UPDATED Russian wisdom from Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn (restored article)

For three days straight this article has been hacked, and only now am I able to publish it as intended.

I have found that the greatest Russian novelists, such as Dostoyevsky in the 19th century and Solzhenitsyn in the 20th, have incredibly deep insights, because suffering produces depth, and no one has suffered more than the Russians, not even the Germans.

I forgave myself for the mistakes I and we made in Russia 1941-45. Once a man has taken a hard, honest look at himself and processed what he did wrong, learned the life lessons, and, as the Americans say, “internalized” them, or as theGerman say, sie gehen in Fleisch und Blut über — the lessons go into your flesh and blood — and so they become part of you — then God  can forgive you and you can forgive yourself.

I have been listening to some top scholars about Jesus, and about the religion OF Jesus, not the SEMITIC religion ABOUT  Jesus. Saul created this.

Saul/Paul hardly ever quotes Jesus, or one single word from the four Gospels : Matthew, Mark,  Luke, and John.

Salvation, for the very jewish Saul, was Jesus becoming a sacrificial animal, like the sheep,  goats, and rabbits whose throats were slit in the Temple — the “scapegoats.”

The scapegoat was a literal goat on whom the priest placed all the sins of  the jews. The poor animal was then driven off into the wilderness to die, dying for the sins of others.

Of course, this is all delusional, childish, selfish, and cruel nonsense. This is the newest version of it:

But this kind of folly is exactly what Saul taught the early Christians as he was hijacking the new faith.

Saul:

“Goyim, this crucifixion was not about us wonderful Jews, who remain God’s Chosen People, and not about us  murdering the innocent Jesus. This was Jesus willingly being your scapegoat for YOUR sins.  A jew has thus saved you!

In reality, Jesus was preaching something extremely different.

The real way to please God and see and be with Him at death was to

— remember that God is Love,

— and that He alone is the final judge of human beings, who know our hearts and souls in ways we cannot do,

— do acts of love and kindness yourself,

— show true remorse if you have hurt another person,

–and forgive those who make a sincere apology and try to make amends,

— and then God may choose to forgive YOU — if YOU are yourself a forgiver!

In fact, the symbol of Christianity was for centuries the fish, not the cross, a gruesome execution device!

The fish recalled once Jesus feeding a huge and hungry crowd with baskets of fish and bread that never emptied, or on another occasion helping His disciples, who were humble Galilean fishermen, and need the money, make a spectacular haul.

 

Of  course, in both ancient and in modern astrology, the fish (“Pisces”) symbolized the  traits of people born under the zodiac sign Pisces (Latin), the fish. And astrology was a huge thing in ancient times.

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Pisces Personality & Character Traits

1. Highly Sociable

Pisces are incredibly sociable. They love meeting new people, and whiling away the hours chatting with their nearest and dearest about absolutely nothing.

They are very accepting of other people and accepting of people from every walk of life and genuinely appreciate what makes someone unique and interesting.

Pisces also love to be the center of attention in social situations and will sometimes do quite over the top things to make sure that all eyes are on them.

2. Like to be connected

Pisces tend to define themselves by their pack, the people that they have chosen to be close to them. They know that it is people and relationships that make a life.

They are usually the person at the center of a group that holds everyone together.

It is Pisces that organizes the annual reunion, the regular night out, and the long video chats when people can’t get together physically.

They will always check in with people and see how they are going.

They love to play the host and their doors are always open.

3. Sensitive and intuitive

Pisces are very sensitive to what is going on in the world around them and they are good at reading both situations and people.

They can generally sniff out when something is not as it seems, and they are the first person to know when someone needs help.

For this reason, they also tend to be good at solving mysteries, and they do enjoy the process of getting to the bottom of something.

4. Genuine

Another prominent Pisces personality trait is that they are genuine.

Most Pisces don’t have a deceitful bone in their body.

They don’t really understand why anyone would feel the need to hide something about themselves.

People born under this sign always say exactly what they think, and don’t tend to have a very good filter.

They also wear their hearts on their sleeves and aren’t afraid to put themselves out there.

For this reason, they can often get hurt despite the power of their intuition. If they are on the fence, they will always choose to trust.

5. Generous to a fault

As Pisces genuinely cares about other people, and are empathetic to the needs of others, they are always generous, whether it be with their ear or more concrete help.

They can be generous to a fault, often overstretching themselves in order to give people what they need.

Pisces will often take on too much and stretch themselves too thin, but they hate to say no and never want to let anyone down.

As a result, they can be overcome by stress. But they prefer to suffer in silence rather risk letting anyone down.

6. Trusting

Pisces like to see the best in people, so they tend to choose to trust. They can often ignore the signs of their intuition because they don’t want to believe the worst in anyone.

Even though Pisces has had their trust abused in the past, they would never let that influence their future decisions.

They believe that everyone deserves a second chance, and that you should always believe that people are capable of change and bettering themselves.

7. Laidback

People born under the sign of Pisces tend to be laid back.

Characteristic of Pisces men, they aren’t easily offended as they know that people are complicated and often do and say things for reasons that we cannot see.

They also don’t let life’s little niggles get to them, as they know that the little things will pass.

Pisces tend to believe that if it won’t matter in five hours, five days, five weeks, or even five years, there is absolutely no point in getting it upset them.

8. Don’t like to be led

But while Pisces are generally laid back, the one thing they don’t like is to be led. They have a natural aversion to other people trying to tell them what to do.

Pisces don’t crave to be the leaders of others. But if they don’t agree with whoever is in charge, they will rebel.

They would never put themselves out as the leader of a rebellion though.

More likely, they will use their influence to plant ideas in the heads of others and let them lead the revolt for them.

9. Creative and artistic

Pisces tend to be innately artistic, especially Pisces women.

They are in touch with their emotions and their intuition, so they are very good at manifesting whatever they have inside themselves.

While their creative talents might be in any field, they do tend to be good when it comes to creating with their hands.

They have the ability to make the vision that they have in their heads real.

10. Enamored with the spiritual

Pisces’ highly intuitive nature means that they tend to be a little bit closer to the spiritual than many people. This often manifests in a fascination with the spiritual and metaphysical.

Pisces might manifest this by being active within a religious group, or just intrigued by the supernatural and the hidden.

While they might not be able to put a name on it, they know that there is something more to life than what we can see and touch.

 

Pisces Eminent Personalities

Pisces always likes to surround themselves with positive influences and are often linked with big families, large friendship groups and colleagues, or that one inseparable best friend.

Their creative streaks and the way they can connect with their emotions mean that they often create compelling artworks.

Even when you only know them from a distance, their open and genuine nature can make you feel like you know them intimately.

Here’s a list of some well known Pisces personalities;

• Drew Barrymore, American Actress
• George Harrison, British Musician
• Robert Kardashian, American Attorney
• Alan Rickman, British Actor
• Fred Rogers, American TV Personality
• Sophie Turner, British Actress

A classic Piscean song — by fmr Beatle George Harrison:

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Another Pisces:

 

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But Jesus accepted this death, not because He wanted to be sacrificed, or intended to be, as Saul claimed, but because, by this point, He had been thoroughly rejected, and He WANTED the jews to murder him to show the gentile world how hateful, violent dangerous and genocidal the jews really are!

…in the same way that the bombing of Gaza today shows the world how the jews are!

And because Jesus did not want to be murdered but instead reform judaism and totally failed, this is why He said on the Cross, “Eli, Eli, lama sabakhtani?” “My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?”

His Galilean disciples had thought Jesus would become King of Israel. Instead, Israel rejected Jesus, and He rejected them back, having exposed them as incorrigible — with His show trial and murder as the ultimate proof.
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The jews were livid, for example, that Jesus would heal the dying servant of a Roman centurion. This was a real-life example of “love thy enemy,” for the Romans had conquered Judea and were considered by the jews as their enemies. Of course, this was not about helping an enemy to kill you or your loved ones –or kill the very jews whom Jesus was trying to re-educate.

This was Jesus helping a man who technically was an enemy but who was in dire need of real help. Obviously, this also created tremendous good will.

Very early on, Christians established in Rome their early “churches” (which were not separate buildings, but home-based meetings, singing hymns, eating a joyful communal meal together, and inviting some of the deserving poor). Peter, who was Jesus’ first disciple, was in Rome and told the Roman Christians what Jesus looked like. The Galilean was always depicted as a white man with light hair.

 

In this startling 1890 painting by James Tissot, we see what Jesus saw from up on the cross. A Roman soldier in the upper left,with his hands crossed in front of his waist, looks at Jesus with admiration for dying so bravely and for offering spiritual comfort to a thief being crucified to one side.

The thief said: “We thieves are being executed for our crimes, but You have done nothing wrong. Jesus, please remember me when you get to your kingdom.” Jesus replied: “I tell you truly that today you will be there with me.” This was a perfect example of true remorse in a sinner, in a thief, leading to his salvation. (Saul invented the idea that God wanted Jesus murdered — as a sacrifice — all in order actually to let his fellow jews off on a charge of judicial murder, framing a critic for a crime he never committed — trying to be an earthly king and overthrow Rome — and forcing the Romans to kill him, or the  jewish mob  would riot, and also the jewish leaders would get word to the Roman emperor that Governor Pilate had not done his job of suppressing a jewish “rebel.” )

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……Why everyone is responsible for everything

I wrote a female WN who is very gifted at video work, just lost her home by defaulting against her wishes on her mortgage, and had to move to another state much further away on borrowed funds:

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Well, this is a perfect example of what the great Russian novelist Dostoyevsky (and later on his countryman Alexander Solzhenitsyn) said — that everyone is co-responsible for everything that happens — and actually reincarnation and previous lives explain this even more than just what is going on right now, for people do awful sh– in earlier lives that changes the world we are in today.

And the WNs who betrayed me and broke their promise to help me get housing or stringed me along for month after month caused a whole chain reaction that devastated my finances ($2,500 in storage bills alone, and $9,000 in apartment rentals).

Indirectly, this impacted you and [your husband] as well. I could have started my WN and spiritual movement back in July of 2023 and then given you regular video work!

But I needed a guaranteed roof over my head, and certainly not stay under the roof of an ideological enemy.

 

The newly elected President Putin in 2000 drove to the country home (“datcha”) of Alexander Solzhenitsyn to pay his respects to the anticommunist martyr, who had done 11 years in the gulag for protesting against atrocities the Red Army was committing against German civilians in East Prussia, and then wrote the international bestseller  The Gulag Archipelago — on the Soviet death camps  — which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Solzhenitsyn, an artillery captain, had expressed his revulsion in a short poem which he put into a private letter to a friend.

In 2007 President Putin returned again to the novelist’s datcha and awarded him the highest medal of Russia (AFTER his antisemitic book Two Hundred Years Together had appeared!!!!!)

He died and was buried with full honors in 2007.

….An Autobiography of the author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

First published in the book series Les Prix Nobel, later republished in Nobel Lectures Literature 1968-1980. Edited by Sture Allén.

“I was born at Kislovodsk on 11th December, 1918. My father had studied philological subjects at Moscow University [the Harvard of Russia!], but did not complete his studies, as he enlisted as a volunteer when war broke out in 1914. He became an artillery officer on the German front [as the son would be in WWII], fought throughout the war and died in the summer of 1918, six months before I was born.

I was brought up by my mother, who worked as a shorthand-typist, in the town of Rostov on the Don, where I spent the whole of my childhood and youth, leaving the grammar school there in 1936.

Even as a child, without any prompting from others, I wanted to be a writer and, indeed, I turned out a good deal of the usual juvenilia. In the 1930s, I tried to get my writings published but I could not find anyone willing to accept my manuscripts. I wanted to acquire a literary education, but in Rostov such an education that would suit my wishes was not to be obtained. To move to Moscow was not possible, partly because my mother was alone and in poor health, and partly because of our modest circumstances.

I therefore began to study at the Department of Mathematics at Rostov University, where it proved that I had considerable aptitude for mathematics. But although I found it easy to learn this subject, I did not feel that I wished to devote my whole life to it. Nevertheless, it was to play a beneficial role in my destiny later on, and on at least two occasions, it rescued me from death. For I would probably not have survived the eight years in camps if I had not, as a mathematician, been transferred to a so-called sharashia, where I spent four years; and later, during my exile, I was allowed to teach mathematics and physics, which helped to ease my existence and made it possible for me to write.

If I had had a literary education it is quite likely that I should not have survived these ordeals but would instead have been subjected to even greater pressures. Later on, it is true, I began to get some literary education as well; this was from 1939 to 1941, during which time, along with university studies in physics and mathematics, I also studied by correspondence at the Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature in Moscow.

In 1941, a few days before the outbreak of the war, I graduated from the Department of Physics and Mathematics at Rostov University. At the beginning of the war, owing to weak health, I was detailed to serve as a driver of horse-drawn vehicles during the winter of 1941-1942. Later, because of my mathematical knowledge, I was transferred to an artillery school, from which, after a crash course, I passed out in November 1942. Immediately after this I was put in command of an artillery-position-finding company, and in this capacity, served, without a break, right in the front line until I was arrested in February 1945.

This happened in East Prussia, a region which is linked with my destiny in a remarkable way. As early as 1937, as a first-year student, I chose to write a descriptive essay on “The Samsonov Disaster” of 1914 in East Prussia and studied material on this; and in 1945 I myself went to this area (at the time of writing, autumn 1970, the book August 1914 has just been completed).

*** JdN,  I read this book in 2014, a century after the actual military disaster, which became part of Solzhenitsyn’s trilogy on how communism took over Russia during WWI, The Red Wheel.

Samsonov was a usually capable Russian general who invaded German East Prussia, won several initial battles, but his forces were surrounded and crushed, with 30,000 dead and the rest captured.

The victors at the Battle of Tannenberg were the very famous WWI German generals Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, who later were important in Adolf Hitler’s career.  Ludendorff participated in the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 and von Hindenburg appointed me as Reich Chancellor in 1933.

Myself and Reich President von Hindenburg in his field-marshal uniform at the very impressive Tannenberg Memorial.

 

General Samsonov and his top officers attempted a night-time break-out from their encirclement, but ran into a German-held village. Samsonov, ashamed to have let the tsar and the country down, ran off into a swamp and there he shot himself. The Germans, using the Red Cross, returned his body to his widow.

Alexander Samsonov – Wikipedia

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I was arrested on the grounds of what the censorship had found during the years 1944-45 in my correspondence with a school friend, mainly because of certain disrespectful remarks about Stalin, although we referred to him in disguised terms. As a further basis for the “charge”, there were used the drafts of stories and reflections which had been found in my map case.

These, however, were not sufficient for a “prosecution”, and in July 1945 I was “sentenced” in my absence, in accordance with a procedure then frequently applied, after a resolution by the OSO (the Special Committee of the NKVD), to eight years in a detention camp (which, at that time, was actually considered a mild sentence). [He could have gotten 25 years or even death like millions of others.]

I served the first part of my sentence in several correctional work camps of mixed types. (Tthis kind of camp is described in the play, The Tenderfoot and the Tramp). In 1946, as a mathematician, I was transferred to the group of scientific research institutes of the MVD-MOB (Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of State Security). I spent the middle period of my sentence in such “SPECIAL PRISONS” (as described in my  novel The First Circle).

In 1950 I was sent to the newly established “Special Camps” which were intended only for political prisoners. In such a camp in the town of Ekibastuz in Kazakhstan (described in my novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich), I worked as a miner, a bricklayer, and a foundryman.

There I contracted a tumour which was operated on, but the condition was not cured. (Its cancerous character was not established until later on.)

One month after I had served the full term of my eight-year sentence, there came, without any new judgement and even without a “resolution from the OSO”, an administrative decision to the effect that I was not to be released but EXILED FOR LIFE to Kok-Terek (southern Kazakhstan). This measure was not directed specially against me, but was a very usual procedure at that time.

I served this exile from March 1953 (on March 5th, when Stalin’s death was made public, I was allowed for the first time to go out without an escort) until June 1956.

Here my cancer had developed rapidly, and at the end of 1953, I was very near death. I was unable to eat, I could not sleep and was severely affected by the poisons from the tumour. However, I was able to go to a cancer clinic at Tashkent, where, during 1954, I was cured (The Cancer Ward, Right Hand).

During all the years of exile, I taught mathematics and physics in a primary school, and during my hard and lonely existence I wrote prose in secret (in the camp I could only write down poetry from memory). I managed, however, to keep what I had written, and to take it with me to the European part of the country, where, in the same way, I continued, as far as the outer world was concerned, to occupy myself with teaching.  But in secret I devotes myself to writing, at first in the Vladimir district (Matryona’s Farm) and afterwards in Ryazan.

During all the years until 1961, not only was I convinced that I should never see a single line of mine in print in my lifetime, but, also, I scarcely dared allow any of my close acquaintances to read anything I had written because I feared that this would become known.

Finally, at the age of 42, this secret authorship began to wear me down. The most difficult thing of all to bear was that I could not get my works judged by people with literary training. In 1961, after the 22nd Congress of the U.S.S.R. Communist Party and Tvardovsky’s speech at this, I decided to emerge and to offer One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Such an emergence seemed, then, to me, and not without reason, to be very risky because it might lead to the loss of my manuscripts, and to my own destruction. But, on that occasion, things turned out successfully, and after protracted efforts, A.T. Tvardovsky was able to print my novel one year later. The printing of my work was, however, stopped almost immediately and the authorities stopped both my plays and (in 1964) the novel, The First Circle, which, in 1965, was seized together with my papers from the past years. During these months it seemed to me that I had committed an unpardonable mistake by revealing my work prematurely and that because of this I should not be able to carry it to a conclusion.

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time even events which you have experienced, and to understand their meaning even when guided by seeing their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.”

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……Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

 

A comrade and generous donor wrote:

I have read a lot of Dostoyevsky’s writings. I have also read about his life. For instance, his education was as an engineer, not a literary professional. A recurring theme of Dostoyevsky’s novels, which is especially seen in the dying words of Father Zosima in The Brothers Karamazov, is the coming of the Antichrist. In fact, this belief, the nearness of the coming of the Antichrist, was widespread in Russian religious quarters in the years leading up to the Jewish takeover of the country by the Bolshevists. This can be seen in the fact that The Protocols of Zion was first published as an addition to a Russian work about the nearness of the coming of the Antichrist.

I replied:

Thanks. I am going to write more about Dostoyevsky, who was death on the jews, but in a measured way. What he saw was that,  sure, the jews can and do corrupt us (and they do corrupt 90% of us) because we are very corruptible.

The jews take over our financial system, then buy up our media, and with that our politicians. Two years later, we goyim are marching off yet again to slaughter each other for the jews.

And we goyim ignore, jail, or kill Aryan truthtellers. Dostoyevsky saw all this. He saw how the jews can be devils, but that does not make us Whites into angels.

 

I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at. But how can I help believing it? I have seen the truth — it is not as though I had invented it with my mind, I have seen it, seen it, and the living image of it has filled my soul for ever. I have seen it in such full perfection that I cannot believe that it is impossible for people to have it.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal.

And it all comes from lying – lying to others and to yourself.

•  The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky