declaration. Russian against propaganda. I write for the journal "Notebooks on Conservatism": the text reproduced below by V.F. Arena (1882-1917) is no secret for attentive researchers. But it was not reissued, even though Eran was issued quite a bit. why? I think it is because Aren directly and clearly calls his hero a Russian thinker - against weakness, games, fashion and state propaganda that even the freest biographers of Skoborod follow, willingly or unwillingly. But ethnicity, nationality, culture, identity, self-awareness begin with the language of thought, and not with the direction of the party headquarters. And mainly they develop in the language space at the same time as the national history space. The party headquarters usually requires decades of coercion and terror, millions of victims, to change the identity of the masses. and support what is imposed with all the power of the state. Therefore, the one who lived long before such experiments and propaganda, Grigory Sakboruda (1722-1794), born in Little Russia, historically was, remained and will remain a Russian thinker, despite all the tricks of yesterday - the communists, and today the neo-Nazis.