The Origins of Kremlin Ersatz-Fascism

New Right Network ^ | June 28, 2019 | Gary Gindler

[WWII_Historian]

Back in 2005, Russian President Vladimir Putin ensured that the remains of the Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin were transported from Switzerland and reburied in Russia, on the territory of the prestigious Donskoi Monastery cemetery in Moscow. The gravestone was installed with Putin’s personal money. A year later, the philosopher’s archive was purchased from the University of Michigan for 40 thousand dollars and relocated to Russia. Since the beginning of the 21st century, Putin has constantly been using Ilyin’s philosophical ideas in his speeches.

But why is Putin paying so much attention to this philosopher who is otherwise unknown to the West?

Ivan Ilyin was a professor at Moscow University, who was arrested by the Bolsheviks (Russian Communists) six times and eventually sentenced to death in 1922 for anti-Communist activities but was instead expelled from Russia. Ilyin settled in Germany, and in 1923, together with other intellectuals expelled from Russia, founded the Russian Scientific Institute. It was there that he became the ideologue of the “White Knight’s Movement” (or simply White Movement) of Russian monarchists; the philosophical foundation on which Putin’s worldview rests. (The political coloring scheme was pretty much traditional back then – “red” for Communists and “white” for Monarchists.)

There is nothing reprehensible in this, except for one thing – Ilyin considered Fascism and National Socialism as special cases of the monarchist White Movement. But, no, Ilyin never was a fierce supporter of Italian Fascism or German National Socialism – all his life he had been a preacher of Russian Orthodox Christian Fascism only.

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That was an amazing read. That’s for sharing it here.

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“Note that Rachmaninoff earlier, in 1923, saved another compatriot living in exile, Igor Sikorsky, by writing him a check for $5,000 (75,000 dollars today). That is how Sikorsky’s successful aircraft manufacturing company began in America.”

Great read. Hi thanks!

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“Putin follows a direct order from Ilyin that political parties in post-Soviet Russia should not act as an independent political force; they should simply exist to ritualize the elections.”

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” that political parties in post-Soviet Russia should not act as an independent political force; they should simply exist to ritualize the elections.””

Thank goodness our political parties are true and honest political entities only wishing to communicate the will of the people to our leaders. /s

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Okay. The guy is always into some sort of conspiracy cult gearing towards world domination. First Dugin, now White Knights... ROLFMAO. I am not sure if Putin even know who Dugin is.

There are a lot of interesting things in the article but it is still trying to form a wrong opinion.

I think I agree that Putin’s ideas are dated now and he is about a decade past expiry date but one reason he still in power is that people electing trust him more than anything CIA has to offer.