Both the author and the subject of the speech are heroes of the Russian White Movement, one that sought, and so far has failed to topple the illegitimate Bolshevik government of Russia, now in the ninth decade of its accursed existence. The author is Ivan Ilyin a brilliant philosopher and an inspiration for the White Movement to this day. The hero here spoken about is the White Army general Lavr Kornilov, whose revolt against the revolutionary provisional government of Russian in July 1917 was the first popular uprising against the pseudo-democratic lawlessness, that doomed the Russian Empire and released the demons of the Bolshevik Revolution. It is indicative that he was among the conspirators against the Tsar (possibly the “errors” Ilyin speaks about), so it can be said that Kornilov represents both the worst of the Russian nation that murdered its lawful Tsar and consequently murdered itself, and her best as she rose against Bolshevism just a year later, under the White Army banners. Several photographs illustrate the faces and the symbols of that uprising.
Another reason I publish this translation is to illustrate what a decline the Western social thought has experienced in the past century. Who speaks today of heroism, the Fatherland, valor, faith? Yet how do we intend to comprehend, let alone alter the course of our own nation’s history if we lost the very language of social discourse? Are we then to wonder that we are lead – to spiritual and economic ruin -- by an imbecile with a scant connection to the American nation and an empty smile? May not America of tomorrow be a vanishing nation that Russia is today.
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It is brilliant, and I see its application to other countries as well. Thank you.
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