Part one of the interview of a hero of the LDNR: https://tinyurl.com/Khodakovskii
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Part one of the interview of a hero of the LDNR: https://tinyurl.com/Khodakovskii
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An impressive person. Smart and well educated. You can see why he is a successful commander.
The best explanation of all things that happened before and since color revolution. And not once he resorted to blaming western culture and NATO. Very erudite and well mannered. Freedom means self restraint – a phrase to remember.
Western culture?
Haven’t witnessed much in the way of culture here unless you include stupidity for the majority/masses, cynicism from the politico/msm or greed from financiers and industrialists, not forgetting our LGBTQ+ brigade of moral righteousness.
You are correct, it should be “western culture”, not simply western culture. The point I wanted to make, and obviously failed to, was that blaming bad influence from the west for problems we have. True, the west plays dirty, yet everybody in the east loves rock and roll and Coca/Pepsi cola. That is west has been exploiting internal weaknesses in non-west societies. According to Khodakovski, troubles with Ukrainian nationalism we always there. It is due to historical turbulences and geography. Border lands (kraijina, from kraj = end, end of land, also kraj = location, so (u)krajina is perfect word, captures both meanings of Slavic word kraj.) are never homogenous in any sense -national, ideological, religious, and everything else. So yes, ukrainian elite’s nationalism was there. Most of the time it had been overpowered by some other forces, sometimes positive ones, sometime negative ones, worse than itself. It is not fault of the ‘west’ that 30-400 years before some oligarch form teh time wanted to separate from either Moscow or Warszawa or Tallinn or Riga. They were all far away from border lands, so why not try to carve out their own fiefdom.
There are always external influences to countries and nations. Some nations at some periods of time are more or less immune to those influences. WW 2 ended in Europe and USSR on May 09 1945. Yet, soviets had to fight against banderites guerilla till 1955 or something like that. Fortunately for soviets and all of us, it worked. Of course west was helping banderites, just as they do today. However, west could not use its influence to banderites if tehre was no banderites at the first place. Why there were no banderites east of Leningrad? Those were the lands fought about by Swedes, Lithuanians etc. Those lands are not borderlands, those were Russian lands, majority Russian population, more homogenous in ever sense than Ukraina.
It is the duty of rulers of the land to protect the land from harmful influences. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. In Ukraina’s case, it was not USA or UK who gave Russian lands to Ukraina. It was Lennin, then Kruschev. Was it bad or good decision? Perhaps it was good, for given circumstances. Over years circumstances change, and external influences prevail and we get what we have now.
I am not saying or trying to exonerate west or western ‘culture’, God no. It is simply good to hear that people do not use ‘western influence’ as excuse. He is not blaming anybody, he rather provided historical facts that led to conflict today. We could blame Xv-XVI century Poland or Lithuania, yet they are not west by any stretch of imagination. They are catholic. Could we blame catholic church (not catholic faith, just church). Of course we could, and rightly so. However, Anglo Saxons are mainly non-Catholic. Wherever we look, there is some contradiction we hit sooner or later. I believe that is the reason he does not discuss those.
He is right – it is human greed, part of human personality, oligarchic goal if you want. Kings of Poland would not seek ukrainian lands, if nothing just to make sure Russian rulers are kept as far as possible from proper Polish land, if nothing then to preserve – their wealth. Same thing today – some oligarchs from the west want more wealth, Russian wealth in this case. And oligarchs from Ukraine are helping them. 5th column in Russia is made of – oligarchs, who believe they could make more or secure their wealth if they take overlords from the west. So, it is the human greed that drives history. that is how it was, how it is and how it will always be. Human greed is the root cause, and we cannot root it out, that is hard-wired into human nature. At certain times, it works better or worse for some groups of ordinary people. It is a question of chance, luck, to be on one side or the other at any given time. Normally, the suffering part will sometimes fight. That is where we are now and that is how I understood the interview.
BTW, I lived 30 years in the east, then 30 years in the West. In both 30 year periods there were good and bad sub-periods. In 1992 it looked the west was better choice to raise family. In 1970 it was good on both sides. Now, west does not look as good choice to raise a family. Too late for me to decide what to do. For my kids, grown ups now, they will have to decide what is to be done.
Absolutely marvelous interview. Wonderful insights into the domestic situation in Ukraine, the conflict with Russia, and the relationship between power, money, the media and mass opinion. Lots of valuable threads to be spun from his analysis of material conditions, human nature and social desiderata. A thinking man with his roots firmly in the mud of human relations in the real world, who deals with the exigencies of reality, and has remained moral without excessive moralism. What gives him particular cachet is that he is not an intellectual who floats in the ether, but rather a thinking man of action. Thank you!
“A thinking man” – needs to be added to the endangered species list under the category of Critically Endangered in the west.
https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status
It is good to know that such men exist in the world. The fact that he understands that freedom must be balanced with duty is at the core of what makes him outstanding. I hope that he lives through this war so that he can lead in that which will come after it. Russia will need such men!!!
May God continue to guide our men; I pray Alexander continues the the Great Work. Thank you for this exceptional video.
I believe he stated, “I have enough” in life to be happy; share the wealth if you have it. Too bad those who are ultra wealthy don’t help solve some of societies problems instead of generating them in their quest for more power and wealth. A self assured person with admirable values. Nice to see that in such a jaded world.
32:29 A Guru: one can posses everything, unless this does not possess you.
And perhaps: when nothing does posses you, you begin to possess everything.
On the topic: Nickolai Gogol about corruption [1][2]:
… The important point is, that before us all lies the duty of rescuing our fatherland. Our fatherland is suffering, not from the incursion of a score of alien tongues, but from our own acts, in that, in addition to the lawful administration, there has grown up a second administration possessed of infinitely greater powers than the system established by law …”
“… No, until each of us shall come to feel that, just as arms were taken up during the period of the upheaval of nations, so now each of us must make a stand against dishonesty, all remedies will end in failure. As a Russian, therefore—as one bound to you by consanguinity and identity of blood—I make to you my appeal …”
Gogol burned his work where above words intended to stay.
On February 24.
1852.
Perhaps his belief was shaken. 9 days later he died.
If Gogol would be born today, will he burn “Dead Souls” again?
In my opinion, there are at least four men of this rank which Russia is blessed with:
Sergei Glaziev,
Alexander Khodakovskii,
Segei Kurginyan, [3]
Vladimir Putin.
Top three of them were discovered to me in this blog. Thank you for this.
Perhaps Glaziev is even too good for Russian system now, for his recommendations can be accepted.
Ref:
[1] https://www.rbth.com/arts/334677-gogol-burned-2nd-volume-dead-souls
[2] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1081/1081-h/1081-h.htm#link2HCH0015
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A-FJ8ZamXQ&t=2870s
1:04:52 … we will wait for you …
1:05.41 Это искупают – “It redeems” or “It must be redeemed”.
This is a fascinating monologue (certainly not an “interview”!), but like many of these Russian videos he talks so fast like a machine gun, absolutely without break and unremittingly.
Please, please post the transcript for the subtitles, so that we can read it in a more leasurely and collected manner. The subtitle text is also quite small, if there was a solid background for the subtitle text it would not be so difficult to read.
Many thanks to the great work in preparing these subtitles, but please give it to us as plain text!
BM
If you click on the middle icon in between the volume and widescreen you can control the speed of delivery. ie – 0.75 or half speed -0.5.
It’s up to people themselves to decide which system they want to live under, hence the planned referendums in the newly formed republics within the Ukraine. Certainly, the west offers a powerful inducement of Godless secularism and dog-eat-dog materialism, but as the former SSR Republics found to the their cost, the EU streets are not paved with gold and what they got were poverty stricken societies.
Let Western Ukraine ally themselves with the west and the East with Russia.
When I listen to this man, it is inconceivable to me that the corrupt rabble in Kiev, Brussels and Washington can prevail.
He reminds me of Oliver Cromwell’s Ironsides and his comment – “Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.”
I am better for viewing the video of the perspective of a principled man. Quite a treatise.