Foreword to the manuscript Russia Will Save the World

This essay does not include alternative history or any area it deals with
that is nowadays termed as such. The reason is very simple. 'Alternative'
is a gigantic misnomer and it was deliberately twisted by the forces that
shape our tragic civilization or, possibly, it was taken from the begin-
ning to carry the meaning of something secondary (in Latin alter means
'the other' or 'otherwise'). Truth stands on totally different grounds. If
one uses, e.g., the term alternative medicine, meaning that methods of
healing and therapeutic substances different from the official medicine
are concerned, he is wrong historically, because the natural medicine
he is talking about used to be the primary, or the first one. On the con-
fusion of concepts much of the social and cultural pathology that we
see around us is grounded. Along these lines I propose in this booklet
a new reading and interpretation of the old, forgotten, suppressed or
deliberately omitted and twisted facts.
The writing is meant primarily to be an essay on misunderstand-
ing and misapprehension of Russia and Russians by the West. My
main argument is that the Western World has systematically been
building a Russian wall, an invisible barrier meant to put Russia into
a kind of dangerous-animal cage. However, Russia is not an exception
among the nations of the world in this respect, but her importance
and grandeur seem to deserve a more vehement treatment in an all-
out war. Russia was and still is experienced by the most prosperous
parts of the world as something unruly, wild, inferior but dangerous, a
roaring bear that deserves to be placed in a zoo for the scrutiny of the
civilized and kept under control. It is not possible to write such a work
and touch upon the crucial points that produced or contributed to
such misunderstanding, while drawing upon the established sources
and concepts (and misconcepts). Misperceptions and mistakes most
often give rise to tragic clefts, as shown by history ancient or modern.
The Western world, tragically enough, has almost totally failed to rec-
ognize the beauty, potentials, powers and universal values that Russia
and her people undeniably possess. A more logical and prudent way
would have been to approach the riddle and mystery called Russia,
lend a friendly arm to it and organically integrate it into the structure
we all vaguely experience as Modern World.
An average reader in the West has been pampered up and brought
up in an atmosphere of mostly soft but therefore efficient propaganda of
the Western values, Western preeminence in most walks of life and the
superiority of its culture in most of its aspects. My intention in writing
this booklet is to open the eyes of the predominantly Western reader-
ship to a host of obvious facts about Russia and Slavs, the ignorance or
negligence of which only intensifies the gap between East and West.
We live in very dynamic times and many parts of the globe experience
tragic consequences of the divide between the rich and poor parts of it.
We often see meticulously engineered clashes of different value systems.
Very often, with ever increasing frequency, clangour of wars local and
more widespread is heard as time passes by. Noone would be amazed
if, God forbid, a new World War errupted somewhere along the lines of
economic, trading, geopolitical or other essential seams of the patch-
word called Modern Civilization.
I am not a Russian and I have not learned Russian at school. On the
contrary, I studied English language and I have taught it all my working
life to primary and secondary school pupils in Serbia or translated for a
number of companies once flourishing in now extinct state of Yugoslav-
ia. Only recently have I plunged into the Russian language and culture,
though I have always loved Russians, their literature, their Orthodoxy
(Pravoslavje), their science and engineering, their truly magnificent
music both folk and classical – in a word, Russian civilization. After
going through innumerable pages on the Internet and piecing up my
grasp of the rich Russian language, I began to realize that there is a
tragic void between the Western European countries, now led by the
US, and the Russians, whereas at school I had been taught that Russia
belonged to the Western world both as a trustworthy British or Amer-
ican ally in two World Wars and as a giant contributor to the Western
culture, science and art. After all, Russians are Indo-Europeans like the
peoples of the leading part of the world concentrated in the West. So,
something very important was very wrong.
I must admit that the picture from my school days and times of
study started to wean and gain new shapes and colours in the 80-s
of the previous century (I am 62 at the time of writing this). From an
easy-going internationalist and lover of jazz music and most values of
the Western world that appeared to be universal, humane and accept-
able to the majority of people of the average intellectual capacities, I
was approaching a state of reinventing the national identity and the
idea of being a Slav, a Serb or a person close to the roots of the peoples
that are genetically related to the Russians in the first place. The break-
up of Yugoslavia, my homeland's name at the time, arduously assisted
by the West, exposed the importance of narrower confines I belonged
to - those of Serbia, that were emerging and still survive by God's grace.
The Soviet Union was dealt a heavy blow by the then president Gorba-
chev. Russians weaned and Germans waxed. Very strange indeed! The
questions naturally popped in my head: who won in the WW II and
who was whose ally?
The final drop in the glass full of superficial understanding and
confusion came with the bombing of Serbia (1999). I know that the ma-
jority of people in the West do not understand what really happened,
nor ever will. They picked the scattered patches of information from
the press and TV, the new mighty weapons of war orchestrated by the