It was Tsar Lazar's choice, was it not my Balkan brother?
Posted on 03/09/2008 8:42:14 AM PDT by Ravnagora
Today the fascist threat is coming from Moscow, which supports islamofascist jihad all over the world from Sudan to Iran. Your fascist hero Vladimir Putin has riled up ethnic Russian minorities in former Soviet Republics just like Hitler did with Sudeten Germans. He has persecuted Russians of Georgian descent as well as other ethnic minorities and he has nationalized Russia's energy industry, just like his comrade Hugo Chavez in Venezeula. Putin has armed the antisemitic nazi Chavez as well as Iran and Hizballah to help them wipe Israel off the map. Fascist Russia is a menace to the whole world.
Anything to say about the video and what it says about that man Bush and what he supports in America’s name?
If there were time left, and I understand there isn’t, do you think a president who supports the destruction of Christian communities, who this year will pay over $375,000,000.00 of the taxpayers’ dollars to finance that Mohammedan destruction should be impeached and tried and convicted in the Senate of high crimes and misdemeanors? If not, why not? Is the financing of Mohammedan terrorism a crime against humanity which might be actionable in some tribunal?
I’m not sure if you mean “The Serbian nation in a nutshell” as a compliment or as sarcasm in reference to the quoted statement in the article you are referring to.
But you are right. That is how the Serbs are. If they are guilty of anything, it is that they will always treat strangers better than they treat each other and themselves. That includes their enemies. If any group of people ever lived the Christian command to ‘forgive those who have trespassed against them’ and ‘love thy enemy’, it is the Serbs.
And they have paid and paid and paid for it.
But, God sees everything and in the end everything will come out in the wash.
Thanks very much for posting this portrait of General Mihailovich. It was painted by Wisconsin portrait artist Jim Pollard.
The main menace to the stability of the world is Saudi Arabia not little ‘ol Venezuela FGS! Russia is moving to the side of the Saudis and leaving the Iranians in the dust. We are being morally bankrupted by our foreign policy based on a narrowly defined business model and a romantic idealization of the Muslim world and has been further undermined by cold war dinosaurs who are incapable of understanding the world before the Bolshevik revolution.
Very sad.
“Thanks very much for posting this portrait of General Mihailovich. It was painted by Wisconsin portrait artist Jim Pollard.”
I think it captures the innate nobility of the man. At one point the portrait hung in the +Sava Center in Milwaukee. I don’t know if it still does.
I had never thought of that Eleni mou, but you are absolutely right. Bush and Clinton and their crowd really have absolutely no appreciation of that world at all and certainly no understanding or acceptance of the fact that that 2000 year old Orthodox Christian culture is still very, very much alive and filled with an intention to continue to live despite the best efforts of arrogant Western sodomite secularists and their allies the savage Mohammedans. Looked at from the long view of Orthodox history, the present disastrous conduct of Bush foreign policy looks not only destined for failure, but also both silly and pretentious.
I’m pretty sure it does.
“Innate nobility” is so right. General Mihailovich was not a vain main. He didn’t wear fancy uniforms and medals and such. He was not a Prima Donna. If you weren’t paying attention, you could easily mistake him for one of his guerrilla fighters. He was also a man of his people. But he was also an educated, insightful and wise man. He was warning his countrymen and leaders before the war ever came what the long term consequences would be for Yugoslavia should the war come to their homeland.
He was right.
It was Tsar Lazar's choice, was it not my Balkan brother?
Great insight, Eleni121.
If one studies the pre-World War One world one would discover that it was quite modern and progressive in many ways. Though “progress” is often viewed through a post WWI prism (and indeed, the Great War was responsible for much modernization) there is a great deal to be said for the “old civilization”.
Serbs have been around for a long, long time. And they have behaved in a far more civilized way than those who would condemn them as “barbaric”.
To understand Kosovo, one must know the story of Tsar Lazar. He chose the kingdom of heaven over the earthly kingdom when the Turks attacked the Serbs in 1389 on the fields of Kosovo. It was in that righteous defeat, a defeat that relegated the Serbs to 500 years of Ottoman Empire rule, hence the emergence of the “Bosnian Moslems”, where the history and soul of Kosovo lies.
No one said it better than British historian William Harold Temperley in 1918:
“There is no race which has shown a more heroic desire for freedom than the Serbs or achieved it with less aid from others or at more sacrifice to itself.”
“To understand Kosovo, one must know the story of Tsar Lazar. He chose the kingdom of heaven over the earthly kingdom when the Turks attacked the Serbs in 1389 on the fields of Kosovo. It was in that righteous defeat, a defeat that relegated the Serbs to 500 years of Ottoman Empire rule, hence the emergence of the “Bosnian Moslems”, where the history and soul of Kosovo lies.”
The rootless people who populate the elites of this country haven’t a clue about that sort of history. For those of us with an ancestry from the Orthodox world, 1389 or a Tuesday in May, 1453 are as real as yesterday. Some of us even know the names of our ancestors who participated in the events of those days. These were our bedtime stories and are the stories we have passed on to our children.
But not the Bushes or the Clintons of this world and even less so the people who advise them. They are lucky if they comprehend the week old dynamics of inter-county rivalries 5 miles beyond the outer limits of Peoria. Kyrie Eleison!
And you support the burning of Christian Churches in Kosovo, apparently.
Closing your eyes to the Islamofascist threat.
Maybe when the next 9/11 happens, if you lose someone you care about, you’ll realize your errors.
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