The Essence of Today in Yesterday's Facts 1924-2024: Parvus A Hundred Years Later
Aleksandr L'vovič Parvus Premise T he more I delve into “ Parvus '” figure, the more I get deeper into the well of the problems which constitute the rear of the contradictions, which today burst out again with so much virulence. One cannot understand the war in Ukraine without understanding the Russian Revolution first; nobody can acquaint oneself with this war, once again in Europe – against Europe – if the multi-secular attempt of dismembering Russia by detaching Finland and Ukraine (as foreseen in Parvus' Memorandum; there is, today, a blatant similitude with 1939) from it, is not grasped. Likewise, incomprehensible are bound to remain the Middle Eastern and the Balkan puzzles, theatres of open conflicts or new tension, if one does not catch the intimate and deep essence of First World War and the actions of prominent men who, like Parvus, worked along the Rimland borders, the Middle Earth and gate to controlling the world. It is precisely the critical Rimland fault ...