1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,800 We look in amazement at the processes underway in the countries, which have been traditionally looked at as the standard bearers of progress. 2 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:15,700 Of course, the social and cultural shocks that are taking place in the United States and the Western Europe are none of our business. 3 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:17,360 We are keeping out of this. 4 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:34,800 Some people in the West believe that an aggressive elimination of entire pages from their own history reversed discrimination against the majority of the interests of the minority and the demand to give up the traditional notions of mother, father, family, and even gender. 5 00:00:35,940 --> 00:00:40,460 They believe that all of these are the mileposts on the path towards social renewal. 6 00:00:40,460 --> 00:00:49,460 The advocates of so-called social progress believe they are introducing humanity to some kind of a new and better consciousness. 7 00:00:53,260 --> 00:00:56,440 Godspeed, hoist the flags as we say. Go right ahead. 8 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:01,780 The only thing that I want to say now is that their prescriptions are not new at all. 9 00:01:01,780 --> 00:01:10,940 It may come as a surprise to some people, but Russia has been there already. 10 00:01:15,580 --> 00:01:25,860 After the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks, relying on the dogmas of Marx and Engels, also said that they would change existing ways and customs. 11 00:01:25,860 --> 00:01:36,620 And not just political and economic ones, but the very notion of human morality and the foundations of a healthy society. 12 00:01:36,620 --> 00:01:45,560 The destruction of age-old values, religion, and relations between people, up to and including the total rejection of family. 13 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:47,140 We had that, too. 14 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,000 Encouragement to informed on loved ones. 15 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:59,640 All this was proclaimed progress and, by the way, was widely supported around the world back then and was quite fashionable, same as today. 16 00:02:00,660 --> 00:02:08,040 The fight for equality and against discrimination has turned into aggressive dogmatism, bordering on absurdity. 17 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:17,860 When the works of the great authors of the past, such as Shakespeare, are no longer taught at schools or university because their ideas are believed to be backward. 18 00:02:17,860 --> 00:02:24,200 The classics are declared backward and ignorant of the importance of gender or race. 19 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:33,280 In Hollywood, memos are distributed about the proper storytelling and how many characters of what color or gender should be in a movie. 20 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:44,660 This is even worse than the agitprop department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 21 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:55,280 Countering acts of racism is a necessary and noble cause, but the new cancel culture has turned it into reverse discrimination, that is, reverse racism. 22 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:13,960 The obsessive emphasis on race is further dividing people, when the real fighters for civil rights dreamed precisely about erasing differences and refusing to divide people by skin color. 23 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:18,960 I specifically asked my colleagues to find the following quote from Martin Luther King. 24 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:30,820 I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by their character. 25 00:03:30,820 --> 00:03:39,400 This is the true value, however, things are turning out differently there. 26 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:49,500 By the way, the absolute majority of Russian people do not think that the color of a person's skin or their gender is an important matter. 27 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,760 Each of us is a human being. That is what matters. 28 00:03:52,760 --> 00:04:01,880 In a number of Western countries, the debate over men's and women's rights has turned into a perfect phantasmagoria. 29 00:04:02,420 --> 00:04:07,760 Zealots of these new approaches even go so far as to want to abolish these concepts altogether. 30 00:04:08,900 --> 00:04:17,140 Anyone who dares mention that men and women actually exist, which is a biological fact, risk being ostracized. 31 00:04:17,140 --> 00:04:26,140 Parent number one, and parent number two, birthing parent, instead of mother and human milk, replacing breast milk. 32 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:31,660 Because it might upset the people who are unsure about their own gender. 33 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,680 I repeat, this is nothing new. 34 00:04:36,220 --> 00:04:42,160 In the 1920s, the so-called Soviet Kulter Triggers also invented some new speak, 35 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:48,020 believing they were creating a new consciousness and changing values that way. 36 00:04:48,540 --> 00:04:53,840 Not to mention some truly monstrous things when children are taught from an early age 37 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:57,760 that a boy can easily become a girl and vice versa. 38 00:04:58,420 --> 00:05:03,740 That is, the teachers actually impose on them a choice we all supposedly have. 39 00:05:03,740 --> 00:05:09,660 They do so while shutting the parents out of the process and forcing the child to make decisions 40 00:05:09,660 --> 00:05:12,280 that can upend their entire life. 41 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,960 They do not even bother to consult with the child psychologist. 42 00:05:16,700 --> 00:05:20,620 Is a child at this age even capable of making a decision of this kind? 43 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,320 Calling a spade a spade, this verges on a crime against humanity. 44 00:05:25,740 --> 00:05:30,380 And it's being done in a name and under the banner of progress. 45 00:05:30,860 --> 00:05:33,240 Well, if someone likes this, let them do it. 46 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,800 I've already mentioned that, in shaping our approaches, 47 00:05:37,140 --> 00:05:39,860 we will be guided by a healthy conservatism. 48 00:05:41,500 --> 00:05:46,000 That was a few years ago, when passions on the international arena 49 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,600 were not yet running as high as they are now. 50 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:53,500 Although, of course, we can say that clouds were gathering even then. 51 00:05:54,060 --> 00:05:57,360 Now, when the world is going through a structural disruption, 52 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:03,200 the importance of reasonable conservatism as the foundation for a political course 53 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:08,020 has skyrocketed, precisely because of the multiplying risks and dangers 54 00:06:08,020 --> 00:06:10,960 and the fragility of the reality around them.