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0:00The country's multinational people
0:02wield all the power. And that's so good
0:04. I want to rule. Tell me how you won't
0:07do it yourself, but go to the elections
0:09. Someone smarter, more resourceful,
0:12more experienced will take your place.
0:14He will be the one leading in your
0:16place. Corruption, over-the-top
0:18spending, and the complete disregard
0:19for the people on the part of the swan,
0:21the crayfish, and the pike. They've
0:23started to pull the body of state in
0:24different directions. And we're
0:26stalling, we're standing still. And for
0:28the most part, we're deteriorating.
0:29Power has never belonged to the people,
0:33and never will. We'll live a quiet,
0:36peaceful life in all piety and purity.
0:53Hello, Vyacheslav Vladimirovich.
0:55Hello, Oleg.
0:56Elections are coming up? And many of
0:59those around me are saying, "What's the
1:01point of going to the elections anyway?
1:03Everything's
1:04already been decided. My vote doesn't
1:06matter." And many don't trust the
1:09authorities. But we, as Christians, for
1:12example, believe that all authority
1:14comes from God. So where is my personal
1:17responsibility here? I have to choose,
1:20even if I don't trust anyone. Or you
1:22could say, "We'll accept whatever
1:25authority God allows." Yeah. Well,
1:30that's true. All authority comes from
1:35God, and we must obey the authority
1:38that exists, precisely because we are
1:42Christians. For us, obedience is one of
1:44the fundamental components of our
1:46spiritual life. And the authority we
1:51have is fully consistent with the
1:54degree of our Christianity. The extent
1:58to which we are Christians corresponds
2:01to the perfection of our social and
2:04governmental life. You say, "Obey the
2:08authorities," but that can't lead to—
2:11I don't know the correct term—
2:13infantilism, or something, where I've
2:16thrown off all responsibility and just
2:19sat there dangling my feet. But where
2:25have we fallen short in our democratic
2:29society? Article 3 of the Constitution
2:36of the Russian Federation states that
2:38all power in the country belongs to its
2:40multinational people. Well, you have to
2:44admit, that sounds nice.
2:46It
2:46sounds nice, it flatters my pride. And
2:51I can consider myself, I can consider
2:56myself a ruler. Power is mine, and
2:59that's so good. I want to rule. Tell me
3:04, as he says to me: "Well, you yourself
3:06won't do it, but go to the elections
3:08and tick the box there. In your place,
3:11there will be a person smarter, more
3:14resourceful, more experienced." More
3:18educated than you, more literate. He
3:21will govern in your place, and you go
3:24and delegate your powers to him. And we
3:27see that we are transferring our powers
3:31not to those who are better than us,
3:34but to those who are worse than us. We
3:39now have constant scandals with our
3:42deputies, corruption, over-the-top
3:45spending, and absolute disregard for
3:49the people on the part of those in
3:52power. Or am I saying something that is
3:56not obvious to others, or something.
3:59This is precisely the lie of democracy.
4:02Power has never belonged to the people,
4:05nor will it ever belong to them. No one
4:08has given power to the people. It's a
4:11lie that the people have power. Power
4:15on Earth, in this world in general, not
4:17just on planet Earth, but throughout
4:20the entire universe, belongs only to
4:22God. And not to God in general, but to
4:26Jesus Christ, who said: "All authority
4:28in heaven and on earth has been
4:31delivered to me by my Father." That's
4:34who is sovereign. And he, God,
4:38delegates his authority to only one
4:41person, only an Orthodox sovereign,
4:47only a Christian monarch, and to no one
4:51else. We see this throughout the
4:55history of Christianity on Earth. This
4:59was the case with the Orthodox Roman
5:01emperors, this was the case with our
5:04Orthodox sovereigns in the Russian
5:06Empire, with our grand dukes, and with
5:09our last monarch, Nicholas Sadvich
5:12Romanov. He was the last true anointed
5:17of God here on Russian soil. There have
5:21been none since. I hope there will be.
5:24In Russia, Christianity and the
5:27Orthodox Church have always been a
5:29catalyst for the state of society and
5:32the state. We could say that our state
5:36was created by the church, and
5:37therefore by the head of the church,
5:39Christ himself. Christians mean "
5:42Christian"—that's a family name. I
5:46have a family name, a first name, a
5:47patronymic, and also "Christian." It's
5:49not even my second name, it's my first.
5:53I have a very direct relationship with
5:56Jesus Christ. And I entrust my personal
6:00and public life to him, to see how he
6:03will arrange our lives. That's how it
6:07should be. And we accept our social and
6:12governmental structure as it is, and we
6:15believe it to be the most ideal system
6:19of government, the one we currently
6:22need given our spiritual state. If our
6:27inner spiritual state changes, then our
6:30external circumstances will change, and
6:33then the forms of government will
6:35change. We won't be the ones changing
6:39it, as we have attempted to do. Our
6:42people at the beginning of the 20th
6:44century, under the leadership of
6:46Russia's sworn enemies, carried out a
6:49coup d'etat, which was later called the
6:51Great October Socialist Revolution—
6:54incidentally, it was only called that
6:56in the 1930s; before that, it was
6:58called a coup d'etat. And we saw what
7:02this leads to. If people, out of pride,
7:07self-interest, greed, or envy, begin to
7:10destroy the state structure that God
7:13gave them based on their spiritual
7:16state, we condemn ourselves to a
7:18century of turmoil from which we have
7:21still not emerged. Therefore, these
7:25circumstances of the 20th and 21st
7:28centuries should teach us that we must
7:30truly humbly accept from God the
7:32structure of society and state that He
7:35deems beneficial for us. For us, what
7:39is happening now is undoubtedly
7:41beneficial. If we begin to change our
7:45internal structure, to engage in the
7:48improvement of our spiritual and moral
7:50sphere, this is precisely how we will
7:53seriously influence the change in the
7:56socio-political structure of our
7:58country. This is how it has always been
8:01. Repentance is that movement of the
8:05human soul to which we are all called
8:08by our Lord Jesus Christ. It is what
8:13has the most beneficial effect on the
8:15socio-political structure of the state
8:17and society. We see that the processes
8:23currently occurring in our society are
8:26called turbulence. However, turbulence,
8:32as a rule, ends in calm and a return to
8:37a smooth, peaceful path. How this
8:43turbulence ends for us largely depends
8:47on our attitude toward government. Yes,
8:52a Christian must be obedient to the
8:55authorities. If we now have a
8:59democratic, so-called democratic form
9:03of society, a multi-party system and
9:06representative bodies of government, a
9:09State Duma where we elect our
9:15representatives, deputies, then we must
9:18do this. We must go to the polls. No
9:22one forces us, but a Christian simply
9:28does so out of obedience. This is what
9:31the authorities have commanded. We obey
9:34the authorities. What do we actually do
9:38at the polls? What kind of checkboxes
9:40and crosses do we tick? That's our own
9:42business. But we are involved in this,
9:44in everything, in this political
9:45process. Since we are invited and even
9:48compelled to participate in the
9:50political process, in elections, in
9:52government bodies, then we must
9:54certainly participate. At the same time
9:59, we always remember that the outcome
10:04of the elections will depend not only
10:08and not so much on how actively voters
10:13behave or on how Christians pray.
10:18Therefore, we are doing our main
10:21business, as Christians. We pray to God
10:25, on whom the entire structure of human
10:29life on Earth depends. He is the master
10:33; He governs everything here. And we
10:36firmly believe that if we obey the
10:39authorities and do our main work, as
10:42Christians, then all will be well with
10:45our country, with our people. And so,
10:49we can emerge from this turbulence with
10:52the best possible form of government
10:55possible on Earth. We once had one.
11:00Once upon a time, in Russia, before
11:03Peter the Great, all forms of
11:05government were represented. The
11:09primary form of government was monarchy
11:11, but we also had an aristocracy in the
11:14form of the boyar duma. And we had
11:17democracy in the form of the Zemsky
11:19Sobor. We had two centuries of this
11:22ideal social structure. "Ideal" might
11:26be too strong a word, but it was
11:29probably the best that ever existed in
11:33any country on Earth. Our parliament,
11:38the Zemsky Sobor, is 50 years older
11:42than the English Parliament. England
11:46considers itself the birthplace of
11:48democracy, but in fact, we had
11:50democracy 50 years earlier than England
11:52, in the form of the Zemsky Sobor. But
11:54our Zemsky Sobor truly did represent
11:56the best representatives of society
11:58from all walks of life. And this
12:02allowed our country to truly develop
12:05and accumulate power, growing in size,
12:08as it always had, practically
12:10continuously. But as soon as we stopped
12:15recognizing the Orthodox monarchy as
12:19the only form of government for Russia,
12:22which is organically inherent to it,
12:26then the devastation began, and it has
12:29now continued for over 100 years. When
12:35we wanted popular representation in the
12:39form of the State Duma, which was
12:42already hostile to our monarch and to
12:45the monarchical structure of society,
12:48when we adopted a multi-party system,
12:51we fragmented our consciousness. The
12:55swan, the crayfish, and the pike began
12:57to pull the body of state in different
12:59directions. And we see that, despite
13:02our vastness and power, and our human
13:05potential, we are stalling, we are
13:08standing still, we are not developing,
13:11and for the most part, we are
13:13deteriorating. And, in fact, we are now
13:16witnessing more destructive processes
13:19than constructive ones. No matter how
13:22you show us the picture, we see that we
13:26are out of our element. This is not our
13:31natural element, but we patiently and
13:35prayerfully await what is inherent in
13:39the nature of our country, our people.
13:44This, of course, is a monarchical
13:47structure of society. Russia, of course
13:51, can in no way be a federation. This
13:57is suicidal for Russia, just as
14:00multi-party politics in general is
14:03suicidal for Russia. Russia is an
14:06empire. This is its natural
14:09characteristic. An empire is not a bad
14:11thing. It's a very good thing. And not
14:13just for Russia, but for the entire
14:15world, if Russia is an empire. When
14:19Russia has an emperor, that is, a tsar
14:22who is the personal, sole embodiment of
14:26the entire people, our multinational,
14:29multi-confessional people, an Orthodox
14:32sovereign. Then everything in Russia is
14:36in its place. When our Lord Jesus
14:40Christ is supreme in Russia, then
14:43everything else falls into place and
14:46takes its rightful, natural place,
14:48where everyone feels where they belong,
14:52just as they were. Any nationality, any
14:58confession, any class feels comfortable
15:02in the Russian Orthodox monarchy.
15:07Because the monarch cares for everyone.
15:10He is God's anointed. And his mind, his
15:15will, his heart are in God's hands.
15:21Then Russia embarks on a bright path of
15:25development. Then all turbulence ends.
15:29But after what we experienced in the
15:3220th century, and what's happening to
15:34us now, we will, of course, have to
15:37suffer through this ideal form of state
15:39and social structure for Russia. And
15:42what else will we have to endure to
15:46achieve this natural system of life?
15:49God alone knows. We know that there are
15:55powerful forces that are doing
15:58everything they can to prevent this.
16:00Anything, except what I said. Russia
16:04has long been condemned by the Western
16:08world to dismemberment and destruction.
16:12And the system of life that we
16:15currently have is sufficiently
16:17favorable to achieving this goal.
16:22Therefore, Russia has entered into a
16:27serious, even bloody, confrontation
16:30with the Western world. Now, in fact,
16:33the question is: who will win? Exactly.
16:36Either we will win, or they will win.
16:40Well, for me, for example, as a citizen
16:43, this is obvious. I understand
16:46perfectly well that this regional
16:48conflict in Ukraine is unlikely to end
16:51our confrontation with the West. We
16:55face a serious showdown with him, the
16:59result of which will likely be our
17:02victory, when Russia returns to its
17:06historical path, when Russia becomes
17:10Russia, not the Russian Federation,
17:13when Russia becomes an empire. I don't
17:18know how much this is worth emphasizing
17:22, but here's a practical approach. Now,
17:25some so-called tsar appears and
17:28says, "I'm completely Orthodox, I'm all
17:31myself, I want to
17:32reign. Follow me,
17:35Russians." Revolution. Is it possible,
17:42so to speak, a proper revolution, where
17:44we all come to our senses and say, "
17:46Okay, we don't need the presidency, we
17:48need a monarch, let's overthrow him?"
17:52Or is any revolution the work of the
17:54devil?
17:55Of course, the revolutionary, the first
17:58revolutionary, is the devil. It was he
18:01who decided to make a revolution, to
18:03overthrow God and take his place. He
18:07has been doing this throughout history
18:11since his fall from grace. Throughout
18:15human history, we see the devil
18:16attempting to create a comfortable
18:22living situation for people, so he can
18:25rule them unhindered and destroy them
18:28without hindrance. And in many ways, he
18:31has succeeded. The only thing that
18:34prevents him from doing so is the
18:37God-given form of social organization
18:40—the Orthodox monarchy. This Orthodox
18:44monarch is the very thing that
18:46restrains global evil, preventing the
18:51devil from triumphing in the territory
18:54loyal to the Orthodox sovereign.
18:58Anything may happen here, human
19:01passions may boil over, and so on, but
19:04the Lord wisely governs all the people
19:07through His anointed one. If the people
19:11are willing to be subjects of their
19:14sovereign and pray for him, then we
19:17have a legitimate sovereign who loves
19:21his people, bears responsibility for
19:24them before God at the Last Judgment,
19:27protects them, and promotes the
19:30greatest good for the people and the
19:33state. Let's recall how the Orthodox
19:37monarchy began in Rus '. After all, it
19:41wasn't the Church that established the
19:44Orthodox monarchy. In our country, the
19:48Grand Prince of Kiev, Vladimir, first
19:51became a Christian. He was baptized.
19:56And he became the first Orthodox prince
20:00of Kyiv, marking the beginning of the
20:03Orthodox history of the great country
20:07called Russia. It was he who said, "
20:12Whoever wants to be my friend, come
20:14tomorrow to the Dnieper to be baptized.
20:17" The baptism of Rus' was an initiative
20:20of the head of state. We are now in a
20:26situation where we need a second
20:30baptism of Rus 'on a similar scale,
20:34when the head of state will proclaim a
20:41second baptism of Rus'. And just as
20:46Prince Vladimir once did, those
20:49entrusted with his state power will put
20:53everything in its place. But this will
20:56happen when our people have a pressing
21:02need for such a form of state power,
21:06when we desire an Orthodox tsar, when
21:10we pray to God to grant us one, just as
21:15the people of God in the Old Testament
21:19asked God for a tsar, and God gave them
21:24one. So it will be with us, too. If we
21:28recall our entire history, if we see to
21:32whom we owe our well-being and state
21:37power, then we will desire an Orthodox
21:41sovereign. And there will be no
21:45revolution. Christians will do their
21:48proper work. They will pray to God to
21:52arrange for them a peaceful and
21:54prosperous life on earth. May we live a
21:59quiet and peaceful life in all piety
22:01and purity, as we say in the liturgy.

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