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| Cossack general: The Cossacks are determined to win - good over evil | |||
| 2022-06-11 | |||
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
"The Cossacks are a unique phenomenon in Russian history. In no country in Europe did the tradition of chivalry revive, because it did not have a folk background. They were knighted for faithful service to their master. At its core, the Cossacks in Russia are a phenomenon of the spiritual life of the Russian people. It arose by the will of the people. According to Gogol, 'the Cossacks are a spark carved from the chest of the Russian people by blows of misfortune.'" In the 18th century, under Peter I, the Cossacks became a service class. The Cossacks are the heart of the Russian world, the backbone of Russia, which today is building up and strengthening its muscle," Doluda noted.
"The Cossacks were called the knights of the wild field, the steppe knights of Russia. The main thing in the Cossacks is the male will, courage and readiness to give life for the Motherland. The genocide of decossackization and 70 years of Soviet power weakened the Cossack gene pool. "And today in the Cossacks, unfortunately, there are not only grains, but also tares ... Grains are real Cossacks who fought in Transnistria, Abkhazia, Crimea, who today protect the people of Donbass from neo-fascist wickedness. Who invests their professionalism and mental strength in the education of the younger generation in Cossack kindergartens, schools, cadet corps, universities. The strong-willed spiritual core of the Cossacks was not broken by the events of decossackization, the civil war. <...> The Cossacks did not settle accounts with Soviet Russia. Because the Fatherland for the Cossack is a sacred concept," the ataman of the East Kazakhstan region emphasized. Doluda drew attention to how the Cossacks courageously overcome difficulties, excluding from their ranks random people who joined the ranks of the Cossacks for their own benefit. Their strength of character and will manifest themselves in many situations. "A real Cossack is distinguished by an irresistible will to live, which cannot be banned, closed, turned back. If the Cossack got up and moved, he could not be stopped. The origins of the Cossack strength is that the Cossacks are determined to win - good over evil. The Cossacks win anyway. Even at the cost of life." Because from the moment of birth, the Cossack knew that his life did not belong to him, but to God and the Fatherland. Cossacks compare everything good and bad with the commandments, lay down their lives for the faith of their ancestors, for the land on which the graves of their fathers, for their wives and children. Therefore, the church ranks the Cossacks with the army of Christ. By good will, the Cossacks bear the burden of responsibility for the fate of the Fatherland. The modern Cossack, perhaps, is not churched enough. But he works with his heart, tries to live in harmony with God. This is the truth of Cossack life at all times," said the ataman of the All-Russian Cossack Society. In this direction, the Cossacks also educate the Cossack youth. Nikolai Doluda notes that today Russia is returning to itself, to its historical values. And the Cossacks have something to offer. This is both the experience of Cossack democracy and the continuous system of Cossack education, based on continuity, mentoring and spiritual and moral priorities of duty, honor, love for the Motherland, multiplication of cultural and historical traditions, respect for elders. "A thousand volunteer Cossacks holding the defense in the Crimea in 2014 on Chongar, Perekop, Turkish Val, more than five thousand Cossacks as part of the Kuban, Don, Tavrida, Yermak Cossack units, who are fighting in the Donbass with neo-Nazis - demonstrate the experience of high self-organization. The named Cossack units numbering 250, 300, 400 people were assembled, equipped and crossed the combat zone within 10-12 days," said the Cossack general. Speaking about the return to the historical experience of the chief atamans of military societies, Doluda again pointed to historical experience. Even Peter I appointed Peter Romazanov as the first ataman . In this position, he remained permanently. There were chieftains on the Don, Kuban, Terek, Orenburg. And this is a historical tradition for the Cossack troops of Russia. Mykola Doluda is sure that today the tasks of organizing public service, developing the Cossack economy, forming Cossack military units, opening new Cossack schools, cadet corps, developing the Cossack component in universities can only be solved by the ataman, endowed with state powers. As expected, the chief chieftains of military Cossack societies will be appointed by decree of the President of the Russian Federation on the proposal of the chieftain of the All-Russian Cossack Society and the approval of the Council under the President of Russia, the Federal Agency for Nationalities of Russia. At the same time, the chieftains of all other levels must preserve electivity as the basic principle of Cossack democracy. In order to prepare a personnel reserve, a system of continuous Cossack education has been built - from kindergarten to university. Work on professional retraining of representatives of the Cossack societies is carried out in several universities in Russia. "The Cossacks are the foundation of a united, changing Russia. It builds its development in accordance with the tasks defined by the Strategy of the State Policy of the Russian Federation towards the Russian Cossacks until 2030. This is a strategic planning document in the field of Russian national security. In a word, in the context of today's events in Ukraine, the number one task for the Cossacks is to participate in the formation of the country's mobilization human reserve, to promote national security in all spheres of public life," Mykola Doluda concluded. | |||
| Posted by:badanov |
| #8 Indeed. So exceedingly politely. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-06-11 22:44 |
| #7 ^ better and more concise than I |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-06-11 19:30 |
| #6 …not quite how things happened. So sparely said, lotp. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-06-11 15:51 |
| #5 On rereading, the thought occurs: this sounds curiously lot like All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-06-11 15:41 |
| #4 Red Sonja eat your heart out. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-06-11 15:24 |
| #3 Lots of crap about past Russian glory while they invade a country that was never a threat to them and threaten everyone on their borders. No wonder Russians drink themselves to death. Their leadership offers them no future beyond endless war. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-06-11 13:23 |
| #2 "Returning to history, the Cossack general recalled that the Don and Zaporozhye Cossacks, of their own free will, in 1642 took the Turkish fortress of Azov and asked Tsar Mikhail Romanov to include it in Russia ." As the direct descendent of Zaparozhian hetmen I can attest that that last bit is .... not quite how things happened. But whatever - go for it. This will resonate with some young Russian men who have been looking for purpose and identity. Cossack martial arts training camps have attracted some of them, for understandable reasons in a country with high drug abuse rates and shockingly low lifespan expectations of late. |
| Posted by: lotp 2022-06-11 13:13 |
| #1 Isn't it really like less evil over more evil, like much of real history? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-06-11 08:27 |