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Post by Balkaneros on Dec 27, 2013 19:24:33 GMT -5
We need fighters, not voters. Because only combatants remain loyal to the end.  "We want to stop the continued moral decline of the nation. We want to restore the honour and our former high national principles."
- Dimitrije Ljotic His address to the Serbian people in 1935; We are fighting, first of all, for a different concept of politics. Among the people, this word has gained the connotation of something false, filthy and sordid. For a long time now, the people have thought that politics is like a manure pile at the rear of a peasant courtyard, a thing necessary, but neither clean nor dignified.
The first consequence of such belief has been that a vast number of honorable people decided that there is no place for them in politics, just as clean, well-dressed people make sure to keep away from manure. The second consequence has been that those honorable people who nevertheless were in politics were swamped and overrun by those whose actions had given rise to this belief among the people.
And the third and worst consequence has been the slow but steady erosion of national moral standards. The nation has been losing faith and its old moral values. Honesty and personal honor have begun to look like obstacles to advancement in life. . . . We want to stop the continued moral decline of the nation. We want to restore to honor our former high national principles. It is therefore necessary to put an end to the belief that politics is dirt and manure, to put an end to the conviction that politics is personal advantage and corruption. Instead, the belief must arise in all our nation that politics is a toilsome struggle and an honorable service in which no one may seek personal advantage, much less enrichment. Consequently, power must be made dependent on such personal answerability, that all weaklings and cowards, all scoundrels and egoists will flee to the rear, as once they fled from the war front. That is where they still belong.
This is the first, and fundamental, principle of our struggle.We fight therefore for a national, popular politics, and against the politics of parties, cliques and factions. It has come to pass that nothing in the country can be accomplished without the recommendation and intercession of a political party. NO one can get his rights according to law, but only at the recommendation of someone influential. Obligations are avoided and responsibilities are canceled, not according to the law but at the intercession of someone influential. . . . All this means that we have no lawful and permanent state and national policy, but that the state is run by party, faction and clique politics. The lack of such national and state policy has brought heavy consequences. Throughout the land, this kind of government has produced bitterness and unrest. Today, our nation, thanks to such government, is insufficiently united, and lacks solidarity. But we are for national unity . . . .
In social and economic affairs, we fight for the right of the people to take affairs into their own hands. We demand that, in these respects, no general national policy be planned or carried out without the active participation of representatives of national professional organizations. . . . National forces cannot develop in either the economic or the social field until the people stand on their own feet and implement the principle of self-help. The state retains over this whole enormous area the right of supervision in the framework of the social and economic plan, and the right to regulate relations between the professions. In this regard, we fight for the principle that politics must not be separated from national social and economic life. At present, it is so separated. Today, it is thought that there exists some pure politics unconnected with social and economic question . Today, people who have no contact with national needs, who have no understanding of real social and economic national problems, rise through elections to the highest offices. We fight for a political system in which this would become impossible.
We are deeply convinced that many contemporary social and economic difficulties would not exist if such a system were in effect. This is the third principle of our struggle. We fight, finally, because, although it looks like we live in cowardly times, we believe that many think as we do , are dedicated to these aims, ready for sacrifice, and confident of victory. This is the fourth and last principle of our struggle.
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Post by Balkaneros on Dec 27, 2013 19:28:06 GMT -5
The Ideals of Contemporary Youth (1942)
One hundred and fifty years ago, the French Revolution enthroned an idea which promised the individual strength, prosperity, happiness and peace. This idea took the individual as the measure, elevated him to the highest throne, to the altar, and proclaimed: hitherto it had always been believed that human happiness must be pursued by a collectivethe family, the nation, the stateand the individual was forgotten. Henceforth, men will aim at individual happiness. And since human society is merely a collection of individuals, a million happy individuals will make a happy society of one million men. Having thus turned the social order upside down, this principle of individualism gave birth to materialism, capitalism and political democracy, and thus created contemporary materialistic-democratic-capitalistic society. For 150 years, the individual has reigned. The individual displaced humanity as the standard, and thereby destroyed the hitherto existing self-protective systems of all nations. He has reigned, more or less, generally, and it has taken 150 years to show that unfortunate humanity, which was induced to follow this decoy, has lost its way. The individualistic idea promised individual happiness. Why should men march toward collective happiness? Better to pursue the happiness of the individual, since happy individuals equal a happy collective. But 150 years have shown that this road leads nowhere. Because all the difficulties and breakdowns and chaos through which we are passing today are a consequence of this enthronement of individualistic thought in human society. Because those who established this idea as the new standard lost sight of one important fact: Human society is not merely a collection of individuals. It is an entity of a higher order, which cannot be expressed as the arithmetical sum of the individuals that compose it. Even if all of us who live today in this country were to gather together, even if we all answered the roll call, this still would not make a nation. A nation is a being of a higher order, existing independently of those individuals of whom it is temporarily composed. It is not a physical being, with a head, arms, legs, eyes. It is a moral and historical entity, which lives and acts in human history, carrying its national symbols.A nation is an entity which has a past and a future, and which at a given moment is not a simple sum of its members. Therefore it is impossible to make happy a nation through the direct happiness of individuals. However, individualistic thought says: "You, the individual, are your own purpose, therefore seek your own happiness." But millions of individuals, driven by their egoism, collected together did not make a happy society, but instead created chaos. To tell a mass of millions of men: "Let each of you chase his own happiness!" means to direct them into a path in which chaos and confusion will reignexactly as we observe today. And this, I repeat, derives from one erroneous idea: that human society is a simple sum a individuals. And thus it is, and had to be, that the individual, pursuing heedlessly his own happiness, injures society, and through the calamities of society injures himself. . . . If we now return to our previous question: how can the builders of life, the ardent individuals, those who are the light and the salt of the earth, how can they become strong, then in the light of the preceding exposition of the evil consequences of the enthronement of individualism in the Christian world, we shall perceive that his will be possible only when we shall replace the individualistic idea with another idea: the organic idea. The organic idea arises from the fact that the individual, as a rule, does not live outside human society. O n the contrary, the individual needs society for his own benefit. Therefore the individual, contrary to the individualistic idea, cannot consider first his personal interests, but must keep before his eyes, first of all, the interests of the society to which he belongs. Subordinating himself to the collective, the individual will promote the development of the collective, and through it, his own. From this fact, it follows that the human collective (in the first place, the family and the nation, as natural phenomena which a man enters by being born) is not a simple collection of its members, but has its existence independently in many respects from theirs, since it exists and endures, outliving them, just as it existed before them. Although the individualistic idea directed the individual to consider only his own happiness . . . life has shown that a million collected egoisms produce general misfortune, and simultaneously individual misfortune. On the contrary, if the organic idea that the individual must consider the interests of the totality becomes the ruling system, this will achieve the happiness of the collective, and through this, the individual will also achieve personal happiness.Therefore we must replace the individualistic idea with the organic idea. We fight against the first and for the second . Let us reemphasize, by strengthening the collective, we shall also make the individual strong.I ndividualistic thought gave birth to democracy, capitalism, Marxism and Bolshevism, materialism and atheism. Capitalism and Marxism are brothers, deriving from the same, individualistic world view. . . . Neither individualism, nor capitalism, nor Marxism can solve social distress. Neither can democracy, which is merely political individualism. Capitalism is the economic system, democracy is its political weapon and its expression in politics. . . .Only organic thought, which shows the individual his place in the family, in the nation, in the state, in humanity, in the universe, can solve the hopeless contemporary situation. Only the organic idea, which explains man's place in the world: whence he came, why he is here, whither his destiny, which are the means to his fateonly this idea can discover the way and find the ideal. -Dimitrije ljotic |
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Post by Balkaneros on Dec 27, 2013 22:22:12 GMT -5
Ljotić was an ardent antisemite. He is said to have advocated the extermination of Jews for years prior to the outbreak of World War II. He claimed in his speeches that a "Great Director" was behind all of the world's problems, stating that the so-called Director was "a collective personality consisting of a people without land, language, a stable religion [...] a people without roots...The Jews." Ljotić claimed that the supposed Jewish conspiracy began during the French Revolution and was involved in every significant historical event since then. He also claimed that Jews and Freemasons were responsible for the Russian Revolution. In his writings, Ljotić portrays Jews as being responsible for the advent of liberal democracy, Freemasonry and Communism, and, as such, enemies of both Zbor and the Yugoslav state. ... Ljotić advocated "liquidating the influence of Masons, Jews, and every other spiritual progeny of Jews" as the only way of preventing the outbreak of war in Yugoslavia. He also attributed the political unpopularity of Zbor to the "subversive influence" of Serbian Jews on education and the media. Nevertheless, Ljotić's antisemitism largely lacked racialist ideology due to its incongruity with Christian belief. Despite Ljotić's efforts and those of Zbor, antisemitism in Serbia did not reach the levels seen in other regions of Europe and the Jewish community there was largely spared from harassment and violence until the arrival of German troops in April 1941. ... Ljotić considered fascism the only form of resistance to future global Jewish control. He lauded Hitler for exposing the "conspiracy of World Jewry" and dubbed him "the saviour of Europe". Ljotić's admiration of Germany stemmed partly from his fascination with the country's military power and fear of its political ambitions. Although the ideology of Zbor itself shared many parallels with other European fascist movements, Ljotić often stressed the differences between the fascism of Zbor and that of the fascist movements in Germany and Italy despite their numerous similarities. ... Ljotić considered himself a Christian politician and his devotion to the Christian faith earned him the nickname Mita Bogomoljac (Devotionalist Mita). He often accused Serbian Orthodox clerics of being Freemasons and British agents - while encouraging others to join Zbor. ... Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, local councillors in Smederevo campaigned to have the town's largest square named after Ljotić. Despite the ensuing controversy, the councillors defended Ljotić's wartime record and justified the initiative by stating that "[collaboration] [...] is what the biological survival of the Serbian people demanded" during World War II. In 1996, future Yugoslav President Vojislav Koštunica praised Ljotić in a public statement. Seeking to promote a romantic and nationalist picture of anti-Communism, Koštunica and his Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) actively campaigned to rehabilitate figures such as Ljotić and Nedić following the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević and his socialist government. Attempts to rehabilitate Ljotić have generated a mixed response from the Serbian Orthodox Church. Using devices drawn from modern experimental theatre, Serbian playwright Nebojša Pajkić has written a stage production about Ljotić's life titled Ljotić. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrije_Ljoti%C4%87 |
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Post by Balkaneros on Dec 28, 2013 17:58:51 GMT -5
St. Nikolai Velimirovic's speech at the funeral of Dimitrije V. Ljotic
*** 'Had just one branch been severed, the trunk would not have felt much, but the trunk has been severed to its roots, and a great pain has been inflicted upon us. Oh Lord! It is your will and we must accept it.
When one stone is thrown into water, it creates concentric circles that spread. In the same way the death of Dimitrije Ljotic generates a grief which spreads throughout his family, to his mother Ljubica, far away in Smederevo, to his wife Ivka, to his brother Jakov, to his sons and to his daughter. The second circle affects the volunteers (of the Serbian Volunteer Corps), his likeminded companions in peace and in war, through good and evil, in joy and in sorrow. The third circle affects the lofty Chetniks, and him who has for four years had only the earth as his carpet and the heavens as his roof (1). And then comes the fourth circle, which envelopes the entire world, because Ljotic was not just ours, he belonged to humanity, to Europe, to the whole world.
Dimitrije Ljotic was a statesman, a teacher, and a Christian. He wasn’t just an ordinary statesman, he was a Christian statesman. In the last 150 years we have had great politicians, great men like Garasanin, Jovan Ristic and Nikola Pasic, but those were men who were great in their own time, within the borders of Serbia, while Dimitrije Ljotic ventured into the great circles of world politics, and into global problems. He was a politician with a cross. I had the chance to hear him speak at the monastery of Zica when he said: ‘The Serbian nation will never be happy until the whole world is happy’.
He was a teacher who taught first of all by action, and only afterwards by words, he steered people in the right direction, he himself was the example. He never spoke about something if he had not first shown by example. He never spoke if he had not already accomplished through his own works. Oh, if only our teachers had been like that! Christ said: ‘One has to act then teach, not just to teach’(2). People will talk about him as a true man, a statesman, and a deep Christian, and this was his greatest attribute. He starts from himself, and that is what benefits the world. If you start from the periphery, from another, and not from your self you are of no use to anybody. That was his motto; Dimitrije Ljotic was a man of deep faith. As minister of Justice he held the censer for the priest in church. Many ridiculed him, but he was not embarrassed. He said: ‘I go to seek out the will of the Lord, and when I find it I will pursue it without looking to the left or right’. Without Dimitrije Ljotic a great emptiness is felt, and it is an emptiness that cannot be easily overcome.
A tree has been cut down, but God knows what he does and we must submit to his will. The tree is cut down, but from it many saplings have sprouted, and those are the many other Ljotic’s. If Dimitrije Ljotic has fallen, tens of thousands of Serbian heroes who have come together under arms, not as individuals, but united, are the replacements of Dimitrije Ljotic. Dimitrije Ljotic is a man who inspired people. He carried a heavy cross in war and in peace, for even in peace people did not want to give him peace. And in war he fulfilled his duty as a soldier and as a citizen. It was those very people who were superficial and who governed the people that did not understand him. For that reason we have collapsed, because we didn’t know how to cherish such worth. God has taken him in his own time. Some will say: they have taken us from him. But they haven’t taken him, for he gave an example through his life and struggle until today. How much humility, what ascetism, as befits a hermit of the Holy Mountain (3), what prayers, the sweetness of a child!
We are grateful to him, his Holiness and I, we thank him for our transferral from captivity to Vienna, and from Vienna to here (4). We can never forget that deed of the most faithful son of Serbdom.
When I spoke to him in Vienna about the unifying of our national forces, speaking of the man for whom I said that for 4 years the earth had been his only carpet and the heavens his only cover, he humbly replied: ‘Let him command, I will listen. Let him be at the head, I at the bottom. I will wash his feet’. And unity came. (5)
Whoever knew that man, had to love him. He was an ideologue on a global scale, who possessed a deep soul, with a lions courage and a lamb’s meekness. He spoke: ‘If we make all nations happy, we also will be happy’. Cedo Milic the great hero of Mostar, said: ‘ I have seen other heroes, but heroes like Ljotic never and nowhere’. Books will be written about him for that reason. Not only will Serbs write them, but all Europeans who knew him.
There were people who said that he liked to gather riches from somewhere, to hoard them. But where are his houses? Where are his fields? I see none of that. But he was very rich in spirit, in integrity, in faith. A spiritual man, of character, honest, decisive and religious. He was so rich in spirit that he was able to give from his surplus to others, to lend to others, always ready to give advice and a kind word. For him politics was not acrobatics, but ethics. He was the representative of the Serbian soul and heart, Serbian beauty and truth. He was the ideologue of Christian nationalism.
He loved his commanders. He spoke to me about that, and also they spoke to me and only praised him. One great commander, who is here among us, told me on one occasion not long ago: ‘they cannot separate themselves from him (his soldier’s). Words flow from his mouth like honey. He is the true representative of the Serbian political ideal’. He gave so much of himself that had he lived another 50 years, he wouldn’t have had any more left to give. His ideology encapsulated all the branches of national life.
Everyone grieves for him. Even the Germans grieve for him. Many smeared him saying that he was too close to the Germans. And it was those very people who were not in solidarity with the people, who owned villas and had great wealth, and who like exploiters prepared for themselves a fortune for the next hundred years. But he criticized the Germans more than anyone, and for that very reason they respected him. Only those who did not know him criticized him.
Oh how much did he love his soldiers. One officer from his guard told me: ‘When we retreated from Belgrade, on the road we stopped and dealt out bread to the hungry soldiers. When we had dealt out the food, I approached Ljotic and told him that there was only enough bread left for him and me. At that he replied: ‘Give out that also. We will cope better. We are in any case about to retire to sleep, and it is easier to sleep when one has an empty stomach’ And that I did’. He respected man above everything, everything except for God.
He was a great man. That which he sowed grew deep roots. And everything he did will give off a beautiful scent. Volunteers, sing praises to Dimitrije Ljotic! Chetniks weave wreaths in honour of him! Serbs, remember Dimitrije Ljotic!
The greatest sacrifice has been made. God, ask for no more. God, enough, we beg You: You have taken much and as the greatest sacrifice, him! God, let it be enough.
I believe that this great sacrifice is the gate that will lead us to freedom. Dimitrije Ljotic is the gate to our new Fatherland. For that reason brothers, let us pray for the soul of this great man and let the Lord accept him into His Kingdom. Let God grant us our prayers, and to Dimitrije let Him grant that which he deserves. May the Lord have mercy on the soul of Dimitrije Ljotic! Unto the ages of ages, Amen.
Dimitrije Ljotic is not dead. He now belongs to the whole of Serbdom. He now belongs to Heavenly Serbia (6). And the dead are more powerful than the living. He is now stronger, than when he was alive. He is now more powerful than when he was living and restricted in this world. He now achieves more and possesses greater power. Only now is he active. Thank you to him’
Saint Nikolai Velimirovic (April 1945) |
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Post by Babylon Enigma on Dec 29, 2013 20:05:19 GMT -5
Ljotić was an ardent antisemite. He is said to have advocated the extermination of Jews for years prior to the outbreak of World War II. He claimed in his speeches that a "Great Director" was behind all of the world's problems, stating that the so-called Director was "a collective personality consisting of a people without land, language, a stable religion [...] a people without roots...The Jews." Ljotić claimed that the supposed Jewish conspiracy began during the French Revolution and was involved in every significant historical event since then. He also claimed that Jews and Freemasons were responsible for the Russian Revolution. In his writings, Ljotić portrays Jews as being responsible for the advent of liberal democracy, Freemasonry and Communism, and, as such, enemies of both Zbor and the Yugoslav state.
What he didn't blame the Germans for being sneaky and corruptive? Everyone knows the tall, well-built, strong chinned Germans are parasite bankers and corrupters and the frail and small(rodent sized) jews are builders and workers. Even in nature it's the lion that is a weakling and a cheater that hides in underground tunnels and the brave rats rule the surface.
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Post by Balkaneros on Dec 30, 2013 17:15:53 GMT -5
Ljotić was an ardent antisemite. He is said to have advocated the extermination of Jews for years prior to the outbreak of World War II. He claimed in his speeches that a "Great Director" was behind all of the world's problems, stating that the so-called Director was "a collective personality consisting of a people without land, language, a stable religion [...] a people without roots...The Jews." Ljotić claimed that the supposed Jewish conspiracy began during the French Revolution and was involved in every significant historical event since then. He also claimed that Jews and Freemasons were responsible for the Russian Revolution. In his writings, Ljotić portrays Jews as being responsible for the advent of liberal democracy, Freemasonry and Communism, and, as such, enemies of both Zbor and the Yugoslav state.
What he didn't blame the Germans for being sneaky and corruptive? Everyone knows the tall, well-built, strong chinned Germans are parasite bankers and corrupters and the frail and small(rodent sized) jews are builders and workers. Even in nature it's the lion that is a weakling and a cheater that hides in underground tunnels and the brave rats rule the surface.
He was by far not the only Serbian figure during and prior those times that held those sentiments, Tito's Yugoslavia just eliminated them all from the history books. While Serbs like to "relate" their problems with the Jews (ie; Jasenovac), they also forget the high-status they held in the Balkan and in particular Serbia during the Ottoman occupation. Jews from the West in Europe (under Christianity) moved steadily towards the East to the Ottoman Empire, Turks especially settled them in Greece and areas around Constantinople - they dominated finance, banking, and all sorts of "business", enjoying autonomy, land-rights and freedom of religion. They would always side with the Caliphates in order to counter the Byzantine influence. |
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Post by Balkaneros on Dec 30, 2013 17:46:14 GMT -5
 Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople shortly before his execution, as depicted by Nikiphoros Lytras
The Turks held him responsible for the sudden rise in Greek nationalism and resistance. They took him immediately after his Easter liturgy, and left his body hanging above the Chuch for three days. After the Turks sold his corpse to a gang of Jews who dragged it around Constantinople by cart then threw it in the sea.
 Painting by Peter von Hess depicting the casting of the corpse of Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople into the Bosphorus.
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Post by Jon Do on Feb 6, 2015 22:18:10 GMT -5
Some real cool footage and photos.
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Post by Jon Do on Feb 6, 2015 22:24:01 GMT -5
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