Downtown Donetsk street art: “Unity lives where Russia is.”
Novorossiya will once again be a Russian economic powerhouse and a magnet for migrants from Europe and the US, as it has been for centuries.
Charles Bausman – The Unz Review Oct 31, 2024
What? you say? Isn’t it a war zone? Well, yes, but it looks like the war might end soon, and certainly with Russia keeping what it currently holds, and possibly a great deal more. However it comes out, this region will be very attractive for Westerners moving to Russia, a growing trend since Putin opened Russia to immigration from Europe and North America. This might sound counterintuitive, so let me explain. To understand why, one needs to know something about history of these lands, which are not ‘Ukrainian’, rather Russian, their correct historical name being ‘Novorossiya.’
The sky as we drove South through Lipetsk.
I recently returned from 4 days in the Donetsk Republic, and what I found was one of the most unexpected I’ve ever encountered in this enormous country, which is saying a lot. I went at the invitation the Donetsk government, whose goal it was to promote their side of the story regarding the war, and I was put on a jam-packed program focusing on this. Even for me who followed the conflict very closely from 2014 – 2018 or so, it was a big eye-opener. I don’t follow it as closely these days, and while curious about the latest developments, don’t write about it, because so many others do exhaustively. Before going, a Russian friend was explaining the history of this part of Russia going back a couple of centuries, and this is something I realized IS very relevant to future migration to Russia from the West, and I tried to gather as much info about that while there.
Entire villages flattened near Avdeevka. Not a single structure left standing.
Our program consisted of being shuttled around from morning till night to locations relevant to the war: buildings in the capital city of Donetsk completely obliterated by the odd rocket which landed in central, civilian areas, museums dedicated to the war, meetings with military priests, visits to churches damaged by shelling, to recent front lines where the destruction of former towns and villages was well-nigh complete, vast amounts of destroyed NATO equipment littered all over the place, very impressive new war memorials everywhere lionizing the heroes of her remarkable defense over the last 10 years and tear-inducing ones mourning the martyrdom of her women and children, and endless conversation with our hosts and their friends, themselves military men who have been there since it all started in 2014. We took a day-trip to Mariupol where we were shown the mind-boggling scale of urban reconstruction underway. I’ve been posting a lot of this Twitter, and will be posting more.
A German tank with US Maxpro infantry combat vehicles behind them. The logo of the manufacturer, “Rheinmetall” is visible on the front of the tank.
To me, the most important insight was how these 10 tough years have affected the psychology of the people who have remained, bringing out the best in people, purifying them, as it were, and crucially, strengthening their Orthodox faith. I was traveling with the Russian Christian TV Channel Spas, so we met many Christians, and I was struck by how many of them there were, especially in the military. But before I explain that, some history.
A US Maxpro infantry combat vehicle burned to a crisp.
First of all, some basics. You may have noticed that on this blog, and on Twitter, I put ‘Ukraine’ and ‘Ukrainians’ in quotation marks, and often just refer to them as Russians. I keep having to repeat this, because so many people on our side keep referring to ‘Ukrainians’, as if this describes a people or ethnicity. This is falling into the enemy’s little word tricks, and it misleads even the best people. So for the 100th time, there is not now, and never ever has been, a ‘Ukrainian’ people, ethnicity, language (real), literature, or national consciousness. This is vital to fully grasp what follows. They always have been, and are Russians, and have ever thought of themselves that way. I can write a whole article about this backed by facts, but for now, just trust me, this is the truth.
Very high quality memorials to the defenders of Donbass are very common.
I’d go there if it weren’t for two things. First, I don’t speak and could never learn russian. Second, they’ll only allow young people to be used as slaves or rich old people in, like everywhere else. But can you imagine living in a place where it wasn’t the case that everyone wanted to exploit you for profit? Where there was no perversion and all the rest of it? And where there was real religion?
Yes, Ukraine as part of Russia, Israel a culture in Palestine.
Good stuff.
Finished up over at UNZ.
“Despite being mined for over a century, East Novorossiya sits on an $US11 million trove of energy, mineral, and metal deposits. The best description I’ve seen of this is from Mike Benz (Twitter), who has explained in detail how the Larry Finks of this world (what an apt name!), were salivating over it. Hunter Biden and Burisma were no coincidence. The vultures were circling, and Benz argues that a major motivation for NATO pressing for a war in Novorossiya was to push Russia back so as to exploit her riches.”
I don’t know, does he mean 11 billion or 11 trillion?
Anyway, Russia is looking after Novorossiva’s welfare needs.
Who is looking after Ukraine’s. No wonder Trump wants out.
‘Migrants from West’. Code for Yids & wogs. More Commie propaganda. Only problem is the Ukrainians don’t view themselves as slavo-mongoloid ‘Russians’ but a separate white ethnic group. This is the source of the animosity between these two peoples. Of course the Russian Commies & their Jew agent journalists like ‘Bausman’ will claim Ukrainians & Russians are ‘one people’ so they can steal their land & exterminate them.
What a bunch of crap. The next thing “mother” Russia will be saying is that all Slavs are Russian and therefore all Slavic people are Russian. The Ukrainians are now just as much of a mixed bag as are the Poles.
All the idiots have to do is to become a little too boastful and proud regarding their meatgrinder work on some 600,000 hapless Ukrainians sent to their deaths by the foolish Americans, and they just may wake up an opposition in the world that they want to subjugate with an iron fist all the nations of easter Europe once again. If that is the case then they have just written their own epitaph.
LOL…
‘Russian liberated Ukraine’….offers migrants ‘opportunities’…well well.. of course migration is the science of the criminal Horde.. migration is the deculturation of your societies…
migration is the gospel of the Abrahamic relegions…the wandering jewe and his jangling pocket…the colonial missionary spy..the moslem jihad and flesh trader…..
It’s also the lingua franca of the slaver and capitalist..the usurper and interloper…
whether that was the Hixos swarms of North Africa and the Diddle East…or droves of demented Europeans hacking their way through the hehe…
colonies…yes the colonies…wherever they are…
COLON-EASE..lolo..of you go..the lot of ya…
NB of course Charlie Bausman a wanderer by birth is eyeing up the hinterlands, as they always have, no doubt he’ll base his onlyfans empire in a land much depopulated of male …objectors..
who have been de-nazified and disembowled concurrently and uniformly in a tautological fashion… and left in a field to rot…
leaving lots of women looking for hehe..gainful employment..well… according to the female mind… from the ‘Charlie Bausmans ‘ of this whirled…
LOL…
The Ukraine has been deliberately castrated…just like Japan and Germany. All the strong men have been killed or maimed. Led to their death by the Jewish International Cabal. Their own fault to fight and die.for a scumbag like Zelensky and his Yiddish gang. Ukrainians so anammored by the Mass Media believing that little pervert criminal could or would save their culture. So now there’s no one to protect the honor of the hundreds of thousands of lovely war widows and fatherless girls. The most beautiful women in the wolrd left for the entertainment of Jewish Carpet Baggers. The not so beautiful ones to be impregnated by the SubSaharan imported workforce.
May Russia remain free of what infects the West.
And may it always remain Christian.
Amen
What did Charles Bausman say ages ago?
Oh, that’s right
“Time to end the Jew Taboo”
For those who might have forgotten…
Humans abandon Western Europe and leave it uninhabited, with Moslems? Would you not rather get busy cleaning it out?