“The loneliness of a half-breed”: Putin’s assistant made a forecast for the future of Russia

Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov noted that Russia was trying to become both East and West, but "neither there nor there did not take root." Therefore, in his opinion, the ideologies of the third way will now be in demand. Surkov describes the history of Russia as constant attempts to join either Western or Eastern civilization, however, having common features with each of these cultural models, Russia still has too many differences from them.

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On this 9 of April, the assistant to the president of Russia wrote in his column “The Loneliness of the Half-Blood” for publication “Russia in Global Affairs».

Here is the full text of the column Surkov.

Russia for four centuries went to the East and another four centuries to the West. Neither there nor there is not rooted. Both roads passed. Now ideologies of the third way, the third type of civilization, the third world, the third Rome will be in demand ...

There are different types of work. You can only take on something else in a state that is somewhat different from normal. Thus, a proletarian of the information industry, an ordinary news provider, is, as a rule, a person with a disheveled brain, as if in a fever. It’s not surprising, because the news business requires a rush: to find out faster than everyone, to report faster than everyone, to interpret before everyone else.

Excitement informing is transmitted informed. Excited, their own excitement often seems to be thought process and replaces it. Hence, the expulsion of durable goods like “beliefs” and “principles” from disposable “opinions” from everyday life. Hence, the complete failure of forecasts, however, is not embarrassing to anyone. This is the fee for the speed and freshness of the news.

Few people can hear the mocking silence of fate that is drowned out by background media noise. Few people are interested that there are also slow, massive news coming not from the surface of life, but from its depth. From where the geopolitical structures and historical eras move and collide. Belatedly reach us their meanings. But it's never too late to get to know them.

The 14 year of our century is remembered for important and very important achievements, about which everyone knows and everything says. But the most important of the events of that time is only now being revealed to us, and the slow, deep news about it now only reaches our ears. This event is the completion of the epic journey of Russia to the West, the cessation of repeated and fruitless attempts to become part of Western civilization, to intermarry with the "good family" of European nations.

From 14 year and beyond extends indefinitely a long new time, the era of 14 +, in which we have one hundred (two hundred? Three hundred?) Years of geopolitical loneliness.

Westernization, frivolously started by the False Dmitry and resolutely continued by Peter the Great, has been tried in four years. Russia has done nothing to become Holland, France, America, Portugal. Whatever side I tried to squeeze into the West. Our elite perceived all the ideas that came from there and the shakes that occurred there with great enthusiasm, and partly, perhaps, superfluous.

The autocrats diligently married German women, and the imperial nobility and bureaucracy were actively replenished by "vagabond foreigners." But the Europeans in Russia quickly and in all their ways, and the Russians were still not Europeanized.

The Russian army victoriously and sacrificially fought in all the major wars of Europe, which, by experience, can be considered the most prone to mass violence and the most bloodthirsty of all the continents. Great victories and great sacrifices brought many western territories to the country, but not friends.

For the sake of European values ​​(at that time religious-monarchical), St. Petersburg was the initiator and guarantor of the Holy Union of the three monarchies. And conscientiously fulfilled the Allied duty when it was necessary to save the Habsburgs from the Hungarian uprising. When Russia itself was in a difficult situation, the rescued Austria not only did not help, but also turned against it.

Then the euro values ​​changed to the opposite, in Paris and Berlin, Marx came into fashion. Some residents of Simbirsk and Yanovka wanted it to be like in Paris. They were so afraid of falling behind the West, who was obsessed with socialism at that time. So feared that the world revolution, supposedly led by European and American workers, would bypass their “backwaters”. They tried. When the storms of class struggle, created by the incredibly hard labor of the USSR, subsided, the world revolution did not happen, the Western world became not the workers and peasants, but on the contrary, the capitalist world. And what will have to carefully conceal the growing symptoms of autistic socialism behind the Iron Curtain.

At the end of the last century, the country was bored with being “individually taken”; it again asked for the West. At the same time, apparently, it seemed to someone that size does matter: we don’t fit into Europe, because they are too big, frighteningly sweeping. So, it is necessary to reduce the territory, population, economy, army, ambition to the parameters of some Central European country, and even then we will definitely be accepted for our own. Reduced. They believed in Hayek as fiercely as it used to be in Marx. Halved the demographic, industrial, military potentials. They parted with the Soviet republics, they began to part with autonomous ones ... But even such a diminished and degraded Russia did not fit into the turn to the West.

Finally, it was decided to derogate and diminish, and, moreover, to declare rights. What happened in 14 was made inevitable.

With the external similarity of Russian and European cultural models, they have dissimilar software and unequal connectors. Compose a common system they are not given. Today, when this ancient suspicion turned into an obvious fact, the suggestions were sounded, and not whether we should dash away to the East, in the other direction, to Asia.

Not necessary. And here's why: because Russia was already there.

The Moscow proto-empire was created in a complex military-political co-working with the Asian Horde, which some tend to call a yoke, others a union. Igo, whether the union, voluntarily or involuntarily, but the eastern vector of development was chosen and tested.

Even after standing on the Ugra, the Russian kingdom continued to be essentially a part of Asia. Willingly joined the eastern lands. Claimed the legacy of Byzantium, this Asian Rome. It was under the enormous influence of noble families of Horde origin.

The pinnacle of Asiatic Moscow was the appointment of Kasimov's khan Simeon Bekbulatovich as sovereign of all Russia. Historians, accustomed to believing Ivan the Terrible to be someone like an oberut in a Monomakh hat, attribute this “trick” solely to his natural playfulness. The reality was more serious. After Grozny, there was a solid court party, promoting Simeon Bekbulatovich already on quite a real kingdom. Boris Godunov had to demand that when he swore, the boyars promised "not to want Tsar Simeon Bekbulatovich and his children to the kingdom." That is, the state turned out to be half a step away from the transition under the rule of the dynasty of the baptized Chingizids and the consolidation of the “eastern” development paradigm.

However, neither Bekbulatovich nor the descendants of the Horde Murza Godunov had a future. The Polish-Cossack invasion began, bringing new kings to Moscow from the West. With all the fleetingness of the Lzdmitry rituals, long before Peter, who upset the boyars with European manners, and the Polish prince Wladyslaw, they are very symbolic. The distemper in their light is not so much a dynastic as a civilizational crisis -
Russia broke off from Asia and began a movement towards Europe.

So, Russia for four centuries went to the East and another four centuries to the West. Neither there nor there is not rooted. Both roads passed. Now ideologies of the third way, the third type of civilization, the third world, the third Rome will be in demand ...

And still, we are hardly the third civilization. Rather, double and dual. Combined both East and West. Both European and Asian at the same time, and therefore not completely Asian or European.

Our cultural and geopolitical identity is reminiscent of a wandering identity of a person born in a mixed marriage. He is a relative everywhere and not native anywhere. Its among strangers, a stranger among its own. All understanding, no one understood. Half-breed, half-breed, weird kind of.

Russia is a west-eastern half-breed country. With its two-headed statehood, hybrid mentality, intercontinental territory, bipolar history, as a half-breed, it is charismatic, talented, beautiful and lonely.

Wonderful words never said by Alexander the Third, “Russia has only two ally, the army and the navy” is the most intelligible metaphor of geopolitical loneliness, which it is time to accept as fate. The list of allies can, of course, be expanded to the taste: workers and teachers, oil and gas, the creative class and patriotic bots, General Moroz and the Archangel Michael ... The meaning will not change: we are allies ourselves.

What will be the loneliness ahead of us? Stagnating a bobble on the outskirts? Or a happy loneliness of a leader, who lost the alpha-nation, in front of which "other peoples and states" stand up and give her a way? " It depends on us.

Loneliness does not mean complete isolation. Unlimited openness is also impossible. Both would be a repetition of the mistakes of the past. And the future has its own mistakes, it has nothing to do with the mistakes of the past.

Russia, no doubt, will trade, attract investment, share knowledge, fight (war is also a way to communicate), participate in collaborations, be in organizations, compete and cooperate, cause fear and hatred, curiosity, sympathy, admiration. Only without false goals and self-denial.

It will be difficult, more than once the classic of Russian poetry will be recalled: “There are only thorns, thorns, thorns ... b *** s, when there are stars already ?!”

It will be interesting. And the stars will be.

Most Russians who read the blog agreed with Surkov, writes Rifan.

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