Dugin: Secrets behind the Kremlin Ideologue
Part 1: Blood sacrifices on the altar of Greatness
Russian thinker Alexander Dugin’s cold corpse would be the most potent sacrifice aimed at halting the progress of Russia’s “Greatness” after February 24, 2022. His idea of Greatness had grown into a cancerous tumor in the minds of a few dozen Russian thinkers, raconteurs, and politicians. It later infected his weary, desperate fellow citizens. The ecstasy of revenge on a mystical enemy, the perfume of a Bright Future, the predatory scent of fresh blood. False Messianism. False Godhood. Great Demonic Pride.
The insatiable demon of Greatness has consumed hundreds of thousands of human lives during the reign of the Russian Tsar Putin. He has ruled, unchallenged, for almost a quarter of a century. Now the stakes have increased enormously. “We will kill everyone! We do not need a world that does not include our victory! That’s just the kind of Allah-Akbar the whole nation has!” — shouted the demoted priest and actor Ivan Okhlobystin in a drunken delirium, extolling the war in Ukraine. He is not the only one.
Whether Dugin is Putin’s “brain” or his “brain tumor” has been debated often enough by the press. There is no direct evidence that Mr. Dugin is the court mastermind whose heavy-handed ideological musings have been swallowed by Putin without so much as a burp. But, as is evident in his writings, he laments the fact that Putin might miss the chance to etch his name in history as the Savior of the Motherland. For many years, Dugin has flatteringly proclaimed that Putin could become the one and only architect of a new Eurasian Empire. He even wrote a book on the topic entitled “Putin against Putin”.
Whereas Putin, the bland gray official yearning for the luxury of palaces and yachts, developed a taste for absolute power without a clear model for Russian society, Dugin travelled a different path: he had ambitions of being the greatest philosopher to spread the idea of the Great (The Greatest) Empire.
Dugin confesses that the arrival of a “man of destiny” was a mystic vision granted to him long before Putin appeared. The philosopher’s «personal psalter» for “sunny Putin” included a musical composition about “The Ruskiy Mir” (Russian Peace) — wherein an imperial eschatological will takes over the entirety stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Two political galaxies have collided and merged in a new dance of totalitarianism. Putin’s lips murmur quotes from Dugin’s writings, especially since the beginning of the “special operation” in Ukraine. In answer to the question of whether the Russian tsar reads Dugin, the philosopher would say: “I think he and I read the same writings, written in golden letters on the sky of Russian history”. To direct questions as to whether he meets with Putin he replies: “I never answer this question”. So let the mystery be.
In the next segment I will zoom in on Dugin’s personality, his views and concepts, and point out the similarities between the post-modern Rasputin’s theories and the geopolitical principles that Hitler once favored.
Despite arguments in some quarters that Dugin’s ideas are simply alternatives to WESTERN VALUES and that he opposes and challenges LIBERALISM, we will take a slightly different perspective on his ideas and personality. Again, his ideas could simply have been a nice postscript to academic texts or the pseudo-geopolitical scene if not for the war in Ukraine.
Or wait… it all started much earlier in Russian history.
To be continued…
