed of Ukrainian nationalists that was originally part of the Austrian army.
Let me continue the topic [see here] of Ukrainians not existing before the Great War. I have recently uploaded a short video featuring an unknown, West Ukrainian, elderly gentleman, which I titled in Russian There weren’t any Ukrainian under the Kaiser (the Austrian Emperor). Let’s check out the contents, here is a transcript.
The interviewer:
Tell us, during the Austrian rule, did your parents consider themselves to be Ukrainians?
The interviewee:
We Ukrainians did not exist back then during the Austrian rule. Back then, the official nomenclature was “Ruthenians”, and otherwise the name was “Rusyns”. And we all called each other “Rusyns”. And only after 1918, when Austria broke up, we began calling ourselves Ukrainians. Until then it was considered that we were all Rusyns.
Bathory under Pskov. Antonio Possevino in black.
Rusyny or Rusyns, as I anglicise it, is a term that means a man of Rus’, a Russian. Before suffering a rebranding in the twentieth century, the ancestors of the Ukrainians were known as Rusyns in what is now Western Ukraine, and as Malorossy (Little Russians) in Ukraine proper. To my knowledge, the first person that suggested there is a separate ethnic identity called Ukrainians was, to my knowledge, the historian, Nikolay (Ukrainian: Mykola) Kostomarov, who wrote the essay Две русския народности (two Russian ethnicities). The term was used in the early modern period to denote the Polish gentry (I may be descended of those according to a family legend) and Cossacks in Central Dnieper area. A video on my channel by Mikhail Onufrienko says that the Poles began referring to the entire area of South-Western Rus’ as “Ukraine” (borderland) at the suggestion of Papal Legate, Antonio Possevino, to divide the lands of Rus’. However, this was not accepted by the people.
The Readers should know that in the nineteenth century, the area known as Ukraine was much more limited and there did not exist an ethnicity called Ukrainians. Also, when Taras Shevchenko mentions Ukraine in his poems, it is the Ukraine you see above that he mentions.
The most important point to take away from this is that Ukraine is an ahistorical entity. Ukraine’s statehood begins in the time of the Great War, 1917 more precisely, when the first entity named Ukraine was formed, following the February Revolution. Ukraine’s legitimacy is based on a peasant vernacular codified into the Ukrainian language, a mixture of Polish and Old Russian, and perhaps some historical geography, where the Ukrainian nation is said to live in the territories that belonged to Poland before the division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the late eighteenth century + areas settled by the Russian Empire in nineteenth century along the Black Sea coast with populations originating from these formerly Polish territories. The detail one needs to remember is that the peasant vernacular was never the language of the cities. Cities in the East and South of Ukraine were established by the Russian tsars and were consequently Russian speaking, and cities in the West of Ukraine were Polish speaking. Lvov was a Polish city until World War II.
The latter is where the stereotype of Ukrainian being a language of country bumpkins comes from. The Svidomite Ukrainians find this offensive, and another thing they find offensive is their old ethnonym “Maloross”, Little or Lesser Russian. They show their rural ignorance here as well because Maloross was an ecclesiastical designation. In the Greek understanding, Little referred to Greece Proper and Greater to the colonies. In Poland, the Greater Poland meant the center, and Lesser Poland meant the province. The only reason why the Ukrainian nationalists chose the name Ukraine for the new nation they sought to create is that it lacks any connection to Russia. However once they severed the connection to Russia, they need a new narrative to explain their existence. Let’s see how they cope?
As a trained historian, I would suggest to them to explore the linguistic origins of the Ukrainian language, and tie its origins to the history of occupation of Western Russia by foreigners. Then continue with a discussion of the Ukrainian movement in the nineteenth and twentieth century, what motivated it, what were the ideas surrounding it? The ethnogenesis of Ukrainians is hiding in these processes. But that is not what the Svidomites are doing. Instead they lie to children:
Rus-Ukraine the first Ukrainian state
They lie to children about the Old Rus’ being the first Ukrainian state, and they included Staraya Ladoga and Novgorod in it. What they do not realise that the Old Rus’ has its origins in the north, around Staraya Ladoga, and it was began by Swedish Vikings called Varangians in the east. The Primary Chronicle of Nestor tells us that these Vikings were invited by the Slavic tribes in the south, therefore Rus’ originated in the north and came to the territory of contemporary Ukraine from the north, not the other way around. The christianiser of Rus’, St. Vladimir, spent youth in Norway, and then came to Kiev from Novgorod. The Svidomite mythologisers create a fictitious called Rus’-Ukraine. Old Rus’ was really one of the first state formations on the territory of Ukraine (although that was only the Central and Western Ukraine of today, the Black Sea coast was controlled by Kipchak nomads) but it was not a Ukrainian state. Was it a Russian state? Yes, and the Russian Federation is its direct descendant, while the Ukraine is a mutinous province without historical statehood to derive its origins from.
Recently Alexey Arestovych suggested Ukraine rename itself into Rus-Ukraine, or Ukraina-Rus. To which Volodymyr Vyatrovych replied that putting Rus with Ukraine would just come out to foreigners as Ukraine and Russia. That is because Rus is Russia, and Ukraine is part of Russia. The debate on whether Ukraine is Russia or not are still raging today.
To illustrate how much the Ukrainian officialdom is in the grips of myths and lies about history, check out this initiative by the Lvov and Kiev city councils. Not so long ago, they decided to rename the Russian Federation into Moscovia, believing that Peter the Great renamed Moscovia into Russian Empire in 1721. What actually happened in 1721 is that Peter the Great assumed the title of All-Russian Emperor, and thus the Russian Empire was born. Previously, Russia’s rulers held the title Tsar of All Russia, and before that Grand Duke of All Russia.
Moscovia, from which comes the English word, Muscovy, was a designation employed particularly in Poland and Lithuania that ruled over part of Russia, and laid claim to the entirety of Russia. The Kiev and Lvov representatives must think that if Ukraine was unfortunately named by the Poles, then Greater Russia, or what is now the Russian Federation must suffer the same kind of rebranding.
To wrap up, every Ukrainian is at the same time a Russian because his ancestors were Russians. Ukrainians are defined purely on their language, which is a local patois of Old Russian and Polish. Maybe this is why the government there is so hostile against the Russian language.
Finally it is here. While this may have been a palace coup but the British have evidently lost influence with the sidelining of Nazarbayev’s people. Nazarbayev was climbing the anal heights of the British and even implemented British law. I think that it would be only good if the Kazakh elites are no longer linked to London. Hello freedom!
PS: Tom Tugendhat fascinates me because his family is from my neck of the woods. Below is Vila Tugendhat in Brno. His family fled in 1938 to Britain because of their Jewish origins.
Just a little thought. Western analysts are often repeating that Putin is afraid of the democracy in Ukraine. However, we do not see an effort on the part of Russia to have a regime change in Ukraine. Yanukovych got removed in a coup in 2014 because Russia failed to give him the adequate help. The security forces were paralysed. In fact, maybe this is the cleaver part of the game. Ukraine’s democracy is something really comical and self destructive. It is actually not a democracy but an oligarchy, something Russia had progressed from. It makes democracy look bad in the eyes of anyone sensible, which cannot be said about the Western commentariat.
Insomniac Resurrected 