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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

would prevent the awakening of the self-preservation instinct in the souls of people
who stand in the way of the oncoming rush of death. The awakening of this instinct in
warriors before or during a battle converts them into a frightened crowd and results in
the death or slavery of not only themselves, but also their children, women and old
people. There are two ways to suppress this instinct.

1. A leader can arouse fear in warriors so that the fear of punishment for cow-
ardice would exceed the fear of battle.

2. A leader can wake up higher feelings of responsibility for their kinsfolk in
warriors, when a person is consciously going to sacrifice himself in order to save his
people and all that which is dear to him.

The first way can be achieved by using cruelty, show executions and painful tor-
tures of cowards, so that all the rest, without having sufficient strength of mind,
would be more scared of these executions than of possible death in battle. The quality
of such “morale” is quite doubtful, although, sometimes only this can stop the incipi-
ent panic — a mortally dangerous phenomenon for any army. The second way is
achieved only by personal example, courage and readiness for self-sacrifice for the
sake of that which is more than the life of one man or even many. Unfortunately, not
a single battle could be fought without human victims, even when the outcome of the
battle was resolved by means of a duel between the best warriors of each side —
someone always died. And when armies battled, the number of dead amounted to
hundreds, thousands, tens and hundreds of thousands and even millions. Except for
the ability to inspire to a noble death in the name of the Motherland, a voevode, khan
(military prince) or a tsar who leads their brigades, hordes or armies to battle must
possess the talents of a strategist. Otherwise the number of the dead for a just cause
can be so enormous that even a victory would turn into defeat.

Exactly the combination of the qualities of a natural leader, managerial abilities
and the talent of a strategist formed heroes and leaders. These people, and their de-
scendants who bore their genetics, formed the social “top” of tribes, people and na-
tions. Thus, the social hierarchy was formed in clans, tribes, etc. Usually, the social
hierarchy originated in the natural way. Inevitably people were divided according to
their talents, abilities, leadership skills and desires. In most cases the forming of so-
cial hierarchies happened justly, especially before the last Night of Svarog. In fact,
the educator-veduns observed children still in their babyhood and singled out from
them natural leaders, who could be born into a family of any social level. They
looked not only for natural childhood leaders, but also for those who were able to
perceive knowledge quickly, possessed paranormal abilities and other talents.

Those children who did not possess strong abilities got skills necessary for the
whole clan and family. Thus, the personal aspirations of every child were taken very
much into account. All people are different and have different talents and abilities;
and the task of educator-veduns was to discover the talents and abilities inherent in
one or another child as soon as possible; the matter was that children with strong
leadership or paranormal abilities were not born so often. The combination of the
qualities of a leader and powerful psi-abilities in one child could be observed very

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