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Now Russians get angry when they are called orcs. But back then Kalashnikov wrote with pride - yes, we are orcs! That is, Russian chauvinists came up with this nickname for themselves 20 years ago.

The author is a maniac in a severe form. He writes fascinatingly, and knows his subject. If such people were allowed to rule the country, all citizens would work hard for the military-industrial complex, and the army would finally do its job - predatory external aggression.

The book by Maxim Kalashnikov "The Wrath of the Orc", written back in 2003. The book tells about the threat of the most unusual in the history of the Earth, the Fifth World War, which is being waged by a new, hidden and very aggressive civilization - the Eternal Reich. The author talks about the dangers of this war, its causes and consequences, the latest types of weapons, how to resist this war and save Russia.

You know, on the one hand, the "secondary market" of books is full of all kinds of literature written decades ago... If you go into an old "book stall" (mini-shop), you can see almost endless shelves, where there is everything: from Blavatsky's prophecies (Shambhala, Ancient Rome), to the secrets of the Third Reich (Cheka, NKVD, Forgotten leaders, etc.), ethnographic, historical, geographical "sensations", and other battles for space, astral, history, and the like.

It's hard to say what is really not there. But the main problem with these books is that "over time" all these secrets (guesses and sensations) seem to "fad and lose their value"... And the problems "in life" today are not the same as yesterday... So another "yesterday's bestseller" stands forlornly on the shelf, and no one seems to need it anymore... And why bother your brain with another boring-garbage collection of facts... After all, all these "scares" and fears either have not come true for a long time, or maybe they were simply not as catastrophic as we once thought.

So the test of time is a really "scary thing". Or everything is much simpler - and it is not the world around us that is changing, but ourselves... And now we are simply too lazy to think about the mysteries of history and think about "how it could or can be" - after all, what is happening "right now" seems like a somewhat unsuccessful (but still quite acceptable) form of paradise. So it is not necessary to be "scared" when looking at the real "picture of the world"... Why think about a "new July 22"? In the end, the "problem of fright" can be solved much more easily by buying a volume of the "master of horror" Stephen King instead of this book.

And after reading barely 100 pages of this work, you will feel how you will literally break through to this verbiage. Which sometimes does not happen even after reading two or three other books. And although this thing is written in places confusingly and incomprehensibly - the only thing that immediately comes to mind is the song by V. Tsoi: "... there is a war between the earth and the sky... And wherever you are... Whatever you do... There is a war between the earth and the sky..." "... and someone became a door, and someone became a key to the lock"...

This is the general leitmotif of this work... And although the book was written God knows when (more than 20 years ago) - reading it ultimately makes you feel much less comfortable than reading King...

I won't say that you will regret buying this book. Despite all the nonsense and paranoia of the author, which significantly develops in the reader while reading, oddly enough - the book is read with interest, although it would seem - but no! I think that this is largely due to the fact that since the writing of the work nothing has conceptually changed for the better.

The book is quite a heavy, pessimistic book, stuffed with politics and technical data, not everyone can stand it. Maybe it is not so much pessimistic as realistic, but in any case it does not evoke a joyful mood, but only makes you clench your teeth from helplessness, or even start to quietly hate your country, or rather, those who made it so helpless. The book is so called because "for the West we have always been and will be ... disgusting savage orcs, superfluous barbarians on Earth." The work strongly develops the traditional technique of information warfare - this is the constant repetition of the same phrases in the book; maybe this works on someone, but for me personally it only irritates and belittles the literary value of the work. Thirdly, as a continuation of the repetition of phrases - the obsession of the authors with the presented idea; the coming war is called the Fifth World War, and that's it, the enemy is a hypothetical Eternal Reich, and everything-everything-everything in the book is brought strictly to this, no alternatives. The book is almost entirely devoted to the formulation of the problem, but it barely talks about the methods and ways of solving it (except, perhaps, some kind of incomprehensibly implemented idea of ​​the neuroworld), that is, one hopelessness ...

The author is a maniac in severe form. He writes fascinatingly, and knows a lot about the subject. If such people were allowed to rule the country, all citizens would toil for the military-industrial complex, and the army would finally get down to its business - predatory external aggression.

Now the Russians get angry when they are called orcs. But then Kalashnikov wrote with pride - yes, we are orcs! That is, the Russian chauvinists themselves came up with this nickname 20 years ago.

Another funny thing - Kalashnikov posts a photo of the Russian army from Chechnya with 20-year-old equipment and writes that the army risks remaining like this in 2010.

The poor guy didn't know yet that the army would remain like this in 2024, and would fight with equipment that is not 20 years old, but 60 years old.

About twenty years ago, I used to read with great pleasure in my free time "smart" books by various Russian historians and political scientists, who expounded their original scientific and political theories in them, and I even regularly spent some of my salary at that time on purchasing such literature. Over time, however, I finally cooled off to this useless, in my opinion, activity. Firstly, you won't become smarter from the number of books you read, and secondly, no matter which Russian TV channel you turn on, there are as many of these political scientists there as there are dogs. In a half-hour talk show, they will tell you much more in a few words than is written even in the most detailed political brochure. In principle, to fully satisfy my interest in politics, a daily quick look at the news or one or two socio-political talk shows on central TV channels is enough for me. Just the other day, having nothing better to do, I decided to shake off the old days and read a book borrowed from my friends by two Russian journalists, Maxim Kalashnikov and Yuri Krupnov, called "The Wrath of the Orc" from the series "America versus Russia".

As is clear from the title, the book is dedicated to the geopolitical confrontation between Russia and America in the context of the complete dominance of the United States in military, economic and political relations. The authors try to reveal to the readers the plans of American militarists to destroy our country and along the way make their predictions about what all this can turn out to be for us if we do not stop flapping our ears and do not immediately take up the revival of our state with both hands. Let me warn you right away - "The Wrath of the Orc" was written more than 20 years ago, so I had to thoroughly strain my memory to recall the realities, names and events mentioned in the book. If anyone has forgotten, the 2000s were the time when the Second Chechen War was actively underway, the Americans occupied Afghanistan, Yeltsin had been retired for only two years, the Russian government was filled with ministers appointed by him, and Putin was positioned as a Western-leaning president...

To be honest, when I started reading this book, I expected to see something like a fascinating documentary conspiracy thriller, but instead I found a lengthy and unbearably sluggish political essay in which two authors slowly chew over one single idea for the reader over the course of 400-odd pages - the West, led by the United States, wants to dismember and completely destroy Russia. As they say, they found something surprising... It seems to me that already in the mid-90s, at least three quarters of Russians thought so. At the same time, one half of the book is devoted to the story of how everything is bad in Russia, and the other - to how everything is good in the military and political sense in the United States. No, the book itself is openly patriotic, but its overall mood is clearly alarmist and defeatist. As a clear example of the West's aggressive intentions, the authors tirelessly cite the same hackneyed anti-Russian statements by Madeleine Albright, Margaret Thatcher, Zbigniew Brzezinski and other John Boltons. I agree that every conscious Russian should know these comrades by sight, however, personally I would like the authors to back up their idea with at least some fresh, cast-iron arguments, competent political forecasts and scientifically substantiated recipes for getting out of the crisis that Russia has found itself in since the collapse of the USSR, but, alas, having read the book to the very end, I did not find any of the first, second or third... Solid lamentations about the ruined empire and curses addressed to the traitors entrenched in the Kremlin.

By the way, about the birds... The only more or less clear way to return Russia to its former greatness that I managed to find in this book, according to the authors, looks something like this - it is necessary to simply purge all officials with suspicious names from the native government. The head of this list of saboteurs, of course, is Anatoly Chubais, followed by G. Gref, L. Yakobson and others like them, but a certain Yevgeny Shlemovich Gontmakher is mentioned especially often in the text. I tried for a long time to remember who this Gontmakher was, until I found out with the help of Google that he was some middling official in the Kasyanov government. By the way, at about the same time and in almost the same middling position in that government, one of the authors of this book, journalist Yuri Krupnov, also worked. So the constant mention of Gontmakher as almost the main agent of the West in our country looks from the outside like the most ordinary settling of personal or professional scores.

And in general, as far as I can judge, there is no smell of serious political analysis in this book. So, they hastily collected all the hateful statements relevant at that time, seasoned them with excerpts from American military magazines and served them under the sauce of national inferiority. I will not even mention the level of political forecasts for the future given in this book - according to statistics, a blindfolded person hits the bull's eye much more often. Well, here, at least, as an example, are several of the most "terrible" authorial forecasts - in 2003, the Russian Pacific Fleet will cease to exist; in 2007, we will lose our nuclear weapons; the GLONASS project is about to be closed; in 2010, no more than ten submarines will remain in service in the Russian Navy; in 2015, Russia will already be dismembered into 6 states or they will actively begin to implement this plan. Oh, and the Americans will first occupy Central Asia (remember, back then, American bases really did appear in the Central Asian republics), and then from there they will move their ultra-modern hordes straight at us. As you can see, none of these predictions came true, not to mention that the authors in December 2002 were unable to predict the American war in Iraq, which began in March 2003...

However, if you want to read again about how "these Americans are bad", then please... But on the other hand, you can easily learn exactly the same thing from any television political talk show in an hour or two of viewing...

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Maxim Kalashnikov is the pseudonym of the famous Russian journalist, author of books and political figure Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kucherenko.
Максим Калашников - псевдоним известного российского журналиста, автора книг и политического деятеля Владимира Александровича Кучеренко.

Maxim Kalashnikov's activities can be assessed rather negatively than positively. First of all, it is bad that his political schemes are far from adequate and contain serious elements of inadequacy.

Take, for example, the absurd perception of Tolkien's works, to which he attributed hatred of Russia, saw corresponding "parallels" in his books and expressed his readiness to call himself an "orc". Such a specific perception is easily refuted upon a more detailed acquaintance with the views of Tolkien, who after the war spoke negatively about American cosmopolitanism in letters, was generally very wary of everything American from a cultural perspective, and did not identify any peoples with orcs (moreover, orcs, according to "The Silmarillion", are not descended from people, but from elves who found themselves in the power of the lord of evil).

Maxim Kalashnikov also does not demonstrate sufficient knowledge, at least in the field of political history. For example, one can find statements like:

"It is worth noting that as recently as 1940, the two contenders for world domination, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, made an unambiguous agreement (during secret negotiations in November 1940) that America should be removed from Eurasia. Each of them realized that the injection of American power into Eurasia would put an end to their ambitions for world domination. Each of them shared the view that Eurasia is the center of the world and whoever controls Eurasia controls the entire world. Half a century later, the question was formulated differently: will American dominance in Eurasia last, and for what purposes can it be used?" (Kalashnikov M. The Wrath of the Orc).

Needless to say, in 1940 the question of "removing" America from Eurasia (or rather, from Oceania) could only be posed to Japan, and that it was not America that was present in continental Eurasia, but England and France. America was not yet the leader of the West, and England's international role was much higher than America's. Amateurish (and of course not supported by any documents) statements about agreements between Hitler and Stalin unlawfully transfer the realities of our time to a qualitatively different historical era.

In general, the works of Maxim Kalashnikov make a dual impression. His position is not characterized by commitment to high ethical ideals and everything that follows from them. Spiritual-cultural and spiritual-religious themes are completely outside his sphere of perception. It is not surprising that from such a state, clearly accompanied by strong negative emotions, the fight against the march of new evil in the world is proposed to be conducted by methods that also contain their own potential for evil, which is essentially a dead end, giving rise to a confrontation of darkened ideological systems.

As for some otherworldly inspirations in his journalistic activity, there are no sufficient grounds to talk about infernal inspirations. And providentiality is completely impossible to discern, given the author's declared commitment to technocracy (an unnecessary emphasis on which harms the spiritual principle in man and in society) and the absence of minimal glimmers of thinking in terms of the ethical and spiritual state of society.

Максим Калашников - псевдоним известного российского журналиста, автора книг и политического деятеля Владимира Александровича Кучеренко. С творчеством писателя можно ознакомиться здесь.
Maxim Kalashnikov is the pseudonym of the famous Russian journalist, author of books and political figure Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kucherenko. The writer's works can be found here.

"Orcs were fierce warriors, because they feared their master much more than their most vicious enemy; perhaps they preferred death to the terrible orcish life. Orcs were inhuman animals, and their fangs and claws were often stained with the blood of their own kind. Slaves of the Lord of Darkness, they were terribly afraid of the light, but their eyes saw well in the dark…"

And centuries of slavery, and pathological animal cruelty, and contempt for death, and a clinical inability to market and democracy. It's all here.

"We, Russians, if the old world does not stop, will become orcs.
For now - only anger.
The anger of an orc…" (M. Kalashnikov "The Wrath of the Orc")

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