Andrey Mongush - How can we settle Russia 05.03.2021 15:33:37

Several years ago I came across a book "Anastasia" by Vladimir Nikolaevich Megre.




Reading the book left in me a quite strong impression, because the images from its pages opened a window to another world, fundamentally different from the urban postmodern bustle that most people are immersed in today. As I plunged into the book, I felt that, like a geologist, I descend lower and lower through the layers of something superficial to something real.

I was also interested in the fact that the book I came across was only the first in a large galaxy of books by V.N. Megre. But most of all I was surprised that the ideas and worldview expressed in the books are massively embodied in reality, encouraging people to change their way of life radically, to leave the cities for nature and create Kin Domains there.


Rodnoye, Vladimir region


Not so many books in world history have had such an impact on the minds and prompted many people to change their worldview and lifestyle. And if we look at our days, then this phenomenon is perhaps unique, at least for our country.

Here I must make a small digression in order to talk about the context in which I remembered the KDs again. In my opinion, the main problem modern Russia is facing is the pulling of the population to the largest cities, primarily to Moscow. At the same time, large territories on the contrary are losing their population at a catastrophic rate.

This problem did not start just yesterday. We are now approaching the culmination of this process. It has already gone through several stages. It began with the gathering of the population from small villages into villages and larger rural settlements. Then from there to small towns and villages. Then to regional centers and other large cities. And finally, now people from large cities are already striving to move to Moscow or, at least, to St. Petersburg.

This process is due to many factors: economic, social, political, historical. It is not some kind of national feature of Russia. In one form or another, on one scale or another, this process is taking place all over the world. Its harmfulness for demography, economy, social stability and the state of public morality is known, but the fact that this process has a global scale does not make it the norm.

Returning to the Russian situation, I would like to note that the processes of population concentration began in pre-revolutionary Russia, in the 19th century, when capitalism came to Russia. It continued under Soviet rule, and after 1991, especially in the new millennium, it assumed a completely uncontrollable avalanche-like character. In words, the current government is concerned about this problem. It says that you need to strive to ensure that people do not leave their homes.

Words sre words, but statistics are adamant: the share of the rural population is falling, while the population of Moscow and other major cities is growing. In addition, statistics are even late here and do not have time to adequately reflect reality. Many have already actually moved to Moscow or another metropolis, but still continue to be registered in the old place. But even if this process can be stopped, which is hard to believe, this will not be a solution to the problem.

The share of the rural population has already dropped much below the norm, the current situation is already abnormal and even catastrophic. After all, cities are only centers, local, regional and the capital as a nationwide center. They should be the exception rather than the rule. And accordingly, a minority should live in them, and not, as is now the overwhelming majority of the population. Already now it can be stated that the overwhelming majority of Russian territories as places of residence have already perished. The country, its vastness must be repopulated!

It would seem that this is an impossible task. But here it just becomes obvious that, I'm not afraid of these words, the world-historical significance of the ideas of the Ringing Cedars of Russia Movement and the worldview that can be gleaned from the books of V.N. Megre. All this is the spiritual and moral basis on which it is possible to solve the problem of concentration of the population in a few centers and its loss in the overwhelming majority of the rest of the country.

There are simply no alternative concepts and ideologies that were able to solve this problem. Moreover, it cannot be solved by the current state, devoid of any ideology.

Implementation of the ideas of the Ringing Cedars of Russia Movement should become the most important state program of Russia for the coming decades. And if this succeeds on our territory, then Russia will once again be able to give the world, once again at a dead end, a new model of life. This will make our country really great again. Only copying of Western practices, like the notorious Skolkovo, will not lead anywhere.

One more issue is security. It is necessary to own advanced technologies, but the share of those employed in this area is negligible in the total population. Almost everyone who fled from villages to cities now, unlike the times of the USSR, goes to work not in industry, but in the so-called service sector and trade. This has nothing to do with defense capability or industrial development.

Concluding my considerations, I will try to outline in the most general terms the image of the future that will be implemented with the success of the Ringing Cedars of Russia ideas. On the whole, the ideology and practice of creating KDs have already been implemented.



Now the main goal is to multiply the scale of this phenomenon. This type of worldview and way of life should become typical for the overwhelming majority of our fellow citizens.

Whenever there is a need to describe something in future, I would like to give as an example some event that has already taken place in the past. There is in the past something similar to what I would like to see during the settling of the territories and the appearance of many new ancestral estates? There is! If you drip completely into the depths of the centuries, then you recall the process of settlement by ancient people of the endless expanses of our country after the Ice Age ended and the ice receded. A huge territory appeared before people and people walked along  settling it.

Something similar happened not so long ago, in historical time. The ancient Slavs, those who went east from their Carpathian ancestral homeland, began to populate the endless East European Plain, which later became known as Russian. They usually got along peacefully with its former owners, the Finno-Ugric, and together they mastered this vast space. We set up villages in convenient places and settled on the territory.

Something similar took place in Eastern Siberia. There, the Yakuts, being a native of the Central Asian steppes, walked along the Lena River to the north, towards the Polar Star. Thus, they populated that vast territory, which is now called Yakutia. And finally, the settlement of Siberia by settlers from the European part of Russia should be included in the same row.

Something similar and, perhaps, no less, but more ambitious will happen when the process of implementing the ideas of the Ringing Cedars of Russia Movement takes on a truly all-Russian scale! Only now people will settle in the territory by returning from the cities!! I wish you success in this business in every possible way!




Andrey Mongush
Moscow, reader of books by Vladimir Megre

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