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08/14/01
Subject: Admiral Moorer Quote
Here is a quote from a U. S. Navy Admiral, about something that we say so often that we get
tired of repeating ourselves.
Note the last sentence. This would be called "hate" by many people today, especially
suburban soccer-moms and brainwashed high-school students.
"I've never seen a President -- I don't care who he is -- stand up to [the Jews] ... They
always get what they want. The Israelis know what is going on all the time. I got to the
point where I wouldn't write anything down. If the American people understood what a grip
these people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms."
-Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from Richard H.
Curtiss's "A Changing Image: American Perceptions of the Arab-Israeli Dispute." American
Educational Trust, 1986, p. 267.
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CPTWC
(Center to Preserve Traditional Western Culture)
Tucson, AZ.
08/14/01
Subject: Zulu
Please extend my thanks to Etienne Brule for the superb review of "Zulu." I have had the
movie on videotape for around ten years, and it is one which I can re-watch without it ever
seeming old. I love the scene where the Welsh are having their singing duel with the Zulus,
so much so that I have been looking for a really good recording of "Men of Harlech,"
without any success. The only vocal recording, in fact, that I've run across is a rather
poor quality one made by the Band of the Welsh Guards, which really surprises me. I would
have thought they would have done a better job of sound engineering. As it were, I
am of Welsh descent through my mother's maternal line (family name Jones), so the deeds of
the 24th Foot (South Wales Borderers) strike a particular resonance within me.
Etienne Brule is absolutely correct regarding the inherently racialist aspect of the movie
and the portrayal of White liberal idiots. I tried showing the movie to my mother once, and
when it came to the scenes with the drunken antics of Witt, she winced noticeably. When it
came to the slaughter around the mealie bag walls, however, she abruptly stood up and
stormed out, muttering about how she couldn't take it any longer. Guess mom is a
liberal.
Last but not least, I am very relieved that Etienne Brule made no reference to "Zulu Dawn,"
which apparently was Hollywood's belated realization that "Zulu" had a racial message. All
in all, a thoroughly inferior sequel with a blantantly Politically Correct message.
Racial regards,
[Anonymous]
P.S. I was touched by the concern of the musical corporal, who obviously had been involved
in shepherding or some other sort of animal husbandry back in Wales before enlisting, for
the calves at the station. It was a true demonstration of White appreciation for
animals.
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Subject: White Studies Article
Aug 14, 2001
I thought that this article, Scholars unearth new field: white studies,
http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0814/p2s1-ussc.html might be good news.
The truth is it tries to promote the ideas that: 1. spics are White, 2. mixed White and
muds result in White. The article quotes a self proclaimed White studies expert who is
married to a nigress and has two niglets to his credit. A sample of his expert remarks,
"The question is: How far will it go?" Hitchcock says. "Will it take us to a multiracial
society? I tend to be optimistic.", make me think he is really a jew. Confused jews also
think they are White.
While this controlled media article is a load of crap it might get a few White people
thinking about who they are and what the jews are doing to them.
ORION
Section Eight
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08/13/01
Subject: Great Review!
Very impressed with your review of Zulu, admittedly because it coincides with my own views
about the theme and message. It was made at the last moment it could have been made- a few
years later Little Big Man and the rest of the cynical anti-White stuff started coming
out.
I have this one on DVD + VHS, both from the same bargain outlet. Funny how it never
received the full treatment from Criterion or some such- I suppose Michael Caine would feel
obliged to make liberal remarks on the commentary.
Job Well Done!
Cheers,
D. A. B.
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08/13/01
Subject: CONservatism: What is it?
CONSERVATISM: WHAT IS IT?
I know that I've written quite a bit about the aracial, "big tent" right-wing. Some reading
this may think that there is little point to continued assaults on what they may be naive
enough to persist in seeing as a "lesser of two evils". In my view however, it will only be
time to lay off the attacks when CONservatism's adherents consist of nothing but fully
conscious racial traitors and "multi-kulti" universalist religious lunatics. Please excuse
the redundancy in the preceding sentence! As long as there are salvageable Aryans being
made fools of by the garbage in the Republican party or ANY of the dozens of system-front,
pro-White genocide, CONservative orgs (Heritage Foundation, Eagle Forum, jew Birch
Sociopaths,, etc.), my "Mission Impossible" of exposing the "wholesome", race-murdering
CON's for what they are, has yet to be completed.
JUDEO-MARKET FORCES DEIFIED
What is CONservatism at this point, but the worship of the almighty Federal Reserve Note?
It would seem that an intelligent, race-conscious Aryan would find him/herself hard-pressed
to come up with any kind of compelling case in defense of this thoroughly jewish deification
of so-called "market forces", that is used as justification for everything from flooding the
labor force with mestizos to denying the White worker anything approaching a true living
wage. I'll use the dunce "dubya" as an example of this ugly, alien philosophy. The other day,
Bush was rattling off some of his handler's latest "talking points" concerning open-door mud
and crud immigration. His team has made a fetish of the criminal idea that "whenever there
is a willing employer" who wants the cheapest possible labor and a "willing (black, brown
or yellow) employee", that it is "conservative" and thus, "good for America", to "bring
them together". Maybe I just "don't get it". Maybe, since I've worked in injection molding
and lathe machining, I'm just not a "good sport". You see, I think that a White man who
works an 8-12 hour shift in a factory DESERVES to be able to pay his bills AND have enough
left over to comfortably support a wife and multiple White children! Oh, oh! I must be a
no-good pinko, huh? Perhaps I just can't wrap my mind around such "lofty" and "moral" ideas
as are espoused by judeo-Capitalist, judeo-"Christians"? Yeah, that must be it. I guess
I'm a "commie" since I put a future for White children above some kike or white traitors
desire for an even bigger slice of the kosher pie.
PRO-(NON-WHITE)LIFE
There have been times where I have been made sick to my stomach by the Orwellian "pro-life"
rhetoric of the "right". For these thieving, grasping, genocidal maniacs to feign horror at
the thought of baby-killing, is perhaps the greatest proof of all of their utter
shamelessness. For a group of people who have done everything that they can think of to
further the judeo-masonic goal of a "world without racism" (a world without Aryans), to
have the kike "chutzpah" to fake concern over things like stem-cell research or
partial-birth abortion in order to dupe the ever-drooling drones, is beyond my ability to
condemn in mere words. I will say though, that this alone justifies completely the next
several hundred acts of "Active Self-Defense" that are committed by Whites unamused by such
treachery. What part of "fully complicit" is so hard to understand? The "right-wing" is many
times the enemy of White survival that the "left-wing" could ever dream of being. These
bastards are even starting to take their own race-destroying medicine! Witness the
race-mixing in the Bush and Quayle families for instance. What about the fact that the
thankfully-dead-as-a-door-nail Maureen Reagan opted not to have any White children of her
own, instead adopting an apess from Uganda? These people are practically insane at this
point. The love of money may indeed be the root of all (racial) evil. It certainly seems to
be the quickest path to the mental disintegration that would lead a wealthy family to
commit suicide through inter-breeding with and adopting, members of the mud races.
"Pro-life", huh? What kind of "life" would that be? This should be one's first question to
a CONservative. If you start to hear some kooky kike krap about the "sanctity" of anything
that can balance itself on two legs, you'll know you are talking to a
race-traitor.
"DOING WHAT THEY MUST TO AVOID THE CHARGE OF RACISM"
The above is a real pet peeve of mine. Haven't we all heard the standard crap line that
goes something like this: "Mr. Whoever HAS to do ______(fill in the blank with the latest
example of treason). If he didn't, the media and the 'liberals' would call him racist. He's
on our side, so he has to 'fool' the 'left' into thinking he has no problems with their
agenda." This is so mindless, so repulsive and off-base, that it is hard to know what to
say to someone so deluded. Please, think about how devoid of honor this is! Are such
pacifistic small w "whites" really prepared to accept nine parts race treason, in order to
receive one part "warm and fuzzy"? If they are, they have forfeited any claim to the title
Aryan, and having descended to the level of the garbage they pretend to oppose, have joined
the ranks of the enemy. So, to hell with the CONservative pukes that just can't drop the
names of niggers like J.C Watts and Clarence Thomas enough to display the true depth of
their negrophilia. More to the point, to hell with anyone who in the year 2001, thinks that
the so-called "Culture War" is over what methods (liberal or CONservative) one should adopt
in furthering the murder of the White race. I don't even want to know the kind of white
"person?" who says to him/herself: "At least Colin Powell shares my CONservative values".
Anyone this sick is beyond salvaging. Leave them to their own devices and rejoice in their
future suffering.
I'm afraid that there are literally MILLIONS of ostensibly white individuals who would jump
in a vat of feces if it contained a few bucks. There are even more who would bite their
tongues and welcome a nigger into their family to avoid appearing "racist". These are the
born "right-wingers". They are not worth doing a damned thing for. It is those decent,
misguided members of our racial community who need to be reached with the truth. It is
those who have a thin intellectual film over their eyes that need our help. Remember:
Friends don't let friends become CONservatives!
--Grant Bruer
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08/14/01
Subject: Suggestion
The following dignified reply, from the latest feed--
"Ed. Note:VNN has reproduced the letter above just as we received it -- all grammatical,
spelling and logical errors intact. The first step toward wisdom is an awareness of one's
ignorance. One of the tragedies of the Propasphere is that so many are crippled in this
way."
--seems a better tack to take with the MTV-deluded teens and others who write to
mindlessly smear VNN. "You hate! That's bad! Your dick is small!" &c. Just cursing back at
them is easy, but perhaps unseemly, and tends to make a permanent enemy. Maybe best to pat
'em on the head, diagnose them (publicly) as the victims of Jewish indoctrination that
they are, and say "Keep coming back." ;-)
Ed. Note: Possibly.
08/13/01
Subject: What you see . . .
What you see and hear may affect you in unforseen ways.
There is a certain study or discipline known as Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP. NLP
allows the practitioner or therapist to directly access the subconscious mind of the
patient or individual while bypassing the conscious mind. This technique can be implemented
while the individual is wide-awake and perfectly conscious. Fundamentally what NLP is based
on is that the normal individual is unconscious for extremely short periods of time,
especially when the individual is accessing certain types of information in their mind.
There have been a number of studies that demonstrate virtually every individual
experiences these periods of "micro-sleep," a brief moment of time when the conscious mind
is not present. While the individual is in such a state of sleep, the subconscious can be
accessed without the knowledge or understanding of the individual being addressed. There
are a number of ways this state of sleep can be induced but one mechanical
way is though the use of "strobing."
Anyone watching television will quickly realize this technique is being applied
constantly during advertising segments. Those annoying flashing segments are in fact
inducing this sleep state. The actual advertising message is inserted into the subconscious
by using micro second images during the flashing segments. Have you ever noticed that
these segments flash so fast that the conscious mind cannot process the images? Rest
assured those images are getting through to the subconscious mind and that is in fact
exactly what such images are aimed at -- the viewers subconscious. In effect people who
watch TV are being programmed without their knowledge or consent.
It is important to understand that the subconscious is a far more powerful persuader
than the conscious mind. This is because the subconscious mind is connected directly to the
primitive or primeval side of the human psyche; whereas the conscious mind has to run though
many filters that effectively insulate the conscious mind from the primeval side of the
psyche. If this were not the case the conscious mind would be forever dealing with the
needs, terrors and fears of the primitive subconscious.
If this were in fact the case, a snarling dog running out toward a car would demand the
conscious mind deal with the terror of the sight of a vicious dog attack. In actuality the
conscious mind simply dismisses the threat with an instant recognition that such a threat
is implausible given situation of being surrounded by a steel cage that the dog cannot
penetrate. It would be impossible for the average man to function were his conscious mind
directly connected to his primitive state of being.
However it is this primitive side of the human psyche, connected directly to the
subconscious, that deals with the most pressing desires and fundamental of human survival.
The need for food, the need for acceptance, the need for sex, the fight or flight reflex,
etc. It is for this very reason that the subconscious is such a powerful persuader; the
subconscious can directly access the most pressing survival instincts. So while an
individual watching television may be thinking consciously about what they are going to do
Monday morning at work, the subconscious is already hard at work delivering the television
message that he or she NEEDS this product to be sexually attractive to a mate. Now it does
not take much to realize which thought goes straight to the source of action - future work
tasks or sexual fulfillment?
But there are other areas of as of NLP as well; another being that there is considerable
power in specific words that are used in precise ways at precise times. An example of this
is when in the middle of a conversation someone might interject the statement, "Don’t think
about pink elephants." Although the injunction is not to think about pink elephants, that
is exactly the image that is brought into the mind, most importantly the unconscious mind.
So in order for the mind to process the command not to think about pink elephants, it must
do precisely that to accomplish the command.
There is a considerable amount of NLP applied in advertising. Jews are masters at the art,
which perhaps explains why they are so prevalent and successful in media and advertising
businesses.
The other day I heard a classic example of NLP messaging during a commercial by the
founder and president of the Gun Owners of America or GOA, Alan Gottlieb. Mr. Gottlieb
begins the advertisement by stating "It is the Bill of Rights, not the bill of needs." He
then states "no one NEEDS an assault rifle just like no one needs a high powered sports
car, but it is the Bill of Rights - not the Bill of NEEDS, therefore we have
the right to own an assault rifle in the same manner that we have the right to own a high
powered sports car.
Now ignoring the totally fallacious analogy (there is no specific Constitutional
amendment that addresses the right own any type of vehicle) let us analyze the NLP message
applied. The conscious, logical, mind of say, a gun owner, applies the argument that we
have a right to own firearms and in fact it IS "the Bill of Rights and not the bill of
needs." So this presents a reasonable argument to the conscious mind of an individual,
especially one that is predisposed to the argument in a certain manner, but what about the
message to a listener that is anti-gun or neutral on this subject? What kind of message
will a child hear? The first message applied is that "NO ONE NEEDS AN ASSULT RIFLE" and for
most that is as far as the message will go. For the negatively inclined or disinterested
party, that is all the unconscious mind will absorb. So this advertising message will work
well to the advantage of the anti-gun believers. While placating the average gun owner who
analyzes the message carefully for its pro-gun (or anti-gun) content, the other listeners
who are against the concept or generally unconcerned about such matters will hear that
"NO ONE NEEDS AN ASSULT RIFLE." Did I mention that Mr. Gottlieb is a Jew?
Here is another example, how many times have you passed a school and
seen the sign "This is a drug free zone?" Next time you see and recognize this sign, make a
mental stop and ask yourself, what was I thinking about before I saw this sign? Then ask
yourself what did I think about after I saw this sign? But more to the point what the
unconscious mind picks up from this message are the individual words drug, free, and
zone.
To the conscious mind of a concerned parent the sign is satisfying that ostensibly no
drugs are tolerated in this area. Still any individual must think about drugs when the
reading such a sign and if the mind is predisposed toward experimenting with drugs, as many
young people are, the actual message in this sign to the subconscious mind is
"drugs are free in this zone."
If you are getting the message by now that things are not always what they appear to be,
then you are on the right track. One way to divine the true meaning in such messages is to
initially ignore the overt message aimed at the conscious mind and look instead at what
the message brings to mind. Such thinking will point out what the subconscious is processing
versus the overriding conscious message being given. But beware! Such thinking may lead to
a greater understanding of the actual source of an individual’s perceived free choice.
Arch Stanton
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08/13/01
Subject: Lubinskas and "Alaric"
I met Jim Lubinskas in Washington D.C. two weeks ago (the night before the NA German
Embassy protest) and I can tell you that YOU are full of crap RE American Renaissance
being "beholden to the Jews". Lubinskas and AR are totally on our side (despite being too
CON/right-wing in my opinion).
Get a grip, you lunatic.
By the way, Mr. Lubinskas talked about an e-mail you sent to him a while ago containing
your usual accusations. I must say that the ensuing conversation amongst the assembled
group of 5 or 6 (which I neither instigated nor participated in) revealed to me just how
low an opinion many serious nationalists hold of you and your ilk.
I also met "Alaric," whom I know has contributed his excellent Orwell article to your
website (one of the few good ones). He sat right across from Lubinskas and got along well
with us. This certainly shows how little an influence your website has on thinking people
- even those who LIKE your site. Pretty sad...
Now, back to your usual crap with "VNN". If you aren't an agent provocateur, then you must
be a Missouri idiot. Yep, that's what I thought...
Ed. Note: Of non-sequiturs and hallucinations and childish
gibberish all compact. I don't know Lubinskas from the man in the moon. I can just
imagine Jared Taylor's reaction to Lubinskas proposing an AmRen article on the White West's
Jewish Problem. Pause for laughter. He might not get invited back on Queen Latifah!
Jared Taylor will go as far as slipping in the odd paragraph or two of Jew-crit at the back
of an article about, say, black crime, or immigration, or censorship in Europe. Why?
PRECISELY to avoid the appearance of what he is actually doing: conspicuously avoiding
acknowledging the Jewish Problem as what it is: THE front-and-center issue that must be
dealt with. This is the difference between him and Pierce, who attacks the Jews head on.
Taylor and Sam Francis and the other wink-leaders of Whites don't. Nobody who doesn't
explicitly defend White interests and call the Jew the enemy is on our side. Jared Taylor
and Sam Francis need to shit or get off the pot. Either they come out and say what they
know to be true about Jews and race, or they quit pretending to lead the rest of us. The
time for pay-stub, philo-Semitic racialism is over. Either you're a respectable or you're
a revolutionary. Which is it, guys?
08/12/01
Subject: Jew David Sarnoff on "Freedom"
This advertisement appeared on page 5 of _Popular Mechanics_ magazine for February,
1948.
(Illustration at top of page- a Norman Rockwell-style scene of a White American family
listening to the radio in their neat kitchen -- a boy doing homework, Mother sewing at the
kitchen table, Father leaning against the counter with his pipe. The caption is "Our
American concept of radio is that it is of the people and for the people.")
"Freedom to LISTEN - Freedom to LOOK
"As the world grows smaller, the question of international communications and world
understanding grows larger. The most important phase of this problem is Freedom to Listen
and Freedom to Look -- for all peoples of the world.
"Radio, by its very nature, is a medium of mass communication; it is a carrier of
intelligence. It delivers ideas with an impact that is powerful...Its essence is freedom --
liberty of thought and speech.
"Radio should make a prisoner of no man and it should make no man its slave. No one
should be forced to listen and no one compelled to refrain from listening. Always and
everywhere, it should be the prerogative of every listener to turn his receiver on and off,
of his own free will.
"The principle of Freedom To Listen should be established for all peoples without
restriction or fear. This is as important as Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the
Press.
"Television is on the way and moving steadily forward. Television fires the imagination,
and the day is foreseen when we shall look around the earth from city to city, and nation
to nation, as easily as we now listen to global broadcasts. Therefore, Freedom to Look is
as important as Freedom to Listen, for the combination of these will be the radio of
the future.
"The 'Voice of Peace' must speak around this planet and be heard by all peoples
everywhere, no matter what their race, or creed, or political philosophies.*"
-- David Sarnoff
President and Chairman of the Board, Radio Corporation of America
* Excerpts from an address before the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.
RCA- Radio Corporation of America
Freedom is Everybody's Business
[Anonymous]
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08/12/01
Subject: Stealth Advertising
I just got through reading about your trip half way accross the U.S. of Amexica. Quite
an adventure.
VNN is the best. If NA is EVERYWHERE, VNN should be EVERYWHERE too!!!
Idea # 1:
Often I see on telephone poles or grocery store bulletin boards a list of items for sale
with little cut pieces of paper at the bottom containing a telephone number -- meant to be
torn off and taken with you so you don't have to write down the number, especially
difficult to do if you don't have a pen, etc.
Now suppose in such public places we had a few 3M Post It Notes on display with:
WWW.VANGUARDNEWSNETWORKS.COM
That's all I'd put. Let human curiosity do the rest. (If you put something else like
"No Jews. Just Right" on the note, the first lemming or enemy that comes along will just
tear them all down. So the relative obscurity of your web site and not putting any
provocative message can be used to your advantage. Call it "Stealth Advertising". :)
The whole idea here is to get new people to sample the "forbidden fruit
of truth", instead of just preaching to the converted.
Thus VNN militants everywhere:
1) procure a small custom rubber stamp "WWW.VANGUARDNEWSNETWORK.COM"
2) some 3M Post It notes (3" x 3"?)
3) cut up the Post It notes, stamp them, and then always carry around a good
supply for distribution as such opportunities arise.
Idea #2:
I know you are pretty rough sometimes on people I would call "fellow travellers". Still
I'd rather have them than not have them. Plus, like the commies have always been so adept
at doing, perhaps the travellers can be put to good use!
Presumably you've read Wagener's Memoirs of a Confidant, and perhaps also
Thirty Days to Power by Turner. A certain pragmatism is required to get things done
it would seem. Especially when you are "out-gunned" and out-manned on all fronts...
So why not a 15 second promo for VNN on the Hal Turner Show and also on Financial Survival
2000? Again, as in idea #1 above, I'd keep it low key. Just get people to TRY VNN, to take
a look, and let curiosity lead them on if they are at all receptive to the message.
While H.T. and Jim Cedarstrom are only, at best, fellow travellers, their listeners
represent a fertile ground of people who NEED to know about VNN (and probably don't).
Let's reach them.
Idea # 3:
I saw something on VNN about some ad you tried to put in "Nation" (?) magazine. Ha Ha.
Well, I guess you had "No Jews. Just Right." in the ad.
Not to repeat myself endlessly, I would have just worded the ad:
WWW.VANGUARDNEWSNETWORK.COM
Simple. Cheap. And it might have slipped right by the censors.
Again no reason that VNN militants couldn't place a similar ad in their local "Pennysaver",
weekly local newspapers, etc. (Three "lines" classified ad = a blank line, text in caps, a
blank line. Makes it stand out better.)
It might eventually get pulled when the complaints start arriving, but a good chance of
initial acceptance.
Idea #4:
I tried the URL one day and it appears that no one is using WWW.VNN.COM. Probably would
be a good idea for you to grab this for the long run and put a link to your regular site.
I don't think it costs much just to control a domain name.
Well some things maybe you can think about.
Best regards and thanks for giving the world VNN.
Ed. Note: Good ideas, all. We appreciate whatever readers
do, and we are working on some of these ideas ourself.
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08/12/01
Subject: Thanks
Alex,
Thanks for this news item,
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2001/08/10/007.html, whose URL you
published 8-12-2001.
The important thing to know about this news item is that its author, Boris Kagarlitsky, is
a jew, talking the way jews talk when they want to talk you out of your patrimony.
I can see this at a single glance, having lived in a jewish neighborhood, full of jews who
supposedly had been been killed in the "Holocaust," for part of my childhood.
It's in the eyes, the nose, the coloring, the hair and the arrangement of facial
features.
The whole gestalt.
Not every one of us knows how to recognize a jew, and this slows our learning.
It would be a valuable public service to present a gallery of jewish faces.
Here is the news item itself, in case its link goes dead, meanwhile.
Ed. Note: Yes, exactly. People should note that here's a
yid in Moscow using EXACTLY the same language his racial brethren use in London, Berlin
and New York. Diversity for us, unity for them. Perish the yid and we'll all be better
off. They've got to go, folks.
Friday, Aug. 10, 2001. Page 8
The Russian Melting Pot
By Boris Kagarlitsky
Three road workers in orange vests were digging on the side of a road near Moscow. They
were slowly poking at the earth beneath the blazing summer sun. The scene would have been
utterly familiar if not for one fact: All three men were black.
Russia is becoming ever more multicultural, much to the horror of the guardians of racial
purity. Along with memories of its former greatness, Russia, like any empire, has inherited
much human capital, which far from everyone is prepared to accept. Following the collapse
of the Soviet Union, a multitude of "foreigners" from the former "fraternal republics"
remained on Russian territory. After the war in Afghanistan, large numbers of refugees
arrived from that country. Refugees and migrants continue to arrive from Tajikistan, Vietnam,
China and Africa. In principle, this should fill us with optimism for it suggests that our
country holds some attraction.
Patriotic public opinion, alas, is obsessed with one question: Will Russians remain the
majority ethnic group? In every new arrival they see only a threat to the territorial
integrity of the state. In every Moslem, a terrorist. In every Chinese, a dangerous
competitor and potential conqueror.
On the face of it, there would seem to be no cause for concern. Ethnic Russians make up the
overwhelming majority of the country's population. But the nationalist press is already
sounding the alarm. More importantly, the birth rate among non-Russians is higher than
among Russians.
Russia's demographic crisis is real. But the fact is that closing our borders and oppressing
non-Russians is not a realistic response. Quite the opposite. We should We should expand
immigration on the obvious condition that steps be taken to make the new arrivals feel a part
of their new homeland. Russia was ever ethnically homogeneous. By the eve of the 17th century,
highborn, Christianized Tatars formed the basis of the Muscovite aristocracy. Ugro-Finnic and
Turkic tribes blended with the ruling peoples, sometimes dissolving without a trace. The
Russian language and culture were sufficiently vigorous to absorb every group.
We now have Chinese restaurants and Vietnamese markets. Immigrants bring all their talents
to their new homeland. They are ready to work. They thankfully accept any assistance, and
they are prepared to prove their usefulness to their new country. If not for all this, the
United States and Canada would likely not have such wealthy and dynamically developing
societies.
A rising birth rate is inseparable from rising immigration. The future of ethnic Russians
depends on the extent to which Russian culture can absorb new arrivals. And this, in
turn, is conditioned upon a basic respect for the human dignity of all those who live here.
We complain about the Estonians, who have dragged their feet on granting full civil rights
to their Russian-speaking population. We are troubled that in Latvia the children of mixed
marriages face discrimination. But even as it hands out passports to millions of Tatars and
Caucasians, the Russian government continues to view them with suspicion. Tajiks, Uzbeks,
Azeris, Moldovans and Ukrainians are favored with the right to beg for alms or work for
peanuts. But Afghans, Chinese, Vietnamese and Nigerians are very nearly viewed as potential
invaders.
Despite all this, Russia's ethnic minorities to date have presented no danger to the
authorities. In fact, they have displayed far greater loyalty to the government than
could possibly be expected, given our government's policies and the pronouncements of our
official ideologists. Unfortunately, the main roadblock in their way is the Russian
government itself.
Boris Kagarlitsky is a Moscow-based sociologist.
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