Andreas Umland: Is Dr. Dugin a fascist?

On July 20, 2007, the site "Forum.msk.ru" published an article by German researcher Andreas Umland "Is Dr. Dugin a Fascist? Some Answers of Alexander Gelevich", which analyzes the texts of the leader of the Eurasians, written by him in the last decade of the twentieth century. In these texts, one can easily see an open sympathy for Nazi and fascist theories, which Dugin actively demonstrated in the early 1990s, but now has only acquired a relatively veiled form.

In 1991, A. Dugin, raising Eurasianism almost to antiquity, saw himself as the heir to the "Erasians", including the Third Reich, as opposed to their opponents, the "Atlantists", to whom he attributed, for example, the KGB (" .. .we find representatives of this [Eurasian] Order in the Abwehr, and later in the foreign sectors of the SS and SD (especially the SD, whose chief Heydrich was himself a convinced Eurasian, which is why he fell victim to the intrigues of the Atlanticist Canaris) ") .

In 1992, the "leader of Eurasia" made a lengthy apology for Russian fascism: "Fascism is the Third Way [...]. Fascism has nothing to do with extreme nationalism, with a kind of national radicalism on the verge of chauvinism and racial hatred. "

Despite the fact that, as a rule, Dugin in his texts distances himself from Nazism ( "the excesses of this ideology (fascism - ed. ) in Germany are exclusively the business of the Germans and their national specifics" ), the wording of Dugin's early texts, according to A. Umland , are very close to the ideas of the NSDAP. Although Dugin is closest to "the metaphysical racism of Alfred Rosenberg or Julius Evola" .

With the arrival of Dugin in the political establishment, approximately from 1998, A. Dugin began to avoid direct pro-fascist statements, however, until now, on the Eurasian Internet resources, one can find the statements of authors cited by him, associated with the Third Reich, but practically unknown to Russian readers - German lawyer Carl Schmitt, the Belgian "National Bolshevik" Jean Thiriart, Herman Wirth. Dugin still refers to them openly and with approval, and in 2006, the once important NSDAP functionaries Otto and Gregor Strasser, who played a significant role in the formation of the Nazi movement in the 1920s, were named as examples to follow. especially Goebbels. Already in 2006, Dugin presented the Strassers as "an anti-Hitler trend of left-wing nationalists who were for an alliance with Russia and against Hitler . "

A. Umland emphasizes that the personality of A. Dugin and his movement in itself would be of interest to researchers of radical nationalism in Russia, if not for Dugin's closeness to the political elite of modern Russia. "The Supreme Council of the Dugin International "Eurasian Movement" includes the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Alexander Sokolov, Vice-Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Alexander Torshin, Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation Aslambek Aslakhanov and other Russian public figures, as well as various diplomats, journalists, scientists from the CIS and several marginal A number of other well-known Russian representatives were formally or informally temporarily or still associated with Dugin, including former State Duma speaker Gennady Seleznev, popular political commentator Mikhail Leontiev, or influential political technologist Gleb Pavlovsky .

Andreas Umland concludes his article with a wish to "hear the opinion of these respected figures on the subject of what they think about the" occult Punic war ", the "Aryan Slavs", the "convinced Eurasian" Reinhard Heydrich, the "intellectual oasis" in the Waffen-SS and others "interesting" aspects of the development of Nazism" .

Sources

• Umland Andreas. Is Dr. Dugin a fascist? Some answers of Alexander Gelevich // Forum.msk.ru. 2007. July 20.