1918-2012: The World has been Wounded and is Bleeding to Death
If Russia succumbs, the world may well be lost, and if Russia will emerge renewed and spiritually strengthened from the red cocoon, then the world may be saved...Like the whole of Russia which he both ruled and personified, Nicholas II was the innocent victim of a terrible spiritual disease, which now threatens the whole world. The suffering and death of the Emperor, his family and many millions of Russians are the seeds of tomorrow’s certain resurrection.
George Knupffer, The Struggle for World Power, P. 29 and 168, 1958
The power of the Most High overshadowed thee, O Nicholas crowned by God, who fought with instruction against the false wisdom of the West, that the world might cry out to God: Alleluia.
Kontakion III of the Akathist to the Great Martyr Nicholas, Emperor of all the Lands of Rus
Probably the most slandered man in history, Emperor Nicholas II was the Peace-Maker who tried to disarm the war-making Western world through the great Peace Conference at the Hague in 1899. Had that Conference been successful, he would have prevented the First World War and the whole series of twentieth century wars from ever happening. However, he was opposed and ignored by the cynical and war-mongering and usurious, whose interest was in creating ever more murderous (‘advanced’) weapons of war and so debt.
In his life, as in his death, Tsar Nicholas embodied Rus, multinational Russian Orthodoxy, providing a model of care for the Church, and he and his family were examples of Orthodox Christian family life. With his martyrdom and that of his family in Ekaterinburg, on the very eastern edge of Europe, on the night of 17 July 1918, the world was wounded. Probably ordered by the usurers of New York, that martyrdom has poured forth blood and ever since the world has been bleeding to death from the wound.
Ever since there has been no truth, no justice, no reconciliation, because those who have been in charge of the world, generation after generation, have not wanted them; instead they have wanted slander after slander, aggression after aggression, war after war, and folly after folly. Ever since his martyrdom, Nicholas II has been present in world history, looking on at its untruth and aggression, with which it has haunted itself through its folly in rejoicing at his dethronement.
With his compassionate eyes, the last ruler of the Kingdom of the double-headed eagle comes down from heaven and beholds the human folly which knows no bounds. And his heart is heavy with sorrow and his soul grieves at the human capacity for evil and self-punishment:
He was there in 1919, when in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles the foundations were laid by unforgiving and vengeful hearts for a new World War twenty years later. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1920, when after so bloody a civil war the last exiles left Russia from Sebastopol. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1924, when Patriarch Meliton Metaksakis divided his Church, collaborated with the atheists of Moscow and attempted to institute modernism in the Local Churches of the Balkans and Middle East. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1929, when usury brought misery to hundreds of millions and hastened a new War after the collapse of Wall Street. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1937, when Satan ordered the slaughter of even more millions of the people by the tyrants who had been brought to power in his Empire. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1939, when Germany began a full war in Europe yet again. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1941, when on the Feast of all the Saints of Rus, Nazi Germany invaded his Empire and began the slaughter of its peoples. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour without warning, just as they, financed by the same New York company which was later to finance the Revolution and order the Tsar’s execution, had attacked Russian ships in Port Arthur in 1905 without warning. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned
He was there in 1944, when on the beaches of Normandy and elsewhere countless young men died cruel deaths or were maimed. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1945, when he was seen in the Reichstag in Berlin standing surveying the ruinous fall of the Nazi Empire. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1955, when the streets of Constantinople filled with sound and fury as its native Greeks were expelled, for it had been the hope of 1916 to free the City from its foreign yoke. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1956, when the streets of Budapest were littered with the bodies of Hungarians seeking freedom and of Soviet soldiers sent by madmen to die in vain. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1960, when his sisters Xenia and Olga died, one in Canada, the other in England, their hearts broken by exile. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1962, when the two Great Powers, locked in Cold War, almost destroyed the world in nuclear holocaust because the Western Powers had rejected his peace-making efforts of 1899. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1967, as Israeli forces took even more Palestinian land and Jerusalem, guaranteeing permanent regional war, for it had been the hope of 1916 to free Jerusalem from its foreign yoke. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1968, as the abortion holocaust gathered murderous speed, tens of millions died from the illusions of Communism in China and millions died from the illusions of Capitalism in Vietnam and hearts grew bitter from violence in Paris and Prague. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1974, as Cyprus was invaded by Turkey and the Western Powers encouraged this atrocity. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1984, when government evils killed millions through famine in Ethiopia. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1989, when on that night at the Berlin Wall the people revolted after the deaths of so many who had died seeking freedom. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1991, when atheist government collapsed in Moscow. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved as for three generations his people had been deceived and suffered as no other people on earth and because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1994, when almost a million died in genocide in Rwanda after Western tribes had incited hatred in the hearts of African tribes. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 1995 when the South Slav peoples slaughtered one another in mutual hatred. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 2001, when two aeroplanes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York at the command of embittered and twisted murderers. And his heart was heavy with sorrow because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
He was there in 2012, when the faithful of Syria were terrorised and expelled from their homeland in the Christian winter of the Arab spring, for it had been the hope of 1916 to free Syria from its foreign yoke. And his heart was heavy with sorrow and his soul grieved because none of this would have come to pass, if he had not been dethroned.
We seek reversal of all this slander, aggression, folly and bloodshed. Otherwise the world will die, bled to death in a new and now imminent war.
Thou art a rampart for all who hasten to thee with faith and an unfailing protection for the Orthodox world, teaching all the faithful to glorify thee thus.
Ikos X of the Akathist to the Great Martyr Nicholas, Emperor of all the Lands of Rus
