THE DECLARATION
The Heads of Aristocratic Association of Slovakia
ABOUT THE RESTORATION OF THE ARISTOCRACY
in post-communist countries
The bloody-mindedness of communist totality – the product of intellectual
primitivism, greediness, envy, malignance and brutality – over the time of 70
years erased from the minds of people the concept of the aristocracy and
everything that relates to the honor, scrupulous moral, intellect, ethics,
preferring the truth as well as incorruptible pride flowing from the
aristocratic origin.
The
aristocracy cannot let people – members of nations freed of communistic
tyranny and terror – to fall under the subjection of modern ”market
slavery” and so to loose the faith, hope and illusion about the existence of
the good and all traditional human values giving our lives the sense.
Due to this
reason, the aristocracy of post-communist countries must be again restored and
brought to the life. It already has new objectives, tasks and duties towards the
society as well as towards itself, which flow from its historical, ethical and
also philosophical fundamental. It is more than time to start fulfilling them!
Unlike the Western countries where the aristocracy remained unchanged and keeps its original administrative-professional structure (including the ownership of properties) up to now, the aristocracy of Eastern European countries is nowadays after the period of absolute destruction:
it has been forcibly deprived of its own properties, which damaged its financial support,
it has been deprived of all privileges, even those, which every citizen should have such as the basic human and civil rights,
it has been physically liquidated and cruelly massacred during three generations,
it has been liquidated also mentally by – upbringing, propaganda, cutting off all linkage to neighboring aristocracy and destroying the linkage to their origin. The aristocrat or noble was even in the fairytales described as a synonym of the bad and harmfulness for the society.
As a result, the aristocracy as a class does not exist. Its
administrative-professional structure does not exist and big part of archival
and other written materials and documents is destroyed as well.
The situation with Czech aristocracy is totally
different since in the period of the lack of freedom – i.e. during Nazi as
well as communist tyranny – the aristocracy emigrated abroad and after its
return after 1989, the majority of movable and immovable property was given back
to them within the restitution. Therefore, it cannot be talk about the
liquidation of economic foundation as well as about the physical and mental
liquidation to such an extent as in our country. The need for restoration of the
aristocratic class in Czech is given more from the point of the legislation as
far as according to law it is forbidden to use here aristocratic titles
It is
for sure that the basic attribute of the aristocracy in Eastern Europe will not
be material but mental fortune. It is necessary to fulfill the principle
that the aristocracy is professional society of selected high-quality
individuals due to their origin but mainly due to their education,
actions and assertion in the society as well as due to adhering to highly
moral-ethical principles in their lives. When restoring the aristocracy in
our country as well as in the majority of post-communist countries, it is
necessary to take into the consideration these actualities.
The first step to the restoration of the aristocracy is the establishment
of the Aristocratic Association of Slovakia.
AAS is international noble association, which
worldwide conjugates the descendants of the hidalguia same as people from the
rank of the intelligence – individuals with exceptional personality traits who
are excited about the objectives of AAS and whose common activity primarily
leads to the renaissance of the aristocratic thinking, restoration of
traditional human moral and mental values and value criteria.
AAS as a tool of existing Princely Court is the unique foundation, on
which it is necessary to build three things:
to develop organizational-administrative apparatus linked to historical structure of aristocratic system. This apparatus in its further development will create for current conditions the specific system, parallel and compatible with administrative-professional system of Western aristocracy.
to develop the criteria of the selection in the membership selection
to restored aristocratic status so it is possible to separate ”the
grain from the cockle”.
In Western aristocracy there is this question absolutely irrelevant –
improving the aristocratic origin is the only criterion – what is in fact
not such a problem since this information were purposely transferred from
generation to generation and are still kept alive.In Eastern aristocracy
there is the restoration of aristocratic honor the most serious problem. The
information flows about the origin were interrupted and the information was
purposely destroyed. Media information is often non-renewable or
unreachable. Oral passing of this information was interrupted by
restrictions, criminal actions, sanctions, negative upbringing and
propaganda, all-society activities, disparaging (the aristocrat = the enemy
of the people), and etc. Due to the self-preservation, many people often
changed their names. The whole generic lines were slaughtered. In many cases
there was collaboration between persecuted nobility and communist regime and
consequently, the aristocrats themselves started to actively destroy all
information about their noble origin in order to ”improve their card
origin”.
On one side, it will be necessary to exactly expel, respectively to disable the integration into renewed aristocratic status of those descendants of aristocratic clans, which lost their justification for this by their negative attitude in times of the lack of freedom. It would be immoral to restore or to accredit these people to aristocratic honor. It is necessary to realize that such people even today try to demagogically use the uncertainties and devastated state of documents and sources of information for their own benefit and exploit the uniformed and trustful people for establishment of different ”aristocratic” associations and orders or even ”royal societies” where they startle others as being the most informed ones (among blind people even single-eyed person can be a king…) and they try to enforce their absolutely unauthorized sovereignty. At the same time, they often without the proof of identity and without the authorization work off themselves off as members of higher aristocracy what common uniformed person cannot reveal and so accept that. However, in case the truth is discovered, whole aristocratic society suffers because it looses the trust of public. It cannot be excluded that this is not the continuation of the destruction of aristocratic state by the elements of terminated (?) communistic regime. Therefore, AAS included into its regulations also the service of central evidence and the inspection of the eligibility for using the aristocratic titles and arms as well as the verification of the affiliation to aristocratic clan through their own genealogic centre.
On other side, there is many people whose exceptionality respectively the origin is expressed rather genetically - they are the aristocrats by they actions, manifestation, assertion in the society – they are the aristocrats by their spirit who create the history, science, national culture and so this way they manifest all attributes of the aristocrat. Besides provable clan aristocrats who did not peculated their origin and so are the personalities, which should build the core for restored aristocratic state in Eastern post-communist countries. Nobilitations are in such cases not only necessary but even justified. The task of AZS is to find these people, address them and trough the Princely Court to certify or to restore their aristocratic dignity respectively to legitimately nobilitate them. Based on this, directive is not only the origin of the clan but mainly the education, actions and assertion in the society as well as the adherence in their lives to high moral-ethical principles.
Here it is necessary to point out that AAS disavows from any absurd theories, which appoints e.g. the best craftsmen as ”craftsmen-aristocrats”, the best performing workers as ”workers-aristocrats”, the best engineers as ”engineers-aristocrats”, the best doctors as ”doctors-aristocrats” and etc. In order for men to become an aristocrat he or she needs much more than just to be good in his or her professional field.
to initiate the achievement of consensus, which would result in mutual acceptance and interconnection of administrative-professional principles and legal codex of western and restored eastern aristocracy. The structure and content of these principles and codex must be adapted to new conditions and tasks, which flow from new age. They must cover new philosophical fundamental of the reasoning of the aristocracy’s existence in current modern society. From the point of the societal development, it is the inevitability without which it would come to the stagnation or even gradual fall of western as well as eastern aristocracy.
Thus, the restoration of the aristocracy in the countries of ”eastern block” must at the same time initiate the renaissance of whole aristocracy. It is unbearable if spiritual potential of the aristocracy remains unused by the society. The aristocracy has the genetic as well as spiritual fund necessary to regain its prominent post in the society and so to become beneficial for the society. This is the only way how the aristocracy will become needed for the society and how it can fulfill its new generous objectives.
Therefore, the restoration of moral and ethical foundation of the existence of the aristocracy must become the object of self-preservation, honor and saintly duty of whole aristocracy.
Bratislava, November 17, 1999
Prince Juraj Radziwill-Anoshkin
Head of AAS
(c) AZS 2006