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Evgeny Moroz. The one who raised the swastika. Ending
This is the voice of the generation that first raised the swastika in Russia. I note that he does not merge with the voices of the ideologists of "Tomorrow", but even against this background he stands out with special bloodthirstiness and one hundred percent amoralism - which only the plans to unleash a drug war against the American "youngsters" worth. True, there is a mention of something similar in Prokhanov's novel "Mr. Hexogen" awarded by the "National Bestseller", but there is only a cursory hint, beaten in the style of literary outrageous, but here - a fully justified project. Kucherenko is sincerely indignant that this opportunity was not realized in the 80s.
Summing up, we can say that Kucherenko's plans are a mirror image of his own fabrications, which relate to the alleged actions of Russia's enemies. Enemies threaten war - Kucherenko sings of war, enemies organized a secret society - Kucherenko opposes the Order, enemies are trying to decompose Russia from the inside - Kucherenko wants to poison the United States with drugs and provoke an outbreak of interracial clashes there.
It is pointless to discuss the moral side of the issue in this case - with the same success one could try to evaluate the behavior of plague bacilli from the point of view of morality. As for political and cultural-historical constructions, it seems appropriate to recall the old remark of the German researcher Peter Furth, who noted that the ideology of right-wing radicalism "does not have a rational core that could be criticized. The level of right-wing radical ideology is simply below any criticism. ..". 8
However, as the Nazi experience so valued by Kucherenko shows, this circumstance does not deprive this ideology of attractiveness. Nuclear-Orthodox fabrications were originally designed not for intellectual analysis, but for faith and sympathy. This is a sermon with elements of a spell. Acting like a hypnotist, Kucherenko diligently inspires his readers: America wants to humiliate and destroy the Russian people, America wants to humiliate and destroy the Russian people, a great Empire is needed to save them, an Empire is needed, our Order must be created, Order, Order, remember this, Russian, remember, reader, remember, friend ... And so more than a thousand three hundred pages in a row.
Are there many who want to remember and believe? On the forum on the Internet, where letters from readers are posted, the reviews are very different. It is difficult to say how representative this sample is - the only thing that is certain is that Kucherenko has fans. These are, first of all, young people trustingly listening to fairy tales about the unthinkable perfection of the secret imperial civilization, which was destroyed by the treacherous Americans and traitorous democrats. Kucherenko deliberately appeals specifically to the youth audience, seducing them with imperial rock, imperial eroticism and other nuclear Orthodox miracles. Even the description of the collective imperial rituals, accompanied by music and laser light effects, most of all resembles the style of popular concerts. It seems that this is not just a calculation, but the most sincere expression of the tastes of the author, who so carefully keeps his youthful addictions to "Pink Floyd" and "Deep Purple" that he is ready to smuggle this music into his sterile anti-Western imperial world. Many of the arguments are just as symptomatic. What are only revelations like: "I read: Dunno on the Moon; Nosov - a book full of such symbols and ideas that I fully understood only now. From there I learned the fascist theory: a hollow planet;, and the basics of space ballistics, and economics, and the wisdom of creating: inflated; joint-stock companies, and the mechanisms of duping a person with Western mass culture" (177). In his worldview and aesthetic predilections, Kucherenko shows some kind of intricate, with a somewhat pathological tinge of infantilism. It seems that his imagination was so absorbed by the mono-idea - the dream of power and strength, that he did not have time to grow up, was mothballed at the level of youthful games in the brave heroes from the Order of the SS. This can also explain the amazing ease with which he is going to shed the blood of millions - like a teenager, Kucherenko perceives reality in the categories of a computer game or a movie. The latter is all the more obvious because in many cases he builds his conclusions polemically on the basis of the content of Hollywood horror stories. Hence the characteristic narcissism, all these "We love", "We know", "We dream". Well still - not "We command". However, given that Kucherenko is trying on the role of the ruler of the empire, the latter, presumably, is a matter of time.
The word "infantilism" may suggest that the story described is not serious, that it is some kind of youthful amusements. It is enough, however, to recall Kucherenko's career to part with such an illusion. This is not a marginal, surrounded by a dozen like-minded people, but a successful metropolitan journalist. Even Alexander Barkashov, who is the leader of the largest Nazi-type organization in Russia, could not boast of such connections. According to some reports, it was Kucherenko who was the author of the unsigned (i.e., as if editorial) article "Snow is falling. Will the President and Government fall" published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on November 19, 1994, which was directed against Yuri Luzhkov and Vladimir Gusinsky and foreshadowed one of the most scandalous showdowns within the Russian political elite. 9 Shortly after this publication - in December 1994 - fighters from the security service of the President of the Russian Federation, headed by Alexander Korzhakov, captured Gusinsky right at the foot of the Moscow mayor's office and forced the guards of the "enemy" side to lie down in the snow for an hour. The article was a kind of declaration of war, and its customer was the then First Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, who met Kucherenko through the mediation of another member of the government, Mikhail Poltoranin.
In his books, Kucherenko is modestly silent about his involvement in such a high state policy, but he is happy to name acquaintances representing the structures of the military-industrial complex. These are the leading specialist of the Almaz Design Bureau Alexander Lemansky, the inventor Ardalion Ardalionovich Rastov, the director of the Keldysh Center Anatoly Koroteev - Kucherenko knows about their developments not from hearsay. Most likely, these people are not aware of Kucherenko's nuclear Orthodox plans, but even in this case, such close communication means something. The same can be repeated about the connections with the leaders of Zarubezhneft, who work on the shelf off the coast of Vietnam. Kucherenko talks about these people with ardent delight: "They are all Slavic sovereigns. There are no little burry freaks here, like bald monkeys with the remnants of curly hair" (207).
Getting acquainted with the works of Kucherenko, one can find that the ideas of this admirer of the Nazi experience attract not only excited youths, but also more serious people - the author prefers not to call them by their names. Here is a certain banker who "piously believes in the Russians... speaks of our Orthodox culture, of scattered science cities" (564), some kind of arms dealer patronized by the special services, confidential conversations with whom take place in an office overlooking the Kremlin (548 ), let me also remind you of the businessman who financed the development of the "Third Project" ... It seems that Kucherenko has already looked after the people with whom he is going to organize the imperial Brotherhood, and one can only guess at what stage the implementation of this project is now. The guiding swastika, raised by our hero in the early 80s, has led him far, and the road is not over yet.
LATEST COMPOSITIONS
Kucherenko is an exceptionally prolific writer. I delayed the publication of this article, and two new works have already appeared, written in collaboration with Yu. Krupnov. 10 Nearly a thousand pages that deserve a few additional remarks.
I will note, first of all, the line of succession. The new works are based on the same generic motifs - a description of the atrocities of the enemies who destroyed the USSR and are now planning to enslave or destroy the Russian people. Not forgotten and individual stories. Even after the Afghan war, which led to the defeat of the Taliban forces, Kucherenko cannot part with his beloved idea of American plans to use the Taliban against Russia. He will assure that soon "on the shoulders of refugees and under the protection of NATO" peacekeepers "the Taliban will overcome the defensive lines of the CIS" and further "in alliance with local criminal structures..., sweeping away the current elites and massacring the remaining Russian population, they will turn from guests into hosts , after which there will be no memory of Russian influence", but the American bases in the region will remain intact ("Wrath of the Orc", p. 111). Stylistic refinements are also unchanged, including close attention to Hollywood productions and science fiction. In "The Wrath of an Orc" there is even a place for a reference to Hans Christian Andersen, in whose fairy tales Kucherenko - of course, it could have been a co-author of Krupnov, but I'm sure it's Kucherenko - finds confirmation of his stories that Russia is trying to destroy the race of non-humans (133).
It is noticeable, however, that Krupnov's participation enriched the works under consideration with new ideas and techniques. Many references to social, military, political developments published on the Internet have appeared. The co-authors tried to take into account the news of a rapidly changing reality, pointing out, for example, the tactics of the Mexican partisans, whose experience the Americans intend to use. It looks like the Americans are planning to destroy our country in dozens of different ways at the same time - see Wrath of the Orc for details.
Undoubtedly, Kucherenko retained the title of this book only out of inertia, so as not to abandon the old promise. At one time, he wanted to beat the symbolism of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings". Using a method that allowed him to reveal the true content of Dunno on the Moon, Kucherenko analyzed the work of the English writer and found that it was imbued with a feeling of pathological malice and hatred towards the great Russian people. It is doubly curious, considering that Tolkien's story about the great battle of the noble West against the demonic East does have a certain political subtext - an allusion to the history of the Second World War, to the battle of the West with the Nazi regime. Constant in his pro-Nazi sympathies, Kucherenko identified the Russian people with the monsters from The Lord of the Rings, and decided to use the name of the orcs to talk about Russian revenge. However, it broke, the thought swam away. Little is said about revenge in Wrath of an Orc, but for the most part it presents a variety of descriptions of why, when and how the insidious enemies are going to conquer and destroy Russia. It's kind of a horror book. "Wrath of an Orc" is not the end of a failed trilogy, but the beginning of a new cycle, which continues the work "Ride the Lightning". She acquaints readers with recipes for miraculous salvation from previously promised nightmares, and in the very near future a series of new works on the same topic is promised.
In Ride the Lightning, the main attention is paid to positive ideals - a description of an amazing post-industrial civilization, the construction of which will not only allow Russia to regain its world leadership, but will free humanity from slave factory labor, bestow the bliss of true creativity, create a kingdom of wonderful neuronomics, a universal paradise. It is noticeable that Kucherenko revised his previous attitude to the achievements of the Stalinist regime and found significant shortcomings in it. It is necessary to abandon the inert and clumsy bureaucratic system and transfer the initiative to the enthusiasts of the idea. They are the future. Kucherenko and Krupnov are convinced that Russia will be saved by a great race of "superhumans", they are also "all-humans". These are the same blond demigods that Kucherenko wrote about earlier, however, in the last work, the focus is no longer on their impeccably Aryan stature, but on intellectual achievements. Following the example of Kucherenko himself, the demigods will combine a passionate commitment to racial mysticism and pathological ignorance in all areas of the humanities with the deepest immersion in technical issues. They invent such a thing that a neuronomical paradise will be established in Russia in just a few years.
In order to achieve this goal, a targeted social policy is needed. Although Kucherenko has not completely given up hopes for the use of powerful state resources, he is now placing his main bet on the mass movement, on the consolidated efforts of nationally minded industrialists, who, even without the support of the mediocre Russian administration, will be able to achieve everything. These people form the basis of the network Brotherhood - a structure that, in the end, will simply subjugate state bodies to itself. Kucherenko finds the prototype of his plan in another masterpiece of fantastic prose, in Roman Zlotnikov's book Vivat Emperor.
The changes brought about by co-authorship are tangible not only in the content, but also in the general intonation and emotional mood of the last compositions. The old song sounds now in a new key. Softer, much softer, more careful. Not a word about nuclear Orthodoxy, they managed without Perun, without the Russian SS, without Aryan erotica. No drug aggression against youngsters, no directed tsunami sweeping the American continent along with the "cowboy-Jewish mafia." The Jewish theme, which is so significant for Kucherenko's original works, is generally removed in the works jointly with Krupnov. True, in many cases, our authors clearly do not accidentally single out officials with characteristic surnames, criticizing them for certain ideas and programs harmful to Russia, but the word "Jew" is not pronounced. Without knowing Kucherenko's convictions, one could not understand the hint.
It is worth noting that some ideologists of the nationalist movement, claiming the position of its intellectual elite, have now chosen to abandon the fundamental anti-Semitic constructions, at least in their traditional "Jewish Masonic" version. For example, Dugin evaluates the concept of a global Jewish conspiracy as a plebeian version of a great conspiracy idea, and argues that in fact world history is determined by the confrontation between land and sea civilizations, the struggle of noble Eurasians and the heirs of materialistic Atlantis - the Atlanticists who settled in the USA. These ideas were used by Prokhanov for his novel "Mr. Hexogen", which so delighted some critics with the sophistication of its storyline. However, the example of Prokhanov demonstrates that different conspiracy fantasies do not exclude each other. In the space of Prokhanov's novel, the Atlanticists, who are building their world state, coexist with the Jewish conspirators, who at the same time organize a new Khazaria in Russia. Everyone is busy with their favorite thing.
Kucherenko and Krupnov "went the other way" - one would like to remember in this connection the unforgettable Volodya Ulyanov. are to blame for all the world's troubles According to their version, some nomads . The term is borrowed from the futurological writings of Jacques Attali, more precisely, from the critical transcriptions of these works, with the light hand of the same Dugin, which became fashionable among nationalist ideologists. The modernized lexicon, however, does not change much, because, quite independently of Attali's constructions, the nomads exposed by Kucherenko and Krupnov are no different from the former "cowboy-Jewish mafia." Some news is only that the world state they want to establish is called the "Eternal Reich". The obvious political reality is sacrificed to this conspiracy phantom, for example, the existence of Islamic terrorism is refuted. It turns out that this is a fabrication of nomads who simply invented Bin Laden. Al-Jazeera can broadcast the bellicose statements of the leader of Al-Qaeda and his associates as much as they like, including the recording of the deathbed interview of Saeed al-Ghamidi, one of the terrorists who rammed the World Trade Center tower in New York. Our authors are convinced that everything is set up, that the events of 9/11 were orchestrated to prepare the American invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as to quarrel Russia with the countries of Islam. A similar background is found in the story of the hostage-taking at the production of the musical "Nord-Ost", and all these Baraevs, Elmurzaevs, Baikhatovs, Adilsultanovs, in fact, represented the interests of overseas masters. Well, the fact that the explosions of buildings in Moscow were organized not by Chechen fighters, but by Jewish conspirators, Kucherenko already stated in the "Battle for Heaven" - by the way, is another reason to think about what nationality these same nomads are after all?
The most important atrocity of the rulers of the West is that, fearing to lose their economic advantage and mechanisms for governing the world, they hinder the development of wonderful post-industrial technologies. The very technologies that, against all odds, Russia will acquire when it uses Kucherenko's recipe. Well, well, the nomads are worse for them - they themselves will be to blame for their lagging behind. The former singer of war seems to forget now about the lessons of Nietzsche and Mussolini, who he adores, declaring: "We know that wars are bad" (Ride the Lightning, p. 212). However, through all the glorification of the coming Kitezhgrad, the same militaristic ideas shine through like birthmarks, only slightly hidden in the thickness of the text. Yes, of course, wars are bad, but the "smart reader" (oh, that smart reader!) must understand that "Peace is War" (200). Referring to Orwell, Kucherenko borrows as a positive thesis a parody born from the logic of a totalitarian dystopia. It is assumed that the "smart reader" will not notice the substitution.
As a result, the story of post-industrial miracles imperceptibly turns into the usual story about the military defeat of the United States: "... our enemy will experience a real shock when, in response to his satellites and invisible aircraft;, figuratively speaking, warriors with fantastic abilities will appear, fighting on anti-gravity discs with laser guns. Or space attack pilots" (163). Amazing thing! After many hundreds of pages have already been devoted to stories about the inevitable US attack on Russia, it suddenly turns out that the authors not only are not afraid of this attack, but they themselves expect to organize it, they want to provoke the nomads into hostilities. The fact is that "the very first carpet bombardments with smoking ruins will make the Russians, for the most part, notorious nationalists, young and old, regardless of the difference in education and material wealth" (213). It turns out that for the plans of Kucherenko and Krupnov, war is simply necessary - this is their path leading to the construction of a great Empire. In the meantime, it has not come to carpet bombing, our authors hope to turn readers into notorious nationalists by scaring them to death with their stories of enemy aggression.
Calling for freedom, Kucherenko and Krupnov (handwriting, after all, Kucherenko!) free the coming blond demigods not only from monotonous factory work, but also from obligations to respect international borders - “What the hell are international treaties? What other established borders? " (214). At the same time, in the classical Nazi style, the liberal phantom of conscience is rejected, for "it is useful and moral that helps the birth of the Third Project, a new technological revolution and the race of all people in Russia" (201). What can we say about such trifles as a proposal to destroy the Internet in order to slow down the development of the United States (315), or a project to use psychosensing and personality rewriting to create a new race (202). In the hundreds of pages of pseudo-science fiction created by inventive patriotic authors, one can find many more such pearls of free - from any moral obligations - thought.
Endlessly cursing the mythical Eternal Reich, Kucherenko, as if hypnotized, returns to the ideals of his disturbing youth, which flowed in the shadow of the historical Third Reich. "Old Adi" is still his idol (321), Kucherenko is invariably inspired by "The Dream of the Triumph of the Will" - a memory of the famous film by Leni Riefenstahl, which glorified the achievements of the Nazi regime (145 ff.). However, the Russian patriot would like to surpass the German teachers, to achieve what Leni Riefenstahl did not dream of - such is the title of one of the chapters "Ride the Lightning". Those wishing to get acquainted with these projects in more detail, I suggest that you turn directly to the texts setting them out. I will only add that the new writings of Kucherenko also mention many names of figures in Russian politics and economics, with whom he is personally acquainted. Adi's commitment to the solar swastika and love for antiquity do not isolate our hero in modern Russian society, on the contrary.
9 P. Fürt, Ideologie und Propaganda, Rechtradikalismus im Nachkriegdeutschland ([West] Berlin; Frankfurt a. M. 1957), s. 198. Quoted from: A. A. Galkin, German Fascism (M., 1989), p. 269.
9 Database "Labyrinth" . Article: "Kucherenko Vladimir Aleksandrovich".
10 See: Maxim Kalashnikov, Yuri Krupnov. Wrath of an orc (M.: "Publishing House AST", "Publishing House Astrel", "Transitbook", 2003). Maxim Kalashnikov, Yuri Krupnov. Ride the Lightning (M.: "AST Publishing House", "Astrel Publishing House", "Transitbook", 2003).