Serbia’s idolization of deranged occultist Alexander Dugin
Branislav Matic: SERBS CONSIDER DUGIN A BROTHER AND FRIEND
Regardless of whether he is really close to Putin, Dugin is a man-symbol whose word moves mountains. But if he had been killed, they would have created a mythical figure, a legend...
Branislav Matic. Photo by Ivan Ivanov.
The poet ("Hyperborean Chronicle", "Island", "Blessings"), editor of the magazine "Serbia - National Review", the author of the Serbian Literary Association Branislav Matic met Alexander Dugin in his youth, in 1992. He published Dugin's first three books in Serbian ("Hyperborean Theory", "Secrets of Eurasia", "Conspiracy Theory"). Branislav Matic recalls his friendship with Alexander Dugin, the "Serbian connection" of the Russian philosopher and the tragic death of his daughter Daria.
- Branislav, how did you meet Alexander Dugin?
- In 1992, while a war planned and directed by external forces broke out on the ruins of the state of the southern Slavs, Alexander Dugin was among the first significant citizens of Russia who visited us and provided us with fraternal support (along with Mikhalkov, Glazunov, Limonov, Prokhanov...). He was 30 then, I was 27. We were introduced by a mutual friend Dragos Kalajic, an outstanding thinker of Europe. Alexander was our guest. He gave a lecture in Belgrade, gave an interview to the Serbian magazine "Our Ideas". Visited the Serbian military with us on the front lines in Bosnia. He could consider some important ideas, his own and ours, in the "light of fire" in which the Republika Srpska was born.
Dragosh Kalaic (1943-2005). Photo by Veritsa Peyakovich
A person of such philosophical-historical, metaphysical and geopolitical literacy, such knowledge and contemplations quite understood what was really happening here. He understood the essence of the Serbian struggle and the meaning of the Serbian idea of the Motherland, the Serbian ideal of freedom and the spiritual vertical. He saw that we there, fighting for the homeland and existence, are not fighting against the lost neighboring converted ethnic groups, but against the planetary empire of evil (exactly as Russia is fighting in Ukraine today, but not against Ukraine, but for it). Against the old man, let's not call him by name, "the prince of this world", the sworn enemy of man. Dugin saw that the Serbs, for the umpteenth time in their history, due to circumstances, became the first European nation in our time, which resisted the carriers of the era of darkness with weapons. He saw that the Serbs are a people who do not trade in freedom and the Covenant. That's why Alexander Dugin devoted the entire second issue of his magazine "Elements" to this Serbian struggle and this Serbian idea, presenting the Serbs as the first line of defense of the great Slavic homeland and the entire Continent.
- Yes, it's not for nothing that Alexander Dugin is considered a great friend of the Serbian people.
- Exactly. Back in the nineties of the last century, we warned Russians and the whole world: everything the West does against the Serbs is just a rehearsal of what will be used against Russia. This is undoubtedly a model for testing models and setting precedents. All this is a huge production of the most shameless lies, dehumanization by the media, sanctions in all spheres of life, economic exhaustion, manipulation of unfounded identities and ethnic complexes of constructed nations, turning "civil society" and the "non-governmental sector" into an agent network and an instrument of destruction, magnatization of the "elite" and criminalization of society, turning a privileged pop-cultural establishment into a fifth column, abuse of the human rights narrative, accusations that you are an aggressor against your own home... We specifically recommended them to study how in Montenegro the most genetically purest Serbs are made into anti-Serbs, because Anti-Russia will be made in the same way in Ukraine...
Western fee employees and "useful idiots" in Moscow and Belgrade laughed at us because of this. They claimed that we were talking nonsense and spreading "conspiracy theories". Alexander Dugin knew that we were right. It seems that all sane people now know and see it.
I remember, one evening, in the Belgrade Fortress, in the same 1992, we said to Dugin and Prokhanov: "Russia is now facing a very difficult period. We, Serbs, will keep the Beast in the Balkan labyrinth for ten years. You have so much time to wake up and get back on your feet. If you don't do it, it will be too late for us and for you."
Many would not take it seriously, but Alexander Dugin knew that we were not joking and did not go crazy. And he knew that the Serbs would do their job, realizing the price that would have to be paid for it, and the rest depends on Russia. Therefore, today he says that Serbian Koshare are Thermopylaes of Eurasia. And the Serbs know that he knows and highly appreciate what he says frankly about it.
In addition to blood, ideological, ethical, Orthodox-spiritual connection, it is this deep mutual respect that elevates our friendship to the cherished heights.
- What did you personally learn from Dugin's ideas?
- There was no borrowing, but there was interpenetration and recognition, addition and mutual enrichment, verification of one's own image in a friendly mirror. We have already translated Genon, Evola, Dumezil, Tilak, Eliade, Sioran, Ortega and Gasset, Pound, Mayrink, Junger, whom we read... Many of these important writers in Russia will appear in Dugin's edition with his prefaces. Dragos Kalajic, who was already then a well-known representative of European and Slavic ideas, personally knew many of these authors, for example, Evola and Pound. He vividly testified to us about these acquaintances and long conversations. You could hear a lot from him and learn, which Dugin understood right away. Thanks to Vladimir Medenica (modern Serbian philosopher and book publisher - author's note) and his publishing house "Logos", an amazing spiritual and ideological continent of the Silver Age of Russian culture began to emerge before the Serbs. We read, both in Russian and in Serbian, Fedorov, Solovyov,
Rene Genon, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julius Evola, Alexander Dugin, Franz Brentano.
Leontiev, Danilevsky, Berdyaev, Florensky, Florovsky, Bulgakov, Ilyin, Trubetsky... Some of our Belgrade circle knew well Alain de Benoit, Robert Stokers, General Gallo, the Italian, Spanish and American right scene. One of the major publishers of Slavic books in Western Europe, mostly Russian (Zinoviev, Solzhenitsyn, Volkov...), was our compatriot and friend Vladimir Dimitrievich, the owner of the publishing house "L'Age d'Homme" in Lausanne...
So, Dugin and I had a lot of important common topics. Those were very inspiring meetings. Although he was still young, grew and developed, it was already clear that Alexander Dugin was an exceptional figure and that he would become a great Slavic and Eurasian thinker, an Orthodox Hyperborean. In our homelands, subject to mild postmodern occupations, such, of course, do not make their way into the mainstream, into the major media, into influential departments, into decision-making circles. But still they speak their truth, their great word, fulfill their purpose with calm cheerfulness, and this inevitably has its effect.
From this early meeting with Dugin personally, the most important thing for me was his brilliant discovery of the road into the depths of Slavic Orthodoxy through the ancient sacred tradition, through what Genon called the Primordial Tradition. And in another direction: opening the way to the Primordial Tradition through the depths of Slavic Orthodoxy. Dugin just knew even then that everything was in everything and that nothing below was a form, what was not at the top was not a force.
In addition, he personified the great Russian domestic worldview, the scale of which is not easy for other nations to understand. He evoked in our imagination the stunning height from which the Russian "metaphysics of the Annunciation" and the mystery of the Slavic empire jointly originate. This evoked mystical memories and "dangerous intuitions" for the Serbs that they carry.
The road then led me to literature, first of all - to poetry, Dugin to another (but related) direction. However, these early meetings in Serbia and the Republika Srpska left a deep mark.
Alexander Dugin, Alain de Benoit (France), Robert Stoykers (Belgium) at the round table in 1992.
- In addition, you published Dugin's first books in Serbian.
- Yes. First, in 1994, I included Dugin's essay "Metaphysics of Continents: from Sacred Geography to Geopolitics" in my collection "The Mystery of the Balkans. Geopolitical key to the fate of the "veriga of the world". This collection also includes Geopolitics of the Yugoslav Conflict, an article by the Moscow Institute of Special Strategic Studies, written in 1992 under the leadership of Dugin. "The Mystery of the Balkans" became a compulsory literature at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Belgrade, with which geopolitics, for the first time in history, was included in the curriculum of the University of Belgrade.
Then, as the editor of the University Cultural Center in Belgrade, in 1998 I created a project of selected works by Alexander Dugin in Serbian. We planned to publish "Hyperborean Theory", "Secrets of Eurasia" and "Conspiratorial" in the first volume entitled "New Hyperborean Revelation" translated by Professor Zoran Bulyugich. Alexander gave us all rights for free and complete freedom, from the heart, with great confidence. "Conspiracy theology" then, after all, had to wait for the next volume. However, the whole project was interrupted by turbulent events in Serbia, primarily the military attack of nineteen countries of the North Atlantic Alliance on our homeland in 1999, as well as the "color revolution" in 2000.
But still, with the volume "New Hyperborean Revelation", Dugin was forever introduced to Serbian culture. Many of his books were later published by other publishers. Dugin is read a lot in Serbia today, he is an influential and widely cited author. The vast majority of Serbs consider him a Serbian brother and friend for a reason.
- The monstrous murder of Daria Dugina showed how important Alexander Gelevich himself and his family members are in the war that unfolded against Russia. Why do you think that in fact the first victim of terror in the rear of Russia on the part of the Ukrainian regime was Daria Dugina?
- This is an old and well-known manuscript, you already know whose it is. This should not have come as a surprise to anyone, especially those security structures that were supposed to prevent such a thing. Probably, part of the Ukrainian agent network was used to commit this heinous act, because it was easier for it to escape in Russia, due to the homogeneity of the environment. But there are many signs that this bloody theater was led by the ubiquitous foreign hand of evil, you already know whose.
Let's not underestimate the power of our words and the importance of our ideas. Let's not allow our enemies to realize their strength and importance more fully than we do. Alexander Dugin's words and ideas sometimes move mountains, open horizons, compress spaces. They wake up. They bring meaning and hope back to our lives, strengthen faith. Dugin has the heavenly gift of precise naming ("to know the true name of a thing means to have power over it"). Some of his phrases in antastly deprive the long-term overpriced projects of Russian (Slavic) and European enemies. For these enemies, they are more dangerous than hypersonic missiles and miracles of military equipment. They have no solutions for them: neither conceptual nor technological.
Dugin is an important symbol, especially in the midst of this fateful war. But if they had killed him, which was no more difficult than killing his daughter, they would have created a mythical figure, a legend. A martyr for Christ and the Fatherland for the sake of. They would make him immortal and inviolable, invulnerable. Everything he ever said and wrote would have acquired immeasurable meaning, the whole Universe would hear it.
Can the above-mentioned enemies allow it? No. Definitely not.
They want to see Dugin - a man-symbol, the embodiment of the great Slavic-Orthodox and Eurasian idea - broken, destroyed. They want to take a picture of him sobbing in bloody dust, over the fragmented body of his own child. They would like to endlessly play this video in front of the eyes of the frightened world, to hammer into everyone's head, "what such ideas lead to" (Slavic Fatherland, Freedom, Russian Idea, Christ, Empire, Eurasia, multipolar world...), to say: this is the fate of anyone who dares to oppose them, the great architects of the "new world order".
At a farewell to his daughter in the Moscow TV center "Ostankino" on August 23, 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/MAXIM SHIPENKOV
Probably, because of this blessed memory, Daria Dugina, a wonderful and brave girl, a noble Russian and Orthodox woman, was so brutally murdered in front of her own father. And because of who she was, as well as because of who he is.
In the nineties of the last century, we, Serbs, have repeatedly seen the implementation of such scenarios. For example, in March 1994 in Belgrade, twenty-three-year-old Ana Mladic, an exemplary girl and excellent student of the medical faculty, daughter of a glorious Serbian general, commander-in-chief of the Serbian army west of Drina, was injured in a staged suicide in a family home. This crime, committed (in all probability) by Serbian hands, was signed by the same foreign service as the murder in Bolshie Vyazomy near Moscow. Commander Ratko Mladic is also a human symbol. In addition to revenge for his military exploits, killing his beloved daughter, they wanted to show him in front of their soldiers and the public of the Serbian homeland broken and powerless, collapsed in tears and despair. They wanted to tell us: well, your hero couldn't even protect his own child, in his own house, so how will he protect your people? Subsequently, they wanted to turn the Warrior of Justice and Freedom into a crazy vengeful beast.
General Radko Mladic with his wife and daughter Anna in the 90s. Anna Mladich's grave.
Thank God, Alexander Dugin and Ratko Mladich are great people who were touched by the finger of the Lord. The villains were never able to achieve what they planned to do. Both of them showed us how, even under such terrible blows, a true Orthodox Slav, worthy of his ancestors and descendants, should hold on.
Interviewed by: Vladimir Basenkov
Translation from Serbian into Russian: Mila Matic
Source: http://sloven.org.rs/rus/?p=6615