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N.M. Iversen's avatar

The problems and the solutions are the correct ones. Without a return to Christian life and Christian virtues, nothing can be saved.

These issues and solutions are not unique to Russia. There is no white Christian country that is not presently going extinct.

May I suggest two, admittedly minor, additional solutions?

1. Make it attractive for Russians in the Baltic countries to return.

2. Continue to make it less difficult for young Western families who want to live a traditional life to move to Russia. The parents may not ever become Russian, but their children and grandchildren will.

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Archist's avatar

All of these are great ideas for every country. The damaging effects of large, depersonalized cities cannot be overemphasized. I hope you are able to restore your country to Christ just as I hope for the same thing in the west. With great men like Konstantin Malofeev and yourself you will be able to do it.

By the way, Czargrad Institute is a cool name.

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Galina Lewan's avatar

Return to Domostroj? Women obey their husbands, clean, cook and bear children. And go to church to listen to a male priest who claims to know the absolute truth, kiss his hand and address him as „father”?

I hope that Dr. Dugin’s vision cannot be implemented in a country that 100 years ago gave its women equal rights, no fault divorce, a law against marital rape, and a right to abortion.

Religious texts were written by males in the societies where women were ruled by men. There is no way back.

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Joe Morales's avatar

Please stay in the west, I for one, a Cuban American MALE, am immigrating to Russia.

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Galina Lewan's avatar

If you’re in the West, stay in the West, so that you don’t get disappointed. There more educated women in Russia as a percentage of population, including scientists and engineers, than in the West.

Unless Orthodox Christianity reforms itself, only a very small percentage of women would agree to be ruled by it.

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Georgos hafez's avatar

There is nothing that can be said to express the importance of this text.

Professor, with these words, you were the doctor who solved the problem.

Professor, you didn't just present the problem, you presented the solution.

These ideas are more than unique, ideas that touch the depth of feeling.

A word of thanks is not enough.

My love and respect for everything you publish and write.

I am constantly learning from you.

I am unable to express how I feel.

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Cynthia Lucas's avatar

UN Agenda is the plan and now it is 2030 . Lower the population make difficult to have children move them into the cities without yards gardens etc .Who will to be able to raise a family.In America the planners are pushing the new urbanism we are rejecting it in my county in Florida.Now the smart cities will be 15 minute cities to control the people who will live in the prison! All in the name of Global warming.

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Haman's avatar

I certainly completely agree with anti high rise cities attitudes. But forcing people on orthodoxy will lead to its opposite! You must concider rural life in harmoney with nature has in its core some non christian religion... religion of nature and humanity. Nature will guide us as a natural order of things.

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Eric Engle's avatar

You already chose.

Your entire nation is committing suicide.

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Steve Hindmarch's avatar

A most interesting alternative viewpoint. One question though, many Russians are Muslims and do not follow Christ, what about them?

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Archist's avatar

Oh well. How did the empire treat them before communism? It doesn't seem it like it was a problem then and those Muslims still lived in Russia back then as well.

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Steve Hindmarch's avatar

The point I was making was that in his article, no mention was made of the diversity of Russian religious beliefs. These are not new arrivals, but the indigenous people’s of different parts of Russia.

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Archist's avatar

Right but they existed before in Russia and that didn't stop them from being an Orthodox regime.

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Steve Hindmarch's avatar

But Dugin left no room for non orthodox people in his argument. If he doesn’t want non Christian’s in Russia, then let those regions go their separate way. Or accept pluralism of religious beliefs. It’s quite simple really.

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Archist's avatar

The Russian Empire left "no space" as well for non-Christians as well. And yet... they remained, and many of them became Christian.

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Steve Hindmarch's avatar

That was the Russian empire. All empires are bad. I should know I’m British. Russia is no longer an empirical entity with imperialist aspirations, I certainly hope not. We haven’t gotten rid of the US empire yet!

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