1. Alexey Dobrovolsky was the spiritual leader of the radical wing of Russian neopaganism and is characterized as an ideologue of Slavic national socialism.
43 Facts About Alexey Dobrovolsky
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Alexey Dobrovolsky grew up admiring Stalin and everything that was associated with him.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky worked as a loader in the printing house of the Moskovskaya Pravda newspaper.
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In 1956, Alexey Dobrovolsky left the Komsomol in protest against de-Stalinization.
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On 23 May 1958, Alexey Dobrovolsky was arrested along with his RNSP associates and subsequently sentenced to three years in prison.
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On 25 August 1965, Alexey Dobrovolsky was released from the hospital, and in autumn, the NTS established contact with him, passing through him a duplicating machine to the dissident poet and NTS member Yuri Galanskov.
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In January 1968, Pyotr Yakir, Yuliy Kim, and Ilya Gabay, calling Alexey Dobrovolsky "mean and cowardly" in their address To the workers of science, culture, art, wrote:.
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The life of Alexey Dobrovolsky, who played an ominous Kostomarov-like role in this trial, is tarnished.
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In 1986, Alexey Dobrovolsky left Moscow for Pushchino, where he was engaged in folk healing.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky was involved in a dispute with the leader of the association, Dmitry Vasilyev.
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In 1989, Alexey Dobrovolsky took part in the creation of the Moscow Slavic Pagan Community, which was headed by Alexander Belov.
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Since the early 1990s, Alexey Dobrovolsky retired to the village of Vasenyovo, Kirov Oblast, where he carried out educational work, performing naming ceremonies and organizing neopagan holidays; during the latter, there was often heavy alcohol consumption and demonstrative destruction of icons.
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In 1994, Alexey Dobrovolsky tried to create a political organization, titled the Russian National Liberation Movement, an idea that his student AM Aratov later unsuccessfully tried to implement.
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On 22 June 1997, Alexey Dobrovolsky convened the Veche Unification Congress of Pagan Communities, which proclaimed him the leader of the Russian Liberation Movement.
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In July 1999, Alexey Dobrovolsky was elected Supreme Volkhv of the Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities.
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On 23 April 2001, the Shabalinsky District Court heard a case against Alexey Dobrovolsky, who was accused of inciting antisemitism and religious hatred.
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On 1 March 2002, this case was heard in the Svechinsky District Court of Kirov, where Alexey Dobrovolsky was sentenced to two years of suspended imprisonment.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky began to dream of the complete extermination of the Jews.
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From S R Arsenyev-Hoffman, Dobrovolsky first learned about the "faith of the ancestors" and the role of the "Nordic race".
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Wirth and Alexey Dobrovolsky associated the mythical golden age with the era of matriarchy.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky is the heir to the witchcraft knowledge and the mediator with the world of Spirits, for she, as a woman, is genetically endowed with a heightened intuitive susceptibility to occult influences.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky represented the "national socialist" wing of Rodnoverie and enjoyed great authority among the national patriots.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky was proud that he did not have a higher education because, like Adolf Hitler, he believed that "education cripples a person".
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Alexey Dobrovolsky derived "Russian spirituality" directly from the "Slavic heredity", closely connected with the native soil.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky interpreted the concept of blood and soil literally, believing that some powerful material force emanates from the graves of the ancestors and influences the fates of the living.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky alleged that in the pre-Christian period, the Slavs did not have druzhinas separated from the people.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky traced this concept to "Russian natural peasant socialism", which allegedly included complete social equality, division of property, voluntary self-restraint, and did not recognize the right to private property.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky blamed the domestication of animals on the "Semito-Hamites" who came from Atlantis and invented blood sacrifice.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky considered the "Judeo-Christian alienation from nature" and "the church's justification of social inequality" unacceptable.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky wrote about the "unnatural mixing of races" and blamed "international Judeo-Christianity" for this crime.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky viewed the Slavs as a special race suffering from racial oppression by "God's chosen people".
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Alexey Dobrovolsky denied the patriotic activities of Sergius of Radonezh and tried to prove that the Russians defeated Mamai not with the support of the church, but in spite of it.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky borrowed this idea from the book Dezionization by Valery Yemelyanov, another one of the founders of Russian neopaganism.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky repeated the first part of this myth without changes: Vladimir was the son of Prince Svyatoslav from Malusha, the housekeeper of his mother, Princess Olga.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky supplemented the second part of the myth about the deeds of Vladimir with new details.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky considered Byzantium the main culprit for the introduction of Christianity in Rus'.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky did not believe in Perun and other gods, believing that the ancestors did not believe in gods but in spirits and thus honored their lineage.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky called Bolshevism "the element of the Russian soul" and contrasted it with Marxism.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky called for an alliance of nationalists and "communist patriots" in the name of building "Russian national socialism".
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Alexey Dobrovolsky declared an uncompromising war on the "Jewish yoke" and predicted an imminent Russian rebellion against it.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky wrote that the Yarilo-Sun would soon burn those most sensitive to ultraviolet radiation, a trait which he attributed primarily to the Jews.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky is one of two probable authors of the "kolovrat" symbol; the other author could be Vadim Kazakov, with whom Alexey Dobrovolsky communicated, including on this issue; the creation of the symbol dates back to approximately 1994.
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Alexey Dobrovolsky's follower AM Aratov, director of the Russkaya Pravda publishing house, wrote about the onset of the "Era of Russia" and the imminent end of Christianity and Judaism.