Of course Russians—and Russisn youth especially—living in France and England, are fortunate. They are fortunate because they can breathe the pure air of Europe's ancient culture and not the suffocating mist of mental tyranny. They are fortunate because every day in London, in Paris, even in New York, they im bible with every word they hear something that has been evolved by centuries of painful and passionate endeavour towards the assertion ai Man and Society. And although m years have passed since an Karamazov dubbed Europe one enormous graveyard, his comparison is still incorrect. The fascination of Russian youth in Europe for the alien is based on the consciousness that success in its midst is a promotion in rank.
In a semi-cultural country youth would take pride in remaining completely Russian, while in Europe i feels tattered when mistaken for na-of Erpe be"cre the birth of Chr The first documentary proof of the existence of the Slavic tribe "Russ" belongs to the 5th century. In the 6th century the Slavs already advanced in war against Byzantium, Historical annals of the Roman Empire, ancient Greece and Arebian sources speak of the Slavic tribe of Russ, so that tosay that some early Norman prince had that name is forcing the issue.
The Normans are not a tribe or a nation but a professional term. In the 9th century they were responsible for much destruction in a Russia whose culture (at that time) was higher than the culture of other major nations of Europe. Ancient Russia played a large role in the safeguarding of European civilization, as it halted the advance of the wild nomadic legions sweeping Westward from Asia. This lecture was all the more interesting as Dr Kazakoff 1- ch longes the theory advanced at the same club some time ago by Prof. Y. Y. Telberg.
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