"So far they cannot realize that we are not fighting against the political party,
But against the sect of murderers, the full modern spiritual culture.”
Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
For modern Europeans, raised under the closs of social states, who value comfort and safety to the top extent, Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg may seem like a fairy tale character or a nightmare dream. Who was he? A descendant of the old aristocracy of German origin, an ruthless military leader called the “god of war” and “the hammer of God on the Bolsheviks”, a mystic in which madness connected with a genius, a visionary who wanted to reconstruct the spiritual empire and defeat those whom he hated most: the Bolsheviks. The boy of an old Europe: a hierarchical and monarchical 1 who looked with disgust at the "red" embodiment of all the lowest and most animalized in the human spirit. He was ruthless to them, and he caused large fear, but destiny wanted that captured, after a fewer hours of show trial, he was shot. However, before the final defeat became legendary due to the fact that in late 1920 he and a tiny number of soldiers entered Mongolia, drove out Chinese troops, took over the state, gathered a Mongolian army and counterattacked "red" with it. 1 of his main goals was to release the Chinese-prisoned Bogd Chan, for the Mongols to embody the surviving Buddha, the nominal, theocratic ruler of Mongolia. According to Baron Ungern's biographer, James Palmer: “In Mongolia he was praised as a hero, feared as a demon, and briefly, indeed, worshipped as a god” and. By learning about Baron's biography, we come across an extraordinary communicative that resembles an epic historical film. Ungern walked through life like lightning, ignored the danger, did nothing of death to himself, spent periods of temporary remainder on making epic plans that he tried to implement just after waking up. His visions were not impossible. In the end, like another white-guarded men, he suffered defeat, but the communicative of his life is so different that he will stay a origin of fascination forever. People like him are a uncommon specimen of heroism, courage and greatness. How crucial can it be to a modern European? It seems that a dying, weakened and depopulated Europe, incapable to defy the attacks of the outside world, the most serious of which is the 3rd planet invasion on our continent, desperately needs people like Baron von Ungern-Sternberg as Russia erstwhile needed him to halt the Bolsheviks' march. If he had lived these days, he would have looked at modern Europe with contempt and disgust and... immediately took action due to the fact that idleness was not in its nature. He preferred the most risky military escapades than staying in place.
Baron Roman Nikolay Maximilian Fiodorovich von Ungern-Sternberg was born in 1885 in Graz, Austria. He came from an old German aristocracy settled in Estonia, which served the Russian tsars faithfully for years. Ungern was made celebrated by the Polish author Ferdinand Ossendowski (1878-1945), who immortalized him on the pages of his fresh “Through the Country of Humans, Animals and Gods” (1923). We will quote Ossendowski, who personally conducted many talks with Baron. Ossendowski was accused of fantasy, but even if these fragments are to any degree literary fiction, they undoubtedly reflect the spirit of that time and the form of the “bloody Baron”. Ungern, on the pages of the novel, addresses Ossendowski: “I would like you to know everything about me, to know my thoughts, plans and intentions, so that you can talk to me, not like the “crazy bloody baron”, as my enemies call me, and not with “grandfather” as my soldiers whisper about me, but as with a man who thought a lot and suffered even more.... “ii. The Baron sits next to Ossendowski and continues: “My name is surrounded by specified hatred and fear that no 1 truly knows who I am, due to the fact that past has been entangled with myth, reality with fantasy, fact with falsehood”iii. The book has had nineteen translations into abroad languages. Ossendowski belonged to the most well-read writers in the planet during the interwar period and his works were placed alongside the novels Kipling, London and May. The full circulation of his books reached a turning number of 80 million copies. 1 of them titled "Lenin" was a feature biography of the leader of the October Revolution and at the same time a fierce criticism of revolution and communism. She contributed to the fact that the NKWD exhumed Ossendowski's body after his death in 1945, wanting to make certain Lenin's individual enemy was dead. After the war, he was sentenced to oblivion and his name was placed on the "censor record". The renaissance of his work and occurred only after 1989. Baron Ungern describes the extraordinary past of his family:
"The von Sternberg Ungeren household is very old. A mix of Germans and Hungarians, Huns from the time of Attila. My warrior ancestors participated in all the cross expeditions. 1 of the Ungers was killed in Jerusalem, fighting under the banners of Richard the Lion Heart, and even tragic, the cross expedition of children had a number of its victims Ralf Ungern, an eleven-year-old Teutonic Knight. erstwhile the east ends of the German empire were sent by the bravest and cruelest knights, among them was my ancestor Arthur, Baron Halsa-Ungern-Sternberg. In the east of German areas these knights founded the Teutonic Order, fire and sword spreading the Christian teaching of neighbor's love among the savage Gentiles – Lithuanians, Estonians and Slavs. The Teutonic Knights' Order always had among its brothers representatives of my family. 2 Unger von Sternbergs were killed under Grunwald. My family, as I mentioned, was militant and religious, so inclined to mysticism and asceticism. In the 16th and 17th centuries there were respective Ungern barons on the lands of Estonia and Latvia, after which there were piles of chronicles with legends and stories about their lives and deeds. Henry Ungern, called the “Topor”, was a mistaken knight. The tournaments of France, Italy, Spain, and Britain knew this name, fearing the hearts of wrestlers. Henry was celebrated for his art of handling the hatchet. He was killed in Cadiz by a Mauritanian knight who, with 1 stroke, smashed his skull with a helmet. Ralf Ungern, a Baron on Sternberg, had his seat close the guest home between Rewle and Riga and under threat of death forced all travelers to pay his tribute. Baron Peter Ungern owned a castle on Daho Island in the Baltic, where he built himself a full fleet of sailing ships that became a panic and a defeat for merchants. From this ancestor, a marine robber, began the full dynasty of the Ungers – pirates and sailors, to whom I belong. Finally, legends know another baron of my name, who lived in the late 17th century. His name was Wilhelm, and his nickname was “The Brother of Satan.” This nickname was granted to him due to the fact that the Baron was an alchemist and gave shelters to all the magicians and sorcerers persecuted in Europe for their secret practices. I've already mentioned that Peter Ungern started the Marine Ungern dynasty. Peter's descendant – a pirate in a consecutive line was my grandfather, who sailed on his own sailboat all the way to the Indian Ocean, where he was active in the robbery and wrecking of English merchant ships.”
Baron Ungern's parents divided up shortly after his boy was born. The parent remarried and moved to the property of a fresh spouse in Jerwakant, Estonia. That's where young Ungern-Sternberg grew up. From his earliest years, he was characterized by a violent character, the first effect of which was the expulsion from the St. Petersburg Maritime Academy. In 1905, he enlisted for the Russian-Japanese War, during which he was decorated and received the rank of corporal. In 1906, he enrolled at the Pavłowska Military Academy and then joined the Zabaykalski army stationed in the far Dauria, the 1st Argunsk Cossack Regiment. From there he went to the 1st Amurian Cossack Army Regiment stationed just off the border with China. planet War I broke out and Baron Ungern was mobilized on July 19, 1914. He returned to the Zabaykal army and was assigned to the Nerch Regiment. As an officer of the 2nd Samsonov Army, he fought in the celebrated conflict of Tannenberg, which was a large defeat and slaughter of Russian troops. From the Russian troops participating in this battle, only 1 in 15 soldiers returned to Russia. Baron's biographer writes:
"The endurance of this pogrom was partially due to the luck and partially to the near-suicide deficiency of fear. As he has shown many times, winning medals, he was able to execute specified madly heroic acts that his enemies frequently lost their minds in amazement. possibly it was harder to find a man who made that impression.”
From 1914 to 1916 he fought in East Prussia, then in Galicia and Carpathians. In 1916, he was led by legend of the White Guardsmen resisting the Red Army, General Piotr Nikolayevich Wrangl. During the civilian War Wrangel was 1 of the last white guards fighting the Bolsheviks, who defended Crimea to the end and his enemies gave him the nickname "black Baron". In turn, the protagonist of our text for brawling and drunkenness went to jail for 2 months and was transferred to reserve. At the time, he met the legend of the war with the Bolsheviks, Captain Grigorij Mikhailovich Semyonov. After the outbreak of the October Revolution, he joined him in Dauria, which became the center of opposition against the Red Army. For a fierce monarch, Baron Ungern, the revolution was a tragedy:
"Germany was only an enemy of Russia, a Bolshevik – an enemy of good. To Unger, the revolution was an apocalypse, the end of his world. However, it may have been that from the apocalypse a perfect society would emerge, a utopia, after Satan’s reign Christ would return, and after defeating the enemies of religion the boundaries of the holy Shambhala would be opened. But before that could happen, the planet had to be cleansed. Only the most steadfast crusader could face the black curse of the revolution, holding the advanced standard of imperialism, religion, and absolute monarchy. In this function Ungern saw himself.”
In Manchuria, together with Semyonov, he created the Manchurian peculiar Branch, whose main goal was to fight the Bolsheviks. Together they took risky action, mastered fresh territories, and amazed the enemy at all turn. Eventually, with the support of the Czech Republic and Japan, Semyonov became dictator of Zabaykal and Ungern commander of Dauria in the rank of Major General. They started making plans for further action. They came out of the presumption that they would build large Mongolia uniting its tribes. Japan was to become the protector of the fresh state. Sternberg described his imagination to Ossendowski, stressing at the same time that his plans were so far-reaching that Siemyonov was not entirely convinced of their reality:
"This country should be morally and physically strong. It would should be blocked from the influence of revolutions with a advanced wall of strict and wise laws and to defend its spiritual foundations: worship, faith, doctrine and politics. If demoralized and insane humanity does not halt in its course to the abyss and spend the full possessions of the human spirit on destruction, the Asian state will gotta put an end to this and supply long-term peace for mankind. (...) All Asians, but the Japanese, realize that the speculative culture of the West leads humanity to demolition by poisoning it with the bacteria of the revolution. Yet hetman Semyonov fears me, my harshness and cruelty. He cannot yet realize that we are fighting not the political party, but the sect of conspirators against the full spiritual culture of humanity, against the thought of deity."
Eventually, Baron Ungern and his forces in Dauria grew so much that he separated from Semyonov and established his own army under the name of the Asian Horse Division. The Red Army grew stronger. Admiral Kołczak, leader of the White Guards, was captured and shot. General Wrangel withdrew from Crimea. It became apparent that the White defender case was a loss. Baron Ungern was trying to find a way out of the situation. By an agreement in Kiachta of 1915, Mongolia was converted into a Chinese province. Ungern took the opportunity, contacted the religious-political leader of Mongolia Bogd Chan and requested approval for military intervention. He received it and the common people of Mongolia began to look at it as a long-awaited savior. A long and bloody run was launched during which Baron's troops captured Urga (Ulan Bator) and liberated Mongolia from the Chinese yoke with only 1,500 soldiers, the core of which were 3 regiments of the Asian Horse Division. Among the Mongols, Baron Ungern gained the nickname “the god of war”. On February 22, 1921, in Urga (Ulan Bator) the Theocratic ruler Bogd Chan was restored to the throne. Baron Ungern was credited as reincarnation of the 5th bogd gegeena (mong. sacred light), or ultimate Lamasian ruler in Mongolia, and received the title of "chana steppe", his own principality and the title of Outstanding Hero of the Land of Happiness from Bogd Chan. In fact, he became dictator of Mongolia and began creating a feudal order based on the theocratic system. The restoration of Bogd Chan to the throne was crucial to him. He couldn't imagine a planet without a monarch. Palmer writes: “The Monarchs were the last barrier against revolution and chaos, only they could prevent “truth, kindness, honor and tradition from being trampled on by wicked men.” Ungern felt that the state could not be without a king, just as “the earth cannot be without the sun.” Without the monarch there will be an apocalyptic end of the planet (...)”.
After taking power in Mongolia, Baron Ungern began planning further actions. He founded the unification of the tribes of Central Asia and the establishment of the mediate Kingdom of Mongolia. He was convinced that the alliance would be joined by Tibetans, Kyrgyz and Uighur (Chinese Muslims). But that is not the end. He dreamed that the next step should be to rebuild monarchy China and reconstruct the Qing dynasty to power. He believed that Japan would join the union and the power of the united yellow race would turn against “degenerated white”. On the 1 hand, we are dealing with a real, large achievement, namely the liberation of Mongolia from Chinese business and the taking over of power over the state, on the another hand, megalomanian plans, in accordance with Alexander the Great. Ungern began by writing letters to political and tribal leaders, presenting his imagination and encouraging cooperation. He didn't get any answers. In consequence he chose another, somewhat amazing way. He gathered an army and set off against the Red Army. 35 stood in his way. The Red Army Division led by Constant Neuman, consisting of about 8,000 soldiers, twice as many as the Baron gathered. The main conflict warmed up under the town of Kiachta on June 11, 1921. Baron's troops were practically completely destroyed.
However, it described his happiness and escaped with a tiny branch of faithful soldiers. On June 28, the Soviets entered Mongolia. They seized Urga (Ulan Bator) and it became clear that the Baron Ungern case was lost and his "cruciate" doomed to defeat. The decision to take Mongolia was made by Lenin himself. The mastery of Mongolia was crucial for the Bolsheviks to crush the last place from which the White Guards could defy and attack the Red Army. The steadfast Baron Ungern amazed his enemies again. He came across 7 on July 31. A Red Army peculiar Branch stationed alongside the large Buddhist monastery of Guzino. For many of the soldiers who remained loyal to him, the presence of the Bolsheviks in specified a place was a sacrilege. They furiously attacked the "red" and caused a riot in russian command, which was convinced that Ungern no longer had a chance of any military victory. In consequence to the defeat, the Soviets immediately mobilized thousands of soldiers to yet end the Baron Ungern case and the remnants of his troops. The Baron realized that the people of Mongolia would not emergence up in his defense, that Japan would not militarily support his actions, that his visions of the construction of the empire were presently inconceivable. He returned to Mongolia, but was not going to give up. It was not in his nature, he always fought to the very end. After the failure of Mongolia and the army, he began searching for a country to which he could go. As he writes, his biographer:
"After this defeat, Ungern rejected everything that inactive connected him to civilization. “He drove in silence, with his head down, at the head of the column. On his bare chest he had many Mongolian talismans hanging on a bright yellow string. It looked like a reincarnation of a prehistoric ape. People were afraid to look at him.” He was virtually torn from his Russian and German heritage – only a holy warrior remained. The remainder of the division were equally battered: over a 100 soldiers were injured, and all had not eaten a decent meal in days. Even Ungern now admitted that they would not be able to face the Red Army alone. Escape was the only solution.”
Ungern sealed his destiny by choosing Tibet, an inhospitable and mysterious land. The choice of this direction seemed to his soldiers pure madness and concluded that there was only 1 way: the Baron must die. They set up a conspiracy against him, tried to shoot him, but the charismatic Baron managed to avoid the bullets and escape. Soon, however, he was captured by the Mongols and handed over to the Soviets. By train he was sent to Nowonikołajewska (later renamed Novosibirsk), 1 of the major cities of Siberia, where he was given multiple interviews. His trial began on September 15, 1921. Lenin himself sent a letter with instructions on how to proceed: the tribunal was to conduct the proceedings rapidly and efficiently and conviction Baron to the shooting. James Palmer describes Ungern's behaviour during the trial:
"Watchers wondered if this rigid, unusual man truly was specified a monster, but erstwhile he lifted his head from time to time, something dangerous, chaotic could be seen in him, like "slights of fire filled with ash." He frequently responded melancholy. Jarosławski, trying to discredit the whites, asked him at 1 point: “Do you not think that the end of your run was besides the end of the last of the riots of the past fewer years, and will you agree that this was the last effort to implement the ideas you profess?” Ungern replied: “Yes, the last. I think I am the last.”
Palmer continues to describe his final moments, which, like his full life, grew into a myth: “Many myths have been spread around his last moments, mainly among white people who are remembering the past in exile. It is said that the pieces broken by the bullets of the Order of Saint George were spread to all sides, wounding executioners. It was said that he was so afraid that he executed secretly, shot in the back of the head, commander of the local Cheka. Or that he escaped death at all, escaping from prison, and disappeared in the woods to proceed fighting Bolshevik evil. Even Ungern's death was surrounded by legend.”
He was right. He was the last, or at least 1 of the last, White Guardsmen fighting against the Bolsheviks, at the same time 1 of the last defenders of the old monarchy Europe. A planet that left with people like him and was replaced by totalitarianism and mass plebeic democracies. His defeat sealed the triumph of the “red” and the creation of the totalitarian russian Union.
The monologue of Baron von Ungern quoted by Ossendowski is highly interesting. Mysterious, mystical, prophecy about the times to come. From a historical perspective, it doesn't seem as incomprehensible as erstwhile those words died. respective years later, the top tragedy in the past of Western civilization, which was planet War II, came. It is clear that the Baron considered the fight against the Bolsheviks not simply an armed conflict, but a metaphysical fight of good against evil, God with Satan, in the kind of classical manicheism:
“The fornication of the revolution... Have you thought about it? Has anyone always thought about it? possibly just an insider of Swedenborg or the wisest of Tash-lam's sages in Tibet... In the Buddhist old books and apocryphas of the early Christian times, there are indications and prophecies telling of the coming of good and bad spirits against 1 another. Then comes the unknown Cursed to take over the full earth and exterminate humanity, killing culture and morality. Geniuses and madmen – these tragic twins, clearly feel the nearness of the period of catastrophes in human past and the coming of the cursed, whose weapon is the revolution. The site of a former, experienced intellectual-creator replaces the chaotic will of the destroyer. In the foreground, lower instincts are demanded, which gives the speculative character of thoughts in all its manifestations, namely politics, economics, discipline and art. Humanity is far from spiritual issues and pursuits. Human past has shown that we should change the direction of our thought and apply creativity to moral-spiritual issues. These currents had already emerged before the outbreak of the planet War 1914. But then, as usual in specified periods, appeared the 1 of whom the apostle John in Revelation spoke, the 1 who appeared to Christ in the wilderness; the 1 with whom Buddha, Paspa, the founder of modern Lamaism, and the early Christians, the presence of which Dante, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Tasso, Goethe, Dostoevsky felt with horror and fear. This cursed 1 is already among the human throngs, and he withdraws the waves of culture and spiritual advancement from God toward himself. Thus cursed with the hands of the blood of the revolution holds back the intellectual and intellectual course of humanity to the shining finish—the deity. The righteous and loving large Unknown, the antithesis and the enemy of the cursed, has placed at the threshold of our life unknowing of wrath and love karma. It makes a cold accounting of our actions, measured and weighed. Karma summarizes everything that the Damned 1 has sown among mankind, i.e. hunger, sickness, ruin, death of culture, fame, honor, spirit, death of states and peoples... I can see, I can see this horror, this grim, crazy demolition of the planet and people...”.
German philosopher Hermann Keyserling described Baron Ungern in these words knowing his nature, which combined the ability to reflect philosophically and practically, militarily: “Surely, he was the most remarkable man I always met. 1 day I said to his grandmother, Baroness Wimpfen, “He is simply a being that can be called suspended between heaven and hell, without any knowing of the laws of this world.” An extraordinary tendency to metaphysical considerations fought in his heart with an equally large tendency to cruelty. So he was definitely predestined for life in Mongolia (where specified a division in man is normal) and it was there that destiny led him. [...] He was not from this planet and I can't get the impression that on this land he was just a temporary guest”.
Italian thinker Julius Evola, 1 of the most crucial figures in the 20th-century right, summed up his character by writing: "A native of the old Baltic family, Ungern-Sternberg can be regarded as the last, irreconcilable enemy of the Bolshevik Revolution against which he fought relentless and relentless hatred. (...) Baron von Ungern-Sternberg may have become a “man of destiny” if circumstances were more favorable to him. But this did not happen and his life was like a tragic and fleeting flash of meteorite”xiv.
Baron Ungern was a heroic character, fearless military genius, a completely devoted origin he fought for, a kind of extinct warrior already in our culture. His genius went along with madness. The hatred and ruthlessness that he has expressed towards the Bolsheviks gives emergence to any supporters of the modern humanitarian-sentimental approach to reality disgust. But isn't it actual that Sternberg was trying to keep the old social-political order with the Tsar as his embodiment? This arrangement was not perfect, but Baron von Ungern-Sternberg realized that those who stormed it would be even worse, that they were the embodiment of pure evil. And he was right. He treated Bolsheviks absolutely due to the fact that he could foretell what the future would bring. A bunch of Bolshevik lunatics after triumph over the white-guarded built a totalitarian state, with rags and mass murders that consumed tens of millions of human lives. If the White Guards had won, this disaster would never have happened. They lost and what happened after their defeat was a sea of blood that flooded Russia and Europe. Only those like Ungern-Sternberg were able to halt the march of savagery and animalry. Faced with modern disasters, the 2 top of which are: the 3rd planet invasion to the West and the power of a corrupt political class (and this is simply a political class mostly representing views that coincide with the views of the Bolsheviks, due to the fact that whether they are contemporary greens, liberal Democrats, European social democracy, or Lenin, Stalin and Mao Zedong is the origin of their worldview lies in the same place: the French Revolution and the doctrine of Charles Marx), Europe is desperately lacking charismatic geniuses-crazy like a "bloody baron" due to the fact that only those like him would know how to deal with the challenges facing are dying out demographically, economically failing, being able to invade from the 3rd World, Europe.
Mariusz Starved
SOURCE:
1. Evola, J., Baron von Ungern-Sternberg in: https://counter-currents.com/2011/02/baron-von-ungern-sternberg/ accessed: 28.03.2023
2. Ossendowski A. F., Through the country of people, animals and gods, Profit and S-ka Publishing House, Poznań 2009.
3. Palmer J., Blood White Baron, REBIS Publishing House, Poznań 2010.
