Dedicated to the memory of Metropolitan John (Snychev) of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, who blessed my work in studying the subversive anti-Russian activities of Masonic organizations.

Foreword

In order to understand modern Freemasonry, firstly, it is extremely important to understand that today's forms of activity of this criminal community are very different from traditional ideas about it. Today's Freemason seldom puts on his mantle. The usual Masonic ritual in our time fades into the background. Most of the "Masonic work" is no longer carried out in traditional Masonic lodges, but in various closed Masonic-type organizations - clubs "Rotary", "Pen", "Magisterium", "humanitarian" orders of the Eagle or Constantine the Great, etc. Masonic ritual , which for centuries served as a camouflage for the political intrigues of freemasons, lost its significance to a large extent in the second half of the 20th century. In conditions when in all countries of the Western world people came to power who were no longer embarrassed to admit their membership in Masonic organizations, the need for a Masonic ritual disappeared. Freemasonry is turning into a secret political trade union, a kind of international, uniting in its ranks unscrupulous politicians, financial swindlers, crooks of all stripes, who put profit and unlimited power over people above all else. At the head of this secret international are the Jewish leaders. Like the CPSU in the USSR, Freemasonry in the West is the backbone of the political system. All major political decisions are prepared and made in the quiet of closed organizations. In "democratic elections" the public is allowed to choose from several candidates presented by the Masonic behind the scenes. It is these candidates who are provided with informational support for television and newspapers, which are almost all controlled by the same behind the scenes. The people in this political system are just extras in the hands of political schemers. It is this system of power formation that has been introduced in our country since the late 1980s.

The second thing that is important to note for understanding modern Masonic power is that the Judeo-Masonic structures today are not a monolith, but consist of a number of clans that are at war with each other for power and money. Even in the so-called world government - the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Club - there is an ongoing struggle between the Judeo-Masonic clans, orders of various rituals and regional centers of power. This struggle is vividly illustrated by today's events in Russia, where supporters of the Order of Malta and American Freemasonry (Yeltsin, Berezovsky, Abramovich), "B'nai B'rith" and Jewish Freemasonry (Gusinsky, Friedman, Khodorkovsky, Yavlinsky), the Great East of France and European Freemasonry (Luzhkov, Primakov, Yakovlev). All these three branches of the Judeo-Masonic power bring grief and destruction to our people, all of them are focused on the dismemberment of Russia and the genocide of its people.

In today's Russia there are more than 500 Masonic lodges and organizations of the Masonic type (not including occult organizations and branches of the Church of Satan). Their activities are strictly secret, closed. Most of them are not registered with the authorities, observing conspiracy and Masonic secrecy. The actual Masonic lodges that perform the traditional rituals of freemasons make up no more than a third of the above number.

The Scottish ritual lodges are considered the most "solid" part of Russian Freemasonry, most of them are organized by the masters of the Grand Lodge of France. The activities of these lodges are carried out according to old documents, observing the full continuity of the Masonic establishment of the 18th-20th centuries. By 1998, such old Russian lodges of the Scottish ritual as "Astrea", "Hermes", "Northern Lights" and others were renewed, new lodges were organized - "Pushkin", "Novikov", etc. They use ritual documents " Scottish Rita" lodge "Astrea" XVIII and the emigrant lodge "Astrea" of the 20-30s of the XX century.

The Grand Orient of France has resumed the activities of Masonic lodges in Russia, oriented towards militant Russophobia and atheism, and above all the Free Russia lodge, which, according to our information, unites, in particular, several State Duma deputies, officers of the General Staff and the FSB.

In the system of national German Freemasonry, the Russian Masonic lodge "Great Light of the North" is being recreated, working according to the ritual documents of the emigrant Masonic lodge of the same name.

According to some reports, several lodges of American Freemasonry (York ritual) appear in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Attempts are being made to root the Order of the Shriners on Russian soil.

In addition to the rituals listed above, recognized in the Masonic world, such "self-made" Masonic lodges (like the "Russian National Lodge") are created that are not recognized by real freemasons.

In general, according to our tentative estimates, the number of members of all Masonic lodges in Russia is at least two thousand people.

A much larger number of members (at least 10 thousand) are in the so-called white Freemasonry - Masonic-type organizations that do not use the traditional rituals of freemasons, but accept Masonic principles of life and are usually led by real Masons. The first place here is occupied by members of the Rotary clubs (there are several dozen of them in Russia). Quite characteristic of "White Freemasonry" are such organizations as the Order of the Eagle, the clubs "Magisterium", "Reform", "Interaction", "International Russian Club", the Soros Foundation. Figures of "white Freemasonry" consider themselves "chosen people" (elite), which has special rights to rule over other people. The subversive anti-Christian, anti-Russian work of these organizations is strictly closed and secret.

Agents of influence

The first step of the world Masonic behind the scenes to recreate the Masonic network on the territory of the USSR was an operation related to the search in our country for persons who could become agents of influence. In terms of the intelligence services, an "agent of influence" is a citizen of one state who acts in the interests of another state, using his high official position in the upper echelons of power - the leadership of the country, a political party, parliament, the media, as well as science, art and culture. In our work, we will touch only that part of these individuals who worked in favor of the United States and were trained by the CIA.

Specialists who dealt with this problem note a number of characteristic features inherent in agents of influence working in favor of the United States [1].

This is, firstly, the ability to influence public consciousness, the whole society as a whole or individual official and regional groups (which, in fact, is inherent in all agents of influence).

Secondly, the indispensable inclusion in a certain network. An agent of influence is always just a cog in the most complex "policy-making" machine, which is controlled by programs created by the CIA back in the sixties and seventies.

Thirdly, the objective contribution to the achievement of the goals set by the "owner", in this case the CIA as an organ of the world behind the scenes. At a certain stage, these goals may even be presented as the relevant interests of our country, but in fact they are only an intermediate point on the way to achieving the goals of the "master".

Fourthly, compulsory education, which is conducted by group or individual methods. The forms of education are multifaceted and diverse: from ordinary lectures to intimate conversations in a relaxed atmosphere. There are special instructions for this.

Fifth, belonging to the number of functionaries of the "background". The stronger the agent, the deeper he is hidden. These are "shady people" from politics, "gray cardinals". They do not govern, but direct, suggest the solution of this or that issue that is necessary for the "owner" and harmful for the country.

Sixth, commitment, most often selfish, to some "universal values" and the achievements of world civilization, behind which, as a rule, lies at best the absence of Russian national consciousness (national ignorance), and at worst - ordinary Russophobia and hatred of historical values Russia.

The first five characteristics can be very diverse for agents of influence, but the last one is surprisingly the same both for agents of influence trained by the CIA in the sixties and for the foremen of perestroika in the second half of the eighties.

The program for the activities of agents of influence in the USSR was personally developed by the freemason A. Dulles, the future director of the CIA. Having become a Freemason while still studying at Princeton, Dulles already in the mid-20s reaches the 33rd degree and other Masonic regalia. In 1927, he became one of the directors of the international Masonic coordinating center, the mondialist organization - the Council on Foreign Relations, in 1933 he received the key post of secretary, and since 1946 - the president of this organization. At one of the secret meetings of this council at the beginning of 1945, in the presence of the leaders of American Freemasonry, US Vice President G. Truman, Secretary of the Treasury G. Morgenthau and B. Baruch, A. Dulles stated the following: “The war will end, somehow everything will settle down, settle down And we will throw everything we have, all the gold, all material assistance or resources to fool and fool people.

The human brain, the consciousness of people are capable of change. Having sowed chaos there, we will quietly replace their values ​​with false ones and force them to believe in these false values. How? We will find our like-minded people, our assistants and allies in Russia itself (emphasis mine. - O.P.).

Episode after episode, the grandiose tragedy of the death of the most recalcitrant people on earth, the final, irreversible extinction of its self-consciousness, will be played out. For example, we will gradually eradicate their social essence from literature and art, wean artists, discourage them from engaging in depiction, research, or something, of those processes that take place in the depths of the masses. Literature, theater, cinema - all will depict and glorify the basest human feelings. We will in every possible way support and raise the so-called artists, who will plant and hammer into the human consciousness the cult of sex, violence, sadism, dissidence, in a word, any kind of immorality. In the government of the state, we will create chaos and confusion...

Honesty and decency will be ridiculed and will not be needed by anyone, will turn into a relic of the past. Rudeness and arrogance, lies and deceit, drunkenness, drug addiction, animal fear of each other and shamelessness, dissidence, nationalism and opposition of peoples - we will spread all this deftly and imperceptibly ...

In this way we will shatter, generation after generation... We will take on people from their childhood, youthful years, we will always place the main stake on the youth, we will begin to corrupt, corrupt, corrupt them. We will make them agents of our influence, cosmopolitans of the free world. This is how we do it" [2].

At this meeting, the main directions of the struggle against the Russian people were determined, which were later embodied in official documents of the US government, and above all in the directives of the US National Security Council and the laws of this country.

Directive of the US National Security Council NSC-20/1, approved by US President G. Truman on August 18, 1948, proclaimed: “To make fundamental changes in the theory and practice of foreign policy, which the government in power in Russia adheres to ... all about making and keeping the Soviet Union weak politically, militarily, and psychologically in comparison with external forces beyond its control."

Directive NSC-68, signed by President Truman on April 7, 1950, stated: “We need to wage open psychological warfare in order to cause mass betrayal ... sow the seeds of destruction ... strengthen positive and timely measures and operations by covert means in the field of economic, political and psychological warfare to cause and sustain unrest... We must lead the construction of the political and economic system of the free world.But apart from affirming our values, our policies and actions must be such as to bring about a fundamental change in the character of the Soviet system... It is quite obvious that it will be cheaper, but more effective, if these changes are the result of the action of the internal forces of Soviet society to the maximum extent.

In a circular from US Secretary of State J. F. Dulles to American embassies and missions abroad on March 6, 1953, immediately after Stalin's death, it was emphasized: "Our main goal remains to sow doubt, confusion, uncertainty about the new regime, not only among the ruling circles and popular masses in the USSR and satellite countries, but also among communist parties outside the Soviet Union.

Finally, the Enslaved Peoples Act, passed by the NOA Congress in August 1959, openly raised the issue of dividing Russia into 22 states and inciting hatred against the Russian people.

Since 1947, under the pretext of fighting communism, the American government has been allocating hundreds of millions of dollars annually to carry out programs to fight Russia and the Russian people.

One of the main points of these programs was the training of "like-minded people, allies and assistants" in Russia.

Apparently, one of the first such experiments in training like-minded people was an attempt by the American intelligence services to recruit some individuals from a group of Soviet interns who were at Columbia University in the late fifties and early sixties, among whom were, in particular, the future "foremen of perestroika" A. Yakovlev and O. Kalugin. As the former chairman of the KGB of the USSR V. Kryuchkov noted: “Yakovlev perfectly understood that he was under the close supervision of the Americans, he felt what his new American friends were driving at, but for some reason he did not draw the right conclusions for himself. He made unauthorized contact with the Americans , and when it became known to us, he portrayed the matter in such a way as if he did it in an effort to obtain the materials needed for the Soviet side from a closed library ... "[3]. His other colleague but an internship, O. Kalugin (the future KGB general), in order to evade responsibility, denounced his comrade, who after that had big troubles. From those times, a photograph of the 1950s, published in the émigré newspaper Russky Golos, has been preserved, “which depicts A. Yakovlev and O. Kalugin in the company of CIA personnel [4].

However, the competent Soviet authorities were not able to find out at that time whether the recruitment had been carried out or whether the CIA case did not go beyond establishing familiarization contacts and establishing contacts for the future.

Nevertheless, Yakovlev's behavior in the second half of the sixties and the beginning of the seventies, in many respects, corresponded to the requirements that A. Dulles presented to agents of influence. This, in particular, was manifested in Yakovlev's article in Literaturnaya Gazeta, where he sharply spoke out against the still timid sprouts of the Russian national revival, allowing rude anti-Russian attacks. In fact, Yakovlev called for administrative reprisal against his carriers, and it immediately came.

In the early seventies, Yakovlev was appointed ambassador to Canada, where he actively maintained contacts with a wide range of people, among whom he developed a particularly trusting relationship with the Prime Minister, a prominent Freemason P. Trudeau. Apparently, it was during that period that this figure "fraternized" with the world Masonic behind the scenes.

In the 60-70s, surrounded by the top leaders of the Central Committee of the CPSU, a group of agents of influence arose, which, in particular, included F. M. Burlatsky (until 1964), G. Kh. Shakhnazarov, G. I. Gerasimov, G. A. Arbatov, A. E. Bovin. Masking their anti-state activities with the usual Marxist phraseology, these party advisers gradually pushed the political leadership of the country to make decisions that became the first steps towards the destruction of the USSR. A vivid example of such an adviser - an agent of influence was the director of the Institute for the USA and Canada, G. A. Arbatov, who already then occupied a pro-American position. In the preface to this agent of influence's US memoir, Deputy Secretary of State Talbot candidly admits that Mr. Arbatov has been America's friend since the 1970s.

Since the end of the 1960s, A. D. Sakharov and E. G. Bonner became an important element of the agents of influence of the CIIIA. Their unrestrained glorification of the Western political system and tendentious criticism of the Soviet regime through CIA-funded propaganda played a large part in the West's Cold War against Russia. The former physicist, who broke with science, and his wife, the daughter of rabid Jewish communists, took a leading place among other Jewish-Soviet public figures and anti-Russian dissidents, becoming a kind of symbol of opposition to the historical values ​​of Russia, the banner of the struggle for its dismemberment and humiliation.

The aggravation of the activity of agents of influence in our country is connected with the projects of the world behind the scenes, carried out within the framework of the Masonic coordinating centers - the Bilderberg Club and the Trilateral Commission. Back in the late 1950s and 1960s, the secret materials of these centers expressed fears about the nature of the processes taking place in the USSR. The danger of the revival of Russia on a national-patriotic basis, an even greater strengthening of the influence of our country in the world community, which had sharply increased as a result of the Second World War, was emphasized. Even the theoretical possibility of the consolidation of Russia, reviving on a national basis, with the countries of the "third world" caused a feeling of fear in the world behind the scenes, because only such consolidation could stop the predatory use by the West of natural resources belonging to all mankind.

The Masonic futurological organization "Club of Rome", which, in particular, includes E. M. Primakov, is developing a report "Limits to Growth" (1972), which has become widely known throughout the world. The data in this report showed that resources were declining at a catastrophic rate and that Western countries were in danger of reducing their levels of consumption.

The new US strategic doctrine regarding the USSR NS DD-75, prepared for US President R. Reagan by Harvard historian Richard Pipes, proposed to intensify hostile actions against Russia. “The directive clearly formulated,” writes the American political scientist Peter Schweitzer, “that our next goal is no longer coexistence with the USSR, but to change the Soviet system. The directive was based on the conviction that changing the Soviet system with the help of external pressure was entirely within our power.”

Another American doctrine - "Liberation" and the concept of "Information War", developed for the administration of President George W. Bush, openly proclaimed the main goal of the Western world "the dismantling of the USSR" and "the dismemberment of Russia", ordered American legal and illegal structures to exercise control over the state, initiate and manage anti-Russian sentiments and processes in the Russian republics and establish a fund in billions of dollars. a year to help the "resistance movement".

In the 1970s and 1980s, the American program for training agents of influence in the USSR acquired a complete and purposeful character. It cannot be said that this program was not known to the Soviet leadership. The facts say that it was. But those people whom we today with full responsibility can call agents of influence deliberately turned a blind eye to it.

In the KGB of the USSR, a special document was prepared on this occasion, which was called "On the plans of the CIA to acquire agents of influence among Soviet citizens."

"According to reliable data received by the State Security Committee, recently the US CIA, based on the analysis and forecasts of its specialists on the future paths of development of the USSR, has been developing plans to intensify hostile activities aimed at the decomposition of Soviet society and the disorganization of the socialist economy. For these purposes, American intelligence puts the task of recruiting agents of influence from among Soviet citizens, conducting their training and further promoting them in the sphere of managing the politics, economy and science of the Soviet Union.The CIA developed an individual training program for agents of influence, providing for the acquisition of espionage skills for them, as well as their concentrated political and ideological In addition, one of the most important aspects of the training of such agents is the teaching of methods of management in the leadership of the national economy.The leadership of American intelligence plans purposefully and persistently, not counting dealing with costs, to search for persons who, by their personal and business qualities, in the future can take administrative positions in the administrative apparatus and carry out the tasks formulated by the enemy. At the same time, the CIA proceeds from the fact that the activities of separate, unrelated agents of influence, implementing a policy of sabotage in the national economy and distorting guidelines, will be coordinated and directed from a single center created within the framework of American intelligence. According to the plan of the CIA, the purposeful activity of agents of influence will contribute to the creation of certain difficulties of an internal political nature in the Soviet Union, delay the development of our economy, and conduct scientific research in the Soviet Union along dead ends. In developing these plans, American intelligence proceeds from the fact that the growing contacts of the Soviet Union with the West create favorable prerequisites for their implementation in modern conditions. According to statements by American intelligence officers who are called upon to work directly with such agents from among Soviet citizens, the program currently being implemented by American intelligence services will contribute to qualitative changes in various spheres of our society, and above all in the economy. And it will eventually lead to the acceptance by the Soviet Union of many Western ideals. The KGB takes into account the information received to organize an event to uncover and suppress the plans of American intelligence" [ 5 ].

Programs for the preparation of agents of influence were carried out in parallel with the development of programs for the dismemberment of Russia and the preparation of the genocide of the Russian people.

Pay attention to the term - it speaks of a thoughtful, long-term policy, the core of which is genocide" [6].

Today we can speak with complete certainty about the implementation of many plans developed by the world behind the scenes in relation to the USSR. In any case, by the beginning of the eighties, American intelligence had dozens of assistants and like-minded people in the highest echelons of power. The role of some of them is still not clear enough, but the results of their activities are obvious and the data on their cooperation with foreign intelligence services cannot be refuted.

According to the data reported by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, from 1985 to 1992, the West (primarily the United States) invested "in the process of democratization of the USSR" (that is, the destruction of Russia) 90 billion dollars "[7]. With this money, the services of the right people were bought, prepared and agents of influence were paid, special equipment, instructors, literature, etc. were sent.

Formation of the "fifth column"

We do not know with what pieces of silver and in what amount the masters of the world behind the scenes paid the agents of influence,2 but it is known that it was in the mid-eighties that these agents became sharply activated. In particular, on the initiative of G. Arbatov (Director of the US Institute), who is closely associated with Western circles, and with the direct support of Gorbachev, A. N. Yakovlev returns to Moscow, immediately occupying a key position in conducting anti-Russian trials. It is around him that after some time a number of odious personalities are grouped who have played a tragic role in the history of our country: V. Korotich, Yu. Afanasiev, E. Yakovlev, G. Popov, E. Primakov, G. Arbatov.

The circle of these revolutionaries was at first very narrow, but Gorbachev's firm support made them confident.

The CIA is dramatically expanding the scope of its operations [8]. The preparation of agents of influence is put on stream. The tasks of the American residency in the USSR are simplified by the fact that the contingent of traitors (mainly from the party apparatus, science and culture), with whom it has to work, acquires a sense of impunity, instilled in them by high support. Moreover, ordinary traitors and traitors in the new light of perestroika are presented as fighters for the idea.

Billions of dollars to pay for traitors through various intermediary structures (the Public Committee of Russian Reforms, the American Association "National Contribution to Democracy", the Kribble Institute, various funds and commissions) come to our country.

For example, the Cribble Institute (whose leader, in his own words, decided to "devote his energy to the collapse of the Soviet empire" [9]), created a whole network of its representative offices in the republics of the former USSR. With the help of these representations, from November 1989 to March 1992, about fifty "training conferences" were held in various parts of the USSR: Moscow, Leningrad, Sverdlovsk, Voronezh, Tallinn, Vilnius, Riga, Kyiv, Minsk, Lvov, Odessa, Yerevan, Nizhny Novgorod , Irkutsk, Tomsk. Six instructional conferences were held in Moscow alone [10].

The nature of the instructive work of representatives of the Kribble Institute is evidenced by the example of party propagandist G. Burbulis, who until 1988 firmly repeated theses about the leading role of the CPSU and emphasized "the consolidating role of the party in the perestroika process." After passing the briefing "at Kribble", he began to constantly repeat that "the empire (ie, the USSR) must be destroyed."

Another brainchild of the CIA - the National Contribution to Democracy Association (headed by A. Weinstein) - financed the activities of a number of institutions in the USSR:

1984 - A. Sakharov Institute in Moscow, study of the possibilities of creating a center for human rights and peace problems at the institute.

1986 - A. Sakharov Institute, the creation of a "free university" for students who reject the Soviet system of higher education.

1990 - Fund of the US Congress, initiative financing of the Interregional Deputy Group of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR [11].

Hundreds of people who formed the backbone of the destroyers of the USSR and the future Yeltsin regime, including: G. Popov, G. Starovoitova, M. Poltoranin, A. Murashov, S. Stankevich , E. Gaidar, M. Bocharov, G. Yavlinsky, Yu. Boldyrev, V. Lukin, A. Chubais, A. Nuikin, A. Shabad, V. Boxer, many "shady people" from Yeltsin's circle, in particular campaign in Yekaterinburg A. Urmanov, as well as I. Viryutin, M. Reznikov, N. Andrievskaya, A. Nazarov, prominent journalists and television workers [12]. Thus, in the USSR, a "fifth column" of traitors to the Motherland was formed, which existed as part of the Interregional Deputy Group and "Democratic Russia".

It is reliably known that M. Gorbachev knew from the reports of the KGB of the USSR about the existence of special institutions for the training of agents of influence, he also knew the lists of their "graduates". However, he did nothing to stop the activities of the traitors.

Having received from the leadership of the KGB a dossier containing information about an extensive network of intruders against the state, Gorbachev forbids the KGB to take any measures to curb criminal encroachments. Moreover, he does his best to cover up and shield the “godfather” of agents of influence in the USSR, A. N. Yakovlev, despite the fact that the nature of the information about him coming from intelligence sources did not allow doubting the true background of his activities.

Here is what the former chairman of the KGB Kryuchkov reports about this: “In 1990, the State Security Committee, through intelligence and counterintelligence, received extremely alarming information regarding A.N. Yakovlev from several different (and rated as reliable) sources. The meaning of the reports was that According to Western intelligence agencies, Yakovlev occupies positions advantageous to the West, reliably opposes "conservative" forces in the Soviet Union, and that he can be firmly counted on in any situation.But, apparently, in the West they believed that Yakovlev could and should show more activity, and therefore one American representative was instructed to conduct an appropriate conversation with Yakovlev, directly telling him that more was expected of him" [13].

Not only Ragash, but also other leaders of the Masonic lodges frankly told (already after the establishment of the Yeltsin regime) how personnel were trained for infiltration in the former socialist countries, and above all in Russia. “It was easy to guess, listening to these stories,” writes an eyewitness to these revelations, “that for many years the Masons have been secretly recruiting citizens of the socialist countries who were on long business trips abroad in Western Europe, and above all in Paris. And, of course, returning to their homeland, they they did not sit idly by, they certainly carried out the instructions of their foreign brothers and recruited supporters. Almost every lodge had its own departments to work with these spiritual defectors "[20].

Since 1989, the Freemasons have carried out a wide and even in a certain sense open campaign to propagate subversive Masonic ideas and recruit new members in Russia. The so-called "externalization" campaign is being carried out, in which Masons give lectures, reports in large halls, in print, on radio and on television.

In March 1991, the CIA-funded Radio Liberty called on the inhabitants of the USSR to establish contact to join the Masonic lodges. The host of the program, F. Salkazanova, reported the address at which Soviet citizens could sign up for a Masonic lodge in Paris. This lodge was not simple, but created specifically to "promote the spread of Freemasonry in Russia" and recreate the "Masonic structure" there. To make this lodge attractive, the Masonic falsifiers called it "Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin" (although it is well known to someone, but to them, that the great Russian poet was not a Freemason). The “brothers” from this lodge who spoke in the program called for the moral and spiritual improvement of society, considering the United States as a model, which were based “from the very beginning on Masonic principles” [ 21 ] .

Calls to join Freemasonry on Radio Liberty caused extensive mail. French lodges began to receive letters from Vilnius, Baku, and Kyiv. And then individual work was carried out with the candidates. After selection and verification, the candidate was "initiated", that is, ordained as a Freemason.

The Freemasons of France seek to "lay their stone in building democracy in Eastern and Central Europe." This was stated in September 1991 in Paris, speaking to journalists, by the Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Orient of France, J. R. Ragache. According to him, the members of the Great East intend to increase the necessary material and financial efforts for this purpose [22]. After some time, the Grand Master arrives in Moscow, and later visits St. Petersburg to organize proper Masonic work there. In parallel, the Grand National Lodge of France also operates. In April 1991, she initiated into her ranks two citizens of Russia, who became the organizers of the Russian lodge "Northern Star" [ 23 ] .

The day before the start of the August 1991 coup d'état, a member of the Pushkin Lodge I have already mentioned arrived in Moscow from Paris, a certain Jew who emigrated from Odessa in 1922 (his name was kept secret). With him, 8 more members of this lodge came to Moscow. Despite disturbing events, this Masonic emissary opens on August 30, 1991 a new Novikov lodge. The Masonic Journal of Scottish Ritual hailed the event "under the auspices of the Grand Lodge National de France". "This means," wrote the Masonic magazine, "a step forward in the gradual restoration of the blue lodges and high councils of the Scottish ritual among the peoples of the Eastern Bloc" [24].

As a result of the anti-Russian coup d'etat in August-December 1991, the plans of the world behind the scenes were achieved. However, institutions for training and instructing agents of influence are not only not being dismantled, but are also being turned into an important part of the power structure of the Yeltsin regime, developing for it a kind of directive program of activity and supplying it with advisers. In the United States, a legal public center of this structure was opened under the name "Russian House", which was headed by an agent of influence E. Lozansky, although, of course, all responsible decisions were made within the walls of the CIA and the leadership of the world behind the scenes.

Confident in the final victory, Yeltsin no longer concealed his direct connection with subversive anti-Russian organizations such as the American National Contribution to Democracy, to whose leaders he sent a message, which, in particular, said: "We know and highly appreciate the fact that you have contributed to this victory" (fax dated August 23, 1991)[ 25 ] .

The world behind the scenes rejoiced, each of its representatives - in their own way, but they all noted the key role of the CIA. US President Freemason Bush immediately after the August 1991 coup, with full knowledge of the matter and as a former director of the CIA, publicly declared that the coming to power of the Yeltsin regime is "our victory - the victory of the CIA." The then director of the CIA Freemason R. Gates in Moscow, on Red Square, holds his own "victory parade" in front of BBC television cameras, saying: "Here, on Red Square, near the Kremlin and the Mausoleum, I make my solo victory parade" . Between the CIA and representatives of the Yeltsin regime, quite naturally, a relationship of master and vassal is established. For example, in October 1992, R. Gates met with Yeltsin in complete secrecy. Moreover, the latter is not even given the opportunity to use the services of his translator, who is put out the door, and the entire translation is carried out by the translator of the CIA director [26].

The world behind the scenes awards Yeltsin with the title that almost every member of the world Masonic government wears - Knight Commander of the Order of Malta. He receives it on November 16, 1991. No longer embarrassed, Yeltsin poses for reporters in full attire of a knight-commander [27].

In August 1992, Yeltsin signed Decree No. 827 "On the restoration of official relations with the Order of Malta." The content of this decree was kept a complete secret for some time. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia was ordered to sign a protocol on the restoration of official relations between the Russian Federation and the Order of Malta.

Planting lodges in Russia

Relying on high support, Masonic lodges are growing like mushrooms in Russia. Foreign Masonic functionaries of various persuasions, no longer hiding, come to the country, travel around the cities, organizing their lodges and events there. On September 8, 1992, with great solemnity, the "Harmony 48698" lodge, a subsidiary of the Grand National French Lodge, opens in Moscow. The ritual was attended by the great secretary "brother" Yves Gretournel and the "honorary brother" Michel Garder himself, lieutenant and grand commander of the Supreme Masonic Council of France. The lodge was headed by G. B. Dergachev. On the same day, 12 Russian profane [28] were dedicated. In the same 1992, the atheistic lodge "Free Russia" (28 "brothers" at the time of opening), as well as the Masonic Order of the Great East of Russia, appeared.

In 1994, the Moscow News newspaper (No. 9) reported on the registration in Moscow of the Grand National Masonic Lodge, which arose with the assistance of the Grand National Lodge of France. In the Moscow Library of Foreign Literature, figures of the Rosicrucian Masonic order made their nest, organizing propaganda lectures and selection of candidates for the lodge within its walls.

The resurgent Russian freemasonry adopted all the modern features of the formation and development of freemasons. Many politicians, entrepreneurs, freelancers who accept Masonic principles of life, nevertheless feel closely within the framework of traditional Masonic lodges with their special rituals. For this numerous category, Freemasonry leaders create broader, dynamic and ritual-free organizations (called "white Freemasonry"), pursuing the same goals and acting most often in the form of clubs, foundations, commissions, committees.

Some Masonic organizations exist under the guise of various "spiritual culture" clubs, such as the "Citadel" club, headed by the artist O. Kandaurov, the host of the "Oasis" program on the 4th channel of the TV "Russian Universities".

Since the planting of Freemasonry came from the West, then, naturally, the first such organization in Russia was the Rotary International Masonic Club, widespread in Western countries, the announcement of the opening of which was received on June 6, 1990 in a report on the television program Vremya. Its branches quickly spread throughout Russia, and even two are opening in St. Petersburg. The "White Freemasons" of the first call in this club are the heads of the administrations of Moscow and St. Petersburg Luzhkov and Sobchak, the banker Gusinsky, the well-known democratic functionaries M. Bocharov, A. Ananiev, Yu. Nagibin, E. Sagalaev and several dozen big and small democrats, the majority of which went through the "school" of the Cribble Institute and similar anti-Russian institutions.

To match "Rotary" and the so-called International Russian Club (IRC), created in 1992. This club was headed by M. Bocharov, already known to us from the activities of the Moscow Rotary club, and Yeltsin's former press secretary, P. Voshchanov. It included a number of well-known persons, for example, Minister of Justice I. Fedorov (again known for the Rotary club), deputy international affairs officer E. Ambartsumov, member of the Greater Europe Masonic Commission, businessman Svyatoslav Fedorov, filmmaker Stanislav Govorukhin, former head of the state Security Council V. Ivanenko, General K. Kobets, member of the Presidential Council A. Migranyan, as well as a group of others, as they wrote then, "no less well-known persons who did not want to reveal their incognito." According to the charter, there are forty people in the club, and no more than a third can be added each year, and each member is required to enlist three recommendations. The RTO holds closed meetings and guarantees its members "strict confidentiality of information received in connection with the activities of the club...". It is noteworthy that the club is dominated by people who at one time were surrounded by Yeltsin.

"The organizers see the club not as a party, but simply as a place where "real politics" is being done and where, informally, modest but true rulers of the country can easily see each other, discuss state affairs, and decide the fate of the Fatherland" [ 29 ] .

Following the model of one of the main organizations of the world behind the scenes - the Bilderberg Club - in 1992 its Russian counterpart, the Magisterium Club, was created, initially uniting about 60 "brothers" in spirit. The key figure in this Masonic underground was George Soros, whom I have already mentioned, who placed the article "Big Money Makes History" in the first issue of the club's secret bulletin. The cynical aphorism of this financial speculator reveals both the life credo and the main method of action of the world behind the scenes. The significant role of the "Magisterium" club is emphasized by the participation in it of US President B. Clinton's adviser on economic issues - R. Reich, who represents the Trilateral Commission in the club. The key figures of the club are the patriarchs of the Masonic movement in the former USSR A. Yakovlev and E. Shevardnadze. The "Magisterium" presents such well-known Russophobes as E. Yevtushenko, E. Neizvestny, A. Sobchak, V. V. Ivanov, I. Brodsky, S. Shatalin and others[ 30 ] .

Like the "Magisterium", a number of foundations and clubs of a lower rank are being created to achieve Masonic goals, but also playing an important role in shadow political structures - the role of coordinators of anti-Russian activities. The most characteristic example of such an organization is the Interaction reform club, which brings together entrepreneurs, heads of banking and stock exchange institutions, and high-profile government officials, all united by the desire to shape Russia's policy on the principle of "big money makes history." This club is headed by one of the leading figures of the anti-Russian movement, E. T. Gaidar, as well as a number of similar odious personalities - A. B. Chubais, K. N. Borovoy, L. I. Abalkin, E. G. Yasin, A. P. Pochinok, E. F. Saburov, O. R. Latsis, etc. Among the members of the club are B. G. Fedorov, S. N. Krasavchenko, N. P. Shmelev, S. S. Shatalin.

Close to the "Interaction" club is the International Fund for Economic and Social Reforms, headed by S. S. Shatalin. L. I. Abalkin and V. V. Bakatin should be noted among the major functionaries of the fund.

An analogue of the form of Masonic control over the literary environment, which is widespread in the West, was also created in Russia - the "pen-club" organization. It was the so-called "Russian Pen Center", which immediately turned into a gathering place for anti-Russian forces and united in its ranks ardent cosmopolitan writers and ardent anti-patriots. It is quite characteristic that it was the members of this "Pen Center" that formed the core of the "signatories" of the shameful criminally inflammatory letter-denunciation in the name of B. Yeltsin demanding brutal reprisals against the defenders of the House of Soviets in early October 1993 [ 31 ] of the year. Written in extremist tones, the letter called on Yeltsin to immediately put an end to all dissidents, to ban all Russian parties, to close down all Russian press, and to hold a speedy court-martial on all participants in the resistance to the regime. The corpses of one and a half thousand Russian people have not yet been removed from the streets of Moscow, and the instigators-signers from the "Russian Pen Center" (among them - B. Akhmadulina, G. Baklanov, T. Beck, D. Granin, Yu. Davydov, D. Danin, Al. Ivanov, S. Kaledin, D. Likhachev, B. Okudzhava, V. Oskotsky, A. Pristavkin, L. Razgon, R. Rozhdestvensky) are calling for the use of force again, declaring: “Isn’t it time to demonstrate it to our young , but already, as we again with joyful surprise were convinced (after the murder of 1,500 people. - O.P.), a sufficiently strengthened democracy? Is this an atypical reaction of the Masonic cosmopolitan worldview, constantly feeling a panicky fear of the elements of the Russian people?

The most resolute supporters of the execution of the White House to suppress the resistance of the Russian people were such leaders of Masonic structures as Gaidar, Chernomyrdin, Luzhkov and Yavlinsky. The first three personally led punitive operations against the Russian people. "No negotiations!" Chernomyrdin, one of the world's backstage administrators, yelled into the microphone. "We must kill this gang!" [32] Another representative of the international Masonic movement, Yavlinsky, insisted that "the president should show maximum cruelty and firmness in suppression" [33]. The Commander of the Order of Malta, B. Berezovsky, allocated significant sums to pay for the mercenaries who participated in the suppression of the uprising. V. Gusinsky, a member of the "B'nai B'rith" order and the "Rotary" club, not only allocated money for punitive operations, but also financed detachments of the Jewish bandit formations "Beitar".

In 1993, another Masonic-type organization was created - the Order of the Eagle. According to its statute, it unites "the best people" on the basis of common interest, develops a system of elite connections for the implementation of political and economic goals.

Hiding behind the name of an award organization (claiming to coordinate all state award activities), the Order of the Eagle aims to take control of all influential political and economic forces. Entering the Order of the Eagle pays membership fees, and the award organization promises to create certain benefits, privileges, payments.

As the master of this order, R. B. Begishev, states, the Order of the Eagle "can be regarded as a financial institution with formalized, elite and specially designed business communications (or connections). This is serious capital. The source of this capital is the "everyday" connections of the members of the organization. of these links are objectively a commodity. The price of such a commodity is usually determined by the volume of paid services rendered through a system of constructed links" [34]. The Order of the Eagle publishes a closed (secret) telephone directory "The Best People of Russia", considering it as a way to give members of the order "the opportunity to practically take advantage of personally feel the benefits of specially designed communications."

Members of the Order of the Eagle have special order plastic credit cards, with the help of which allowances, bonuses, mutual settlements are calculated. They are a symbol of belonging to the order and "an attribute of belonging to the elite."

The order is managed by the Board (Chapter) and the Executive Committee (Magistrate). Membership in the order is collective and individual.

Among the main founders of the Order of the Eagle were the well-known financial swindler, the head of the Stolichny bank, previously convicted under a criminal article A. Smolensky, his colleague banker P. Nakhmanovich [35], an agent of influence of the world backstage P. Bunich, a new Russian businessman V. Neverov, one of the figures of the international Masonic movement M. Shakkum, as well as such anti-Russian figures as the chess player G. Kasparov, S. Solovyov, the sculptor Z. Tsereteli, the editor-in-chief of Economics and Life, a member of the Masonic club Interaction of Yu. Yakutia.

From the very first "successes" of the broad revival of Freemasonry in Russia, the Russian "brothers" begin to prepare a gift for their foreign bosses - the return to the West of the Masonic archives collected by Hitler during the occupation of Europe and taken out by Soviet troops as a trophy. With the support of Yakovlev and Shevardnadze, the director of the institution where the Masonic archives were kept, Prokopenko, a great admirer of Freemasonry, is carrying out all the preparatory work for their transfer to the West. In deep secrecy, A. Kozyrev concludes a secret agreement with interested parties on the transfer to them of the legitimate trophy of the Russian people, for which he paid with his blood.

As one of the leading leaders of the world behind the scenes, a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Club, the head of the Jewish order "B'nai B'rith", closely associated with the CIA, G. Kissinger, wrote: "I would prefer chaos and civil war in Russia to the tendency of reunification into a single, strong, centralized state". And his colleague in the Masonic order "B'nai B'rith" 3. Brzezinski firmly stated: "Russia will be fragmented and under guardianship." Masonic conspirators are developing a variety of plans for the weakening and dismemberment of Russia. Among these plans is the destruction of the Russian economy and its transformation into an appendage of the economic systems of Western countries. It was for this purpose that the so-called privatization of state property and price liberalization were carried out on the recommendations of Western advisers, which set the country's economy back several decades and caused the death and suffering of many millions of people.

The world Masonic behind the scenes pays the closest attention to the selection of cadres of Russian leaders both in politics and in the economy. The current democratic leaders of Russia either themselves belong to Masonic structures, or unconditionally accept all their conditions (exceptions are extremely rare). But today, the world behind the scenes is no longer worried about the current, but about the future leaders of Russia. In search of loyal and capable servants, she creates not only clubs, foundations and commissions, but also political parties and associations that are ready to fulfill their goals.

At the end of 1993, two political associations are created, striving to achieve Masonic goals. These are the electoral blocs "Russia's Choice" (more correctly, the main choice of the world behind the scenes) and "Yavlinsky - Boldyrev - Lukin" ("Yabloko" is the reserve choice of the world behind the scenes). "Russia's Choice", for example, was founded by the leaders and members of such influential Masonic and anti-Russian formations as the Magisterium club (A. N. Yakovlev), the Interaction club (E. T. Gaidar, P. Filippov), the commission " Greater Europe" (G. E. Burbulis, G. Yakunin, A. Chubais). Its activists were the old cadres of agents of influence A. Shabad, L. Ponomarev, S. Kovalev and others. Associated with mondialist centers abroad, this organization received all-round support from them. Again, "history is made by big money." For the December 1993 campaign alone, Russia's Choice received about 2 billion rubles, a significant part of which was provided by the world behind the scenes (through various intermediary commercial structures). To voice the anti-Russian plans of Gaidar, Burbulis, Chubais, Kozyrev, Poltoranin and others like them and give them a decent look, hundreds of American specialists "worked" to make special films and clips. The Western media and intelligence agencies made every effort to support the henchmen of the world government, but they still failed.

Less was spent on the fallback option of choosing the world behind the scenes "Yavlinsky - Boldyrev - Lukin", but still the lion's share of all Yabloko's expenses was financed from abroad [ 36 ] . Only Lukin personally brought 10 million rubles from the USA for these purposes.

The failure of Russia's Choice made Yavlinsky's bloc the new favorite of the world government. Since 1996, the same Western, as well as Russian democratic media outlets, especially the television program "Itogi" of the NTV channel (sponsored by the vice-president of the Rotary club, banker Gusinsky [37]), obedient to the baton of an invisible conductor, have reoriented themselves from the "Vybor Russia" to the Yavlinsky bloc and carried out obsessive brainwashing and the creation of a winning image of G. Yavlinsky. Western companies made a film about the life of this political sharpie, who faithfully served both Gorbachev and Yeltsin.

Of course, the tasks that the world behind the scenes sets for the current and future leaders of Russia are colossal. On the agenda is a program for the dismemberment of Russia and the transfer of a number of Russian territories to foreign states:

Kaliningrad region - Germany, part of the Leningrad region and Karelia - Finland, part of the Pskov region - Estonia, a number of Far Eastern territories - Japan, most of Siberia - the USA.

Even the question of a possible occupation of Russia under the pretext of control of the "world community" (more correctly, the world government) over its nuclear arsenals is being worked out quite definitely.

As a first step towards the implementation of these extreme and dangerous plans of the world behind the scenes, the Masonic development of the idea of ​​the so-called Europe without borders, or Greater Europe, began. In June 1992, under the "roof" of the Council of Europe and under the patronage of its General Secretary Catherine Lalumière, a colloquium "Social rights of a citizen of Europe" was held, which in fact was a purely Masonic event, which aimed to unite Freemasonry under the motto "Europe without borders". As it was clear from the program, the organizers of the event were the Grand Orient of France, the Grand Lodge of France, the Grand Lodge of Turkey, the Grand Symbolic Lodge of Spain, the Grand Symbolic Lodge of Memphis and Mizraim, the Grand Lodge of Italy and a number of other Masonic organizations. Russian Freemasons were also represented at the colloquium. Among those invited from Russia under the program were A. Sobchak, a former assistant to M. Gorbachev and a former senior official of the CPSU Central Committee. Grachev, member of the editorial board of "Moscow News" A. Gelman, Yeltsin's adviser Vladimir Kolosov [38].

A year later, a new international Masonic meeting was convened with almost the same composition. At its meetings, a document is developed that establishes the European Masonic Conference and its working committee, in which the leaders of all participating lodges, including the Great East of Russia, are represented. Thus, a single coordinating body of the main Masonic lodges of the West and East of Europe arises, which has set as its goal the creation of "Europe without borders". Within the framework of this movement, the Greater Europe Commission was established, which included many prominent European Freemasons: the mayor of Paris, J. Chirac, the chairman of the Liberal International, Count O. Lambsdorf, his deputy W. Schottli, the former Prime Minister of Belgium, W. Martens, former British Minister of Defense D. Patty and others. From Russia, such prominent functionaries as A. Chubais, E. Ambartsumov, G. Sidorova (adviser to Kozyrev), G. Burbulis, K. Borovoy, A. Sobchak, V Tretyakov (editor-in-chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta), G. Yakunin (former priest, State Duma deputy). As a result of the commission's work, on December 21, 1993, the charter "Greater Europe" [39] was adopted, which is a typical example of Masonic creativity. A careful reading of this unique document allows us to see behind the usual Masonic discourses about freedom, democracy and peace, the real goals pursued by the Masonic behind the scenes in relation to Russia.

First of all, the goal is to deprive it of its national identity by drawing it into the sphere of "commitment to the European principles of freedom and democracy," the main of which is proclaimed the principle of individualism, which is absolutely alien to Russia. "There is something in common," the Masonic sages say, "that gives this diversity features that are characteristic of Europe: the desire for individualism and pluralism, the struggle for these values, which, under favorable circumstances, led to success." Western principles, offered to the Russian people as a model, are in fact an expression of spiritual degradation and, in their inner content, are immeasurably lower in quality than the spiritual values ​​of Orthodoxy and conciliar collectivity, professed by our people for a millennium. Moreover, they contradict them and therefore cannot be accepted under any circumstances.

Of course, Masonic ideologists understand this very well and include in the charter the idea of ​​the need to fight all dissidents - "aggressive nationalism" (meaning here all those who disagree with the idea of ​​"Greater Europe") and religious fundamentalism (including in it both Islam and Orthodoxy, those who disagree put up with the hydra of pluralism).

It is planned to develop some kind of great charter as the constitution of "Greater Europe", which should provide for the creation of supranational superstructures, a kind of pan-European government that monitors the observance of laws and controls power, which for Russia will mean a complete loss of independence.

The charter of "Greater Europe" plans the same loss of independence in the economic sphere. As starting points for the implementation of the idea of ​​a Greater European Market, it is proposed, firstly, “to create a common energy community of Greater Europe.” Western Europe, as you know, has very few energy resources, which means that we are talking about the supply of cheap energy resources by Russia to Europe.Secondly, the charter calls for the rapid liberalization of trade.In the current conditions of the unequal ratio of the ruble and Western currencies, and also in view of the lack of effective control over product quality in Russia, this will lead to

on the one hand, to the transfer of everything valuable that is in our country to the West, and on the other hand, it will overwhelm it with the dumping of second-rate, low-quality and even unhealthy products that are not sold in the West. Thirdly, the charter requires the provision of state guarantees for the management of Western capital in Russia.

And finally, the role that the world behind the scenes assigns to Russia in geopolitics, offering to make it a kind of bastion against Asia, opposing the entire Asian world, is extremely unenviable. For this, a military pact on joint security is concluded (including, in addition to Western Europe, the United States and Canada). Moreover, it is supposed to "protect common European (read, Western. - O. P.) security interests, including not only a military threat, but also a whole range of civilizational challenges. "Given the geographical position of Russia, this means that the West is not only seeking to turn Russia into an instrument of military deterrence in Asia, but also to draw our country into a struggle with others, by the way, civilizations closer to us in their spirituality. To implement the project of "Greater Europe", the world behind the scenes will need to make tectonic changes in the consciousness of the Russian people. Therefore, at its core, its project is utopian. But does this mean that it will abandon it, believing only that "big money makes history"?

Masons and the CIA

The Masonic conspiracy has become the prototype of the activities of many modern Western intelligence agencies, and above all the CIA and Mossad. "Enveloping the authorities" with a network of their employees and agents of influence, the use of blackmail, bribery, intimidation and defamation of their opponents have become part of the arsenal of these related organizations pursuing the common goal of establishing a "new" Judeo-Masonic world order. Merging the leadership of Masonic lodges, mondialist organizations and Western intelligence agencies has become the rule of life for these communities. In the post-war period, I do not know of a single example when the head of a Western intelligence service would not simultaneously be a member of a number of Masonic lodges and mondialist organizations. A classic example of this is the ideological enemy of the Russian people, the founder and long-term head of the CIA A. Dulles. After becoming head of the CIA, Dulles remained director of the Council on Foreign Relations and an active Freemason for the rest of his life. Dulles' credo of the CIA's activities was defined as 10 percent. conventional intelligence (collection and transmission of information) and 90 percent. subversion [ 40 ] . It is this principle of the CIA's activities that Masonic and Mondialist organizations most often used against Russia. The well-known speech of A. Dulles in the Council on Foreign Relations with a monstrous program of subversive work against Russia and the corruption of its youth is quite natural within the framework of this principle. Of the $29.1 billion allocated by the US government in 1999 for the activities of the CIA, according to experts, about $9 billion, that is, almost a third, is spent on subversive operations in Russia and the former Soviet republics. Part of these funds, through front organizations, is directed to support gangs in Chechnya and other regions of the Caucasus and Central Asia.

In 1997, during my trips to Latin American countries, I met a former CIA officer, of Russian origin, I will call him R. At one time, R. specialized in covert subversive operations of the American government against Russian Orthodoxy [41]. A sincerely repentant man told me a lot of interesting things about some of the CIA methods known to him.

American intelligence agencies in many cases consider Freemasons to be a reliable support in their covert work. Through the line of "fraternal ties" the establishment of relations with the necessary persons is being carried out. Other things being equal, in the selection of agents, preference is given to freemasons and members of their families. Masonic lodges serve not only as a personnel reservoir, but also as a kind of guarantor of the reliability of an employee.

In the countries of Eastern Europe, especially in Poland and the Czech Republic, R. told me, the organization of Masonic lodges served as the first stage in the creation of the CIA spy network. Freemasons - employees of this organization - put together lodges, look closely at their new brothers, gradually drawing them into their subversive work. The future president of the Czech Republic, V. Havel (33o), for example, formed a series of Masonic lodges mainly from journalists, writers, university professors, some of whom were subsequently recruited by American intelligence. Similar techniques, said R., were used in the USSR. In 1987-1988, Masons from the CIA created the Commonwealth of Russian Freemasons in Paris, uniting in their ranks about 50 freemasons of a predominantly Scottish ritual. The CIA organ - Radio Liberty - begins to regularly broadcast calls for citizens of the USSR to join Masonic lodges. One of the main strongholds of the CIA for recruitment, according to R., is the lodge "A. S. Pushkin" [ 42 ]).

It was this lodge and the association "A. S. Pushkin" that arose on its basis that initiated the creation of a number of other lodges, and in particular the already mentioned lodge "Novikov" (Moscow), as well as "Sphinx" (Petersburg), "Geometry" ( Kharkov). Relying on the solid financial support of the CIA, the freemasons of the Scottish ritual extended their tentacles into the provinces. Today it is known about the existence of Scottish ritual lodges in Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Kursk, Orel, Tula, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Kaliningrad, Rostov-on-Don and even in Novocherkassk. In 1992-1996, several lodges of the Scottish ritual were formed in the army and in the home troops (two are reliably known to exist). They consist mainly of middle and higher officers. According to some reports, since the mid-1990s, a Masonic lodge has been functioning, closely associated with the AS Pushkin association, consisting of officers from the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff.

Although the Scottish Ritual Freemasons who worked under the roof of the Grand Lodge of France “lit up” with their connections with the CIA, the Western intelligence community attached no less importance to the development of the lodges of the Grand Orient of France. No wonder the organizer of the lodges of this order in Russia was the "friend of America" ​​A. Comb, known for his connections with American intelligence. Together with his colleague J. Orefis, he prepared several dozen Freemasons for work in the depths of Russia. The "Grigory Vyrubov" lodge in Paris has become a kind of training center for training personnel for Russia. The leadership of this lodge regularly advertises in newspapers and on the radio that they are ready to accept new Masonic candidates. Following the lodges "Northern Star" (Moscow, 1991) and "Free Russia" (Moscow, 1992), the Grand Orient of France undertakes to recreate the lodges of this order in St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and a number of other cities. The work is carried out in secret, the new brothers are obliged to keep the Masonic secret not only from others, but even from family members.

In June 1996, the Aurora lodge was registered in Moscow, designed specifically for foreigners living in Russia. Its representative, V. Novikov, declared that the lodge would strive to influence the social life of Russia in the Masonic spirit. Modern Russian Freemasons, said V. Novikov, "are mostly intellectuals: teachers, journalists, officers"[43].

According to former CIA officer R., Rotary clubs also play a function similar to Freemasonry. Bringing together specialists, heads of enterprises, government and public institutions, Rotary is an ideal place to collect intelligence information, as they operate among people who own it. R. has numerous examples when through clubs "Rotary", operating in 156 countries and uniting 1, 2 million people, American intelligence received the information it needed. Most often this is carried out within the framework of the so-called service to the world community. Rotarians understand this "service" as "an international activity that provides an opportunity for clubs to cooperate with one or more foreign clubs and exchange information, experience, equipment, specialists, and funds for the implementation of significant joint projects" [ 44 ] .

In 1996, there were about 30 Rotary clubs in Russia [45]. During the 90s, in addition to the clubs I have already mentioned in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Rotary organizations arose in Irkutsk, Kyiv, Dubna, Yakutsk, Magadan [46], Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Barnaul, Kemerovo, Yekaterinburg, Angarsk. The Rotary movement is controlled from the USA. Its headquarters is in Evanston, Illinois. Indispensable members of Rotary are American presidents (starting with Taft) and CIA leaders (starting with A. Dulles).

The establishment of official relations between the Yeltsin regime and the Order of Malta and the entry into it of Yeltsin personally and many figures from his entourage, in particular S. Filatov, B. Berezovsky, V. Yumashev, V. Kostikov, R. Abramovich and others, opened the doors to its numerous emissaries. A branch of the Maltese-Catholics appears in St. Petersburg. It was founded by V. Feklist, "authorized by the World Parliament of the Knights of Malta" [ 47 ] .

In addition to the Catholic Order of Malta, there is an "Orthodox Order of Malta" in St. Petersburg founded by Archbishop Makarios. The order is run from London and is financially supported by wealthy Greek Freemasons in the United States. According to the press, its St. Petersburg branch includes intellectuals from the Pushkin House and the University; The residence is located in the Old Village. At one time, "Orthodox Maltese" even claimed the Zelenetsky monastery near Volkhov[48].

Islamic Freemasonry stands apart from other Masonic lodges and associations in modern Russia. Little is known about him. Most of the scattered information about the "Young Turkey" lodge was created on the basis of Masonic formations that existed in Turkey since the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century. Genetically, these associations are associated with the Grand Orient of France. It is also known that these associations were visited by Russian Freemasons of the early 20th century (A. Guchkov, M. Margulies and others). After the Second World War, apparently not without the participation of the US and NATO intelligence services, the activities of these associations, and above all "Young Turkey", are reoriented from internal problems to the implementation of the ideas of the Great Turan - the creation of a global mystical Turkish state on a Masonic basis, attraction to Turkey lands belonging to Russia-USSR, including the Muslim territories of the Caucasus (Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Dagestan), Central Asia and the Volga region. Before the collapse of the USSR, the main goal of the Freemasons of "Young Turkey" and similar organizations was "building bridges" with the national intelligentsia of these regions with "the prospect of further involving them in Masonic work." With large financial resources, "Young Turkey" has achieved notable success in promoting the crazy idea of ​​the Great Turan. In particular, G. Dzhemal, later chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia, became the pet of this Masonic organization. In the early 1990s, the leaders of the Chechen gangs D. Dudayev (and later Maskhadov), the presidents of Tatarstan and Ingushetia M. Shaimiev and R. Aushev became members of the Loistista. Maintains ties with this lodge (not being a member) and the President of Azerbaijan G. Aliyev. The presence of such a number of high-ranking persons is more likely explained not simply by the Masonic significance of this lodge, but by the political weight of those forces that initiate its activities and finance the anti-Russian projects of its members.

In Russia in the 90s, the most powerful mechanism of destabilization and destruction in the hands of the world behind the scenes was the Soros Foundation, headed by one of the leaders of the "world government", a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg Club, J. Soros [ 49 ] . Under the guise of "philanthropic" activities, which I have already described, this influential freemason and mondialist created an extensive subversive organization that closely cooperates with the CIA and the Mos-Sad and became a legal cover for many employees of these intelligence services [ 50 ] . The Soros Foundation coordinates its activities with other subversive, anti-Russian organizations in the West. According to another representative of the "world government", a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, US Deputy Secretary of State S. Talbott, "Soros's policy is not identical to that pursued by the US government, but it competes with it. We are trying to synchronize our efforts in former communist countries with Germany, France, Great Britain and George Soros" [51].

Financial and economic scams of Masons

George Soros was the think tank and the initiator of almost all the major financial and economic scams committed in Russia in the first half of the 90s. It was he, in collaboration with S. Eisenberg ("B'nai B'rith"), D. Ruben (English lodge), M. Rich (York ritual lodge in New York), who stood behind Chubais, Gaidar, Burbulis and a number of other newly-minted Russian Masonic functionaries during the so-called privatization, as a result of which the vast majority of the property belonging to the Russian people passed into the hands of international financial swindlers. According to the Chairman of the State Property Committee V.P. Polevanov, "The 500 largest privatized enterprises in Russia with a real value of at least 200 billion dollars were sold for next to nothing (about 7.2 billion US dollars) and ended up in the hands of foreign companies and their shell structures " [ 52 ] .

In the mid-90s, the Soros Foundation carried out a number of operations to undermine the Russian economy. According to the Wall Street Journal (1994. 10. 11.), American financiers consider the collapse of the ruble in Russia on the so-called Black Tuesday, October 11, 1994, to be the result of a group of funds headed by Soros. Attention is drawn to the fact that by the beginning of the summer of 1994, the Soros Foundation had acquired shares of Russian enterprises in the amount of 10 million dollars. In late August - early September, Soros, having waited for the growth in the price of shares, sold them. According to experts, he made a profit equivalent to $400 million from this operation. At the end of September, the Soros Foundation began buying dollars for rubles, which, according to American experts, caused the rapid growth of the US dollar and the rapid fall of the ruble, the collapse of the financial system and the rapid ruin of many Russian enterprises.

Even more destructive operation of Soros against the Russian economy was the manipulation of GKO papers. In 1992-1993, as a permanent consultant to the President and Government of the Russian Federation, George Soros initiated the idea of ​​a GKO pyramid. The payment of high (but not backed by real income) interest to holders of GKO papers was ensured by the forced imposition of their purchase by Russian enterprises and financial institutions. Operations with GKOs were carried out with the decisive role of such members of the Chernomyrdin government and consultants of mondialist organizations as A. Chubais, G. Burbulis, A. Shokhin, B. Fedorov, A. Livshits.

As the organizations and institutions on which the T-bills could be imposed were exhausted, the collapse of this financial adventure was also approaching. Soros, who invested considerable capital in GKOs, was the first to determine the moment of this collapse. In the spring-summer of 1998, he and the businessmen associated with him and senior government officials through nominees gradually get rid of GKOs, thereby provoking their even greater depreciation. The main speculative source of income for the Russian government is collapsing. According to data published by Western investigators and experts, more than 700 major Russian figures, including state leaders, were involved in the GKO scam. On the default day of August 17, many top government officials sold their GKOs at a super-favorable rate for money from the International Monetary Fund, thus crediting billions of dollars to their personal accounts in the West, leaving worthless GKO notes in the state treasury. On August 17, the government refuses to pay GKOs. For banks and enterprises that have concentrated a significant amount of GKOs in their hands, a real financial catastrophe sets in, causing a three-fold devaluation of the ruble, a rapid rise in prices and the ruin of enterprises.

FAVORITES OF THE WORLD BEHIND THE SCENE

Since both foreign investors and banks bought GKO papers because of their high yield, they also suffered. The already low financial prestige of Russia has fallen to zero. According to the Institute for Economic Analysis, thanks to the GKO-OFZ market, it was possible to attract approximately $18.6 billion to the federal budget in five years. USA. At the end of May 1998, the amount of accumulated debt reached 71.9 billion dollars. Thus, for every dollar raised in the state budget, Russia had to pay four dollars [ 53 ] . Most of the funds for payments were appropriated by members of the criminal Masonic clan and its entourage. Using official information, members of Masonic organizations made huge fortunes on this scam. So, A. Chubais earned 2 billion rubles from GKOs in 1996 alone. [ 54 ] . G. Burbulis did not lag behind him - the bank "Strategy" headed by him literally grew on government securities. The head of the State Tax Service, Pochinok, despite his official post, did not even hide the fact that his huge incomes were received as a result of speculation in the government securities market [ 55 ] .

The business of Burbulis is closely connected with the business of other financial swindlers - Mason A. Smolensky and the Urinson brothers [56]. The latter have close ties to the Bank of New York, through which illegal transactions are allegedly carried out through Rosvooruzhenie. In this business, Burbulis cooperates with "one of the biggest criminals in the world", who is wanted by Interpol, a major drug dealer, a Mossad agent, already mentioned by me higher M. Rich [57]; as well as Russian criminal businessman A. Tarasov. Burbulis received for Rich from Yeltsin export licenses for the supply of oil, which bring huge profits.

Chubais's business is directly linked to the machinations of George Soros, whose interests are represented by B. Jordan, who actually manages the ONEXIMBANK-MFC group, behind which Anglo-American Jewish capital stands. Chubais had a joint business with Bonde-Nielsen, a major freemason, the owner of a shipbuilding company, who was convicted of fraud and prosecuted [ 58 ] . It is known about Chubais's cooperation (with Yeltsin's personal assistance, documents supporting the criminal business were signed) with Far Eastern mafia structures involved in smuggling valuable seafood into Japan [59]. Chubais's financial machinations with compensations to the National Sports Fund (Sh. Tarpishchev), which received almost 33 non-denominated trillion rubles from the state budget, received a wide response. rub. [ 60 ] .

"Hewing the rough stone of Russia," almost all the major Russian Freemasons known to me amassed huge personal fortunes on the troubles of our Motherland. In addition to the freemasons already listed above, special success in this field, according to the periodical press, was achieved by: the commander of the Order of Malta B. Berezovsky (personal fortune of more than 1 billion dollars), a member of B'nai B'rith and the Rotary club V. Gusinsky (not less than 800 million dollars), consultants of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations V. Chernomyrdin and R. Vyakhirev (approximately 1 billion dollars each), a member of the Rotary club Yu. Luzhkov (300-400 million .dol.).

According to data published in Swiss, Italian and American newspapers in August-September 1999, most of the loans from the International Monetary Fund are at least $15 billion. - were stolen by the Commander of the Order of Malta B. Yeltsin, his daughter and their inner circle (A. Chubais, A. Livshits, O. Soskovets, V. Potanin)[61].

This money was pumped through offshore zones created by a well-known figure in the Masonic movement, the former head of the IMF from Russia, K. Kagalovsky in Cyprus, Gibraltar and Zurich. Among the main transshipment points in the implementation of this international scam was one of the largest American banks - the Bank of New York, whose four main leaders - T. Reni, D. Backot, R. Gomery and M. Moose - were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Thus, the operation was carried out without the knowledge of the world behind the scenes. The operational management of the transfer of funds abroad was carried out by Kagalovsky's wife, who works as one of the executive directors at the Bank of New York. A significant part of the stolen money was placed in the securities of American corporations. Apparently, the closest associate and friend of Kagalovsky, the chairman of the United Board of the Yukos company and the head of the Menatep bank, M. Khodorkovsky, took part in the scam. In 1993, at a meeting of the world behind the scenes, the World Economic Forum in Davos, M. Khodorkovsky was included in the list of 200 representatives of humanity whose activities will have an impact on the development of the world in the third millennium. Steeped in financial scams and outright theft, international and Russian Masonic leaders are confident in the superiority of the Judeo-Masonic civilization. The union of all believers in mammon for them is the key to the universal victory of the "new world order". In their worship of money, the forces of world freemasonry and mondialism are blind and utopian, but this is precisely what makes them capable of any crime and villainy. There is nothing more dangerous for humanity than a utopia with behind-the-scenes power and big money, and always striving for more and more complete and absolute power. The most striking example of this is the current events in Russia.

New backstage favorites

The world behind the scenes is working with particular perseverance with the current ruling regime in Russia, seeking to protect itself from "accidents of a change of power" and "to ensure the succession of leaders of democratic reforms", that is, politicians pleasing to the West. A series of bankrupt and completely discredited politicians in Russia like Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Gaidar, Chernomyrdin, Chubais, Nemtsov, Kiriyenko is being replaced by a new echelon of favorites of the world behind the scenes. Among them, in addition to G. Yavlinsky, whom I have already mentioned, L. Lebed occupies a special place in the late 80s, in whose image the elite of the world behind the scenes sees a modified analogue of Yeltsin. Not very literate, limited, unprincipled and unscrupulous in means, the general impresses the West with his willingness to make any concessions and agreements in return for political support.

In 1995, during my trip to the United States, from sources close to the government circles of this country, I received information that among influential American politicians there was an opinion that it was necessary to elect not Yeltsin, but Lebed, as the new president of Russia. They even named the amount of money that this group of politicians was going to "invest" in Lebed - about 1 billion dollars. Then I did not believe this information - Lebed's personality seemed to me too insignificant and frivolous. However, subsequent events showed that I was wrong.

In October 1996, A. Lebed arrived in New York at the invitation to take part in a meeting of one of the main bodies of the world behind the scenes - the Council on Foreign Relations. The meeting was preceded by a friendly meeting between Lebed and the "architects of the destruction of the USSR", the leaders of the said Council - former US President George W. Bush, former US Secretary of State D. Baker and General B. Scowcroft. These well-known Russophobes briefed Lebed on the agenda and outlined the main areas of discussion at the upcoming meeting.

On November 18, Lebed was admitted to the Council on Foreign Relations. The meeting with him lasted about 5 hours. The general was introduced to those present by G. Kissinger, D. Rockefeller, Z. Brzezinski, former American ambassador in Moscow, career intelligence officer D. Matlock, D. Simes took an active part in the discussion. The leaders of the world behind the scenes assessed the personality of the general as a contender for the presidency of Russia. In his speech at the Council, Lebed assured the "world government" that he considers it necessary to continue the reforms initiated by Yeltsin, approves of the Western-centric foreign policy of the current government and "cooperation with NATO without tantrums", stands for the final destruction of Russia's "imperial and anti-Semitic traditions". In response to a question whether he was ready to specifically fight anti-Semitism in Russia, the general replied "strongly in the affirmative." Answering questions about the Caucasian territory of Russia, the general said that he was ready to agree to its withdrawal from the North Caucasus and the transfer of the entire Caucasian region under the control of the West. Lebed also agreed with the possibility of NATO's custody of Russia's nuclear facilities.

The next day, General Lebed attended a meeting of the World Jewish Organization, where he reassured the Jewish leaders of his readiness to fight Russia's "imperial and anti-Semitic traditions" and urged the participants to support him as a candidate for the Russian presidency. At all meetings and meetings of Lebed with the American elite, the issue of financial assistance to the future contender for the presidency of Russia was discussed. According to an Orthodox newspaper, in 1999 Lebed visited the largest French Masonic lodge, the Great East. With his participation, an ancient ritual was carried out, after which honorary Masonic signs were awarded to him[62].

A. Lebed is not the only political figure used by the world behind the scenes to influence the Russian patriotic movement. According to the information I received from the former CIA officer already mentioned, in the second half of the 80s and early 90s, this subversive organization allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to conduct special operations in the Russian patriotic movement, including recruiting agents and infiltrating its own people. in patriotic organizations, and above all in the environment of prominent patriotic figures. According to my informant, by deceit, bribery, blackmail, the CIA managed to persuade a handful of traitors to cooperate, playing a certain role in patriotic organizations, as well as in some magazines and newspapers of a patriotic orientation in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Minsk, Nizhny Novgorod and Novosibirsk. As my informant, who attended various meetings and colloquia of the CIA, managed to understand, a significant part of these renegades [ 63 ] were selected from former third-wave emigrants associated with organizations such as NTS, Radio Liberty, and already previously collaborating with the CIA. Significant assistance in infiltrating Russian patriotic organizations was provided by the so-called Orthodox Freemasons, who continue their activities in the United States in the Orthodox Church of American jurisdiction. Moreover, the CIA did not always recruit directly [64]. Most often, this was done through CIA-funded public organizations and foundations.

The main goals of the CIA in relation to the Russian patriotic movement were:

introducing instability, contradictions, playing off leaders;

spreading discrediting rumors about authoritative Russian patriots;

• carrying out actions that contributed to the split and fragmentation of patriotic organizations, discrediting the leaders of the movement, who have the ability to unite significant patriotic forces around themselves;

the creation of organizations that are false in their tasks, designed to split the patriotic movement, bring confusion into it, and replace its true goals.

In this regard, it is appropriate to cite as an example the events that developed in the Moscow Society for the Preservation of Monuments (VOOPIIK) in the second half of the 1980s. During this period, the Moscow Society was one of the spiritual centers of the Russian national revival, concentrating around itself significant forces of Russian patriots. Around 1984, a well-organized anti-patriotic group appeared here, promoting the liberal-Masonic ideology. This group set as its goal during the next re-election of the board of the Moscow Society to remove its leadership and change the patriotic direction of its activities. The group failed to achieve this goal. All its members were almost unanimously expelled from society and began to write denunciations against the patriots, accusing them of anti-Semitism, extremism, ignorance, and even Orthodox clericalism. The ending of this story is most interesting: a few years later, the most active members of the anti-Russian, anti-Orthodox group, unfortunately, became private guests of the programs of patriotic radio stations such as Radonezh and People's Radio, and one even got a job teaching at the Moscow Theological Academy. The names of these werewolves will be announced in due course.

Much of what was planned in the CIA in relation to the "national patriots" was not carried out, although the CIA considered some of its operations in the Russian patriotic movement to be successful. For example, the special operations of 1991-1992 to introduce their agents into the environment of authoritative leaders of the patriotic movement, who most often acted "under the roof" of entrepreneurs and financiers, who offered these leaders money and gave them advice, as a result of which the patriotic movement came to a standstill.

Carrying out active subversive activities against the Russian national movement, seeking to split and destroy it, the United States, at the same time, is striving in every possible way to strengthen the anti-Russian national movements in the former republics of the USSR and in the national regions of Russia itself. For these purposes, the CIA spends at least 1 billion dollars. in year. Particular attention is paid to the development of the anti-Russian movement in Little Russia. The budget of the Ukrainian nationalist organizations RUH, UNA-UNSO is almost three-quarters funded by the CIA, and most of the top of these organizations has been in the service of the American government since the "pre-perestroika" times. The frank words of Z. Brzezinski at a closed meeting of the American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee on the occasion of conferring the title of "Honorary Citizen of Lviv" are quite characteristic: "The building of our American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee is a long-term planning of US-Ukraine relations. My role as the leader of this committee is reduced to to become even more deeply involved in the future development of Ukraine in the name of American interests.It is important that Ukraine constantly and consistently go to the West, because if it neglects this and does not define itself as a Central European state, it will be drawn into the Russian sphere of influence.

The "new world order" under US hegemony is being created against Russia, at the expense of Russia and on the ruins of Russia.

Ukraine for us is an outpost of the West against the restoration of the Soviet Union"[65].

Target - destruction of Russia

In the second half of the 90s, the Jewish-Masonic leaders of the mondialist organizations - the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Club, the World Forum and other criminal communities that harbored the idea of ​​world domination over humanity, began to loudly declare that the deadlines for establishing a "new world order" were approaching. ". Using the "magic number" of the year 2000, the mondialists believe that by that time the "world government" will not only control, but also manage all spheres of society's life, including the religious one. For example, one of the ideologists of mondialism, J. Attali, in the program book "Horizon Lines" announced that the creation of a "planetary political power" and a "new world order" would become a reality by the year 2000 [66]. In the plans of the world behind the scenes, Russia is assigned the role of a "reservoir of raw materials and energy resources." The future "world government" is not at all worried about the fate of the people living in our country. In the calculations of the leaders of the Judeo-Masonic world, it is regarded as a "strategic territory" (3. Brzezinski) or "a place where the lion's share of the planet's useful reserves" (D. Rockefeller) is concentrated. According to Z. Brzezinski, expressed by him at a meeting of the US National Security Council, "the smaller the population in this territory, the more successful its development by the West will be."

In 1992, the study "American forecasts for the development of the geostrategic situation in the world at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century" was published, which outlined considerations in favor of dividing Russia into 6 independent state entities: Western Russia, the Urals, Western Siberia, Eastern Siberia, the Far East and Northern Territories.

In October 1997, 3. Brzezinski proposed dividing Russia into three parts: European Russia, the Siberian Republic and the Far Eastern Republic. "A decentralized Russia," Brzezinski declared, "is a real and welcome possibility" [67].

At the meeting of the Bilderberg Club on May 14-17, 1998 in the UK, the main attention was paid to the dismemberment of Russia. For these purposes, it was proposed to divide our country into several zones of control. According to the considered scheme, the Center and Siberia should go to the USA, the North-West - to Germany, the South and the Volga region - to Turkey, the Far East - to Japan.

According to information sparingly coming from sources close to the US government, the main strategic line of this country in relation to Russia is to keep it in a state of constant destabilization, provoking processes of destruction and disintegration, all kinds of assistance to destructive elements in the economy, politics and national relations.

The US Secretary of State, one of the leaders of the Council on Foreign Relations, M. Albright, in her speech at a meeting of the Russian-American Council on Business Cooperation (Chicago, October 2, 1998) stated that, based on the national interests of the United States, their main task is to "manage the consequences of the collapse of the Soviet empire" that it is necessary to provide "support to Russia as long as it moves in the right direction of disintegration" [ 68 ] .

In Z. Brzezinski's book "The Grand Chessboard" and in a whole series of his latest speeches and reports, a long-term geopolitical strategy of the world behind the scenes is formulated, the core of which is the US establishment. According to this strategy, in the future, the complete destruction of Russia in its historical European territory to the Ural Mountains is envisaged, the resettlement of Russians (including Little Russians and Belarusians) in hard-to-reach places in Siberia as a labor force for the extraction of natural resources intended for Western industry.

If we translate the crafty expressions and formulations of Z. Brzezinski from Judeo-Masonic into normal human language, the main idea of ​​his latest speeches is to destroy Russia as a country that cannot be remade into a "Western-type democracy", which, due to its internal spiritual and moral structure, is not capable of integrating into Judeo-Masonic civilization. Russia for Brzezinski and other ideologists of the world behind the scenes is a "black hole" hostile to the Western world. Fairly criticizing and clearly despising the criminal, corrupt, mired in theft and corruption regime of Yeltsin, Brzezinski does not believe in his ability to control the development of Russia in a direction pleasing to the West, Brzezinski also looks skeptically at possible successors of Yeltsin, no less than he, mired in theft and corruption - Chernomyrdin, Kiriyenko, Nemtsov, Luzhkov, Primakov, Stepashin ... Like many other masters of the world behind the scenes, Brzezinski does not like that the money allocated by them through the IMF for the "reorganization" of Russia according to the Western model is brazenly stolen and are transferred to the accounts of Yeltsin's relatives, his prime ministers on duty and those closest to him [69]. But a raven will not gouge out a raven's eye. Freemason Brzezinski does not propose to bring the Commander of the Order of Malta Yeltsin and his Masonic team to criminal court, but considers their theft and venality to be an innate property of Russia. Therefore, he proposes to put an end to Russia once and for all as a geographical, political and spiritual concept, dividing it into several puppet states subject to the West and at the same time transferring part of its territories to the states of the European Union, Turkey, Japan and even China.

One of the main tasks of the world behind the scenes is the destruction of national governments and the establishment of Judeo-Masonic ruling regimes in their place. During the last 150 years, all Western European countries have lost their national governments and are ruled by cosmopolitan and Judeo-Masonic elites, far from the national interests of the vast majority of the French, Germans, English, Belgians and other Western European peoples. The comedy of elections from two or three essentially identical parties like a fig leaf covers the most cruel dictatorship of the secret world government and international Jewish capital, steadily defending the line of a handful of Jewish leaders on the world domination of the "chosen" people.

Yugoslavia and plans for the dismemberment of Russia

Plans for the West's barbaric armed aggression against Yugoslavia were developed at meetings of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. It was these bodies that made the political decision to "punish" the Orthodox Serbian people for violating the "rules of the game" behind the scenes of the world. The main fault of the Serbs, from the point of view of the world behind the scenes, is their firmness in upholding the national interests of their people, the main of which is the preservation of Orthodoxy and territorial integrity. In the eyes of the leaders of the world behind the scenes, the Serbian people is the greatest heretic, since it is the only one among the European peoples who has managed to maintain a national government that has found the strength and courage to resist the dictates of the world behind the scenes.

The armed aggression by the US and its NATO satellites in Yugoslavia in April-June was a punitive operation behind the scenes of the world, one of the stages in the establishment of the "new world order." As a result of this operation, millions of people suffered, tens of thousands were killed during the bombing (including with the use of weapons prohibited by international conventions), and most of the economy of Yugoslavia was destroyed. The world behind the scenes trampled on the accepted norms of international law and UN conventions, in fact officially proclaiming force as the main instrument of international relations.

The introduction of NATO troops into a significant part of the territory of Yugoslavia is the actual occupation of this country, aimed at its gradual destruction with the transfer of territory to neighboring states.

One of the leaders of the "new world order" J. Soros, in his article "Undermining the Borders" [ 70 ], a month after the end of the NATO bombings, said that "the Balkans cannot be reconstructed on the basis of nation-states." In his opinion, in order to put an end to the national statehood of the countries of South-Eastern Europe, it is necessary to take them under the protectorate of the European Union, which "should unfold its umbrella over the entire region." New borders are supposed to be established for all Balkan countries, including Yugoslavia (excluding Kosovo), Albania, Romania and Bulgaria. In all these countries, it is proposed to eliminate customs, deregulate the economy, destroy national currencies and introduce the euro or the German mark.

Similar ideas are carried out in the documents of the Council on Foreign Relations. In the "Reconstruction of the Balkans" program, developed on behalf of the Council by a member of this council, President of the Carnegie Endowment M. Abramovich, Yugoslavia is not on the map of Europe. According to this program, the "reconstruction" of the Balkans will be carried out in the conditions of "a powerful military presence of NATO at its long-term bases in Albania, Bosnia, Macedonia and Kosovo. As a result of the reconstruction, the following states will be left on the map of the Balkans: Albania, Kosovo, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro". The operation to redistribute borders and destroy national states in the Balkans is considered by the Council on Foreign Relations and other organizations of the world behind the scenes as a testing ground for the dismemberment of Russia and the destruction of its statehood. The secret support of anti-Russian gangs in Chechnya, Dagestan and other Caucasian territories, carried out by the American government through the regimes of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia, as well as the Afghan movement "Taliban" organized with the money of the CIA, aims to wrest from Russia rich territories oil, to prepare this region for the role of a Russian Kosovo.

Elections-99

1999 brought a new alignment in the Judeo-Masonic elite ruling in Russia. Russians' disrespect for this elite can only be argued with hatred for it. Under these conditions, there is a shift within the ruling elite from the criminal-cosmopolitan clan of Yeltsin-Chernomyrdin-Chubais-Berezovsky to a new clan of Luzhkov-Primakov-Gusinsky-Yavlinsky, no less criminal before the Russian people. This new clan is called upon to unite all anti-Russian forces within the country, enriched by the grief and suffering of our compatriots. Unlike the old clan, which came to power mainly on the cosmopolitan slogans of "democracy" and "freedom", the new clan is going to use the patriotic card, to play on the just hatred of ordinary people for the Yeltsin regime.

At the end of 1998, a new electoral bloc was created under the false name "Fatherland - All Russia" ("OVR"), which in the fall of 1999 was headed by three well-known anti-Russian figures - Moscow Mayor Yu. Luzhkov (Rotary Club), former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation E Primakov (Order of Malta) and Tatar nationalist M. I. Shaimiev (Young Turkey lodge), as well as another Young Turk R. Aushev. All these people somehow took part in the September-October 1993 coup d'état. The main financial and information support of the electoral bloc was carried out by one of the leaders of international Zionism, vice-president of the World Jewish Congress, head of the Jewish community of Russia, a member of B'nai B'rith and the Rotary club, V. A. Gusinsky, who owns the newspapers Segodnya, " Moskovsky Komsomolets", "Moskovskaya Pravda", "Literaturnaya Gazeta", "Itogi" magazine, "NTV" television company and "Ekho Moskvy" radio station. The closest associates of Gusinsky - M. Fridman, B. Khait, V. Malkin, A. Smolensky, M. Khodorkovsky [71] also participated in the financing of the OVR electoral bloc.

It is important to note that, unlike the old clan of the ruling elite, which was oriented mainly towards the United States and the Jewish capital of this country, the new clan, headed by Luzhkov, is oriented towards Western Europe and Israel. The latter is evidenced by the fact that the new clan is supported by the entire leadership of the Jewish, Zionist organizations, many of which are members of B'nai B'rith.

In the days when NATO aviation began to bomb Yugoslavia, Yu. M. Luzhkov was negotiating with European representatives of the world behind the scenes in Paris. According to our Parisian informants, Luzhkov repeatedly met with the leaders of the European network of Rotary clubs, and also, which is especially important, with the highest officials of the Grand Orient of France. As a result of Luzhkov's contacts with the French brothers, they decided to support the new clan "as the most promising circle of people in contemporary Russia." It was decided to appeal to all the brothers in different countries, and above all in Russia, with a request to assist the people who have united around Luzhkov. The Grand Orient of France sent his high-ranking brother (33o) Jacques Seguel, who is considered one of the leading experts in modern electoral technologies, to help Luzhkov's election campaign.

Preliminary agreements between the leaders of the anti-Russian bloc "Fatherland" and the Masonic structures of the Great East were clarified and confirmed at the negotiations between Y. Primakov and French President J. Chirac in November 1999.

In opposition to the grouping of Jewish-European Freemasonry, the American and Maltese Masonic clans create an electoral bloc called "Unity", which aimed to unite all anti-Russian forces under the leadership of Yeltsin and his criminal-cosmopolitan environment. The organizational structure and personnel composition of the block leaders were determined by B. A. Berezovsky, R. A. Abramovich, A. S. Voloshin, V. B. Yumashev. The puppet leaders who voiced commands from B. A. Berezovsky became the nominal head of the bloc. To serve clan interests, all the forces of the state apparatus were thrown. The first and second channels of state television, as well as TV-6, worked entirely for the propaganda of this anti-Russian bloc. To discredit their political opponents, the most dirty and shameless methods were used, which were especially distinguished by television propagandists biased by Berezovsky - S. Dorenko, N. Svanidze, M. Leontiev. However, the henchman of V. Gusinsky E. Kiselev was not much inferior to them.

FRIENDS OF THE GREAT EAST

YOUNG TURKS AND WAHHABITS - AGENTS OF THE GREAT TURAN

The clash of two Masonic clans in the elections-99 showed the boundless meanness, baseness and cynicism of Masonic politics. in the heat fight compromising evidence, both sides stripped each other naked, showing everyone their complete poverty, boundless greed and moral insignificance. Already after the elections, summing up their results, two well-known Russian Freemasons G. O. Pavlovsky and S. Govorukhin, representing both Masonic clans, admitted that they looked at these elections as a special performance. According to Govorukhin, victory in the elections depended on whose backstage direction of this performance was more successful [ 72 ] .

Freemasonry is a criminal community

Freemasonry in all its manifestations is a secret criminal society, pursuing the goal of achieving world domination on the basis of the Judaic doctrine of the chosen people.

The Russian Orthodox Church has always condemned Freemasonry, rightly considering it a manifestation of Satanism. Millions of Orthodox Christians annually anathematize all persons who are members of Masonic lodges or organizations associated with them. In 1932, at the All-Diaspora Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, a decision was made that participation in Masonic lodges "is incompatible with the title of a Christian - a member of the Church of Christ, that such must either resolutely renounce Freemasonry and teachings akin to it, or, with further impenitence, will be excommunicated from Holy Church."

Freemasonry has always been the worst enemy of mankind, all the more dangerous because it tried to cover its secret criminal activity with a veil of false arguments about self-improvement and charity. However, the terrible, sinister crimes that it committed put it outside the law. In almost all countries, Freemasonry was constantly banned by law as a criminal organization. Here are some facts:

1725 Freemasonry is banned in France. 1737 French police ban Masonic meetings.

1738 - the prohibition of Freemasonry in Holland (arose in 1734) and Sweden (arose in 1735).

1740 - King Philip V of Spain issues a Decree against Freemasonry (originated in 1728).

1740 Freemasonry is prohibited on the island of Malta.

1745 - The government of the Republic of Bern forbids Freemasonry by special decree.

1748 - The Ottoman Porte forbids Freemasonry in Turkey.

1749 - Lord Derwentwater, the first Grand Master of the Masonic order in France, is executed on the scaffold for crimes.

1751 - Ferdinand IV of Spain forbids freemasonry in his states.

1801 Emperor Francis II bans Freemasonry in Austria.

1823 Freemasonry banned in Portugal.

Nevertheless, despite the prohibitions, the Masonic ideology gradually spread in the public consciousness, poisoning its Christian content. In order to inspire confidence among the uninitiated in the criminal activities of the Masonic order, freemasons disguised themselves as philanthropic organizations, declared their love for humanity, piety and integrity. In fact, in the activities of the Freemasons, the Jewish ideology of the "chosen people" was reproduced, allegedly having special rights to rule over the rest of humanity. In relation to all non-Masons, freemasons were allowed to lie, slander, kill, pit people against each other, class against class, people against people. Masonic influence was one of the main factors in all wars, revolutions and great upheavals of the XVIII-XX centuries.

By the end of the 19th century, Masons began to exert no longer an indirect, but a direct influence on the politics of Western countries. By the middle of the 20th century, Masonic lodges and associated Masonic-type organizations in these countries had become the dominant state force, playing a key role in the formation of governments and parliaments. Freemasons came to power and were able to put their Masonic principles into practice without any restrictions. As a result of evil, violence and injustice, the world is more than ever before.

The stronghold of today's Western world order is the United States of America, which freemasons around the world consider a "Masonic state", "a great Masonic superpower." The President and Government of the United States are made up of high-ranking members of Masonic lodges. Today's US President B. Clinton is a world-famous "corrupt type, dishonest", a member of the elite Masonic lodge "Skull and Bones". His predecessor, George Bush, was a member of several Scottish and York ritual lodges. One of the most respected American Freemasons (33o), President H. Truman declared that he "builds his state activity on the principles of Freemasonry" and wishes that these principles "spread throughout the world."

Guided by his Masonic principles, President G. Truman in 1945 gives a monstrous order for the atomic bombing of two peaceful Japanese cities - Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a result of which 200 thousand inhabitants died.

Based on Masonic principles, it was only after World War II that American President-Masons committed so many war crimes against humanity that their deeds deserve a military tribunal:

1948-1953 - participation in punitive actions against the Filipino people. The death of many thousands of Filipinos.

1950-1953 - An armed invasion of Korea by about a million American soldiers. The death of hundreds of thousands of Koreans.

1964-1973 - participation of 50 thousand American soldiers in punitive operations against the Republic of Laos. Again thousands of victims.

1964 - bloody suppression of the Panamanian national forces demanding the return of rights to Panama in the Panama Canal zone.

1965-1973 - military aggression against Vietnam. Destruction of over half a million Vietnamese. Following the example of Hitler, peaceful villages were completely destroyed, entire territories were burned with napalm, along with all the inhabitants. Mass killings of women and children.

1970 - aggression against Cambodia. From the US - 32 thousand soldiers. Numerous casualties among civilians.

1982-1983 - terrorist attack by 800 US Marines against Lebanon. Again, many victims.

1983 - military intervention in Grenada, about 2 thousand marines. Hundreds of lives have been destroyed.

1986 - treacherous attack on Libya. Bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi. Numerous victims.

1989 - armed intervention in Panama. Thousands of Panamanians died.

1991 - a large-scale military action against Iraq, 450 thousand military personnel and many thousands of units of modern equipment were involved. At least 150 thousand civilians were killed. Bombing of civilian targets in order to intimidate the population of Iraq.

1992-1993 - Occupation of Somalia. Armed violence against civilians, killings of civilians.

1999 - aggression against Yugoslavia, thousands of civilian casualties, hundreds of thousands of refugees.

But this is only open aggression. And how many decades did the United States wage an undeclared war against El Salvador, Guatemala, Cuba, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iran, investing huge amounts of money to support puppet pro-Americans?

Kanian regimes or American-inspired rebels who opposed legitimate governments that did not recognize American dominance in the region. Honduras was turned by the United States into a military foothold in the struggle against El Salvador and Nicaragua.

In 1948-1999 alone, the total number of victims of the criminal orders of the American Masonic presidents is more than a million people, not counting the wounded and destitute.

Mankind has the right to present the "Masonic superpower" with an account and judge the American Masonic administration and the Masonic administrations of its satellites but NATO as war criminals at the new Nuremberg Trials. Like the ideology of fascism, Masonic ideology must be outlawed and its bearers subjected to severe criminal prosecution. Masonic lodges and affiliated organizations such as Rotary clubs or PEN clubs should rightly be equated with fascist organizations and banned.

In Russia, Masonic lodges were banned three times by special Imperial Decrees - under Catherine II, Paul I and Alexander I. The last ban lasted until February 1917.

Nevertheless, despite the ban, Masonic lodges continued to "work" in secret. Criminal traces of their activities can be traced in the 19th and 20th centuries (and even under Soviet rule). A new "flourishing" of Masonic lodges occurred during the so-called perestroika. By special decrees of M. S. Gorbachev, and a little later B. N. Yeltsin, Freemasonry was again legalized and greatly expanded the scope of its activities through Masonic clubs and other organizations created to achieve Masonic goals. In its current form, Freemasonry poses a huge threat to Russian society. Today, Russia, as at the beginning of the century, faces the task of completely destroying and banning Masonic organizations.

All about one of the most secret and powerful associations in the world

Masons are the most closed society in the world. There are rumors about the amazing wealth of Freemasons, about their powerful influence on world politics, about their involvement in the overthrow of monarchs and revolutions ... In a word, there are more than enough myths around "freemasons". Which of them are true?

Where did they come from

The exact date of the origin of the Masonic organization is known - June 24, 1717. On this day, the first lodge of "freemasons" began its work in England. The four societies that were at that time in London were called in the same way as the taverns in which their participants used to gather: “Goose and a baking sheet”, “Crown”, “Apple”, “Grape brush”. On June 24, they solemnly united and became the Grand Lodge of London. This day is still celebrated as the main holiday of the Masons.

Later, representatives of the nobility, the intelligentsia, and businessmen began to join the society of Masons. Belonging to a secret brotherhood has become fashionable. In addition, the intellectuals liked the ideas of equality and brotherhood, the desire for spiritual perfection, preached by the Masons. Freemasons have developed their own rites and secret symbols that are still in effect today.

What are the goals

Why are Masonic lodges needed at all, what do they discuss when they get together, what tasks do they set for themselves?

As the Freemasons themselves explain, their first goal is to improve themselves and the world around them. Everyone who joins the lodge tirelessly works on himself, helping the other to become better: more educated, tolerant, understanding.

The second important goal of Freemasons is charity. In some states, Masonic lodges include hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom are very wealthy, they open hospitals in the Third World countries, provide assistance to the sick, and finance the work of educational institutions.

What is behind their rituals

Masons are sometimes called almost a religious sect. These thoughts are prompted by intriguing rumors about the mysterious, beautiful, and deeply meaningful rites of the Masonic lodge. For example, the head of the Lodge is called “Venerable Master”, they call each other “brothers”, it is impossible for an uninitiated person to get to the meeting - the place and time are kept in such a secret. And yet it is not a sect. Moreover, Freemasons avoid talking about religion. And the mechanisms developed over the centuries do not allow the Order of Freemasons to turn into a religious sect. For example, the leaders of the lodge are constantly changing - the Venerable Master cannot remain so for more than three years.

Their secrets

Neither Freemasonry as a whole, nor its individual lodges hide the very fact of their own existence. In addition, any member of the Lodge has the right to declare his affiliation to the Freemasons quite openly.

But he has no right to say the same about other Freemasons - disclosure is under the strictest ban.

It is supposed to keep secret words and signs by which Masons recognize each other, special rituals.

They and politics

Masons are believed to rule the world. Most likely, this is a strong exaggeration caused by long-standing rumors about the "Jewish Masonic conspiracy." Yes, in many countries very influential people are members of the brotherhood. However, Masons are not involved in politics - they have other goals. By tradition, almost all US presidents were Freemasons: it is not for nothing that even dollar bills have a Masonic sign.

In Russia, quite different connections are valued today. Of course, domestic Freemasons would like prominent politicians, oligarchs, and big businessmen to belong to their order. But do politicians and oligarchs need old romantic rites and philosophical conversations? Do they have time for this? And do they want their names to be mentioned in connection with some secret meetings and projects? Very doubtful.

How to get there

As already mentioned, Masons have the right to speak openly about their belonging to the order. If anyone who wants to join knows about it, he must take the initiative, no one will invite him, because campaigning is prohibited.

If a person really wants to join the order, but he doesn’t have a single freemason he knows, it doesn’t matter: today you can find information about lodges on the Internet and apply by e-mail. She will be considered. The candidate ("profane") will need 2-3 guarantors, and he will also have to go through an ancient rite of passage, described in detail in the novel L. Tolstoy"War and Peace". At present, the rituals have not changed much. The members of the lodge vote, and three votes "against" are enough for the candidate to be forever closed this way.

If it becomes clear that a person, striving for the Lodge, is pursuing material gain or wants to achieve social benefits, the road there is blocked for him. Real Masons strive for one thing: to reveal their spiritual potential and help others.

Men's Privilege

Ladies are not allowed to enter Masonic lodges. This is how it happened historically. Although today in some countries “mixed lodges” are beginning to be practiced, where women are allowed.

Which celebrity was a Freemason?

This can only be said with some degree of probability, given the strict secrecy of such data. In Russia, it is customary to refer to Masons, for example, A.S. Pushkin, A.V. Suvorova, N.M. Karamzin, A.S. Griboyedov, A.F. Kerensky, N.S. Gumilyov.

By the way: One of the legends says that Mozart in his opera The Magic Flute, he spoke about the secrets of the Masonic lodge, for which he was killed. To this day, Masons treat this work with special reverence. When Mozart's The Magic Flute, in particular, the Master's aria, once again sounds at the Vienna Opera, several dozen listeners stand up in the hall, as if by agreement. These are Masons.

The word "mason" brings up many associations - the heroes of "War and Peace", secret brotherhoods and rituals, the interests of cynical world elites. However, this is not just a veil of the XIX century - Masonic lodges are as real today as they were then. Moreover, they still influence politics. About whether there are still Masons left and what goals they pursue, the writer, founder of the magazine "Russian House" Yuri Vorobyevsky spoke in the program "Radio Kuzichev".

Freemasonry - anti-religion?

Anatoly Kuzichev: Let's talk about this surprisingly popular and completely incomprehensible and underestimated concept. What is Freemasonry, who are Freemasons?

Yuri Vorobyevsky: You are absolutely right. This is really the antithesis of Orthodoxy. The fact is that we have such a strange system. You say this in the presence of some well-educated, sweet, normal priest or someone from the Orthodox audience about this - and immediately your interlocutor has a sore throat that tries to turn into a sarcastic smile, a nervous tic arises, people climb right under the table. And, for example, on Athos, where I often visit, and in Greece - a completely different attitude.
Quite recently, a book by Archimandrite Epiphanius was published in Greece, which we have already translated into Russian, called Freemasonry in the Light of Truth. She speaks of Freemasonry as an anti-religion. Cult, object of worship, a kind of supreme being.

A.K.:Anti-religion or an independent, new religion? Or another religion?

Yu.V.: We can say that yes, it is a different religion. This is precisely a religion with all the signs, as this learned archimandrite points out.

A.K.: So Freemasonry is a religion? New, with other creeds, with a different meaning, apparently. From a different perspective.

Yu.V.: Freemasonry is a religion with a huge number of stolen symbols, including Orthodox ones. For example, the 33rd degree in Freemasonry has a double-headed eagle as its symbol. The 30th degree is the rider who conquers the serpent.

A.K.: What's the degree?

Yu.V.: Hierarchy system.

A.K.: And, the hierarchical system - it is measured in degrees ...

Yu.V.: Moreover, you know, there are places where the entrance is a ruble, and the exit is ten. At the first stages, a person is told that you are entering the sweetest community of brothers. Male order. What's bad? Well, there are a lot of them. And then they start calling...

What masons lure people?

A.K.: Tell me, Yuri Yuryevich, this is very important. Let's say someone comes up to me. The famous freemason Bogdanov, who even ran for the presidency of the Russian Federation. And he will say: "Anatoly Alexandrovich, there is a proposal." I tell him: "Interesting." "Join our ranks." I say: "Whose one of ours?" He says: "Listen, the most ancient order, male."

And I ask: “Well, what’s the point? I understand what my faith, my religion, my Orthodoxy gives me. I understand what my job, full-time, on a TV channel gives me. I'll ask him. What will he answer me, I wonder?

Yu.V.: There is a certain material qualification. If you are rich enough, they will come to you. If they haven't come yet, they will. If you are influential, promising, of course, it can be.

When I became interested in this topic in the early 1990s, I also had a good broadcast, prime time on Channel One. I had copyright programs. And so, using my journalistic opportunities, I ended up in a Moscow apartment. A lovely couple, husband and wife, and in the future, in the near future, he will become the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Russia. She will receive initiation in Paris, in the women's box.

A.K.: Are names allowed or not? Or awkward?

Yu.V.: I think you can already say, because already the former. Georgy Borisovich Dergachev. And his wife, Olga Sergeevna Gornostaeva, who just recently reposed as an Orthodox person, you can pray for her. Thanks to the fact that she understood where she ended up, she handed me her documents, her diaries, which later turned into a book. There is also a movie on the subject. The book is called The Fifth Angel Sounded. Without false modesty, this is probably the only book about modern Freemasonry in Russia and in the world that is documentary.

A.K.: Yuri Yuryevich, but what does Freemasonry offer?

Yu.V.: Freemasonry offers international solidarity links. Every person is offered success.

A.K.: Ah. This is the religion of success. If you say that it is a religion, it is a religion of success.

Yu.V.: Pride is encouraged. If a businessman, they will tell you, and this is actually the case. You come to any major city, take a Masonic directory, dial the phone and say the right words there: "I am brother such and such." And you will be helped. If you, say, a retired lieutenant colonel, did not finish your service, did not become a general. You join a knightly order, a military, one might say, knightly order. And after a certain number of years, you are no longer just a general, you are a Kadosh Knight or someone else. These are such magnificent names in Freemasonry, in fact, they are sometimes funny. Here is the Knight Kadosh - in Hebrew "kadosh" means "holy." Imagine, a person says: "Very nice, I'm a saint." They shake hands with him and say: "And I am the prince of the East, it is very pleasant."

A.K.:Beautiful.

Yu.V.: Nice, but a little funny.

A.K.: Modernism is simple. Now, Yuri Yuryevich, about some famous Russian Freemasons.

About Freemasonry in Russia

Reference:

Alexander Pushkin. Joined the Freemasons in 1821. But it is unlikely that his attitude to the secret organization can be called serious - among the poet's papers, the account books of the Masonic lodge were found, which he filled with his poems.

Commander Alexander Suvorov was one of the very first Freemasons in St. Petersburg. In the capital's lodge "Three Stars" he reached the degree of Master. And Suvorov brought his passion for the organization of freemasons from Koenigsberg.

"Eternally green laurel" - such a Masonic name was M Ikhail Kutuzov. He had the highest degrees of initiation and participated in the meetings of lodges in St. Petersburg, Frankfurt and Berlin.
The historian and writer Nikolai Karamzin was a member of the Masonic lodge for only four years. However, he stood up for the former brothers during the arrest of members of the order in Moscow.

Philosopher and Decembrist Petr Chaadaev wore the eighth degree of initiation into the order out of nine possible. He was a member of the St. Petersburg lodge, but left it, disappointed in meaningless rituals and empty talk.

Alexander Griboyedov took participation in the order seriously. The goal of the lodge, the writer and diplomat saw the enlightenment of Russia.

Participant in the collapse of the Russian Empire Alexander Kerensky was a member of the leadership of the paramasonic organization "Great East of the peoples of Russia".

A.K.: Indeed, some amazing names. Okay, Kerensky, okay, even Karamzin - but Suvorov, Pushkin, Kutuzov, Griboyedov ...

Yu.V.: Yes, this is the same clip that is prepared, that shoots ... And people of spiritual, ideal motivations. Of course, not all of us are businessmen, and not all of us are pragmatists. There are humanities students, candidates of sciences and aspiring writers. Of course, when a person is told that you are in the same company with Pushkin, Zhukovsky, Karamzin ... Good company, right?

A.K.: Also with Suvorov, Kutuzov, Griboyedov.

Yu.V.: By the way, the Bogdanov you mentioned, as I remember, simply said in his election slogan: "I represent an organization whose members are..." - and their enumeration begins.
As for Suvorov, I had a special investigation - it's all wrong. He was in Koenigsberg when his dad was the governor-general of the new Russian region, let's say. He was simply sent by his father to the box, to probe. And in the Masonic books it remains that he was present at the meeting of the lodge. And off we go.

A.K.: Didn't he become a Master?

Yu.V.: No, as far as I know.

Yu.V.: This, of course, is the desire of the Masons - to rake up everything that is possible for themselves. Although, in fact, there are already a lot of people. Indeed, the 18th-19th centuries are such a craze.

A.K.: What about the craze? Enlightenment, mystery and terrible conspiracies? This is terribly interesting...

Yu.V.: And all at the same time. Everything we are talking about now reminds me of a plot from the life of Macarius the Great. He is walking in the desert and he meets the devil. The devil is all hung with some kind of bubbles. The saint asks the devil: "Where are you going?" - "I'm going to the brethren." - "And what are you carrying?" - "For every taste".

For every taste. Indeed, the order has a very long experience, centuries-old. Therefore, for every taste. A retired officer, a promising businessman.

And it does influence. Once I came to Athos, to my good old friend, hieroschemamonk, who was our intelligence agent in Afghanistan, then he was a big businessman, he had factories abroad. Now he, in a shabby cassock, in sandals on his bare feet, says: "Listen, bring me your book about Masons." I answer him: "Father, why do you need this "Fifth Angel" here on Athos?" - “Yes, you know,” he says, “I still have businessmen friends in Bulgaria. When they became rich, they came to them and said: “Guys, do you understand what we are? We are international solidarity, business." "Well, yes, we'll think about it," they answered. They thought somehow sluggishly. Six months pass, they come again, they say: "Guys, you probably didn't understand our conversation. Bulgaria is a very small country. And cut off your oxygen, using international…” And the guys start to get nervous, they say: “How is it, we are still Orthodox people…” - “Ah, that. Yes you! We will introduce you to both priests and bishops.” Bluff? I won’t comment on this moment now.

A.K.: No, you comment, this is fundamentally important, in fact. Your version: bluff?

Yu.V.: You know, Comrade Brzezinski called Russian Orthodoxy the main enemy of America. Remember this quote?

A.K.: Yes, we remember.

Yu.V.: Speaking in terms of war, "the main enemy." Agents are sent into the camp of the enemy.

A.K.: Always.

Yu.V.: So I was at first shocked by his words. Bluff, no bluff? Then I thought: well ... It's unpleasant to go into this topic, to be honest. But I brought him this book. Because these guys are confused, all the cards are knocked out of their hands.

This archimandrite, he wrote: "Look what happens in these rituals. At a certain stage of the initiation there some master of ceremonies says when they knock on the box: "Who are you, what do you want?" - We are the children of Darkness, we want to enter and receive Light". Imagine if these are Orthodox baptized people!

Does the secret come out?

A.K.: In general, Masonic lodges are secret organizations?

Yu.V.: You know, as the Freemasons themselves say, this is not a secret organization, it is an organization that has secrets.

A.K.: Is there a reference book of Russian Freemasons? View by name...

Yu.V.: Yes, you know, there is Serkov's handbook.

A.K.: G where to find it?

Yu.V.: Well, I think the circulation has passed.

A.K.: And on the Internet, you think?

Yu.V.: Probably you can.

A.K.:Directory of Russian Freemasons. But modern ones are mostly not indicated.

Yu.V.: But we know many, they have already given interviews.

A.K.: For example? Except Bogdanov.

Yu.V.: Dergachev, for example. Earlier, when Dergachev was the Grand Master, he said: "Only, please, in no case should my name be mentioned anywhere, this is not accepted with us." Now, apparently, things are getting easier. They ask another question. Names of famous politicians. They say to me: "Listen, you are there with the 33rd sign ..."

A.K.: I’ve been carefully and for a very long time summing up to this ...

Yu.V.: When they begin to call names, I say: "My friends, if I cannot show the document, what can I say." But I do know one thing. That back in the early 1990s, in the system of the Scottish rite (a powerful world Masonic rite), the Aurora lodge was created in Moscow for English-speaking foreigners working here. Then, as far as I know, some Russian VIPs, recognizable people, began to enter this box.

A.K.: And from the Russian media elite, you hint...

Yu.V.: No, from the most diverse Russian elite, including the political one.
But there is another point. The fact is that in the Russian tradition it is still not customary for a serious famous person to talk about this, in contrast to the American tradition. Everyone knows that Washington, the founder of the United States, was a Freemason. Great doer.

A.K.: We even know what architectural design Washington was built on. Don't know this story? Fantastically interesting story.

Yu.V.: Yes Yes. Masonic architecture.

Here in Russia they hide information about the Aurora Lodge...

A.K.: Why?

Yu.V.: Yes, painfully unpleasant historical things. See. "The golden age" of Catherine, the "golden age" of freemasonry. Nikolai Ivanovich Novikov and his company were arrested at the very moment when Catherine realized that the craze was intensifying, and a huge number of nobles close to her, the military and not only, it turns out, swear allegiance not only to her, the Empress, but also to that Grand Master, which is located in Prussia. In Prussia, with which terrible relations, it almost came to war. In modern terms, it smacks of high treason. The first wave of anti-Masonic state acts.
The second peak moment is the gentlemen of the Decembrists. Everyone had connections with some Masonic, para-Masonic organizations, almost everyone.

A.K.: Pyotr Chaadaev was remembered, for example ...

Yu.V.: And most importantly, where all the threads led. The threads led, in particular, to Italy. Such was the initiatory name of Nubia, a very famous Mason. Everything went from there. From the Grand Lodge of England, of course.

Well, the February Revolution. The remarkable Orthodox publicist, Archbishop Nikon Rozhdestvensky, wrote a lot about the dangers of freemasonry before the revolution. And once he wrote: “One well-known bishop came up to me and said: “Vladyka, well, why are you writing all about these Masons? Who saw them at all, where are they? And do they exist at all?" These questions are often asked to me too.

And now several years have passed after this conversation - and suddenly the Provisional Government, where 99 percent are mythical, non-existent Freemasons, gets power in a vast country.

A.K.: D but, led by a very specific Freemason Alexander Kerensky.

Yu.A.: And Nikon Rozhdestvensky was not just killed - he was cut off his head. And this is a ritual Masonic moment.

Masonic symbols

Reference: Symbols around. Columns. A gate for the initiate and an exit to the light for the seeker.

Columns of the Jerusalem Temple. The symbolic columns are reminiscent of obelisks inscribed with hieroglyphs that towered in front of Egyptian temples.

Steps. Steps can be depicted between the columns of the temple, which symbolize trials and purification by the elements upon receiving Masonic initiation.

Mosaic floor. The columns are followed by a mosaic floor with alternating white and black cells in a checkerboard pattern. The symbolism of alternation suggests that in the realm of our feelings everything is balanced with strict precision.

Cutter and hammer. To implement his work, the student is given tools - a chisel representing the established thought, a decision made, and a hammer - the will that puts them into action.

A rock. A rough stone is placed next to one column, and a cubic stone on the other. Symbolically, the Masonic work is to improve the creations of nature by hewing a rough stone.

Hammer of the Venerable Master. The hammer is used by the venerable Master of the lodge, the first guardian of the lodge and the second guardian of the lodge when performing ritual work.

Plumb. Used by masons to check the verticality of walls. For the Mason, the plumb line is a symbol of truth. Truth not as an abstract logical concept, but truth as the rightness of words and deeds before God and society. The level is used by masons to check the horizontalness of surfaces. Used by freemasons as a symbol of equality between people.

Compass and square. In this emblem, the compass depicts the vault of heaven, and the square - the earth. The compass, combined with a square, is perhaps the most common of all Masonic emblems, symbols and signs.

Book of the Sacred Law. One of the three main lights of free masons. This is the main book of the religion professed by the brothers present in the meeting of the lodge. The radiant delta is the most important symbol of the Masonic temple.

All-seeing eye. A triangle with an eye placed inside it, a sign of enlightenment or the principle of consciousness.

A.K.: From the enumeration of symbols, many more questions immediately arise than understanding.

Yu.V.: The topic is interesting.

A.K.: We immediately recall the coat of arms of the GDR.

Yu.V.: Yes, hammer.

A.K.: Hammer. With this one, what is it called...

A.K.: And then we remember the dollar with this shining eye in the triangle. And then ... Whatever we remember. And we think: "Oh my God."

Yu.V.: And you know, each of these symbols, offhand, has the most important meaning for our today's conversation. Look, these two pillars, Jachin and Boaz, are at the entrance to the temple.
In addition, it is an ancient Gnostic sign of the equivalence of good and evil. If good and evil are equal, then there is no Truth, Truth with a capital letter. If this is so, then there are no, in fact, criteria of morality, ethics. And there is a purely Masonic theme in this regard called "ethics in time." What was unethical yesterday is ethical today.
We now already know about euthanasia for a child in Belgium. The so-called Overton windows.

A.K.: What was unacceptable suddenly becomes acceptable at first, and then mainstream.

Yu.V.: Purely Masonic, by the way, the theme.

A.K.: Yes? How interesting, listen. But still: all these signs and symbols, either on the coat of arms of the GDR, or on the dollar sign - is it all an accident?

Yu.V.: Well, sorry, Freemasonry just created the United States of America.

A.K.: And then? Disappeared from the base?

Yu.V.: And now, of course, the most influential. Although sometimes they say: "Well, Freemasonry was popular in the 19th century, now it's already a museum ..."

How many Masons and where are they?

A.K.: So, Masons are among us, there are many of them. Another thing is that they mostly do not appear ...

Yu.V.: A little.

A.K.: A little? How do you rate their numbers?

Yu.V.: Well, I think that in Russia there are several hundred Freemasons of the regular rite, that is, correct Masons.

A.K.: But on the other hand, these are all people, if I understand their logic correctly, of the highest echelon.

Yu.V.: Not all, of course, not all. If we talk about America, then this is a Masonic state.

Why, indeed, wherever America appears, war, revolution, chaos begin everywhere.

There is a purely Masonic formula - it is, in fact, at the head of all documents, as we wrote earlier: "Proletarians of all countries, unite!" And it says: "Order out of chaos." That is, it is necessary first to create chaos so that the tormented peoples they said to the world: yes, how much is possible, wars, revolutions and everything else, immorality.

A.K.: And here I am - all in white ...

Yu.V.: Yes, and then someone comes out - all in white. In the language of Orthodox eschatology, we know who it is.

A.K.: Yes, listen, how interesting.

Yu.V.: And the project is Masonic. Devilish, of course.

A.K.: On the one hand, the conclusion is very simple, just shockingly simple. Yes, indeed, there is such a structure, like many others. Really powerful - many people join it, following the lead of their own pride, the religion of success. Moreover, they deliver what they promise. Like any deal with this power, it is successful at a certain stage. But for you and me, it's terrible. This is Satanism and devilry - that's all.

Yu.V.: Quite right. We talked about change. About betraying your state. About betraying God. About the betrayal of human nature itself. I appeal to our Orthodox patriotic audience. I would like to say: my friends, with God's help, we will remain faithful.

A.K.:It's better not to say. I will thank, of course, Yuri Yuryevich, the author of the book "The Fifth Angel Has Trumped"? And a postscript about the dollar...

Help:

let's look at the dollar.

Let's start with its front side: we immediately pay attention to the coat of arms of the US Department of the Treasury.

Then we move to the number 1 at the top right. From behind the inner upper left corner of the shield, an owl peeps behind the number - a symbol of the satanic Bohemian club, registered in the Bohemian grove.

Next, we see a pyramid, on top of which is the all-seeing eye, at the base of the pyramid are the same Roman numerals. We add them up - and we get the number 666. Under the pyramid is the slogan: "Novus Ordo Seclorum". Literally means "New Order of the Ages". But it is more correct, especially today, - the "New World Order", about which the elites of the world so often speak.

Let's draw the pyramid to the Jewish star. The angles point to the letters, forming the word "mason". Above the pyramid we see "Annuit Coeptis" - "He contributed to our undertakings", or "Start Time". "He" is the architect (eye). According to other sources, it translates as "God blesses our deeds."

13 leaves on an olive branch in an eagle's paw. 13 olives per branch. 13 lines and stripes. 13 arrows in the paw of an eagle. 13 five-pointed stars above the eagle's head. 13 letters in "E Pluribrus Unum". 13 stones in a pyramid. 13 letters in "Annuit Coeptis". In the center of the bill is a large letter N - the 13th in a row in the ancient Greek alphabet. 13 is the mystical number of Satan.

Fold the dollar in half. Here is the great double-sided seal of the United States. Priests on one side, Freemasons on the other.

Here is such an interesting gang, and the goal of this gang is simple - to make us a worldwide cosmopolitan herd without clan and tribe. The goal of the Freemasons is written on a ribbon in the eagle's beak on the right. Of course, this Latin is translated in such a way that the people are not afraid: "Unity in diversity." But in fact - "One people out of many." And the width of the dollar, by the way, is 66.6 millimeters.

... In ideological terms, modern Russian Freemasons, regardless of the "obedience" to which they belong, are people, as a rule, of democratic and liberal views, "standing on the positions of tolerance and humanism, moral philosophy, natural rights and freedoms of man.

This is a non-class, non-class, non-confessional and supranational organization, in which the general dissemination of views, moral improvement, mystical and symbolic practice is carried out.

It is clear that people of this kind can be said to be a godsend for Western strategists of reorganizing the modern world on "democratic" principles of the American style and a great misfortune for their own country.

In this regard, O.F. Solovyov’s passage is curious, stating the banal, in general, fact that world Freemasonry “undoubtedly sympathized with and indirectly contributed to the implementation of the coordinated policy of the West in the“ Russian question ””, but its independent significance in the collapse of the USSR, allegedly , did not have, due to the absence on its territory, "first of all, its main levers - lodges."

Whether O.F. Solovyov wants it or not, it follows from this that he actually acknowledges the generally indisputable fact that the so-called "national" Masonic lodges are one of the most powerful centers of influence of world Freemasonry on national states, its kind of fifth column in them. However, there is nothing new here. Catherine II suspected this of the Freemasons.

But back to O.F. Soloviev. So, in the 1980s. he asserts that world Freemasonry had no independent significance in the matter of the collapse of the USSR, since it did not have Masonic lodges here. But now, after 1991. We already have Masonic lodges and more than one, and, if we follow the logic of O.F.Soloviev’s reasoning, the influence of world Freemasonry on domestic political events and Russia’s foreign policy should be very, very tangible.

However, O.F. Soloviev has his own opinion on this matter. "The revival of the brotherhoods is still slow, their impact on domestic and foreign policy is not yet visible.

For all that, home-grown adherents clearly relate to the democratic camp and contribute to its success, "O.F. Solovyov assures us.

The venerable scholar pretends not to know that the Russian Freemasons of the 1990s it’s not home-grown, but the most European (French)the trials and the lodges in which they are members are the most genuine or correct lodges, approved and recognized not only by the Grand National Lodge of France, but also by the Grand Lodge of England.

However, from the formal point of view, O.F. Soloviev is certainly right. During the years of its existence in modern Russia, Russian Freemasonry really could not achieve what it expected.

As S.P. Karpachev writes, "although the Grand Lodge of Russia is recognized by the majority of the world's obediences of a conservative direction, Russian royal art did not acquire any mass social base and did not turn into even the smallest significant social force; it could not provide itself with material means, create own center (temple), arrange the release of a periodical.

The entire history of Russian Freemasonry shows that it is alien to national foundations, borrowed from another civilization and, at least, does not have any serious development prospects in the near future" , he concludes pessimistically.

And again, we could agree with this if we did not know that in addition to patented, official Freemasonry in the form of official Masonic lodges, there is also, primarily in the West, also unofficial Freemasonry, or semi-Masonry, whose adherents share the views and goals of the Freemasons. , but not wanting to be bound by routine work in lodges on their morality, they "bunch" mainly in various elite Masonic clubs, funds and commissions: the Magisterium, the Rotary Club, the Pen Center and others.

In the West, these organizations not only play the role of original branches of Masonic lodges, but often directly replace them.

The fact that such clubs for the elite appeared in the 1990s. and we have repeatedly reported in the press. It does not represent a big secret and the composition of their participants. So the assumption that it is here that one should most likely look for real modern Russian Freemasons is not without some grounds. To be fair, the Freemasons themselves vigorously deny this. “With Freemasonry,” complains, for example, G.B. freemasons are criticized for the activities of other organizations similar to them.

The Moscow professor-Americanist O. A. Platonov holds a directly opposite opinion on this matter. If in America the Rotary Club or the Lines Club are sub-Masonic organizations, then why should it be different in democratic Russia, which imitates the West in everything. Of course, one must understand that this is, to a certain extent, a speculative assumption. So let's get down to the facts.

The first organization of its kind copying Western models "Rotary International" arose on the initiative of a group of enthusiasts back in June 1990. Among its first members were such well-known people then as the now former mayor A. Sobchak, banker V. Gusinsky, journalist E. Sagalaev and others. In 1992, the International Russian Club was created in Moscow.

Among its first members: M. Bocharov, P. Voshchanov, S. Fedorov, General K. Kobets - a total of 40 people. In the same 1992, on the model of the famous Bilderberg club, its Moscow counterpart was formed - the club "Magisterium", which included: A. Yakovlev, E. Yevtushenko, S. Shatalin.

I did not forget to mention O.A. Platonov in his "Masonic" list of M.S. Gorbachev and B.N. Yeltsin, who appeared at the initiation into "brother knights" of the Order of Malta (the first in 1990, and the second in 1994 ). Nobody defends MS Gorbachev today, but BN Yeltsin found defenders.

The Order, into which B.N. Yeltsin was initiated, they assert, is Catholic and has nothing to do with Freemasonry. Everything would be fine if there was no scandal. As it turned out from the interview of the Grand Chancellor of the Order of Malta, he himself learned about the fact of the initiation of the Russian President only from press reports.

The perplexity was resolved by the historian O.F. Soloviev, who found out that in fact M.S. Gorbachev and B.N. Yeltsin received initiation not into the Order of Malta, but only into an additional degree of “Knight of Malta” of the US Templar organization.

And this, whatever one may say, is already freemasons, although they are "wrong".

Be that as it may, the total number of Freemasons in modern Russia, as already noted, hardly exceeds the figure of 200-300 people. But these are only the lodges of the "French rite" known to us, i.e. coming or, more correctly, brought to us from France. But there are Masonic orders not only in France, but also in other countries. It is logical to assume that, taking advantage of the changes that took place in Russia in the early 1990s, they also established or, in any case, tried to establish their workshops here.

Indeed, information has already been leaked to the press about attempts to establish in Russia a Masonic lodge "Great Light of the North", working on the acts of the Russian émigré lodge of the same name in Berlin in the 1920s of the German Freemasonry system.

There were reports about the formation in Moscow and St. Petersburg of several lodges belonging to the American Freemasonry of the York ritual. But, unfortunately, we do not know anything about their activities and quantitative composition.

Attempts to name the total number of Freemasons of all systems operating today on the territory of Russia are doomed to failure under these conditions. Nevertheless, Professor O. A. Platonov believes that at least "the number of members of all Masonic lodges in Russia is at least two thousand people." He also names the approximate number of Masonic lodges proper, that is, such circles and groups in which the traditional rites and rituals of freemasons are observed.

Those, in his opinion, are at least 160.

Naturally, there is no evidence, since O.A. Platonov himself, apparently, does not enter the Masonic lodges, he did not see the Masonic lists, he did not use the Masonic documentation. However, this circumstance does not bother him at all. Masonic lists OA Platonov makes himself.

And since of the members of all Russian Masonic lodges of the 1990s, he knows for sure only G.B. or "an organization pursuing Masonic goals".

It is clear that anyone can be summed up under such a definition.

OA Platonov and fails. "Sakharov Andrey Dmitrievich, 1921-1989, until the 60s, a physicist, later a Jewish-Soviet public figure, an anti-Russian dissident, an agent of US influence," we read in his famous Dictionary of Russian Freemasons. "Raushenbakh Boris Viktorovich, born in 1935, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the executive committee of the Soros Institute "Open Society" (Moscow, 1995)"; "Salkazanova F., host of Radio Liberty" (CIA Service, USA)" etc. etc.

The total number of organizations of the "Masonic type" together with the actual Masonic lodges is at least 500, OA Platonov believes.

And the number of their members, but already without adherents of the Masonic lodges proper - "no less than thousand". This, by his definition, is the so-called "white Freemasonry" - that is, organizations of the Masonic type that do not use the traditional rituals of freemasons, but accept Masonic principles of life and are led, as a rule, by real Masons. First place, according to O.A .Platonov, among them are members of the Rotary clubs (there are several dozen of them in Russia).

Organizations such as the Order of the Eagle, the Magisterium, Reform, Interaction, the International Russian Club and the Soros Foundation are also very characteristic of "White Freemasonry".

It is obvious, therefore, that O.A. Platonov does not know anything specific and worthy of attention about the Masonic lodges in modern Russia and their members, and he cannot know, due to the secret nature and closeness of the work of freemasons. If it were otherwise, he would, of course, name all the Russian Freemasons known to him and indicate the names of the lodges to which they belong.

The "Concise Dictionary" compiled by him is not a list of modern Russian Freemasons, but, at best, a list of Freemasonry representatives of the modern Russian intelligentsia, "lit up" as members of dubious, from the point of view of O.A. Platonov, public organizations of a liberal democratic persuasion.

The most consistent critic of O.A. Platonov and the Concise Masonic Dictionary or Masonic Gallery of Modern Russia compiled by him was O.F. Soloviev. “The vast majority of gallery owners,” he writes, are only members of the Pen Center, the Rotary, Magisterium, and Renaissance clubs, which are attributed without evidence to the offspring of Freemasonry ... Former Minister of Foreign Affairs A.V. Kozyrev ended up in their company. It is not known why only his position is indicated, as well as E.M. Primakov, who replaced him ...

In a word, practically all prominent figures of a democratic orientation, including women, were included in the list; G.V. Starovoitov only for the post of Yeltsin's adviser on national issues, which she left three years ago. Masons can only be considered "recently deceased figures of emigration; the current ones are unknown to him (O.A. Platonov - B.V.) ... A penny is the price of such a list, "concludes O.F. Soloviev.

One can agree with O.F. Solovyov when he notes the insufficient validity of referring to the Masons the majority of persons placed with O.A. Platonov, such as: the former ambassador of the Russian Federation to Israel A.E. Bovin, the former mayor of St. Petersburg A. Sobchak , former adviser to the President G.V. Starovoitov and a number of others.

But after all, already from the title of the list it is clear that it includes not only members of Masonic lodges proper, but also "organizations created to achieve Masonic goals." And this is a completely different matter, although it is precisely this turn of the topic that sharply reduces the value of the work done by O.A. Platonov. But there seems to be no reason to especially attack him for this, as O.F. Soloviev does. Is it just for his subjectivity and excessive partiality in assessing the phenomenon under study, which he refers to only as a "criminal community" .

A vulnerable point in O.A. Platonov's work is that the source for his "Concise Dictionary" was exclusively publications in Russian and foreign periodicals - the source, as you know, is very, very unreliable.

There is no documentary confirmation of belonging to Masonic or semi-Masonic structures for most of the persons named by O.A. Platonov. But even this is not so simple. After all, there is no such evidence, as we know, for many personalities and Freemasonry of the early 20th century. The main source for judging him is the often conflicting testimonies and testimonies of the Masons themselves, made by them many years after the events described. In the pre-revolutionary years, even a timid allusion to the freemasonry of some "democrat" like N. S. Chkheidze or a "liberal"

VA Maklakov was not taken seriously otherwise than the machinations of the "Black Hundreds".

Why should everything be completely different in modern Russia?

Who knows - time will pass, maybe the current Russian "democrats" from the "Concise Dictionary" of O.A. in other words, the financial and political elite of the West, they "rebuilt" and "equipped" Russia.

Conclusion

The course taken by Peter I towards the Europeanization of Russia led to the fact that, along with other innovations, Freemasonry also came to our Fatherland. It came, but it never caught on. Which is not surprising. Russia is not Europe, and the conditions for the activity of free masons here (autocracy, serfdom, the Orthodox faith)

were fundamentally different than, say, in France or England. True, the top of the rapidly Europeanizing Russian nobility visited Masonic lodges willingly. Much more difficult was the attitude towards them on the part of the government.

On the one hand, of course, it could not but understand the danger and even the unnaturalness of the existence of secret Masonic communities in an autocratic country. But it also did not want to directly object to the existence in Russia of such a widespread phenomenon in Europe.

Both Catherine II and Alexander I were, as we know, enlightened monarchs, whose liberal undertakings did not always find a proper response not only among the masses of the ordinary nobility, but also among its upper classes. Freemasonry's support for the liberal undertakings of Catherine II and Alexander I cost dearly under these conditions. Hence the benevolent attitude towards the Freemasons in the first years of the reign of these monarchs.

Life, however, has shown that two bears (autocracy and Freemasonry) it is difficult to get along in one lair.

Contrary to the assurances of the "brothers", their activities clearly went beyond the scope of purely spiritual work in the lodges and threatened to spread to what was always considered in Russia the prerogative of the state (the publishing activity of N.I. Novikov, the fight against hunger, the opening of Masonic pharmacies, schools, almshouses ).

Yes, and in political terms, the activities of freemasons, increasingly turning into a tool of the noble opposition to Catherine II, was very, very suspicious. Especially intolerable in the eyes of the Empress were the connections of Russian Freemasons with foreign countries and their attempts to establish such connections with the heir to the throne, Pavel Petrovich. The result of this first clash between the authorities and Freemasonry is known - the case of N.I. Novikov in 1792 and the unspoken prohibition of Masonic lodges.

However, the very idea of ​​establishing a close alliance between Freemasonry and the Russian autocracy, following the example of other European states, did not die. Especially much was done in this regard under Alexander I during the time of M.M. Speransky, when things almost came to the introduction of the so-called state Freemasonry in the country.

However, to cross Freemasonry with Orthodoxy and autocracy turned out to be unrealistic and, as one would expect, Masonic lodges, despite seemingly strict government control, more and more turned, especially after 1812, into centers of unity of those opposed to the power of forces, especially the military.

The logical consequence of the folding of just such an order of things was the famous decree of Alexander I of August 1, 1822 on the prohibition of Masonic lodges. Having suddenly lost any support "from above", Freemasonry in Russia began to fade rapidly - more than convincing evidence of its lack of any strong support in Russian educated society, and could only be revived at the beginning of the 20th century, when the alignment of social forces in the country was completely different.

Having turned in the second half of the 18th century, after being released from compulsory service, into the freest, privileged and materially secure class in the country, the Russian nobility finally received the opportunity that it had previously lacked to form from its midst that thin intellectual layer that would gain fame 100 years later as the Russian intelligentsia.

At its core, of course, it was a pro-Western, cosmopolitan-minded circle of people, already initially oriented towards Western cultural and ideological values.

Freemasonry was one of the fundamental ideological pillars of it. Despite the falsity of the Masonic teaching, the intensified search by its adherents for the Masonic ideal, however, mainly not so much in the political as in the moral and ethical plane, greatly contributed to the awakening of the personality of the Russian intellectual, the individual principle in him.

In any case, belonging to the brotherhood of freemasons of many prominent people of the 18th - first quarter of the 19th century (N.I. Novikov, M.M. Kheraskov, M.I. Kutuzov, N.M. Karamzin, A.S. Griboedov, P A. Chaadaev, A.S. Pushkin) is indisputable and, as it seems, testifies to the significant role of Masonic ideology and practice in the cultural and intellectual life of Russia of that time.

The broad interpretation of Freemasonry as almost the only engine of culture, progress and democracy in our country does not find confirmation in the sources, although attempts of this kind were repeatedly made back in the pre-revolutionary years. The roots of such phenomena in Russian history as the beginnings of the peasant reform in the form of a decree on a three-day corvee, military-bureaucratic socialism of the times of Alexander I (military settlements), the power of the "holy tsar"

(Order of Malta), even the organization of the Holy Alliance, argued, for example, the famous historian G.V. Vernadsky, to those circles of Russian society of the 18th century that were once united by Freemasonry.

T.O. Sokolovskaya went especially far in this direction, who in her book "Russian Freemasonry and Its Significance in the History of the Social Movement", published in 1907, directly wrote about Masons as people whose activities allegedly prepared the decisive ground for the development of republican and constitutional ideas in Russia. T.O. Sokolovskaya, of course, objected.

“Contrary to the opinion of Mrs. Sokolovskaya,” S. Svatikov sharply stated in a review of this publication, “Freemasonry not only did not prepare the ground for the development of republican and constitutional ideas, not only was it not the forerunner of the Decembrists, but, on the contrary, it was a reactionary movement. The Decembrists only then became active political fighters when they parted with Freemasonry," he emphasized.

Of course, T.O. Sokolovskaya was not alone in her desire to "raise" Russian Freemasonry at all costs. From this, in fact, proceeded and proceeds, with rare exceptions, almost all of our liberal historiography, starting from A.N. Pypin and ending with the modern Russian historian A.I. Serkov.

"Some historians," once wrote, arguing with attempts at an ideologically biased approach to Freemasonry, Professor of Moscow University A.A. Shakhov, "fall into a strange delusion regarding Freemasonry. They see in it a bright cultural fact that occupies a prominent place in the history of enlightenment. They talk about the good aspirations of Freemasonry, about the sympathy of Freemasons for human progress, about their efforts for moral perfection.

In the teachings of Freemasons we do indeed find similar phrases and words, similar ideas, always veiled in a misty veil. But we do not find a definite content and direction in the activities of the Masons. They also left no good traces of their activities. If we take a closer look at the activities of all these numerous orders, we will notice that all their deeds consist either in mystical rites and the same mystical reasoning, or in a game of formalities ... Meanwhile, the harm of the phenomenon is beyond doubt.

Subsequent studies only confirmed the validity of this conclusion.

Russian Freemasonry, I have to admit the modern Russian historian O.F. Solovyov (who, by the way, is very, very loyal to him), as a formalized trend, has never served as an engine of social progress anywhere, has never been a champion of genuine democracy and has not contributed any " independent contribution neither to the field of politics nor to the sphere of social thought.

No less definitely on the issue of the "progressiveness" of Freemasonry in connection with the "truth", which allegedly personified the activities of such well-known members of Masonic lodges as N.I. Novikov and A.N. Radishchev, our philosopher and publicist spoke at one time V.V. Rozanov.

Agreeing, in principle, with the fact that the Freemasons of the 18th - early 19th centuries preached "truth and high human truth", he rightly noted at the same time that this "truth" was clearly out of time and objectively harmful to Russia, since it spiritually disarmed her in the face of her worst enemies.

And if, emphasized V.V. Rozanov, God forbid, this truth would “spread in tens and hundreds of thousands of leaflets, brochures, books and magazines on the face of the Russian land, it would reach Penza, Tambov, Tula, embrace if, finally, and Petersburg, then the people of Penza and Tula, Smolensk and Pskov would not have the spirit to repel Napoleon.

More likely, they would have called on capable foreigners to conquer Russia, as Smerdyakov was going to call and as Sovremennik ideologically called them to this; also Karamzin would not have written his own history.

Spiritually disarming the peoples opposing it and their intellectual nationally oriented elites, Freemasonry focuses its main attention on the so-called "ruling class" of society. The obvious heterogeneity of this class, the contradictions tearing it apart, have led and continue to lead to the fact that people often get into Masonic lodges and still get people whose cultural, ideological and political aspirations, despite belonging to the same social class, far from coincide.

It is not surprising, therefore, that already in relation to the second half of the 18th century, three streams can be distinguished in Russian Freemasonry: liberal, represented mainly by the Elagin Union, conservative (Swedish lodges) and mystical-enlightenment, represented by the Moscow Rosicrucians of the 1780s.

In the first quarter of the 19th century, it was no longer necessary to speak of Rosicrucian lodges as centers of enlightenment, and, along with the lodges of the Swedish rite (the Great Directorial Lodge "Vladimir to Order" and the Provincial Union that replaced it), now they can already be safely ranked as a conservative-protective wing of the free masonry in Russia.

The liberal wing of it was now represented by the workshops of the French rite (Lodges "United Friends", "Palestine" and the Union of the Grand Lodge "Astrea").

It is hardly expedient to single out the so-called radical wing in Freemasonry in the first quarter of the 19th century, represented by the Decembrists, as suggested by some researchers. The fact is that since 1810 the Masonic lodges were taken under strict government control.

If this did not happen (who knows?), a number of Masonic lodges really could have turned into secret cells of an anti-government conspiracy, but this, as we know, still did not happen, and the radical brothers, of necessity, were forced to take the preparation of an anti-government conspiracy beyond the boundaries of the Masonic lies.

Another thing is that it was Freemasonry that largely determined not only the emergence and organizational construction, but also the tactical guidelines for the military conspiracy of the pre-Decembrist and first Decembrist secret organizations.

The reforms of the 1860s, having satisfied the basic aspirations of the liberal Russian nobility, sharply narrowed the potential social base of Freemasonry in the country. Undoubtedly, the fact of the official prohibition of Masonic lodges also had an effect. In any case, liberals in the second half of the 19th century did not want to risk their careers for the sake of the Masonic brotherhood.

Radicals from "Narodnaya Volya" and other organizations similar to it, basically raznochinskih, in the Masonic lodges had nothing to do. Of course, Masons have always been "in spirit" in Russia, but as an organizationally formalized social phenomenon in the second half of the 19th century, Freemasonry ceased to exist.

Its revival became possible only at the beginning of the 20th century, when, on the eve of revolutionary upheavals in the country, Freemasonry was in demand from abroad by the politicking liberal Russian intelligentsia. The fact that both the political and the mystical branches of it were imported by her precisely from France in view of the special relations between the two countries at the beginning of the 20th century, it seems, should not surprise anyone.

Unlike the lodges of Catherine's and Alexander's time, which operated with the tacit permission of the government, the political or Duma Freemasonry of the early 20th century was already underground and had an openly anti-government character. It was already initially focused not on the spiritual work of the "brothers" in lodges, but to seize power, destroy the empire and change the foundations of the then political system in Russia.

It is not for nothing that the main supplier of freemasonry adherents in these years was the Kadet Party, known at the same time as the party of the left-liberal Russian intelligentsia par excellence.

More radical than the Left Cadets were, perhaps, only the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Social Democrats.

The terrorist activity of the Socialist-Revolutionaries in our country is only too well known. The political aspirations of the then Social Democrats are not a big secret either. True, there were, one might say, a few Bolsheviks among the Masons, but which of them is more "guilty" of this is another question. As for the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, they were more than willingly invited to the Masonic workshops. And it is no coincidence, since the fixed idea of ​​political Freemasonry was the idea of ​​creating a broad anti-government "popular front".

Despite the short duration of existence and a certain narrowness in understanding their tasks (the struggle in the Duma, par excellence), Russian political masons undoubtedly made their contribution to the fall of the autocracy.

Of fundamental importance in this regard was the formation by them in August 1915 of the Progressive Bloc and the creation on its basis of a strong anti-government majority in the Duma. Based on it, the leadership of the Supreme Council of the Great East of the Peoples of Russia, since the summer of 1916, has been heading for the forcible removal of Nicholas II from power and the establishment of a constitutional order in the country.

Of great importance in this regard was the establishment by the Freemasons in 1916 and early 1917. close contacts with representatives of the Russian generals (M.V. Alekseev, N.V. Ruzsky and others), which, in essence, made it possible in the February-March days of 1917 to ensure the bloodless nature of the abdication of Nicholas II and the implementation of all the rules of the "royal art" of a smooth Masonic entry into power (the Provisional Government) with subsequent consolidation in it.

However, Masons could not keep this power in the conditions of the ongoing war and the beginning of the collapse of the state and its structures. October 1917 put an end to political freemasonry in our country.

But the struggle for progress and a constitution by no means exhausts the activities of the Freemasons. Great importance in the teachings of the order has always been attached to the moral perfection of the "brothers". It was the last circumstance - the spiritual side of Freemasonry - that was precisely the invisible force that always attracted many Russian intellectuals of a liberal persuasion to it.

So, perhaps, somewhat unexpectedly, the Masonic theme leads us to another, no less important problem - the spiritual quest of the Russian intelligentsia.

These searches evoke a strange, contradictory feeling. The desire to go beyond the gray everyday life and plunge into the magical world of irreality, otherworldliness, in general, is understandable, and even, to some extent, natural for a person, especially when it comes to gifted, creative people.

It is understandable and the desire of smart people, also creatively gifted in their own way, using this human propensity for everything mysterious and unusual, to produce various kinds of new religions, new lodges and "orders". Another thing is striking - the amazing ease with which the self-proclaimed "teachers" found and are finding a flock in our country, although, it would seem, before entering this or that lodge or occult circle, it would be worth considering: what or who is behind the preachers of the secret knowledge, a new faith and a new religion.

Spiritualists, Theosophists, Martinists, Philalethes, Rosicrucians, Sophians... The paths are different, but the goal is the same - the erosion of the national self-consciousness of the people, and the main blow has always been directed against the "living power of Russia" - its statehood, national foundations and Orthodoxy.

It is difficult to say whether for this or for other reasons, but the OGPU did not touch the occultists in the first years of Soviet power. It began to liquidate their circles only in 1925, and from the very beginning the attitude towards them was ambiguous. The fact is that in the leadership of this department (Gleb Bokiy, Yakov Agranov) there were certain plans for using Masons in the interests of the Soviet state. The final liquidation of Masonic circles and groups, as a result, dragged on until the end of the 1930s.

Be that as it may, by the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the old Masonic centers in the country were finally liquidated. There were no suitable conditions for the emergence of new ones. When, finally, with perestroika and the collapse of the USSR, such conditions appeared, then again, as at the beginning of the century, it was not without the help of our French "brothers". Thanks to their initiative and financial support, a new revival of Freemasonry in our country actually became possible.

Speaking about the prospects of the movement, the Freemasons themselves radiate optimism. “Masonry corresponds to the national character of the Russians. And the Slavic soul understands those metaphysical and mystical searches to which Freemasonry is committed,” Tresturnel, the Grand Secretary of the Grand National Lodge of France, assured the Pravda correspondent in 1992.

Subsequent events have shown, however, that this, to put it mildly, is far from being the case. However, we also have no reason to flatter ourselves with the illusion that in Russia, due to supposedly only her inherent national specificity, Freemasonry does not have the proper prospects, we also have no reason.

The soil in the face of the liberal-democratic Russian intelligentsia for the introduction of Masonic ideology into the public consciousness in our country, of course, is.

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Excerpt from Bracheva V.S.. "Masons in Russia: from Peter I to the present day".

The history of Russian Freemasonry is replete with ups and downs in the views and influence of various conspirators on the power structures. Tsarism provided good food for the spread of the Masonic ideology. They lived well after the October Revolution, given the number of Jews at the helm of power.
The long post-war period reduced their numbers through repression and emigration. But immigrants from Russia/USSR have replenished the number of Masonic lodges in Europe.

Briefly about the influence of world Freemasonry

European scientists modeled through mathematical analysis the face and essence of transnational corporations. They provide only a fifth of the world's revenue. But with groups of partners affiliated with them, they own most of the companies in the real sector of the world economy.

Their richest owners (the Morgan, Rothschild, Rockefeller families) are the creators of Freemasonry, as well as almost a dozen structures, the so-called world rulers. On whose "donations" conspiracies against objectionable governments are in practice carried out.

Ivan Perfilievich Elagin - founder of the first Masonic lodge in Russia

Freemasons in the Russian government (surnames)

The second life in the Russian Federation of this conspiratorial community arose in the early 90s of the last century. The world freemasonry took advantage of the era of political and economic vacillation of an independent country. It was not difficult for him to use his secret and veiled means to create lodges, circles, to train new Russian politicians and economists in his systems.

The latter became agents of Western influence, corrupting the country from within. The Russian Freemasons of the middle of the last century - Bernstein, Niedermiller, Lebedev, Grunberg - were no match for the new replenishment of Russian Freemasonry. Namely, politicians Sobchak, Chubais, Yavlinsky, Gorbachev (President of the USSR, although not for long), Yeltsin (President of the Russian Federation), Academician Abalkin. As well as hundreds of other Russian Freemasons, who were trained in person and in absentia in Western structures, often under the wing of special services.

They overcame the Program of activity of agents of influence of the CIA and ways of intoxicating the masses in the right direction. And it was determined in each case by the European lodges and the World Government. Promoted through prominent Freemasons. The so-called privatization of state-owned enterprises in Russia is just one example of this. Its guides - Chubais, Yavlinsky, Gaidar achieved their goal: billionaires appeared on the blood and sweat of more than a hundred million citizens of the country.

Like the Bilderberg Freemason Club, a Russian copy is being created - the Magisterium Club. It was in the secret bulletin of the club that an article by the dangerous world philanthropist J. Soros appeared about crazy dollars making history. A similar fund "Interaction" was maintained by major government officials E. Gaidar, K. Borovoy, E. Yasin, A. Pochinok, V. Bakatin and other agents of influence in the Russian government.