Eurasianism

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L-I: (Fwd) Re: Geostrategy for Eurasia and Eurasianism Nestor Miguel 
Gorojovsky leninist-international Sun, 28 Feb 1999 09:56:24 +0000 El 28 Feb 
99 a las 0:15, Mark Jones nos dice(n):
> Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote:
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> > Bertil posted a quote from Alexander Rutskoi:
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L-I: Re: Geostrategy for Eurasia and Eurasianism III Mark Jones leninist- 
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From the New Age magazine that prints stuff like this
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Articles.html ,  People's Korea After Fifty 
Years
On 9 September the Democratic People's Republic of Korea celebrated its 
50th anniversary. HUGH STEPHENS, in this exclusive for New Dawn, reports on 
the spectacular celebrations and introduces us to a people forging ahead 
with their own independent path of justice, peace and progress. A rare 
insight into the history and ideology of People's Korea, a bastion of 
defiance in the face of foreign threats and the corporate global (dis) 
order. And this, Stalin: The Untold Story
Who really was Joseph Stalin? Messiah or madman? A controversial 
examination of his achievements and rise to international prominence. 
Explains why many in the former Soviet Union still revere his memory, while 
others constantly demonise his name. Fascinating reading. 
http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~aphamala/pe/issue4/duginism.htm
From Neo-Eurasianism to National Paranoia: Renaissance of Geopolitics
in Russia by Anssi Kullberg, May 2001
> ...Dugin and the Return of Eurasianism
In autumn 2000 the attraction of Vladimir Putin towards Eurasianist 
thinking was shown in his search for ideological basis for the direction of 
rising Russian imperialism from the thoughts of the well-known Russian 
nationalist and dissident, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Now Putin is getting 
much more dangerous schools of Eurasianist thought behind his back. The 
Russian ultra-nationalist and geopolitician Aleksandr Dugin founded on 21st 
April the "Eurasianist Movement", which advocates an empire of all Eurasia, 
dominated by Russia. Dugin is considered as Greater-Russian and passionate 
agitator of crusader mentality against "Islamic threat". Dugin has also 
attacked against the Baltic countries, Poland, Turkey and other frontier 
nations around Russia. He has strong contacts to Western European extreme 
right, among others, to the French Front National and Belgian Vlaams Blok. 
The Synergon network of European extreme right that spreads hatred against 
the United States, Turkey, Israel as well as the moderate Muslims of the 
Balkans and Caucasus, and defends Russian and Serbian policies, openly 
admires Dugin and translates his texts into European languages.

Dugin is not constructing the new applicant ideology for "Russian mission" 
alone. A pro-Moscow Islamic mufti Farid Salman praised Dugin’s movement and 
stated that "Eurasianism represents a suitable answer against the 
supporters of Satanic Wahhabism, who have penetrated Russia". "Wahhabism" 
is a myth created by KGB, and used widely in Soviet and later Russian 
propaganda to brand any Islamic opposition movement. In fact, Wahhabism is 
a puritan Sunnite school, which enjoys the official religious status in 
Saudi Arabia. It is absolutely against the moderate Sufi traditions of 
Islam, represented for example by Chechens and Albanians.

The fanatic anti-American Dugin expectedly admires Putin, and demands 
"total support" for the leader of Russia, the empire designed to dominate 
Eurasia. Dugin’s movement has been completed with loyalist nomenclature 
representatives of various faiths, including the foreign affairs secretary 
of the Patriarchate, Vsevolod Chaplin, an Islamic mufti Talgut Tadzhuddin, 
a Jewish rabbi Avram Shmulevich, and a Buddhist leader Did-Khabalam. 
Following the Soviet tradition, loyalist religious leaders usually share 
background in the KGB. The goals of the Eurasianist movement are to rise 
Russia into Eurasian hegemony and to unite the different religions of 
Eurasia against the "great Satan", the United States. The Western European 
Synergon network, which unites anti-American rightist powers, supports the 
Eurasianists. The Synergon’s leader Robert Steuckers recently gave an 
interview in support for Dugin in a Georgian newspaper "Free Eurasia".

Eurasianism, influencing in Russia in the czarist times already, always 
carried nationalist character, and had as its cornerstones fanatic hatred 
against the West, originally especially the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and 
emphasis on Greater Russian imperialism. Originally, the Eurasianists 
demanded Russia’s complete divorce from the "corrupted" Europe, and 
redirecting herself towards Eurasia. The great names of Eurasianism 
included Count Nikolai Trubetskoi (1890-1938) who was active in the 1920s. 
His followers were the economic geographicist Pyotr Savitsky (1895-1965), 
the jurist and philologist Nikolai Alekseyev (1879-1964), the religious 
philosopher, cultural historian and medievalist Lev Karsavin (1882-1952) 
and the well-known historian Georgy Vernadsky (1887-1973). During the Cold 
War, in the 1960s, the leading star of Eurasianism was the historian Lev 
Gumilyov, who supported Greater Russian imperialism, gained strange 
influences from fascism, and created singular epoch theories of the rise, 
expansion and fall of great nations.

In the Soviet times, Eurasianism was especially popular among KGB, the Red 
Army, and Alpha troops. Dugin is himself son of a KGB officer, besides 
being an historian. In the 1980s he appeared as a fanatic anti-Semitist who 
demanded the expelling of all Jews from Russia. In the 1990s he, together 
with Eduard Limonov and their network, translated and spread the texts of 
German and Italian fascists in Russia. At the same time, they spread their 
own texts and Russian geopolitics to the West through the networks of the 
"new right", including Synergon. Nowadays, Dugin acts as an advisor to the 
communist leader Gennady Seleznyov and is spreading propaganda against 
Turkey and Caucasian nations.

According to Dugin, it is the duty of Russia to destroy the West. He thinks 
that the "ocean powers" Great Britain and U.S. represent "evil" in the 
universe. For Russian geopoliticians it has always been characteristics to 
adopt the ideas of Western geopoliticians, but to mirror them into 
opposite. This has also been Dugin’s method. He has adopted the classical 
geopolitical theories of Mackinder, Mahan, Ratzel, Haushofer and even the 
Nazi geopolitician Carl Schmidt.

According to Dugin and his European supporters, Eurasia must be organised 
in Russian leadership into a continental geopolitical power, which shall 
reach hegemony and global dominance, and thereby overcome the Anglo-Saxon 
"evil". Russia can gain "military, ideological and geoeconomical hegemony", 
"geopolitical dominance", which is directed against the United States, by 
subjecting all Eurasia under Moscow’s power. This must happen "in union 
with Europe". To achieve these goals, "Russia must take control over all 
strategic transport routes from East to West and from North to South". 
According to Victor Yasmann, Putin has stated identical ideas.

Eurasianism has been transformed, for example in its relationship to 
religious questions (first fanatically Christian, then atheist, then 
presenting itself as multi-confessional), ideological questions (first 
czarist, then communist, now Russian nationalist), and its relationship to 
Europe (first fanatically anti-European, while now seeking European-Russian 
alliance against America). However, it has maintained certain 
characteristiques all the way: 1) Imperialism and expansionism. 2) Seeing 
Russia in the leading role. 3) Unconditional antagonism and conflict in 
regard to the "West", which is seen as the absolute enemy. 4) Tendency to 
Messianic thinking. According to Dugin, "in the conflict between Eurasia 
and the West there is no peaceful solution – it can only end in the victory 
of one and destruction of the other".

According to Dugin’s own words, his goal is not to rise into leadership in 
the empire, but only to aim at "ideological power" – making his own 
Eurasianist visions the state ideology of the Kremlin. Putin has adopted 
frighteningly positive attitude at Dugin’s ideas, and Dugin’s network has 
reached a lot of popularity also elsewhere among the nomenclatura of former 
Soviet Union. An example has been the Kazakh president Nursultan 
Nazarbayev, who has openly praised Eurasianism. In the new capital of 
Kazakhstan, Astana (former Aqmola), the "Eurasian University" has been 
named after Lev Gumilyov, and when Putin recently visited Kazakhstan, the 
walls of the university were decorated with Dugin’s slogans.

In December 2000, the Kazakhstani ambassador in Moscow, Tair Mansurov, 
wrote in Moscow News about Nazarbayev’s intentions to advocate "multipolar 
world" – that is, world order where Russia and China would rise to 
challenge the U.S. supremacy as rival superpowers. Like traditionally, 
Eurasianism again mirrors the West: Nazarbayev’s initiatives include for 
example "Eurasian Union" and "Eurasian Economic Community", founded in 
Astana in October 2000. The OSCE process is in turn imitated by creation of 
an "Asian Conference of Co-operation, Friendship and Mutual Aid".
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http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6535-3.cfm
RUSSIAN NATIONALISM
3. EURASIANISM: DUGIN'S NEW PROGRAM
SOURCE. Programma i ustav politicheskoi partii "Evraziia" [Program and 
Statutes of the Political Party "Eurasia"] (Moscow: "Arktogeia-Tsentr," 
2002).
http://www.cdi.org/russia/215-14.cfm
#14
The Russia Journal
July 12-18, 2002
The rebirth of Eurasianism
By GORDON M. HAHN

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Michael Pugliese