Fascism really works for unification of a society and seek after maintenance of its stability in the succession of generations. However it is unification of a society into a system, where certain conflicts between members of the society fallen into fascism and conflicts between the fascism in whole and some people can occur; thus it possesses a certain peculiarity. The principles of fascistic unification of a crowd-“elitist” society into an entire system are directed to excluding formation and possibility to work of any off-site factor, which is able to undermine the fascistic stability: wash it out during more or less long time or immediately (to historical measure) completely ruin it. As we can see there are no condition for formation and activity of any off-site factor, which is able to undermine the fascistic stability, in Indian society. We deal with the complete fascism; with the purified fascism, refined of any ideological form; with the fascism as a peculiar system and culture, which prevent the formation of humaneness in the society.

And here one should understand that fascism doesn’t appear as a result of some coup d’Etat, when a group of extremists gets the power with force or comes to power during the democratic elections after what it created a “fascistic dictatorship”. The whole society falls into fascism slowly and unnoticeably, under certain circumstances probably specially created. Unfortunately it is so, Mr. Holmes, because the essence of fascism is not any ideology, violence or meaning to execute the power. Its essence is that “little people” actively support the system of abusing the power by “elitist” oligarchy, which presents the unrighteousness to be a “true righteousness”. And on this basis perverting people’s morality they cultivate the unrighteousness in the society and prevent people to become humans.

But look at the fascism which is known by historical experience of Nazi Germany and which became a cultic model for “neo-fascists” as well as for “anti-fascists” of different countries. Within the aforesaid understanding of the essence of fascism in spite of forms and meanings of its expression, that fascism appears to be a caricature freak-fascism. And it was artificially and intentionally grown to be surely unable to function, for attracting as much attention as possible by its horrors; and thus to divert the society’s attention and powers from the formation of much more capable fascism, which will be if not hopeless then near to the hopelessness of the global inferno.

Interesting, –Holmes noticed. – I hear this word the second time for my trip. On Latin it means something like hell, but you Russians read into it some sense that is far from theology or mysticism but very actual in life.

Ivan Antonovich Efremov’s novel “Bull’s Hour” can give rather good answer on your questions. I don’t know if there is translation in English. But you should know that in Russia for nearly thirty years the worldview of several generations is formed – if it isn’t for whole youth, then at least for its most active part. In the novel it’s told about the poem of Dante, who created the gloomy picture of multi-stage inferno and explained the terrible essence of the name “inferno” – its inescapable hopelessness. And earlier only occultists understood it.

The concept of inferno in the best way explains the essence of refined fascism, to the sources of which we paid our attention. Hence I try to briefly retell certain theses of that, what was very precisely formulated by Ivan Efremov – geologist, palaeontologist, biologist and historian at the same time.

First, he considered that the notorious natural selection is the most glaring example of the infernality, in which the evolution follows the single direction – the direction of greatest freedom, independency from environment. With all this a multiplication of immature, a hypertrophy of sameness, like sand in a desert, a break of originality and unique preciousness because of countless repeats happen. So going through the trillions of transformations from unknown sea creatures to thinking organisms the animal life was in inferno for billions of years of geological history.

Second, he rightly thought that human as thinking creature is trapped in double inferno – for body and for soul. At first a man thought that he saves from all life’s problems by escaping to nature. Thus ware created tales about pristine heaven – biospherically harmonious civilization without mechanics and machinery, which even today our “greens” dream of returning to. Inferno for the soul is the primordial instincts, a trap, which an individual holds himself captive in thinking that he keeps his individuality, but really he stops his development at the animal level, or at the level of zombie or demon, closing for himself thus the way to humaneness. With the development of mighty state apparatuses of power and oppression, with the strengthening of nationalism, with strictly closed border, infernos also began to be created in society. Any imperfect social system aims to self-isolation protecting its structure from contacts with other systems. Obviously, only an “elite” of any society was able to save the imperfection. And for this it primarily created the segregation under any pretext – national, religious etc. – to turn the life of its people into the vicious circle of inferno, to separate it from other world. That’s why the infernality was always “elitist” clans’ handwork. Ivan Antonivich warned the mankind not to let the world power of oligarchy – the main source of fascism. If it happens, over our planet will be shut down the lid of total hopelessness of infernal existence under the thumb of absolute power armed with the whole might of terrible weapon and same-murderous science. And nobody and nothing will help, because it will be impossible to escape from the circle of infernality, where only animals and its varieties – zombies and demons – will come into the world under the blind instinct of reproduction and species saving.

And in that philosophical-political novel, Mr, Holmes, there is a place where the author, though not mentioning India, tells about the culture, in which people with their strong feelings, memory and ability to understand the future have already realized that as any earthly creature they from their birth are doomed to death. And the question for them is only the time of execution and the suffering they are to bear. And the higher, purer, generous is an individual – the greater measure of suffering will be given to him by the “lavish” nature and the social being. And are there no pure and generous men between three million of “little people”? But the “lavish” nature and the “social being” have forever given them the full measure of suffering, which neither they nor surrounding people notice. And where is the exit from this real and not literary inferno?

Sorry, Grisha, but I think that you lay it on thick, when speaking about India. It seems to me that you had a dream about “Indian fascism”.

It isn’t so, Mr. Holmes. Being a Russian I like India with all my heart. And I spent the three years not only in the ashram of Sai Baba. You’ve lived in Bombay for two days. Did you turned the TV on?

Yes, Grisha, I did. I changed the programmes: there were more than 80 channels and everywhere they sing, play Indian musical instruments, dance folk dances. What is bad? The national culture is protected. In many western rather difficult to understand where are you – the single American standard.

I also don’t admire the western culture, but it reflects the real life somehow. But one cannot know the life of India by its films. And the Western critics created a popular formula of estimating the Indian cinema: “There are good films, bad films and Indian films”. But in the reticence it is the West’s self-estimate of its inability to understand the real aims of the Indian cinematograph. However, only the film studio of Bombay makes more than eight hundreds films a year – true Bollywood, as it is said here.