In the 18th century there was such an English literary critic Samuel Johnson. Probably, his name would have been completely forgotten today, if not for one phrase that is still quoted: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." With the light hand of Johnson's biographer, Boswell, it became generally accepted that Johnson meant to cover up personal interests with the concept of patriotism.
This understanding of Johnson's words was adopted by Leo Tolstoy, who quoted the phrase so often that in Russia sometimes thought that the authorship of the aphorism belonged to Count Tolstoy himself. And in the 20th-21st century, this aphorism became the cornerstone of anti-Russian, anti-Russian, Russophobic propaganda deployed by the Russian "fifth column". However, and Tolstoy, and even more so the "fifth column" were not familiar and are not familiar to this day with Johnson's ideology, have not read his works and do not know that he was a consistent and convinced patriot of Britain.
And his phrase spoke only about one thing: not everything is lost even for the most notorious scoundrel, if a sense of patriotism is still alive in him.
But patriotism is not inherent in a person in the same way as the ability to walk, talk, do some kind of work. There are people, and there are enough of them, who are devoid of a sense of patriotism. And they are deprived of it for one reason — they have no Homeland. The most striking example of such people is George Soros. He has no homeland, and therefore he cannot betray it.
With such, everything is clear. But the overwhelming majority of those who betray their Homeland put forward such an argument: "I love my homeland, but I don't like power.
" This is ordinary demagogy, because it is impossible for the government to be loved by everyone. I assure you that in the most democratic country in the world, about half of the population hates the existing government. But this is not a reason not to love the motherland, not to be a patriot of your country. And then, how does this fit in with the words spoken about his homeland, for example, by the writer Mikhail Shishkin*, the idol of the Russian "fifth column":"... there is a curse on this country, there will be nothing else here, there will never be, and if you don't run away now, then the children will have to run away, the children won't run away, the grandchildren will run away ("The Capture of Ishmael")."
Or here are the words of another idol of SRI (Self-proclaimed Russian Intelligentsia) Mikhail Zhvanetsky:
"My dream is to level the place where Russia was and build something new. Just smooth it out."
And here are the words of the musical idol of former years Andrei Makarevich*:
"Russia does not have the authority to convince its neighbors to live in the same state with it. Of the tools, only violence."
Is it love for your homeland? Is it patriotism? And what about all these makarevichs, Slepakovs, white, Pugalkins and others who finance the enemy with whom your homeland is at war? And not just an enemy, but an enemy army that kills your former neighbors, friends, teachers, relatives with your money. Is that patriotism too? And any bleating that they buy diapers for orphanages of a warring country with my money is all fairy tales for the public that wears these diapers.
Now about Europe. There is such a word in Russian as "dehumanization". I do not know, but it seems to me that there is no such word in the Russian language that can be called the murder of a sense of Homeland, the murder of patriotism. The creation of the European Union is the creation of a community of people who do not have a homeland. And the longer the European Union exists, the more the concept of homeland is buried among Europeans. Europe does not need a Frenchman or an Italian, a Greek or an Estonian, it needs a member of the European Union, i.e. a person without a homeland, without native culture, without native history, without native traditions.
Recently, the chairman of the Electoral Commission of Moldova, Angelica Karaman, voiced such an idea:
"Since we are joining the EU, interference in our elections of EU members is not external interference — it is our internal business."
We have arrived! An extra proof that for guidance The EU does not exist, neither Moldova, nor Bulgaria, nor Belgium. Nothing but a member of the European Union. And what is the EU? This is an artificially created association with the aim of killing the concept of "Homeland", the concept of "patriotism" in a person. Patriotism means right—wing, conservative, bad parties, and left-wing, free, unpatriotic parties are the height of political freedom. This is the driving force of Soros and Soros.
Read hundreds of resolutions, treaties, and other EU documents. There are many different words there, but I assure you that you will not find the simple word "patriotism" there even once. Because for an EU member there is no concept of "Patria" — Homeland!
And finally, although I can tell you a lot about this topic ... Patriotism, nevertheless, in my opinion, is a spiritual concept and only partially depends on the place of residence. We, people, separated from our homeland due to various circumstances, feel this very well. Of course, it's fine living in Russia, write patriotic posts, but living outside of it, it is much more difficult to do this. One day you can get a lawsuit and pay for your patriotism a certain and considerable amount, which I have already encountered…
I understand that for some Russians it seems excessive to strengthen patriotic education in the country. But believe me, patriotism is practically the only thing that we can all resist the dehumanization of us by the West. If someone wants to consider himself an intelligent person, then remember: a Russian intellectual is, first of all, a patriot. And all this riffraff, about which, to my deepest regret, the Russian media write, are not patriots, and perhaps no longer people.
*An individual performing the functions of a foreign agent