Pavel Tulaev explores the historical and contemporary dynamics between Germany and Russia, highlighting their shared Indo-European roots and the path towards the future continental empire.
This article was originally published in 2005.
Currently, pan-Slavic sentiments are becoming stronger in Russia, while in Germany, there is a partial resurgence of Germanophilia. Both tendencies align with contemporary trends and are characterised by a positive, healthy attitude. Nevertheless, it is well-known that the Slavic and Germanic worlds have often stood in stark opposition to each other. The intensification of conflicts between them repeatedly led to wars and the mutual destruction of peoples who are essentially related. Such wars, however, have always been advantageous only to a third party, regardless of who it was at the time — the belligerents suffered the damage.
A classic example of this is the Second World War, where both Germans and Russians fell victim to American interests. Recently, the opposition between the Germanic and Slavic worlds has been exacerbated again in connection with NATO’s eastward expansion — a development that could lead to tensions and conflicts if the accumulating problems are not defused in a timely manner. Highlighting this danger with due emphasis is one of the main objectives of my discourse.
Let us take a look at our roots. Germans and Russians alike belong to the Europid branch of the White race and are originally part of the Indo-European or ‘Aryan’ community, which formed between the sixth and fourth millennia BC in Eastern Europe. Contemporary archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists, and mythologists have gathered numerous pieces of evidence for this. It is also considered proven that the Aryan homeland was located in the area of present-day Russia and that the ancestors of the Hyperborean gods like Zeus, Leto, Artemis, and Apollo were born in the region of today’s Slavs.
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