Review of the book “Russie-Occident – une guerre de mille ans: La russophobie de Charlemagne à la Crise Ukrainienne” (“The West vs Russia – a thousand year long war: russophobia from Charlemange to the Ukrainian Crisis”) by Guy Mettan, Editions des Syrtes, Genève, Suisse, 2015 (www.editions-syrtes.com).
Initially, I planed to write a ‘regular’ review of this book, but by the time I finished reading it I realize that nothing short of a standing ovation would do justice to this absolutely remarkable book. Guy Mettan produced a masterpiece which ought to be on the “must read” list of every person interested in Russia. So let me tell you why this book is amazing.
For one thing, this is one of the best and clearest study of russophobia I have ever read. Second, it is one of the few studies of this topic written by a non-Russian (Guy Mettan is a Swiss author, reporter, editor and political figure). Last but not least, the book is very short, less than 500 pages, which for such a complex topic is truly remarkable.
Mettan uses a very systematic, step by step, approach. He begins by giving a few examples of the incredibly anti-Russian way a few well-known incident have been covered in the western press: the crash of Überlingen, the Beslan hostage crisis, the 2nd war in Ossetia and the Olympic Games in Sochi. Mettan could have used another 500 or so examples, but with these four he makes an irrefutable case that the western media does not even try to report honestly from Russia and that all the western elites care about is Russia bashing. Mettan then uses the Ukrainian crisis as his strongest proof and lists numerous examples of, shall we say, deliberate western blindness. By the time you are done with the first part of this book you will see that russophobia is simply not a deniable phenomenon.
But Mettan does not stop there, however. He goes one step further at looks at the history of the various russophobias (plural).
Here is were Mettan is at his best and where has the courage and intellectual precision to look as far back as the 9th century to look into the first and most important cause of all the russophobias in the West: the schism resulting from the attempted coup by the Franks in the West to first usurp the power inside the Western Roman Empire, here they succeeded, and then take control of the Eastern Roman Empire (incorrectly called “Byzantine Empire” in western parlance), here they failed.
Mettan speaks of the “soft power” (in English) of religion in the VIIIth century and compares the position of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation against the “Byzantine Empire” to the NATO stance against Russia today. And while this kind of insight will definitely earn Mettan many sneers, he is absolutely correct: as soon as the Frankish controlled Papacy broke away from the rest of the Christian world it became obsessed with subjugating, converting and destroying the Orthodox world. You cannot understand modern Russia and her position in the world unless you understand the 1000 year old Papist hatred for the original Christian world.
Logically, Mettan begins by analyzing the cultural and philosophical roots of this earliest form of proto-russophobia, the Papist hatred for the original Christian world, but he soon switches to more recent forms of russophobia. They are the French russophobia, the English russophobia, the German russophobia and the American russophobia. Each of these empires hated Russia, much for the same reasons, but also in a different way and for unique reasons. And Mettan therefore logically concludes that the current American russophobia is really a combination of the other European russophobias.
But here I have to mention the biggest failure of Mettan’s otherwise absolutely magnificent book: Mettan completely overlooks one of the most formidable and, indeed, vicious russophobias out there: the Jewish russophobia.
Now maybe Mettan decided not to tackle this one due to the severity of the social, political and even criminal persecution any critique of anything Jewish exposes himself to in Europe (not everybody is willing, or capable, of being an Alain Soral). Or not mentioning Jews was the condition to find an publisher for the book. I don’t know. But one thing I will never believe is that a person with the truly superb understanding of history and of the modern world like Mettan would be simple unaware of the phenonenon of Jewish russophobia. That is, quite simply, impossible.
Whatever may be the case, Mettan does not mention Jews at all. Even when he lists the US neocons, he does not mention the fact that the vast majority of them are Jews. This is clearly a huge “oversight”, a gaping hole in the otherwise superb scholarship of this book, and one can only hope that in future editions this book will include the vast corpus of studies of Jewish russophobia by such authors as Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Igor Shafarevich, Andrei Dikii, Mikhail Nazarov, Oleg Platonov and many other authors. For the time being, and as a direct result of this “oversight” the russophobia of Trotskysts, for example, is never mentioned.
[Sidebar: I don’t want to be too hard on Mettan, not only is his book absolutely superb, but it is hard for me to fully appreciate the risks any European author (and editor) would take by daring to criticize anything Jewish. Besides, it is not like the info about this cannot be found on the Internet – it can and rather easily. Even Solzhenitsyn’s book “200 years together” has now been partially translated into English, so slowly but surely the wall of censorship is coming down. But at the same time, the vicious persecution of Alain Soral or of the many historians who dared to question the official narrative of the so-called “Holocaust” is also a telling example of what can happen to somebody daring to cross the invisible but well-known line of crimethink: at the very least, any such crimethinker becomes a “non-person” and loses his/her career. Others have had to live in exile or face constant lawsuits and even jail terms.]
Mettan concludes his book by a most interesting analysis of what he called a “russophobia how-to” in which he looks at how words are used, how topics are framed, how certain issues are simply never addressed and questions never asked. It is frankly a most discouraging and yet also most interesting read. Reading Mettan’s conclusions I was left wondering if this 1000 year old river of hate would ever dry up. On one hand, as long as the West is under the influence of messianic ideologies, imperial delusions and racist views of the “other” I am not very optimistic (messianism, imperialism and racisms are all western creations). But on the other hand, russophobias were always the product of Empire, be it the Papacy, or the modern Anglo-Zionist Empire. “Normal” countries really have not need for any russophobic ideology or worldview. And since the current US Anglo-Zionist Empire is probably the last western Empire of any kind, there is good hope that imperialism, as a phenomenon, will finally bite the dust. If that ever happens, and I believe that it will, russophobia will finally end up in the same trash heaps of history as all the other ideologies whose sole purpose was to rationalize and explain away western wars of conquest.
I will conclude this review by saying that Mettan’s book absolutely needs to be translated into English and published in the English-speaking world. For the lucky ones who can read French, the book is already available on the French Amazon (https://www.amazon.fr/Russie-Occident-une-guerre-mille-ans/dp/2940523185/) and elsewhere. But since it is the English-speaking world which is now used by the trans-national class of 1%er parasites running the Anglo-Zionist Empire it is absolutely crucial that the English speaking people be given access to this book (at least in the form of a free to copy PDF file).
There is absolutely no objective reason whatsoever for Russia and Europe to be enemies. All the hatred and wars between these two civilizational realms are the product of lies carefully crafted by the common enemies of the people of Russia and the people of Europe. These people also happen to be the enemies of Islam, of Latin America, of China and of any other culture or nation daring to refuse to be subjugated by the trans-national turbocapitalist financial system often referred to as the New World Order (NWO). This is becoming so evident that one is tempted to further simplify the well-known Marxist slogan and say “people of the word – unite!”. I would say that while such a goal is really still far away, there are also some signs that more and more people are beginning to realize this.
Guy Mettan’s book is a formidable deconstruction of the imperialist mindset and as such it is truly a “must read”. It is short, very well written and deserves to printed in million of copies. Alas, this is clearly not going to happen, at least not as long as the media is controlled by the Empire. Still, I hope that Mettan finds a good editor in the USA and that once his book appears in print, he will also release a free PDF versions in French, Russian, Spanish and English.
When the first English translation of the book is made and printed, I will definitely let you all know on the blog. In the meantime, I want to thank Guy Mettan for his formidable contribution to the understanding of this important phenomenon and express my hopes that as many people as possible read his superb book.
The Saker
PS: please also read the excellent review of this book by Ivo Rens: http://arretsurinfo.ch/guy-mettans-book-on-russophobia-an-important-contribution-to-the-demystification-of-international-relations/.
“robably the last western Empire of any kind, there is good hope that imperialism, as a phenomenon, will finally bite the dust”
-Well, given that imperialism is hardly a trait unique or limited to the west or Europe, I find that highly unlikely, as long as there are humans there will be imperalism.
And for all those racialist who believes that everything in the world is the fault of people born with lighter skin tone and once whites are made into a marginalised minority in their own countries the world will be wondrous and perfect, they will be disappointed.. But until then – they can run around for awhile in supremacists groups such as La Raza and BLM and cry that everyone born with white skin should give them free stuff.
Anon (of course) you seem to have mistaken this place for Stormfront, or some Murdoch sewer.
While Russophobic is certainly a thing, probably the main phobia in the west, end certainly the only one pushed by the western states offically.. It is not really something supported by western people, most western people think Russians are cool and considered them brother Europeans, the only place russophobic really sticks is in Poland and baltics, and maybe Ukraine.. There Russophobia is state policy and culture, but in the west it is only state policy with little to no popular support. Only 9% of Germans for example support moving NATO troops to the baltics.
But there is nothing unique ethnic-phobias. Brittish would dislike Germans and be germanphobe, French would dislike the brittish and be Britishphobes, Scots would dislike English and be englandphobes and use various traits and such from these culture to justify their phobias. It is hardly a unique thing for Europeans to dislike eachother.. Today it just happens that the western government have a fairly united propaganda approach due to world war 2 leaving w.europe in USA hands, giving W.Europe a unified ideolog(Culturalmarxism/Political correctness/Multiculturalism) that is very opposed to Russia ideology of traditionalism.
If Russia were to become a Political correct country, then russophobia would vanish from western media and the new Russian government would be declared “democratic” and “progressive”.. And if the western PC governments were overthrown and traditionalist such as Marine Le Pen, Farage, Wilders took over, Russophobia would again vanish, and Russia would be described as “European brothers” and a “Greater Europe” would be proclaim where Russia and the west would unite in various trade and military agreements.
And for all those who will jump in and go “derp derp white skins are always rotten and racist even to eachothers” the same phobia rules are true for all other human ethnic groups, Japanese would dislike Chinese, Koreans would dislike Japanese and Chinese.. One african village would dislike the other village across the river. And so on.
I know for sure that russophobia is widely presented among ordinary people in Sweden, most probably in Norway too and I’m pretty sure it is at least moderately spread in England.
My guess is that russophobia is strong even in Danmark and Netherlands and I would be surprised if this is not the case in Germany too despite not supporting NATO actions (so widespread MSM propaganda is most certainly formed the minds of many germans).
I’m not denying that this is product of propaganda and indoctrinating through “education” and MSM but it is the fact nevertheless.
It isn’t, unless you have some opinion poll to verify your claim, I live in Sweden I can assure you there is pretty much no russophobic here among the public.. The journalists, politicians, and liberals in general are of course terrified that there exists a large conservative European country, media is always hammering on various anti-Russian conspiracy theories, but it has very little traction among the people. And if you encounter a “swede” that is very anti-Russian, most likely he or she is a immigrant from Poland or the baltics. These tend to be the most dedicated NATO-trolls on Swedish forums. Always spamming “Putler Putler, RuSSia” and so forth.
In my experience Russophobia is very weak in Germany, and almost non-existent in eastern Germany. German really likes Russia, especially the business circles.
It is a bit interesting but in the west, russophobia is a “left-liberal-progressive” thing, while the “right-nationalist-conservative” is pro-Russian.
In W.Europe nationalism is pro-Russian.
In E.Europe nationalism is anti-Russian.
Swedish Russophobia has always been an ideological (not fact-based) obsession very much prevalent in the Officer Corps, the judiciary, and of course the media. It also used to enjoy appreciable credibility among the majority population — in other words, it can be said to have been genuinely mainstream. The hysterical lies and slanders peddled by the Swedish corporate media throughout the years 1981 – 1986 about countless intruding Russian submarines were generally accepted as fact despite the outright preposterous, imbecilic claims being made.
Today, however, things are changing. To a certain degree, this is due to the dynamics of demographics/immigration, but more than anything else it’s the social disintegration and decomposition in the form of all-out, irreversible neoliberal rot, courtesy of the EU. The social cohesion brought about previously by appropriating the spoils of Western imperialism through the good offices of a strong Social Democratic welfare state is fading. Sure, identifying oneself as an Empire-protected and well-off Swedish national firmly believing in the Western Elites does remain an article of faith among the baby-boomers (forget about any phony story-telling about “1968”) and the upper middle classes regardless of age, but the wondrous joys of rampant, EU driven corruption and ever worsening housing and working conditions accompanied by decaying infrastructure and the prospect of armed European conflict as per 100% unilateral request by NATO have rendered the poison of Russophobia ever less effective. This becomes very evident indeed when reading (the still remaining) comment sections available in the corporate media and, of course, the online political discussion forums available elsewhere (lousy Putin-bots polluting the internet just about everywhere).
I conclude by saluting the perspicacity of the observation made by my Anonymous compatriot on July 15, 2016,12:57 am UTC: “In the west, Russophobia is a ‘left-liberal-progressive’ thing”. As far as Sweden is concerned, that is a scientifically accurate assessment indeed. Left/Liberals = Narcissistic Zio-gays forever in deepest harmony with George Soros and his “Open Society” and forever hating lousy “authoritarians” such as you-know-who.
Fifty percent of the population are of below median intelligence. I worked for years in a situation where I met thousands of people over the years and often chatted about ‘events’. I would say the 1% or so knew ANYTHING not promulgated by the MSM brainwashing system, and more than half didn’t even know those lies. And Western populations are the most brainwashed anywhere, with relentless indoctrination from MSM, advertising, entertainment and PR apparatuses all totally controlled by Rightwing business interests. And they have the effing gall to call it (increasingly lately) the ‘Free World’, as if the Cold War never went away (which it didn’t).
“If Russia were to become a Political Correct country, then Russophobia would vanish from Western media and the new Russian government would be declared ‘democratic’ and ‘progressive’ “.
“If Russia were to become a Political Correct country, then Russophobia would vanish from Western media and the new Russian government would be declared ‘democratic’ and ‘progressive’ “
Actually, it wouldn’t. The Russian state could well try and promote/eulogise paedophilia, incest, sodomy, faggotry, and Pussy Riot to please its Western ‘partners’, but what really matters here is what Yeltsin was willing to ‘let-loose-for-a-truckload-of-booze’: Russia’s annihilation.
Where can I buy this book translated into English?
Mike Pence, a non Jewish, non Trotskyst ( attention : Saker) neocon is Trump’s VP choice to be announced formally. He was on the Foreign Affairs committe of the House of Representatives since 2011 and is beloved of Netanyahu, Koch brothers and Steve Forbes.
For those who have any illusions about Trump’s campaign and the future of the world, consider this—If something untoward should happen to Trump, this man will be President of the United States. And Just in case, Killary is totally discredited in the eyes of the American people who then refuse to be bullied into voting for her. Those are two very real possibilities.
Stay strong, Russia!
You did not mention the 1000 year of Moscow expansion, which I think is the main reson for the oldest fear of Russia.
What, like 1813 and 1945? Both times, after conquering Europe they packed up and went home.
When will your beloved American friends be leaving?
It would be good to actually look at that expansion. You’ll find that in almost all cases it was reclaiming lands stolen from Rus during the Mongol invasions by other European states. Or gained from states that had stolen the lands themselves in the past.Areas of Finland,Estonia,and Latvia,were gained from Sweden.Not from the native peoples of those lands. Sweden had itself gained those areas by seizing them from others.The Asian lands were gained after those areas were used as bases to attack Russia from.And Russia annexed them as self-defense.Which was also how the Central Asian areas were gained The Caucasus regions were gained by liberating the native peoples from outside conquers that were oppressing them. Both Georgia and Armenia, begged over and over, for Russia to save them.The only case that “might” be different was Poland.But even there it wasn’t clear cut. Russia had reclaimed the Rus lands only, at first. Then Napoleon had created the Duchy of Warsaw from some ethnic Polish areas.With his defeat it was an open question what to do with that area. Had Russia not taken it as a “Kingdom of Poland” and given it autonomy. It would have been taken by Prussia and Austria. None of those countries was going to allow an independent Poland at that time.When the Poles revolted against the Tsar (twice) was when Russia annexed the “Kingdom” directly into Russia and abolished their autonomy.It is “interesting” that while Russia built her Empire through self-defense and reclaiming stolen territory. The other great powers in Europe were building great Empires built solely on greed and naked conquest.And yet people seem to overlook those cases in their desire to condemn Russia. The one great Empire that “didn’t” do that.
One can only say this, if one is completely ignorant of historical facts (see uncle bob’s reply).
@unaware of the phenomenon of Jewish russophobia. That is, quite simply, impossible.
Indeed. Without detracting from the merits of the book, one can be excused if suspects it to be a ‘limited hangout operation’, commandited by the principal culprits (the involvment of Vladimir Posner, who wrote the introduction to the Russian translation, is suggestive, to say the least).
“When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further.”
The proverbial pachyderm in the room that nobody is supposed to see!
What reinforce the suspicion is the Freudian slip:
“In essence, Russophobia is akin to anti-Semitism, although, of course, this is not the same. Like anti-Semitism, Russophobia is not a temporary phenomenon associated with certain historical events. Like anti-Semitism, it is rooted primarily in the brain, regardless of how the object of dislike actually behaves. Like anti-Semitism, Russophobia seeks to build certain negative properties of an object of hate into a principle. In our case, it goes about such properties as barbarism, despotism, territorial expansion.”
To make sure that the reader doesn’t get the wrong ideas the reviewer Ivo Rens elaborates: “Like it, it takes various forms, as it has evolved in different contexts in different countries. So it is not the result of a plot, as it does not develop in secret. It is propagated openly by the press and, more generally, by the media.”
The message is clear: ‘It is not a plot’. ‘Russophobia’ is a psychopathology like anti-semitism, without object! The hatred of the vapid ‘Other’! The result of “stereotypes that arose from the split between Orthodoxy and Catholicism.” Not of a continuous propagandistic war and psyop operations subordinated to concrete plans to conquer and plunder Russia, the inevitable sequel of the successful first phase of the plan (the conquest of Byzance by the undeclared unholy alliance of Western powers and Islam, which actually was foreshadowed by the Abbasid-Carolingian alliance – in which the Jew Isaac Judaeus played a prominent role). Not, of course, that Mettan would as much as suggest that an essential piece of the anti-Russian propaganda, reaching hysterical pitches, was the ‘persecution of the Jews’ due to the ‘canard that Jews have killed Jesus’, to the ‘canard of Jewish conspiracy’, to Russians ‘visceral anti-Semitism’ instilled by the Orthodox Church.
Besides, I am not sure that the author has a real grasp of Russian history.
WizOZ, I have come across your reference to a Western/Catholic and Islamic alliance against the Byzantines. Do you have any books or references you consider trustworthy? It is a most intriguing subject.
Read about the machinations in the run up to the Crimean war 1853-56.
This is an enormous subject and there are myriads of books, articles relating to the treacherous relations of the Latin West with Byzantium.
A reasonably good start can be Wikipedia.
Abbasid–Carolingian alliance – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fall of Constantinople – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Franco-Ottoman alliance – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Protestantism and Islam – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christian Allies of the Ottoman Empire, by Emrah Safa Gürkan @http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/models-and-stereotypes/from-the-turkish-menace-to-orientalism/emrah-safa-gurkan-christian-allies-of-the-ottoman-empire
Thanks for the reply. Looks like I have my homework for the weekend.
but Constantinople was what Byzantium became when Constantine took the Palladium there.
And the Young Turks (who are said to be jews) were the reason for killings of Armenians. Germans who were allies to the Turks gave advice.
Some very perceptive observations WizOz; ‘Limited hangout’ flashed at me too.
Saker’s explanation for the complete ommission of ‘Jewish Power’ as a fundamental – one might say catalytic – element of the entire story, is as always generous – but whatever the case, it is a solid demonstration of that same ‘Jewish Power’ that has steered world events with increasing success (for the Jews) ever since the 10th century.
WizOz, whenever I see the garbage that the mythical ‘antisemitism’ is the product of an unthinking psychopathology, I am reminded of Bernard Lazare’s observations.
This French Jewish thinker, an early supporter of Dreyfus, was a dedicated opponent of Judeophobia, not unnaturally. He was intellectually honest enough (and perhaps actually interested in reducing its prevalence, not just using it as a tactic to control host societies)to observe that Judeophobia had appeared in virtually all the societies in which Jews had lived, over the centuries. Societies differing in every way, in racial make-up, religion, social mores, social development, geography, history etc, but all in conflict with the Jews.
Lazare simply observed that these conflicts COULD NOT have all been totally the fault of the goyim, and that Israel (ie the Jews) MUST bear some of the blame. This commonsense observation, need we observe, is total anathema in the West these days, where ‘antisemitism’ is presented as ENTIRELY the fault of the evil, Jew-hating, goyim, and NEVER the fault of those wonderful paragons, the Gods Upon the Earth.
Over the centuries there were long periods where the Jews and the goyim lived in peace, but always, eventually, the Jewish habits of treating Jews and non-Jews differently, and of having fewer or no compunctions in exploiting non-Jews, often pitilessly, and of working for goy feudal elites as tax-farmers and money-lenders, led to conflict. Sometimes pogroms, often expulsions. But all, we MUST attest, entirely the fault of the goyim. Well, it is illogical rubbish, but if you don’t chant it like a mantra, you will be abused as an ‘antisemite’, and, if in public life, driven out. Or, as an old Holocaust survivor observed, ‘Once antisemites were people who hated the Jews, but today they are the people who the Jews hate’.
The important thing to bear in mind is that Russophobia is being promoted by our elites. The same elites who browbeat us about diversity, multiculturalism, white privilege and extol xenophilia are teaching the masses to hate Russians. Why?
Good observation, I often wondered that too. My guess at this moment has to do with the current big economic crisis of the US. The US is right now totally dependent on the dollar as a reserve currency for its survival (as an Empire) they are terrified at the efforts make by Russia and China to decouple from this, therefore, they see war as a solution, specially is the war if between Europe vs Russia and Japan (or some other) against China.
By the power of newspeak the meaning of words can be redefined. As anyone following the latest trends in newspeak knows, only “white people” (note the illusion of white people being single ethnicity) can be racism. We can just add to definition that it’s not racism if it’s towards russians.
Thank you, boss, for a great review.
Seems like an important book and must read.
What’s interesting that Guy Mettan calls “To include, to reinsert on the same footing Russia within Europe,”
It never even occurs to him to check if Russians themselves want this operation perform on them.
I’m sorry to say, but it’s also Russophobic to discuss Russia and its people like some inanimate object. As if it’s for Europeans to decide where Russia should be “reinserted.”
That Russopbobia is not condemned by the UN and other international organization speak volumes about the state of the world today.
The UN condemns “spikes” in anti-Semitism with regularity of a baby’s digestive system, while the European nations and politicians display their hatred of Russians like a badge of honor.
If you look at real news:
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to media questions at a news conference following a meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Caspian States, Astana, July 13, 2016
http://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/2353745?p_p_id=101_INSTANCE_cKNonkJE02Bw&_101_INSTANCE_cKNonkJE02Bw_languageId=en_GB
“Primarily, we want to understand NATO’s clarifications regarding the decisions taken at the summit in Warsaw on July 8-9. The public comments on these decisions are not encouraging. What we are seeing is the prevailing desire to perpetuate an artificial image of Russia as an enemy in order to enforce unity in the ranks and consolidate positions. Unfortunately, our NATO partners are again uniting on the basis of the lowest common denominator, which is formed by the openly Russophobic minority in Western nations.
With regard to future activities of the Russia-NATO Council, we know for a fact – I don’t think I’m revealing a big secret here – that leading NATO countries, primarily European, called for making the work of the Council regular again as it was in the past. But the minority that derives immense pleasure from adopting Russophobic positions completely blocked this proposal, saying that they will have to meet before they can take a decision. It looks like that they are playing a game of their own and fail to understand the important events that are unfolding.
I’m referring to the division in Europe.”
Actually, the translation doesn’t reflect the meaning of his words.
Lavrov: Russophobic minority in EU doesn’t understand the process of “real alienation of the European continent.”
Russia is now a leader of the non-Western world, not in a military or political sense, but in a moral, ethical and religion stance with those who are struggling for independence from the West.
Science, development, technologies, dynamic population, cultures and arts all belong to Eurasia now. Gradually, Eurasia will assist Africa and Latin America to liberate themselves. Right now, we all work for financial drain that goes to the West. All we need is establishment of the our own patriotic elites, and we will succeed beyond our dreams.
Europe will be completely alienated from the rest of the world by the US occupation and its own hubris, racism and Russophobia. The whole Europe, for the exception, may be, of France, Italy and Germany.
Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil?
The most Russophobic Baltic “countries” lost up to 60% of the population since they got separated from Russia. They lost all their industries. They are turned into NATO military bases, and nothing else. They might show us something. Like, the future of Europe.
For those speaking French I suggest to order directly from http://www.editions-syrtes.fr – no need to support Amazon if it can be avoided!
Cheers,
Erast
“Mettan could have used another 500 or so examples, but with these four he makes an irrefutable case that the western media does not even try to report honestly from Russia and that all the western elites care about is Russia bashing.”
I think that unless the author, Guy Mettan, was ready and willing to produce an opus that would occupy the same space on the shelf as Encyclopaedia Brittanica, then there’s no way to cover the history of this totally. Probably, it needs to be done. It’s an epic tale, with all the classical elements of the hero-epic and verily, it is to be understood otherwise the true history of our world for the last two milleniums escapes you. Understand that without even a rough overview, you haven’t got any understanding of what we see going on today. It’s clear to me that what we see coming from our world’s mass media is solid proof that beyond not knowing the history, they are actively engaged in covering up and revisionism.
I’m going to go ahead and say it: Contained within the history of this chronic Russophobia is the very destiny of Planet Earth. The way this turns out in the end is what the fates of all of us depend upon. At the brass tacks level, this is the forces of light against the dark forces currently ruling this planet and in our western-influenced part of the world, the Russian empire is portrayed as dark, mysterious, and deadly evil. On the other hand, what else would we expect them to say to us about their only creditable enemy? But don’t be fooled because given another way, what we have is a very long running death-feud between two powerful elite houses: House Rothschild (Khazarian-Jewish) and House Romanov. It goes back for centuries, but we have to keep from forgetting the origins of this feud dating back to the 8th century and perhaps even earlier.
Excellent review and comments. My understanding of the reason behind this hatred of Russia goes way, way back. I base it partly on the Russian philosopher, Irene Caesar’s thoughts.
I’ve always been intrigued by why there are blue and brown eyed persons, with various colors in between. I don’t buy the mainstream explanations.
Brown eyes would derive from the standard history of our origin in Africa. But blue eyes?
I believe there was another origin of the human species, and perhaps others over the long time span of earth. Our extraterrestrial ancestors (I call them lovers) created our species “in their own image,” as the bible puts it, wrongly, with the bias of patriarchy.
One origin is the long development through gorillas, chimps, hominoids and finally humans. We were grafted onto animal stock. The other origin is from the extraterrestrial lovers more directly through love technology. This other, forgotten method came through the North Pole magnetic field, and did not require a long development, but relied on love technology. Our species “appeared” fully formed with fair skin and blue eyes. With their advanced technology, they could survive in the cold (and warm summered North).
In the meantime, in Africa as patriarchy grew stronger, with the killing of animals and the subjugation of the womam centered culture, we left Africa northward, following and killing animals all along the way. Eventually the blue and brown eyes met and had sex. Also, along the way, there was a mixed breed who were traders along those trade routes.
Today, the descendants of these mixed bloods are best represented by the Jewish Khazars, who are rather schizophrenic. They distrust both the fair and dark skinned ones, with a self-hatred projected out to both groups, but especially the blue eyes from the North, because they can’t control them, due to the residues of the love technologies of the fair skinned. The mixed bloods can and do control the brown eyes much more readily.
The mixed bloods now control most of the money and trade. That is slowly changing due to the resurgence of Russia. The Khazars see control slipping from them. They cannot live without controlling others, parasites as they are. They are now focusing on advanced methods of mind control, which they believe will undermine Russia from within.
There are many signs that the Khazars are being successful. Russians are buying into the western patriarchal value system. Orthodoxy itself is largely patriarchal. The oligarchs are patriarchal. Usury and the push for evermore growth is patriarchal, to name just a few elements.
For my part, here on this blog, I have analyzed these factors, mostly at the cafe, with the metaphor of the Love Army, which considers patriarchy to be enemy number one. There are ten main ideas and actions, portrayed as army divisions. So far, this idea does not have much traction, but it will as time goes on, and the situation gets worse. “Time will tell who has won and who has fell, and who has been left behind, when you go your way and I go mine.”
Even if I am the only one, I am going with the Love Army (with its power source, the Love Amory [from the Latin word, amor or love]).
This war between love and power seems to be endemic in the universe, because love requires freedom to choose (and suffer the consequences). The chickens (and chicken-hawks) are now coming home to roost. We will get what we deserve, by the law of justice. But there is an easier way, which I favor, and that is to go directly to love, or the Love Army, if you will.
@Jewish Khazars…distrust both the fair and dark skinned ones…but especially the blue eyes from the North
Khazars have been described as “their complexions are white, their eyes blue, their hair flowing and predominately reddish”. Many Ashkenazi are white, blond, reddish, blue eyed, often freckled, but “Jewish” to the boot.
Basically, if I understand correctly this feud is a very old Religious war.
Unless Russian Orthodoxy is rooted out completely the feud will continue.
It is not for a lack of trying but Orthodoxy seems difficult to root out permanently!
This peaks my interest what makes Russian Orthodoxy so dangerous to the Jehova worshippers it seems to scare them shitless.
Orthodoxy as such is dangerous for all ‘Jehova worshippers’ because it worships Jesus Christ and keep his commandments and promises:
“God exalted Him to the highest place, and gave Him the name above all names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth”,
“And to Him was given dominion, Glory and a kingdom, That all the peoples, nations and men of every language Might serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion Which will not pass away; And His kingdom is one Which will not be destroyed.”
“He displayed this power in the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in the one to come.…”
And Jesus said to the ‘Jehovah worshippers’: “Therefore say I to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, …
“The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness. And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth”.
I am no expert on Judaism but do remember seeing a comment by Foxman, the capo of the stand-over gang, the ADL, that Hitler’s real crime was not genocide, but deicide, because by killing the Jews he was attempting to kill God, because the Jews were God. I have seen other intimations of such a belief elsewhere, but it appears to be either a more or less secret teaching, or a disputed one, and Judaism is notoriously disputatious.
“/…/ the current American Russophobia is really a combination of the other European Russophobias.”
A little superficial in my view. Pindos are die-hard, genocidal National Socialists that won’t settle for anything but total subjugation and looting of the overwhelming non-exceptional global majority whose very existence only elicits rage, hate, contempt, and disgust (or, at best, total indifference). Russia under Putin, like the USSR earlier, is correctly perceived as anathema to US imperial designs. Given the level of parasitism and the corresponding commitment to outright Satanism that usually goes with it, the case for American Russophobia is 100% out in the open. It is totally indistinguishable from that of Nazi Germany.
The USA and its Western stooges are VASTLY more Evil than Nazi Germany. The Nazis only lasted thirteen years, were widely admired by Anglo elites and based their racialist policies on eugenicist practises arising in the UK and USA. The Nazis killed or caused the deaths of 50-60 million, at least an order of magnitude fewer than the USA has caused since 1620, and England killed tens of millions, principally in India and Africa. And US global hegemony is totalitarian in a way that Germany never even approached, demanding TOTAL obedience from EVERY state on Earth, and the opening up of their economies and societies to US and Western exploitation, and the adoption of the US ‘way of life’ ie elite rule by tiny tribal groups, amidst widespread and deepening poverty and inequality.
As we know, the US never forgives. Since the Cuban missile crisis which the Soviets a most used nuclear submarine, this showed how these two nations were/are enemies. The breakup of soviet union and now the US is the sole superpower, the table has turned around seriously threatening Russia by its borders. Knowing US history, they always go back for revenge no matter how long: the black hawk down in Somalia, look where Somalia is now, Libya so on.
Very captivating review, indeed. I’ll surely get Guy Mettan’s book since I myself speak French.
As you say, it is imperative that this book be translated in English as most of my English friends seem alas, contaminated by Anglo-Zionist propaganda.
Many thanks
I thought Byzantium was a Greek word city in the Greek ’empire’….
Byzantium is another, older name for Constantinople (now called Istanbul). The Romans changed it to Constantinople to honor Emperor Constantine who moved the capital of the Empire there from Rome. Historians sometimes use Byzantium and the Byzantine Empire to mark the difference between the post-Constantine Empire from the pre-Constantine Roman Empire. Officially it was just known as the “Roman Empire” and sometimes “Eastern Roman Empire” or just “Romania”.
Russo-phobia will only disappear from the (Anti-Christ’s) Modern West when Russia stops her transformation back to her spiritual roots. When Russia endorses a Man marrying another Man, when Russian Orthodox Christianity undergoes a Vatican II type of affair.
So Russians boys and girls buckle up! You are in for an ever greater anti-Russian ride!! Buckle up!
I plan to get the book since I am fluent in French. Thank you Saker for pointing out the absence of Jewish russophobia and your speculations as to why that was not included in the book. Concerning that, I recall that during the soviet era, dissidents communicated using the device of the samizdat, and I wonder, given the huge penalties involved concerning those who cannot be criticised, whether samizdat is the way to go again in our “enlightened” western societies. I don’t know how that could work with present technology or could be implemented on the internet. I haven’t seen this mentioned to date as a possiblity. Except for people like Alan Soral (whom I have not read and who you say is sticking his neck out) and the rabid types one encounters on Youtube or Zerohedge, or some of the godforsaken types who comment on Darkmoon, there doesn’t seem to be any manner that moderate types can communicate some of their queries or misgivings on this topic, eg, if it is ok to say that the famous seven digit number could be said to have been rounded up instead of down. I think the ability to question in no way suggests an animus, and I personally find that sort of animus revolting, but this legal sanctioning of questioning narratives seems to be the camel of totalitarianism sticking its nose under the tent of inalienable rights. While I believe in the Armenian genocide, I was shocked to see that the French are considering heavy penalties for those who do not and say so publically. These laws represent a type of humanitarian Lysenkoism. It is just more treating responsible adults like unruly children, unable to think for themselves.
I still have my old typewriter but I doubt I could find ribbons for it these days.
I agree with the commentor who underlined the extreme importance of the issue of russophobia for the future of the world. It is probably too late to forstall its evil effects. Those who control the boundaries of what can be expressed have total and complete control.
I am old. I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Apparently available not only in French…
I read French, but first decided to double check if it is available in other languages — starting with this review
Mettan book review on English version of Pravda.ru
I’m not endorsing the review, but at the very bottom it says something interesting,
So I went digging. And here’s what I was able to dig up (regarding a Russian version):
moscowbooks.ru
labirint.ru
my-shop.ru
Additionally, the following five links appear to be a segmented Russian translation of the Ivo Rens review — maybe more — but I can’t be sure of that. I haven’t read through it fully as my wife is going to go pick up a hard copy of the book for me today. Hope this is helpful to someone, though.
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5
One other note: I immediately liked the reference to Charlemagne in the reviews, but was hoping to see more on that bygone era.
I have long wondered whether there is another, deeper, factor in the genesis of russophobia — one involving centuries-old contempt — “racial” contempt — (similar to the rationalizations arising out of the African slave trade) built up to justify the the flowering of civilization in Europe in the second half of the tenth century apparently on the backs of wholesale Slavic slave trade to Cordoba and Baghdad via Prague, Venice, and other markets — and all interwoven with the adoption of Eastern Christianity and culminating in the Christian Schism less than a century later. As a source on this subject, see the following link).
Dirhams for slaves. Investigating the Slavic slave trade in the tenth century
Any comments on this?
Jewish Russophobia might be virulent, but it is simply one of the particular hatreds that make up the universe of Jewish goy-hatred. After all Judaism is at root a Bronze Age cult based on the fear of and hatred for all those not of the Godly group, and that basic orientation has not changed to today, and is the real reason behind many of the outbursts of Judeophobia throughout history. A current interesting example of this xenophobia is the ‘binary options’ rackets run from Israel, stealing billions from ‘marks’ around the world, where the Zionazi regime’s only action, so far, has been to ban the rip-offs being inflicted on Israelis. The goyim can go to Hell, as ever.
This gigantic scandal is widely reported, and generally criticised, inside Israel itself, but the Zionazi controlled Western MSM ‘Free Press’, seems strangely uninterested. Odd that-not!
As for Russophobia, at present it has reached peaks of insane, hysterical, fury not seen, to my recollection, even in the days of the USSR. The utterly ludicrous fiction about ‘systematic Russian doping’, a conspiracy where naked collaboration between the filthy, lying, BBC sewer, and the US-controlled WADA has not even been hidden, is a real low point. That the public are being bombarded by the usual 100% Groupthink from the presstitutes of the Western MSM is to be expected, but this story is so ludicrous (secret ‘mouseholes’ to pass rigged samples through??!!)as to even outdo the ‘official’ 9/11 narrative, or the scores of other Western lies over the decades. And all based on the lies of one crooked defector, now being richly rewarded, and concocted by a gaggle of Canadians ie stooges of the USA and the immensely powerful Canadian Ukronazi infestation. And, as ever in the Western ‘Free Press’, no dissent allowed, and no presstitute with the intelligence or decency to point out the story’s ludicrous stupidity. Just caught today’s headline from The Daily Telegraph, a metastasis in Murdoch’s MSM cancer-‘Putin Out the Trash’.
The extraordinary viciousness of the call to ban ALL Russians is truly psychotic-and you can FORGET the 2018 World Cup being allowed to go ahead. And, naturally, reflecting the intellectual puerility of the moribund West, the whole thing is personalised as ‘Putin’, the universal daemon figure. I rather suspect that the West is planning an attack on Syria, as their takfiri death-squads face defeat. Perhaps they are now so desperate as to risk war with Russia, in which case such a truly monstrous hate campaign against Russia as a whole may be just the preparation for the Western publics, so easily roused to ecstasies of hatred these days.
“And, naturally, reflecting the intellectual puerility of the moribund West, the whole thing is personalised as ‘Putin’ “
Right, accompanied by a plethora of unimaginative, tiresome invectives learned by rote: “Kremlin” , “KGB thug” , “Dictator” and what-have-you. Listening to the MSM and their faithful parrots highly resembles walking past a park bench with a bunch of loud, smelly drunkards. As long as there is poison in abundance, the sky is the limit. In either case, it makes about as much sense trying to reason with these specimina. They live in a parallel world where plain, material reality has no place. They flatly reject facts and logic. Complete disinterest in understanding anything.
What do all those Russophobes have in common? Yes, they are all against un-edited oriental orthodox Christianity. I have been thinking, what is it about this original Christianity they don’t like about? In all those nations you mentioned about, there is democracy, transparency, so I thought but there is none about what they do in their foreign policy that is public instead, I watch news and find out the outcome of their classified foreign policy. What do I mean? In the case of what Mettan wrote, it is never publicized about the plan to destroy Orthodox via Russia. Btw, if true hate for Russia is because of the Orthodox faith, then the writer didn’t mention Arab Muslim Russophobia and Turkish Russophobia. The original Christians have been converted/genocided/persecuted you name it in the Arab world and Turkey. Coptic Christians in Egypt are almost disappearing. For the first time, Ethiopia’s orthodox Christians are being challenged by newly engineered Protestants. Arab-influenced Muslims are lurking in the woods ready to strike any time that is making today’s globalization ripe conditions for them. Coming back to Russophobia, I didn’t think since Russia became communist with former Soviet Union, I didn’t think the Russophobes still worry about the orthodox faith. The reason communism came about is exactly to destroy the orthodox Christianity during the Tsarist Russia. Perhaps the West’s obsession against Russia is maybe because the true teachings of Christianity is with the Orthodox. Christianity is probably a masquerade in the West, maybe they are not Christians unless it is a competition. For the muslims against the Orthodox, it is competition as well
The link to the publisher Syrtes is dead. Syrtes has changed from .fr to .com
Otherwise i wonder who is the “old Holocaust survivor” {who} observed, ‘Once antisemites were people who hated the Jews, but today they are the people who the Jews hate’.
by Mulga Mumblebrain on July 19, 2016 · at 9:16 pm UTC
I am gonna stop reading this review at great schism, 1 millennium back and ask why not 2 millenniums. When we talk about West and East church, we have to underline the main difference (quote) a lot earlier:
HISTORY http://www.protomartyr.org/first.html
The Council of Laodicea met in Asia Minor about A.D. 363. This is the first council which clearly listed the canonical books of the present Old and New Testaments, with the exception of the Apocalypse of Saint John. The Laodicean council stated that only the canonical books it listed should be read in church. Its decisions were widely accepted in the Eastern Church.:
Eastern, today Orthodox Church is the only one where is The Revelation FORBIDDEN in Holy Liturgy. When you gonna ask yourself: WHY?
When you going to ask yourself WHY Syria? When you going to overthink political/economic/military reasons? When FALSE apocalypse/FALSE Armageddon occurs, or FALSE 666?
The Antichrist Wrote The Revelation
HISTORY
Lardner said in vol. 4 of his commentary on page 175: “Cyrillus and the Church of Jerusalem did not acknowledge the book of Revelation in their period. Apart from this, the name of this book does not even occur in the list of Canonical books which he wrote.”
On page 323 of the same volume Lardner further said: “Revelation was not the part of Syrian version.”
http://therevelator.freeblog.site/
@Serbian, Thank you for that information. I am glad to learn that the Syrian Church (the oldest Christian Church) does not recognise the Book of Revelations. Even as a child reading the English Authorized Version, I felt a jarring dissonance between Revelations and the Synoptic Gospels. In my later years, Revelations seems to me a provincial (Hellenistic Judean) mixture of ill-digested Greek philosophy and science fiction visions from Ezekiel.