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KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. WHY DO REMIDS GIVE IN

When the Muslim Sultan Saladin laid siege to Jerusalem in 1187, the defense of the “Kingdom of heaven” was led by Baron Balian. But since all the knights of the Kingdom of Jerusalem were killed in the battle of Hattin three months before the siege, the Baron Ibilinus had to accept all the defenders of Jerusalem as knights and thus raise their morale.

The people who came to the Tsar’s wagon train near Mozhaisk for abdication, as well as those who wanted to replace the autocracy with a republic and contributed to the fall of Nicholas II – who are they? The generals of Russia in the fateful days of February and March 1917 were just “new knights”, like those adopted by Baron Ibilin to protect the” Kingdom of heaven” of Jerusalem.

Let’s call the names of these new nobles whose ancestors were absolutely not “knights” for 100 or less centuries before the fateful events.

The chief of staff of the Supreme ruler, General Alexeyev – is the son of a retired Feldwebel.

The commander of the Northern front, General Ruzsky, is the son of an official of the XII class (cornet, ensign, Midshipman)

The commander of the South – Western front, General Kornilov, who arrested the Tsar’s family – is the son of a cornet and a commoner.

The commander of the Western front, Denikin is the son of a serf.

One of the two delegates from the Duma is the manufacturer Guchkov from a merchant family.

Of the hereditary nobles, only General Brusilov. And the second of the two signatories is Shulgin. But both were already ill with the eternal disease of the russian intellectual self-eating as a habit of intellectuals.

It is worth mentioning that the leaders of the two left-wing revolutionary factions-the social revolutionaries and the bolsheviks-Kerensky and Lenin were the sons of provincial noblemen.

What were they missing? The truth? Justice? Or victories on the Russian-German front? Although, most likely, victories. But for the lack of victories for pride there is something else that no one can understand or see.

The traditional regime anyone builds a rigid social pyramid. Although the founders of any pyramid want to stay at the top with their offspring they are also interested in having more or less intelligent guys trickle up, so that there is less mess and fuss. At least for now. If you only recruit Executive jerks to the top, then the mess and fuss will be more than the cases themselves. But all the same each part of the pyramid wants to legitimize its rights to a place for centuries, that is, to remain at the top forever and that no upstart will take the place of his children, who will receive the father’s place, rank and rank by inheritance. It would seem that all the dethroners of Nicholas II got all the career opportunities and fulfilled their desires. They grew up almost from the bottom. But still there was something wrong with it. Desires fulfilled but the internal is what the worms have left. And these worms are the rings of tradition. No matter how you twist these rings and no matter how you break them, they will still shrink. They will shrink the way they should. And tradition always wants ossification, wants to stagnate. Hence the eternal recurring periodically stagnation in the traditional world, which change to the same sharp revolutionary explosions.

What do people always lack at all times in the hierarchy? And what is missing is a higher rank and everyone is missing completely. (Many former Soviet citizens know that jeans, Coca – Cola, and gum have nothing to do with it. Only children of the party elite wore american jeans and chewed gum. Here is how comically the plebeian craving for elitism, which in tsarist times was expressed by suits, buttons and collars, has shown itself – each class of officials has its own coat collar!).