Valery Nikolayevich Yemelyanov (Russian: Валерий Николаевич Емельянов; 24 May 1929 – 9 May 1999) was a Soviet-Russian Arabist and public figure, teacher of Arabic and Hebrew, and candidate of economic sciences.
Yemelyanov managed to combine the activities of an official publicist and a samizdat author for a long time; in this capacity, he was a unique example in the Russian nationalist movement.
[1] In the 1970s, Yemelyanov wrote the book Dezionization, first published in 1979 in Arabic in Syria in the Al-Baʽath newspaper on the orders of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
[12][1] A voluminous and eclectic work, the main idea of Dezionization is that the "true" history of humanity is a struggle between pagans and degenerate Jewish "Zionists", hidden from the eyes of the average person.
[16] A recording of Yemelyanov's lecture at the All-Union Knowledge Society [ru] lecture hall, distributed in samizdat, contained the idea of Jews as a professional tribe of criminals, as well as a number of oral mythologemes circulating among Russian nationalists, including criticism of Lilya Brik's “Jewish influence” on Vladimir Mayakovsky and the Andrei Tarkovsky film Andrei Rublev.
Sergei Semanov, a member of the "Russian party," noted in his diary that in 1977, Yemelyanov sent a letter to the CPSU Central Committee protesting the presence of Masonic symbols on the commemorative ruble put into circulation, which consisted of three intersecting satellite orbits.
Yemelyanov had a conversation with the Secretary for Ideology Mikhail Zimyanin, as a result of which, by decision of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the coins were withdrawn from circulation and sent for remelting.
[20] Yemelyanov began to accuse a wide range of people of "Zionism", including the ruling elite headed by the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev.
[22] On 10 April 1980, Yemelyanov was arrested on charges of murdering and dismembering his wife with an axe, tried, found insane, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and placed in the Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital for six years.
[13][16][19] According to a later statement by an observer present at the trial, Yemelyanov's motive for chopping up his wife's body with an axe and burning it at a construction site was suspicions of her collaboration with the Zionists.
Yemelyanov combined the "Aryan" ideas of the Book of Veles, the anti-Christian pathos of A. Ivanov (Skuratov), and the visual works of Konstantin Vasilyev into a generalized theory.
He called on Russians to return to the ancient faith in Slavic pagan gods and "to put an end to Orthodoxy as the anteroom of Jewish slavery.
Like other neo-pagan authors, Valery Skurlatov and Vladimir Shcherbakov [ru], he extensively referenced the Book of Veles, which supposedly preserved the remnants of the true Russian worldview, which constituted the "soul of the people."
The "Aryo-Veneti" dominated the Eastern Mediterranean for some time; according to Yemleyanov, the name Palestine originates from them, which means "Scorched Camp" (Russian: Опалённый стан, romanized: Opalyonny stan).
A golden age reigned on this land, when "there was no concept of evil," and the Rusichi lived in harmony with nature — they did not know blind obedience to God and had neither sanctuaries nor priests.
The idea of the sinister role of Solomon goes back to the pamphlet of the Russian mystic Sergei Nilus, one of the first publishers of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
"[35] The Pamyat VASAMF headed by Yemelyanov declared that it spoke on behalf of "the majority of the indigenous population of each country in the world" and set its main goal as the struggle against the threat of the domination by "Jewish Nazism (Zionism)".
The Front's ultimate goal was to establish in all countries of the world an "anti-Zionist and anti-Masonic dictatorship" that would not encroach on the features of the existing state systems.
The Front showed special sympathy towards the Palestinians, calling them brothers in suffering from "genocide by Jewish Nazis" and declaring its support for the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The 1973 letter contained the main components of the ideology of the politicized wing of Russian neo-paganism: antisemitism, the idea of a "Zionist conspiracy", the rejection of Christianity as a "Jewish religion", and a call to revive the worldview of Slavo-Russian paganism.
[38] Under the influence of Yemelyanov, a number of marker terms entered into fantastic and parascientific literature about the ancient Slavs, the mention of which indicates to those in the know that they are talking about a specific ideology, but allows them to avoid accusations of antisemitism or racism: "Scorched Camp" (Palestine), "Siyan Mountain" (Zion), "Rusa-Salem" (Jerusalem), steppe ancestors who traveled throughout Eurasia in ancient times, and Khazaria as a parasitic state (Khazar myth [ru]).
[38] Yemelyanov is the author of one of the main Russian neo-pagan myths about the Judeo-Khazar origin of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich, because of which he introduced Christianity, an instrument for the enslavement of the "Aryans" by Jews, which is described in Dezionization.
Shizhensky notes that the neo-pagan myth about Vladimir contradicts scientific works on this issue and the totality of historical sources, in particular those testifying to the widespread distribution in Rus' and the Slavic origin of the anthroponym Malk.
[3] Based on the decision of the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow dated 3 December 2008, Dezionization was included in the Russian Federal List of Extremist Materials under number 970.