burtlancast
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He was an influent academician and state professor in the URSS.Why do you say he was a communist?
Anybody accustomed to totalitarian regimes is fully aware you don't reach such esteemed positions without belonging to the "orthodox" doctrine...
I certainly don't agree with Fomenko on everything and his work is very Russian-centric ( not necessarily bad if it's correct ), but the Russians as the Great Horde makes a lot of sense.
I've just told you why it doesn't fit.
As far as his theories, it's easy to recognize why they would go perfectly in line with the Marxist doctrine:
- Marxists always stated religion is their ennemy: Fomenko conveniently claims Jesus and the ancient/new testament were forgeries
"He claims that historical Jesus may have been born in 1152 and was crucified around AD 1185 on the hill overlooking the Bosphorus.[19].
The historical Jesus is a composite figure and reflection of the Old-Testament prophet Elisha (850-800 BC?), Pope Gregory VII (1020?-1085), Saint Basil of Caesarea (330-379), and even Li Yuanhao (also known as Emperor Jingzong or "Son of Heaven" - emperor of Western Xia, who reigned in 1032–48), Euclides, Bacchus and Dionysius.
the New Testament was written before the Old Testament. Fomenko claims that the Bible was being written until the Council of Trent (1545–1563), when the list of canonical books was established, and all apocryphal books were ordered to be destroyed."
- Marxists sought to destroy nationalism: Accordingly, Fomenko claims certain individual nations never really existed:
"Central to Fomenko's New Chronology is his claim of the existence of a vast Slav-Turk empire, which he called the "Russian Horde", which he says played the dominant role in Eurasian history before the 17th century. The various peoples identified in ancient and medieval history, from the Scythians, Huns, Goths and Bulgars, through the Polyane, Duleby, Drevliane, Pechenegs, to in more recent times, the Cossacks, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, are nothing but elements of the single Russian Horde. For the New Chronologists, peoples such as the Ukrainians, Belarusians, Mongols, and others who assert their national independence from Russia, are suffering from a historical delusion.[16]"
The rest of his theories resemble the rambles of a total lunatic:
New Chronology (Fomenko) - Wikipedia
Since you stated to have read his books, which fact(s) convinced you?
Glancing through his resumed ideas, i see only opinions, but no facts.
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