Batiushka

By Batiushka

Introduction

There are two things that are unchanging in this world: one is human nature, with all its virtues and vices, and the other is geography, with all its land and water. This is why history more or less repeats itself or, as some say, it echoes down the ages. There is no clearer example… Continue reading

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Oh, and while the king was looking down
The jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned.
Don McLean, American Pie, referring to Christ the King
Introduction: The Patriots Defeat the Elitists

‘Tsars, Stalin, Putin. Russian are a people who like authoritarian regimes’. So read the title in a French news… Continue reading

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Foreword

My father fought against the Nazis. In 1942 he lost his two best friends to one of their shells. For some mysterious reason it killed them, but only injured him, though he did have to spend six weeks in hospital. Sixty years later, as he lay dying of old… Continue reading

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The End-Game

The US puppet regime in Kiev is staring defeat in the face. The Western elite’s attempt, led by the CIA and backed by the NATO vassals, to dismantle Russia through a coup in Russia’s soft underbelly in Kiev in 2014, has, as usual, failed. Why can the Western elite… Continue reading

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Not allowing our imperial history to be rubbished is important because if indeed our imperial history was all that they say it was, namely a litany of atrocity, then the moral authority of the West is eroded.
The Oxford Professor of Theology, Nigel Biggar, interviewed on the Conservativehome website, 16 September… Continue reading

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In the last few years, we have seen one unthinkable headline after another. Did anyone expect the nuclear-armed USA to be presided over by an old man with ever more serious dementia? And that the only alternative to him is another old man, admittedly without dementia, but with a reputation… Continue reading

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Introduction: Perfidy

The word ‘perfidious’ has many synonyms: deceitful, untrustworthy, duplicitous, disloyal, faithless, false, traitorous, treacherous. The term ‘Perfidious Albion’ has been used by the French of the British since at least the thirteenth century and later by many other nationalities (1). Why? Where does this view come from?

Part One: The Perfidious… Continue reading