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MESSAGE
of
ARCHBISHOP CARLO MARIA VIGANÒ
Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America
to the
FOUNDING CONGRESS
OF THE INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT OF RUSSOPHILES (MIR)
Moscow, March 14, 2023

Dear Friends, it gives me great joy to be able to address a brief message to you on the
occasion of the establishment of the International Movement of Russophiles. The
Manifesto of this association begins with a word that seems to have disappeared
from Western vocabulary: friendship. In this case, it is friendship for the Russian
people, shared by so many people throughout the world, and the friendship of the
Russian people towards other peoples, in that spirit of brotherhood which finds its
foundation in recognizing ourselves as children of the one Eternal Father and as
brothers and sisters in Our Lord Jesus Christ.

When the Western Roman Empire lost its political role under the pressure of the
barbarian invasions, the baton passed to Constantinople. And when the Eastern
Roman Empire also fell with the conquest of Byzantium by Mahomet II, it was
Moscow that saved its religious and political legacy, with its Saints and Holy Kings.
The present crisis shows us the collapse of a corrupt West, in which there is no Pope
Leo the Great to save its fate, but which still has a destiny, if it can recover its
providential mission and recognizes what unites it to the mission of Russia.

Recent events have shown us that the materialist atheism that devastated the Russian
Empire and the world since 1917 – as the Most Blessed Virgin Mary announced at
Fatima – has today joined liberalism in the globalist ideology which underlies the
delirious project of the New World Order. An infernal project, as President Vladimir
Vladimirovič Putin rightly pointed out in a recent speech, in which hatred for
Christian civilization wants to create a society of slaves subservient to the Davos elite.
A dystopian society, without past and without future, without faith and without
ideals, without culture and without art, without fathers and mothers, without
family and spirituality, without teachers and spiritual guides, without either respect
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for the elderly or hopes for our children. We cannot be surprised that, after de-
Christianizing the Western world, this elite considers Russia an enemy to be
overthrown. The Russian Federation undeniably stands as the last bastion of
civilization against barbarism, and gathers around it all those nations that do not
intend to submit to the colonization of NATO, the United Nations, the World
Health Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and that
heap of foundations that have as their purpose the indoctrination of the masses, the
manipulation of information, the creation of “colored springs” to destabilize
governments legitimately elected and sow chaos, wars and misery as instrumentum
regni. The recent pandemic farce – conducted with criminal methods that I have
not hesitated to denounce since the beginning of 2020 – has been followed by new
emergencies – including the Ukrainian crisis – deliberately provoked with the aim
of destroying the social and economic fabric of nations, decimating the world
population, concentrating control in the hands of an oligarchy that no one has
elected and that has perpetrated a real world coup d’état, for which sooner or later it
will be called to answer before the world.

The theorists of this coup have names and faces, starting with George Soros, Klaus
Schwab, and Bill Gates. Those who today declare that Russia is an enemy consider
Europeans, Americans, Australians and Canadians as enemies and treat them as
such, persecuting and impoverishing them. But while World Economic Forum
emissaries in Western governments can legislate against the good of their own
citizens and hold world leaders in the palm of their hands, regime change that has
been successful in other nations has stopped at Russia’s borders. On the other hand,
the electoral fraud of 2020 in the United States of America was also indispensable to
prevent the confirmation of President Donald Trump, just as in 2013 the deep state
and the deep church managed to get Pope Benedict XVI to resign and to elect a
person pleasing to the New World Order, the Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

Your commitment must certainly promote Russia’s friendly relations with all
peoples, according to that principle of multipolarity which, in a wise long-term
political vision, is the best way to combat globalist monopolarity. But this
friendship, these relations of concord and mutual cooperation, cannot disregard the
denunciation of the coup d’état perpetrated against humanity by dangerous
subversives whose declared purpose is the establishment of an infernal tyranny, in
which hatred of God as well as hatred of man created in His image, illness, death,
ignorance, poverty, violence, selfishness, and corruption reign supreme. It is the
kingdom of the Antichrist. This Leviathan must be identified and combated, with
an action that involves all free peoples, first of all by rejecting the programmatic
points of the Agenda 2030 and the Great Reset with shared initiatives. We need an
Anti-Globalist Alliance that returns to citizens the power that has been taken from
them, and to nations the sovereignty eroded and ceded to the Davos lobby. The
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Russian Federation will play a decisive role in this effort, as will the message that the
International Movement of Russophiles will bring to the peoples of the West, which
needs to return to being proud of its Faith and proud of the civilization to which
Saints Cyril and Methodius also contributed.

We are fighting an epochal battle: we shall remain under the mantle of the Most
Blessed Virgin, the glorious Nikopèia, together with the Archangel St. Michael. The
victory belongs to Christ, and to those who choose to align themselves under the
holy banner of the Cross.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

14 March 2023