Dugin's Sacred Sacrifice

The interests of Putin and the main ideologist of the "Russian World" could coincide.

The murder of Darya Dugina, the daughter of the ultra-right philosopher and ideologist of the “Russian World” Alexander Dugin, was solved by Russian investigators in record time - in two days. The Ukrainian woman Natalya Vovk was appointed to the role of the “bomber” of the car in which Dugina was travelling, according to ZN.UA.

The ultra-right community immediately began to say that Dugin himself should have died. The imperialist and Ukrainophobe, who called for the killing of Ukrainians, could become an “ideal target” for the citizens of the country, the sixth month of resisting Russian aggression.

But the screaming evidence carefully laid out in plain sight, the place of the explosion is an elite district of the Moscow suburbs, and the demonstrative "negligence" of the operation testify to the involvement of FSB specialists, and not the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence.

“Probably the plan was to present Alexander Dugin as the real target of the assassination. If we make the world believe that assassins targeted Alexander, but got Darya, the entire operation looks clumsy. It looks as if it is done by someone who does not have full control over the situation and over the territory. Not by Russians. It is the perceived clumsiness of the operation that makes it look as if it is done by the Ukrainians," argues historian Kamil Galeev.

Political scientist and former head of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Ukraine Sergej Sumlenny says that Dugin was not such an iconic figure for Ukrainians as other Russian propagandists. Darya Dugina was not known at all in Ukraine.

“Could the Ukrainian commandos stay behind this attack? I doubt it. Dugin was not the most prominent Russian propagandist. He was not the face of Russian aggression for Ukrainians. Skabeyeva, Solovyov, Tolstoy, Kiselyov, Simonyan - anyone would be a more logical target," the political scientist writes.

Thus, if the murder of Dugina was organized by the FSB, the order should have explicitly or implicitly come from Russian President Vladimir Putin personally, who may need such a terrorist attack both to escalate the war in Ukraine and for internal “purges,” Galeev believes.

If Putin wants to escalate the war in Ukraine or political purges within Russia, he needs a pretext to justify his "outrage". Some "terrorist attack" preferably. And Putin can't just blow up residential houses with nonames: he had already used this trick before,” Galeev adds, implying a series of terrorist attacks before the Second Chechen War.

Politically, Dugina did not pose a threat, despite the suggestion that the Russian authorities wanted to deal with radical nationalists in this way. However, Putin was actively looking for a "sacrificial animal" to solve large and small issues.

And, no matter how strange it may seem at first glance, the interests of Vladimir Putin and Alexander Dugin could coincide.

Darya Dugina, personally advertised herself as a person who knows how to wage the war in conversations with influential people, and tried to “show” herself as the leader of Russian nationalists. In addition, the relationship between father and daughter was not the best.

“The only way she became a target was when he planned the assassination personally. Let's stop with it, it's not as strange as it seems," Sumlenny writes.

Dugin is a philosopher of the cult of death and sacrifice and has always said that the experience of death is essential. The Eurasian ideology says that a powerful Father sacrifices his daughter's life in order to unleash supernatural forces and improve his weak position. Dugin has always been a "third class star", the Kremlin actively exploited his ideas, but did not invite him into the circle of the elite.

“On his esoteric far-right esoteric web-page "Arctogaea" Alexandr Dugin literally had a huge article about the ancient mystical tradition to sacrifice children, including a case of a father sacrificing his daughter's life,” the political scientist reminds.

In April 2020, Dugin wrote that certain elites should appear for only one purpose - to be killed (sacrificed) in difficult times so that society can magically buy back the lost support of the Gods.

According to Galeev, if Alexander was notified about the impending assassination of his daughter Darya, that explains the strangeness with changing cars. Alexander took her car, while she took his one.

“Probably, Alexander was informed about this decision only after it was made. But if this father offered his daughter as a sacrificial animal, I wouldn't be too surprised. Perhaps he found out what she was talking about the great and wise Dugin behind his back,” the historian assumes.

Political scientist Sumlenny believes that in addition to the reason for tightening the screws inside the Russian Federation, the murder of Dugina can become a signal to the "hawks" of war to silence them. Political scientist Sumlenny believes that in addition to the reason for tightening the screws inside the Russian Federation, the murder of Dugina can become a signal to the hawks "be silent".

"And, of course, we should not forget about the cannibalistic tendencies in the far-right Russian groups. Can anyone here hate Dugin? Certainly. Can these people plant bombs? Oh yes, many fought in Ukraine. This motive cannot be ignored," the expert concludes.