On August 10, 2019, a meeting with the German metapolitical center Haus Montag, named after the hero of “Fahrenheit 451,” the dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury, took place at the Cossack House lecture hall in Kyiv. However, a library with “forbidden,” more precisely, simply unnecessary books in the consumerist society is not the only thing to be found in this house, located in the picturesque city of Pirna and very similar in function to the Ukrainian Cossack House.
The “House of Montag” includes elements of the metapolitical think tank, a recording studio, a club and a conference room, as well as soon will host a hostel, primarily for participants in the Dresden Bombing Victims March, which is organized by NPD annually. However, as both Ukrainian and German elections have shown, the future lies behind such autonomous metapolitical sites as Haus Montag. The event attendees gladly watched the first video filmed at Haus Montag with the participation of the famous German band FLAK.
Haus Montag coordinator Thomas Sattelberg described in detail the socio-political climate in Germany which brought to life this center. The symbiosis of pseudo-protest youth movements, which consider themselves “leftist” and attack anyone who seeks to preserve a German identity, and transnational corporations in Germany have borne fruit. The German identity is now understood primarily as the purchasing power of the individuals, regardless of their origin, and the “openness of borders,” despite the regular atrocities committed by migrants, has become a modern German national idea. These processes have gone so far that the separation of German lands dissatisfied with such developments, mostly within the former “Iron Curtain” of the GDR, above all Bavaria, could become a reality tomorrow.
After all, “the other Germany” in the sense of Stefan George is still alive in the hearts of patriotic Germans who have affinity with the Ukrainians on the guard of their statehood and national identity. This is how the German-Ukrainian-Norwegian Kraftquell (Source of Power) project was born on the initiative of another Haus Montag representative, Thomas Raсkow. The purpose of the project is to organize a vacation for Ukrainian veteran families and individual participants of the fighting in the East of Ukraine in Germany and Norway, thus showing the true solidarity of the big European family of peoples with the Ukrainians.
Having listened to the report by Olena Semenyaka, international secretary of National Corps, at the Regeneration Europa conference in Riesa in spring of 2018, Thomas Raсkow invited her to highlight the struggle of the Ukrainian volunteer movement also at a meeting with Norwegian associates. The latter, in the aftermath of her lecture near Oslo in summer of the same year, eagerly joined the Kraftquell project, which is potentially open to other participating countries, too (for example, this summer, Croatian volunteer of the Azov Regiment Denis “Pena” Šeler organized a vacation for wife and daughter of the fallen soldier of Azov, “Frenchmen,” on the Adriatic Sea). Likewise, in February, Olena Semenyaka gave a lecture in Pirna after which Thomas Raсkow announced the opening of the Kraftquell project in Germany.
As of today, Haus Montag has launched a Facebook page and production (T-shirts, (thermo)cups) to raise funds in support of this charity project in Germany. In addition, Thomas Sattelberg and Thomas Raсkow presented to the Ukrainian side a new souvenir production as a sign of solidarity with Plomin Club’s metapolitical initiatives: T-shirts with the symbolic inscription “University of Freedom”: a prison that was transformed into a temple of education by the Irish independence fighters in the 1970’s and 1980’s of the last century.
Taisiya Nepokrytova, mother of three children, head of the NGO “Ukrainian Families” and the Kraftquell project partner on the Ukrainian side, also spoke at the event, having expressed her intention to invite German and Norwegian families and participants of the Kraftquell project for vacations and excursions to Ukraine’s landmarks, too. Besides, she promised to get the Ukrainian diaspora involved in the project.
After all, German allies are determined to reward stoic Ukrainian defenders both with the beauty of natural landscapes of Germany and Norway and the highest achievements of the human spirit. Saxon Switzerland, where Pirna is located, is the best choice for such purposes. Сarl Maria von Weber, Caspar David Friedrich, Richard Wagner and many other prominent figures of Germany drew their inspiration from the monumental nature of Saxon Switzerland. A video accompanied by a fragment of the Lohengrin opera, which was sketched during Wagner’s walks through the forests, mountains and trails of Saxon Switzerland, summarized perfectly Thomas Raсkow’s exposition of their little homeland.
Loud applause for longtime German activists, who set a brilliant example to the youth (Thomas Sattelberg’s daughter also visited Kyiv), closed the event with the participation of pleasantly impressed Ukrainian and foreign guests. Follow the fate of the Kraftquell project on our resources!