"The Russian people have endured humiliation for thirty years, and it seems that they have no end and edge. For thirty years the dark and criminal people are his hearths and altars, forbid him to pray, beat up his best people - the most faithful, most persistent, bravest and nationally devoted, suppress his freedom, distort his spiritual face, squander his wealth, ruin his economy, corrupt his state, wean him from free labor and free inspiration. For thirty years they have treated him as if he were deprived of national dignity, national spirit and national instinct. These years of violence and shame will not be in vain: the people's organism cannot be "prohibited from health" - it will break through to it at any cost; it is impossible to extinguish the feeling of their own spiritual dignity in the people - these attempts will only awaken them to new awareness and new strength. What the Russian people are now experiencing is a strict and long student's ordeal, a living school of spiritual purification, humility and sobriety. The first awakening may be passionate, immoderate, and even bitter; but what follows will bring us a new Russian nationalism with its true strength and in its true measure. This nationalism, we must now pronounce and formalize "/ I. Ilyin" On Russia "/.
people are his hearths and altars, forbid him to pray, beat up his best people - the most faithful, most persistent, bravest and nationally devoted, suppress his freedom, distort his spiritual face, squander his wealth, ruin his economy, corrupt his state, wean him from free labor and free inspiration. For thirty years they have treated him as if he were deprived of national dignity, national spirit and national instinct. These years of violence and shame will not be in vain: the people's organism cannot be "prohibited from health" - it will break through to it at any cost; it is impossible to extinguish the feeling of their own spiritual dignity in the people - these attempts will only awaken them to new awareness and new strength. What the Russian people are now experiencing is a strict and long student's ordeal, a living school of spiritual purification, humility and sobriety. The first awakening may be passionate, immoderate, and even bitter; but what follows will bring us a new Russian nationalism with its true strength and in its true measure. This nationalism, we must now pronounce and formalize "/ I. Ilyin" On Russia "/.
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