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Why is life at times so exceedingly burdensome? Lucius Annaeus Seneca - an esteemed philosopher of ancient Rome - offers us an answer: „Bonum virum deus in deliciis non habet; experitur, indurat, sibi illum parat." "God does not keep the good man amid delights; He tests him, hardens him, and prepares him for Himself." @LEGATVS_LEGIONIS #Thoughts #Life #Philosophy #Motivation #Fight

The Memorial of General Baron P.N. Wrangel at the Russian Church of the Holy Trinity on Tashmaidan (Belgrade). This White Army commander was responsible for the evacuation of his army from Crimea in November 1920 and is laid to rest with a display of banners of all the old Imperial regiments which had been able to be evacuated from Russia during the Civil War when it was engulfed in flames.

In 1923, Nadezhda Krupskaya, who held the position of deputy People's Commissar of Education, initiated one of the largest censorship campaigns in the history of Soviet Russia. Under the pretext of "cleansing libraries of ideologically harmful literature," the planned destruction of the country's book collection began. In 1923–1924, Glavpolitprosvet, under Krupskaya's leadership, issued a series of circulars demanding that hundreds of titles be removed from public libraries. Not only monarchist and religious literature were banned— the lists included works by Plato, Kant, Schopenhauer, Descartes, and even... fairy tales. Krupskaya believed that Chukovsky and Andersen were "clogging" children's minds with "bourgeois mysticism." A Soviet circular issued in 1923 mandated the confiscation of saints' lives, liturgical books, and religious philosophy. The next blow targeted pre-revolutionary textbooks, historical works, and writings by émigré authors. Librarians were required to personally report on compliance—under threat of dismissal and criminal prosecution. The scale of these confiscations was enormous. In just 1924–1925, over six million volumes were removed from the libraries of the RSFSR. Books were not merely taken off the shelves—they were either handed over for recycling as waste paper or burned. Private collections were not spared either: home libraries were "searched" during raids. Krupskaya's campaign became a prelude to the extensive censorship terror of the 1930s. It laid the institutional foundation of Soviet censorship—the system of special archives, "blacklists," and ideological control over the written word, which persisted until the very collapse of the USSR.

The penalty of bad judgement—British War Museum.

Sinan Reis and the Barbary corsairs primarily targeted European Christian populations. Because the Ottoman legal framework and Islamic tradition prohibited the enslavement of fellow Muslims, the fleet’s human trafficking operations exclusively focused on non-Muslim adversaries. He was born to a Sephardic Jewish family which fled Spain or Portugal and possibly relocated to the then Ottoman ruled Smyrna, Sinan sailed as a Barbary corsair, a type of privateer or pirate, under the Ottoman flag.

Stepan Zatikyan, a well-known Armenian nationalist, on trial by the KGB in 1979.

Did you know there was a Wehrmacht general that the USSR was never able to capture after the war? In May 1945, General Boris Smyslovsky, along with soldiers from the First Russian National Army, crossed the border into the tiny principality of Liechtenstein. The Soviet Union demanded their extradition, but the principality refused. In fact, it’s even more accurate to say that Smyslovsky was the only commander of a major Russian anti-Soviet formation within the Wehrmacht whose group was not handed over to the USSR, thanks to Liechtenstein’s principled stance. Imagine this: a country with a population smaller than a small city saying “no” to one of the world’s largest powers. This episode remains one of the most extraordinary stories of post-war Europe.

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Most esteemed subscribers, Having of late found myself refreshed and nourished by the study of philosophy, it has occurred to me that I might share with you those choice reflections which have come into my possession. These posts shall contain maxims and meditations, upon which you may either ponder in silent contemplation or discourse together in the chat. It is furthermore my wish to publish the forthcoming posts in the English tongue, and to append thereafter, in the comments, their German translation. What do you say to this proposal? Any word of feedback, I shall receive with no small delight. In time, we shall enlarge this channel and render it the more personal in character, that we may thereby grow together in fellowship. @LEGATVS_LEGIONIS Hidden History 🤝 Historia Mundi

​When Alexander the Great lay dying in Babylon in 323 BCE and was asked to whom he left his empire, his final whisper was tôi kratistôi—"To the strongest."

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Practical satanism — how communists tried to bring Christ and satan together.

"New rules of spelling developed by the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment" Rules 7, 8, 9, and 10 systematically attack the unique grammatical forms of the feminine gender (ЕЯ becomes ЕЕ, ОНѢ becomes ОНИ, ЫЯ/ІЯ becomes ЫЕ/ИЕ). In old Russian, the masculine plural and feminine plural were kept linguistically distinct. This is built-in "gender neutrality" or homogenization — to early Marxist-feminists like Alexandra Kollontai (a prominent Bolshevik leader), this was heralded as progressive: it destroyed "patriarchal" distinctions in speech. They didn't want men and women; they wanted an identical pool of interchangeable industrial laborers—the Proletariat. Rule 5: This is the most famous and dark linguistic shift noted by Russian spiritualists and theologians after the revolution. It demands that the prefix БЕЗ (meaning "without") must change its З to an С whenever it sits before a voiceless consonant, transforming it into БЕС. In the Russian language, Бес is the literal, phonetic, and written word for "Demon" or "Fiend." By forcing this phonetic rule, the Bolsheviks structurally embedded the word "Demon" into thousands of common Russian adjectives. Before 1918, "unselfish" was безкорыстный (without gain). After 1918, it became бескорыстный—which visually and phonetically reads to the subconscious mind as "Demon of Gain." "Fearless" (безстрашный) became бесстрашный ("Demon of Fear").

Liberals and Tsarist academics had been quietly working on a "reform" of the Russian alphabet since 1904 to make it more practical. But in 1918, the Bolsheviks seized the idea and aggressively implemented a total overhaul, narrating the change as a "liberation" from bourgeois shackles. They claimed the old characters were tools of oppression, but in an occult sense, the reality was deeper: by axing ancient letters like Ѳ (solar completion), Ѣ (the cosmic bridge), and І (the divine pillar), they eradicated prehistoric ideograms that gave words energetic depth. The decree was enforced through terror: Red Guard units raided printing houses, violently seizing and melting down the metal type matrices to choke out the old script. For decades after, clinging to these banned characters became the ultimate symbol of White resistance, as anti-Bolshevik exiles in Paris and New York refused to print in the "sullied" new script, treating the old alphabet as the final fortress of Holy Russia. Back home, the language was permanently flattened into a hyper-rational, phonetic grid—shifting its purpose from contemplating eternity into a cold tool for industrial bureaucracy. Yet, by limiting the script to exactly 33 letters—matching the 33 wheat spikes on the Soviet emblem—they were replacing the language's entire vibrational architecture. Marketed as a triumph of secular utility, it functioned as a mass de-consecration of a nation’s visual consciousness. No state has ever rewritten the literal geometry of a people's mind quite so ruthlessly.

In the same year, the English writer Israel Zangwill founded the Jewish Territorialist Organization, with support from the Rothschilds, Winston Churchill and other prominent figures. The JTO was tasked with investigating suitable territories for a Jewish colony in any peaceful country ; they investigated a long list of possibilities, including Cyrenaica, Angola, Brazil, Paraguay, Nevada, Australia, Siberia, Mesopotamia, Manchuria, Cuba and Canada. It’s well worth reading the pages of Les Terres promises avant Israël by Olivier de Marliave (Imago, 2017) devoted to these territorialist dreams. When Zangwill died in 1925 and the JTO was dissolved, these territorialist projects too were abandoned. The push to establish Jewish colonies was often imbued with utopian socialism ; Yiddish eclipsed Hebrew, trade unionism became the new religion, and kosher butchers were less in demand than labourers (read Terre Promise by Nathan Weinstock, Metropolis 2001, about the Jewish labour movement overseas). Today, small groups of Russian Jews can be found in California, the Rockies, Louisiana, Texas (the Galveston Movement) and upstate New York. In 1825, a man named Mordecai Manuel Noah founded a modest colony called Ararat on the banks of Lake Erie, at the border between the United States and Canada. But dreams once again collided with harsh reality, and the Ararat project foundered too. The vision of an autonomous Jewish homeland now moved east towards Russia, where creating agricultural Jewish colonies was seen as a way to simultaneously “solve the Jewish problem,” and reinvigorate ailing agriculture. After an aborted project in Crimea in the 1920s (with Jewish American financing!), the idea of a Jewish autonomous region emerged once again—but this time in a remote no man’s land between China and Russia called Birobidzhan. Everyone got involved : Stalin, with his policies against minorities, territorialists like Zangwill and the successors of Herzl, and all others who were seeking a place for Jews to safely live. Between 1928 and 1938 over 40,000 people moved to the Jewish Autonomous Region, first into barracks and then kolkhozes. There were advertising campaigns (“a land of free‐flowing honey”), glowing articles in the Yiddish press of Paris and New York, and foreign donors encouraging immigration to Birobidzhan. On the ground, however, agriculture soon dwindled, while industrial and metallurgical work increased. Stalin intended to establish 300,000 people in the autonomous region ; in reality, even in its best years, population never exceeded 43,000. The inhabitants, mostly foreigners, became disillusioned and departed. Culturally, Birobidzhan was a failure as well. The promotion of Yiddish as the region’s national language (the language of schools, theatres, the press, libraries, and official communications) didn’t take. In fact, Yiddish was a tool used in service of socialism to promote militant atheism, erase distinctive Jewish identity, and transform each individual into a homo sovieticus. The “land of honey” was not spared the Stalinist purges, arbitrary imprisonments, the suppression of Yiddish in favour of Russian, and other hardships. On the eve of the war, Birobidzhan looked more like an example of political and cultural failure than the realization of a utopia. Birobidzhan still exists today, but it’s no longer an autonomous region, and no elements of its ancient Jewish past have been retained, except for a few rusty signs written in Yiddish. Sion, B. (2021). OTHER PROMISED LANDS - Tenoua. [online] Tenoua. Available at: https://tenoua.org/2021/06/22/other-promised-lands