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'THE THIRD ROME AND THE VULGAR TRAMPS |
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Written by New Times (Russian)
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Thursday, 02 December 2004 10:00 |
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'THE THIRD ROME AND “THE VULGAR TRAMPS”'
"No wonder then that, as she emerged from isolation, Moscow Rus was so far away from her European roots that she needed a new national idea, to use the modern term. Under Ivan III, that idea was the concept of the Third Rome (developed by a 15th century writer who asserted, “Moscow is the Third Rome, and no Fourth Rome is to be”) The concept was to turn Moscovia into a separate civilization on a par with Europe, the Islamic world and China......“The Soviets have a pride of their own,” the espionage trials, the struggle against cosmopolitism, cybernetics, and “Mendelism-Morganism” were not Marxism at all. It was a remake of the Third Rome in a grotesque and utterly misshapen variety. "
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