The former Eastern Bloc is winning the culture war

Ian Henderson points out in “How Communism Saved the Eastern Bloc from Cultural Marxism” (Chronicles March 2020) that although “Joseph Stalin was a mass murderer who ran a vast system of gulags...he promoted ethnic Russians throughout the Soviet hierarchy...made the Russian language compulsory in schools and offices... initiated socially conservative policies to enhance social discipline and increase the Russian population via the promotion of strong family units and motherhood...outlawed homosexuality, placed restrictions on abortion and divorce, and shut down the feminist agenda...In stark contrast, the free world, after about 20 years of strong cultural conservatism following the end of the Second World War declared Western civilization to be the problem and its dissolution the answer...Eastern Bloc nations, despite living under Communism, retained all the elements needed for a culture to prosper...With the exceptions of Estonia, Belarus, and the Czech Republic, all of the former Eastern Bloc nations are overwhelmingly religious and all, including the aforementioned three, are socially conservative.”

No wonder many in the Western Alt-right have embraced the Russian Aleksandr Dugin (who hates the West). Dugin sees the world dualistically with the West as the evil Antichrist and the Eurasia as the good “Angel of Arctogaia." Dugin and the Traditionalist School have virtually rejected all that is great in the West, science, technology, biological evolution, and perhaps most importunity the high genetic quality of the people of the West. Real patriotism in the West is lost in seeing the only the flaws of the West, which are redeemable. For example, an ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states, protected by federalism.

Henderson concludes by saying, “...So-called conservatives in North American and Western European countries seem to cave to the demands of the cultural Marxist left that dominate the political narrative...As of this writing, the former Eastern Bloc is far better positioned to preserve their respective cultures than is the West. We may have won the Cold War, but it’s the East that’s winning the culture war.”