Some basics on Alexander Dugin:
Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin (
Russian: Алекса́ндр Ге́льевич Ду́гин; born 7 January 1962) is a Russian
political scientist whose views have been described as
fascist[4][5][6] and who calls to hasten the "end of times" with all out war.
[7][8][9][10][11] He has close ties with the
Kremlin and the
Russian military,
[12][13] having served as an advisor to
State Duma speaker and key member of the ruling
United Russia party
Sergei Naryshkin.
[14] Dugin was the leading organizer of the
National Bolshevik Party,
National Bolshevik Front, and
Eurasia Party. He is the author of more than 30 books, among them
Foundations of Geopolitics and
The Fourth Political Theory.
He focuses on the restoration of the
Russian Empire, through bringing back control over former Soviet republics such as Georgia and Ukraine, and unification with Russian-speaking territories, especially
eastern Ukraine and
Crimea.
[15][16] In
the Kremlin, Dugin represents the "war party", a division in the heart of the leadership concerning Ukraine,
[17] and is seen as the driving conceptual force behind
Vladimir Putin's initiative for the
annexation of Crimea by Russia.
[18] In 2014 he expressed the view that the war between Russia and Ukraine "is inevitable" and appealed for Putin to start
military intervention in eastern Ukraine.
[18]
Believing that the so-called
fifth column has been working for two decades to destroy Russia's sovereignty from the inside, he proposed in 2014 to strip all dissidents, including musician
Andrei Makarevich, of their Russian citizenship and deport them from the country.
[19]
Dugin in the 1980s was a dissident
[21] and an anti-communist.
[22] Dugin worked as a journalist before becoming involved in politics just before the fall of communism. In 1988 he and his friend
Geydar Dzhemal joined the nationalist group
Pamyat. He helped to write the political program for the newly refounded
Communist Party of the Russian Federation under the leadership of
Gennady Zyuganov.
[12]
In his 1997 article "Fascism – Borderless and Red", Dugin proclaimed the arrival of a "genuine, true, radically revolutionary and consistent, fascist fascism" in Russia. He believes that it was "by no means the racist and chauvinist aspects of
National Socialism that determined the nature of its ideology. The excesses of this ideology in Germany are a matter exclusively of the Germans, ... while Russian fascism is a combination of natural national conservatism with a passionate desire for true changes."
[6] "
Waffen-SS and especially the scientific sector of this organization,
Ahnenerbe," was "an intellectual oasis in the framework of the National Socialist regime", according to him."
[6]
Dugin soon began publishing his own journal entitled
Elementy which initially began by praising Franco-Belgian
Jean-François Thiriart, supporter of a Europe "from Dublin to Vladivostok". Consistently glorifying both
Tsarist and
Stalinist Russia,
Elementy also revealed Dugin's admiration for
Julius Evola. Dugin also collaborated with the weekly journal
Den (The Day), a bastion of Russian anti-Cosmopolitanism[
clarification needed] previously directed by
Alexander Prokhanov.
[12]
Dugin was amongst the earliest members of the
National Bolshevik Party (NBP) and convinced
Eduard Limonov to enter the political arena in 1994. A part of hard-line nationalist NBP members, supported by Dugin, split off to form the more right-wing, anti-liberal, anti-left, anti-
Kasparov[
clarification needed] aggressive nationalist organization,
National Bolshevik Front. After breaking with Limonov, he became close to
Yevgeny Primakov and later to
Vladimir Putin's circle.
[23]
Dugin claims to be disapproving of
liberalism and the West, particularly
American hegemony.
[24] His assertions show that he likes
Stalin and the
Soviet Union: "We are on the side of Stalin and the Soviet Union".
[25] He calls himself a conservative and says, "We, conservatives, want a strong, solid State, want order and healthy family, positive values, the reinforcing of the importance of religion and the Church in society". He adds, "We want patriotic radio, TV, patriotic experts, patriotic clubs. We want the media that expresses national interests".
[26]
The
Eurasia Party, later
Eurasia Movement, was officially recognized by the Ministry of Justice on 31 May 2001.
[12] The Eurasia Party claims support by some military circles and by leaders of the Orthodox Christian faith in Russia, and the party hopes to play a key role in attempts to resolve the
Chechen problem, with the objective of setting the stage for Dugin's dream of a Russian strategic alliance with European and Middle Eastern states, primarily Iran. Dugin's ideas, particularly those on "a
Turkic-
Slavic alliance in the Eurasian sphere" have recently become popular among certain nationalistic circles in Turkey, most notably among alleged members of the
Ergenekon network, which is the subject of a high-profile trial (on charges of conspiracy).[
citation needed] Dugin's Eurasianist ideology has also been linked to his adherence to the doctrines of the
Traditionalist School. (Dugin's Traditionalist beliefs are the subject of a book length study by J. Heiser,
The American Empire Should Be Destroyed—Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology.[27]) Dugin also advocates for a Russo-Arab alliance.
[28]
“
In principle, Eurasia and our space, the heartland Russia, remain the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois,
anti-American revolution. ... The new
Eurasian empire will be constructed on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of
Atlanticism, strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us. This common civilizational impulse will be the basis of a political and strategic union.
”
— The Basics of Geopolitics (1997)
The reborn Russia, according to Dugin's concept, is said by Charles Clover of
Financial Times to be a slightly remade version of the Soviet Union with echoes of
Nineteen Eighty-Four by
George Orwell, where
Eurasia was one of three continent-sized super states including
Eastasia and
Oceania as the other two and was participating in endless war between them.
[21]
He has criticized the "Euro-Atlantic" involvement in the
2004 Ukrainian presidential election as a scheme to create a "
cordon sanitaire" around Russia, much like the
French and British attempt post-
World War I.
Dugin has criticized Putin for the "loss" of Ukraine, and accused his Eurasianism of being "empty."[
citation needed] In 2005, Dugin founded the Eurasia Youth Union of Russia as the youth wing of the International Eurasia Movement.
[29]
Ukraine gave Dugin a five-year entry ban, starting in June 2006,
[30] and Kiev declared him a
persona non grata in 2007.
[31] His
Eurasian Youth Union was banned in Ukraine.
[30] In 2007, the
Security Service of Ukraine identified persons of the Eurasian Youth Union who committed
vandalism on Hoverla in 2007: they climbed up the mountain of
Hoverla, imitated sawing down the details of the construction in the form of the small
coat of arms of Ukraine by tools brought with them and painted the emblem of the
Eurasian Youth Union on the memorial symbol of the
Constitution of Ukraine.
[30] He was deported back to Russia when he arrived at
Simferopol International Airport in June 2007.
[32]
Before
war broke out between Russia and Georgia in 2008, Dugin visited South Ossetia and predicted, "Our troops will occupy the Georgian capital Tbilisi, the entire country, and perhaps even Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula, which is historically part of Russia, anyway."
[33] Afterwards he said Russia should "not stop at liberating South Ossetia but should move further," and "we have to do something similar in Ukraine."
[16] In 2008, Dugin stated that Russia should repeat the Georgian scenario in Ukraine, namely attack it.
[34] In September 2008, after the Russian-Georgian war, he did not hide his anger to Putin, who "dared not drop the other shoe" and "restore the Empire."
[35]
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