Kurginyan tells of right-wing closet opposition seeking to break Russia apart

01.01.2020, Moscow.

A White Russian émigré group associated with the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (Russian: NTS) has a strong influence on the Russian elite, the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said in his interview to journalist Vladimir Solovyov on the Solovyov Live YouTube channel on December 24.

“This NTS closet opposition will always exist here, which wants to overthrow the centrists. They are waiting for the centrists to exhaust themselves. The liberal wing has gone, and they are ready to recruit it for destructive purposes,” Kurginyan said.

He noted that this state centrism personified in Putin, would be the next to go, and then the pseudo-right-wing part of the anti-Soviet elite group will begin uniting with the pseudo-left-wing one.

Characterizing the nature of the relations inside this group, the political scientist spoke about his conversation with a dissident activist, the founder of the Democratic Union liberal party Valeria Novodvorskaya. According to Kurginyan, Novodvorskaya loved his theater, but she hated his ideology, thus having an internally conflicting attitude towards him.

According to the political scientist and analyst, Valeria Novodvorskaya reproached him for his friendly relations with writer Aleksandr Prokhanov. “How can you shake hands with this anti-Semite Prokhanov? Prokhanov is an anti-Semite!” Novodvorskaya said, the political scientist remembered. In his turn, he asked her about her friendship with the leader of the Pamyat (“Memory”) society Dmitry Vasiliev, pointing out that he was much more anti-Semitic than Prokhanov.

The answer was “Dmitry is sweet.” He said that this answer was not a political position, and that she had to explain herself.

“Then she explained to me that Democratic Union and Pamyat were two wings of the NTS. Their Western supervisors banned any mutual accusations, so she could not accuse, and she had to say he was sweet. This was a straightforward and frank conversation with Novodvorskaya,” Kurginyan explained.

He noted that, when the émigré left for the West in the Soviet period, they used to follow not only liberal anti-communism, but also a blatantly fascist one, so the supporters of these two different positions had to eat at one cafeteria at Radio Liberty.

“They kept fighting, and finally their supervisors said ‘Stop it! You must not do it anymore!’ Any internal conflicts were banned. And these groups found themselves in a situation when they could not conflict regardless how much they hated each other. The point is that starting from 1991 the breakthrough of these groups (into the ruling class ― Rossa Primavera News Agency) is the most important thing,” the political scientist stressed.

Formally, the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (NTS) was established at a congress of youth émigré groups from Yugoslavia, France, and Bulgaria that took place in Belgrade on July 1-5, 1930. Allegedly, the reason why it was established was young people’s desire to overcome the mistakes made by the elder generation of the Whites.

The NTS declares that its goals were to overthrow the communist regime and to establish a “corporate” state in Russia based on “solidarist” principles.

In the period from 1930 to 1940 the NTS sent its emissaries and propagandist materials to the Soviet Union. According to some researchers, the NTS covert work was supervised by the security services of Poland, Germany, and Japan.

Reportedly, the NTS participated in the Soviet-Finnish War of 1940 at Finland’s side. A significant number of NTS members worked in Nazi organizations that supervised the issues of occupation policy in the territory of the Soviet Union.

After Germany attacked the USSR, NTS members quickly arrived to the occupied Soviet territory and became highly active there, which was obviously impossible without close contacts with the occupation authorities.

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency

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