9 - Is the Eastern Party dead in Greece?
I see that Erdogan played his
hand with Brunson pretty well. I always thought that he was going to
return Brunson eventually. just as he returned the lost Greek soldiers at the
border in Evros. Brunson was tried and convicted, but released because of
his time in jail already spent….. Standing up the US, Erdogan’s
popularity surged. US Turkish relations are currently a mess almost
impossible to entangle. The Turks have multiple issues with Syria, Kurds,
F-35 deliveries, etc.
The Americans would make an issue
over Brunson, a Protestant apostate, but if he were Christian Orthodox, they
would likely let him rot in hell like they do all Orthodox Christians in their
foreign policy in Eastern Europe and the Middle East….. What business
does a person like Brunson have in Turkey??? On that point, the Turks have a
point that Brunson was probably a front for some kind of dirty work.
These thoughts this morning led
me to think about how differently Russia, Greece and Turkey have gone separate
paths in the space of Endiamese Perioche.
· Greece has given up anything to do with its Byzantine
heritage and today has moved to become willingly a Balkan economic and
political protectorate under the EU. Greeks crave to be Westerners.
They are passing laws and pursuing policies that make Greece a multicultural
society to absorb the flood of illegal migrants, restrict the Christian
Orthodox faith and they are pushing their young and educated to emigrate.
The Greek diaspora and business communities that flourished in the Black Sea,
Asia Minor and Middle East have withered and disappeared.
·
Turkey has become a regional power. It has
developed a serious industrial base and become a major exporter of both
industrial goods, textiles and agricultural commodities. Under Erdogan,
Turkey has rediscovered its Ottoman roots and is asserting itself in the region
geopolitically.
·
Russia survived 70 years of Bolshevik upheaval, the
collapse of the Soviet Union and dissolution under Yeltsin. Today under
Putin, Russia has rediscovered its national identity and traditions. The
Christian Orthodox faith is flourishing with new churches. Despite the
incursions of the EU/ US in the Ukraine, Russia is reasserting itself geopolitically
in the Far East with China as well as the Middle East on Syria.
One major theme is how each
country faced the Marxist ideology and Bolshevism, which was a major source of
political upheaval in the 20th Century.
· Bolshevism is a Western ideology. It has
German-Jewish roots from the 19th century. It evolved into
Social Democracy and created the roots of Globalism. For that reason, the
political left embraced the European Union. The propagators of Bolshevism
in Russia and Greece were originally predominately Jewish. Their aim from
the start was to eradicate any trace of national identity, Byzantine heritage
and Christian Orthodox faith. They never accepted the Greek presence in
Macedonia.
·
The Germans during WW1, imposed the Bolsheviks on
Russia to destabilize the Czar, immobilize the Russian imperial army so they
could free up the Eastern Front to face the British and French. The
Russian Imperial Army had successes with the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian
Empire but a series of setbacks on the German front. The German
government spent the equivalent of one billion dollars in today’s money to
finance the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks initially used non-Russian forces
like the Latvian guard to seize power. Their regime committed numerous
atrocities and essentially demolished Russia, which at the turn of the 20th
Century was an incredibly thriving culture.
·
Greeks like Plastiras and Pangalos who experienced
Crimea, which was the last stand of the White Russian/ former Imperial Army
forces, became deeply anti-Communist for what they saw. Later on in the
Greek-Turkish war, they lived the efforts of the SEKE to demoralize Greek
troops and encourage them to desert.
·
The Greek Communists created havoc in Greece in the
1920’s and 1930’s. Essentially they poisoned Greek political life.
Metaxas was a brief parenthesis to cleanse Greece and reestablish a national
identity, but that ended quickly with the German occupation and chaos of the
Greek civil war. The Greek communists lost the Greek Civil war but have dominated
Greek cultural and political life since 1974. Of course, cultural Marxism
generally remains in the West the predominate ideology both in the US and EU,
particularly in the media and university systems.
·
Turkey escaped Bolshevism due to Kemal. Marxism never
flourished as an ideology. Kemal westernized Turkey on his own terms sui
generis, but as in the case of Russia, Turkey is now rediscovering its
Ottoman heritage and moving away from the West.
So we have Russia and Turkey, who
are rediscovering their history and national identity, but Greece abandoning
national identity. We have Russia and Turkey as successors to the Byzantines,
but Greece counter to Gennadios wanting to be an entirely ‘Western European’
country even on the basis of protectorate status.
I hardly see under the present
circumstances, why Russia or Turkey would cede anything to Greece or consider
Greece as an example to them. Conversely, the Greeks could learn a lot by
the Russian example post-Yeltsin to rid themselves of cultural Marxism and
reaffirm their Byzantine and Christian Orthodox heritage, but there no sign
that that is likely to happen.
Whatever there was of the Eastern
Party in Greece is dead.
Diran Majarian 13 October 2018
How Greeks from the civilized and wealthy Byzantine-Ottoman Ecumenical Empire
fell into the status of a Third World African Country
by craving to become European (See. L.S. Stavrianos, The Third World Comes of Age,
Morrow)
Morrow)
