Alexander Kormiltsev: People save traditions

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Why is it important to know your culture of your people? Why does a person of the digital age need Russian martial traditions, songs, dances, round dances? Alexander Kormiltsev, passing on folk traditions to common people, answers these questions …

Native culture allows us to naturally reveal ourselves, to feel those hidden forces that cannot be obtained in everyday life for a modern person. The world of the ancestors was integral, the strength of the spirit was great, there were unique skills to protect oneself in any hard times, the concept of a "single shoulder" and common work, there was a correct answer and answer to all life questions.

Alexander Kormiltsev

When I saw, heard and became imbued with the songs of the 19th century, I realized that this was taken away from my people. Of course, the blood of the ancestors showed itself. At that time, teetotalers began to gather for their gatherings on Lake Turgoyak. There were no usual "vechorka" then.

And when I saw it and felt it, I realized how important it is for us. This is super important. When I revived vechorki, everything happened. It was difficult, there were doubts. And now young people and children are happy to take part in the parties. This is our salvation.

Why do people from another republic, today from another country come here to us, work, then go to their home - are they sober, they have no tobacco? The Tajik goes by train and plays his music on his phone. An amazing thing - just on the phone. He looks into the distance, into our endless forests, fields and sees his homeland.

They come to build a house. This house is not theirs, they earn money to take them to their home. And they are always sober. Yes, some of the weak fall into them, they are drawn into wine drinking, idleness and other vices. But mostly these people are sober and work. You have to work, work without smoke breaks. What is this nonsense? What are the smoke breaks? They do not have this in their tradition! He doesn't chew gum. He has clothes on - well, okay. But his most important salvation is his native culture. And nothing else, or plus everything else.

Here is a Tajik going up to the second floor. He greets his partner, hugs him like his brother, and you need to understand how important this is. They turn on their folk music again and work to it. These are young guys and they seem to need a boom-boom-boom. And where is our "Siskin, siskin, siskin …"?

This is all so serious and how much we underestimate it. They show some nonsense on television and say - this is your culture. This is a lie!. Our culture is deepest!

Our ancestors lived in it for thousands of years. Our culture is self-sufficient, it has everything. And we do not know how to raise a child, how to talk to each other in a family so that everything is in order in her. Armenians and Georgians still have it all. Small peoples have preserved themselves at the expense of culture. There are not many of them, they must unite and support each other. Culture and traditions unite them.

Look, what are they bringing us from India now? Fabrics, spices … And many are learning Indian dances. There are Indian dances everywhere in Russia! Say what you like, but India today is a strong state. There are more than a billion of them, and at the beginning of the twentieth century they were like in Russia. In India there is a sea of sober people, almost the whole country is sober, with the exception of a few places. And we still support their culture here, we carry it on our shoulders! Guys, what are you doing ?! Our native culture is crying, it is on its knees and there is no one to raise it except you.

Let's take a look at us and these peoples. There is a difference? Earth and sky! They will stand. They will save themselves. Their main secret is that they live as their parents taught them. Parents live the way their parents taught them.

And so in the infinity of centuries, nothing has changed so far. This is how the Japanese and many other sober peoples live. No computers, no TV installations can replace conscience, honor, fraternal feelings, devotion…. Today it is the most demanded one.

Our culture has answers to all questions. The salvation of our people is only in our traditions. The stronger the family, the greater the guarantee that our people will not disappear into oblivion from the historical stage. In Russia, like in India, a billion people can live. There are centuries behind the experience of tradition and culture, and an empty space behind modern habits. What are they showing us now from TV screens, from the stage? We are shown non-Russian culture, we are shown whatever is horrible, but not ours. No amount of Internet will help us to hear each other.

And whoever you are today, a great businessman or a simple man behind the levers of a tractor, when you get to the Netherlands, to Africa, to the end of the world, you have to sit like this, hug each other by the shoulders, sing your own song. And all questions will disappear. Nobody can break you. Together we are strength, but individually we are zero and even without a wand.

We are often disconnected and do not understand each other. But if at the "evening" we get up in a round dance, into a stream, we both laugh like two silly ones. We feel good, everyone is good and good around!

Remember: "People should belong to the people!" Everything that has been collected by previous generations. Your grandfather sang these songs. Your task is to take everything that is collected in boxes, preserve and pass on to other generations. Share it, share it.

Now there is the Internet. You type “traditional songs” or the non-Russian word “folklore”, choirs will come out to you. Type in "traditional wrestling" and you will find Kadochnikov and a lot of useful things. Follow these directions, learn, absorb.

We have no other way but to stay sober. What is sobriety for? Sobriety is needed so that we stay, so that our children do not disappear. But there will be no Russian tradition in the soul of a Russian person, he will go anywhere: Buddhists, Baptists, homosexuals, swindlers …

We don't need to borrow anything from foreign cultures. And while all is not lost. Our culture will be alive and healthy as long as we take care of it and live in it!

Alexander Kormiltsev