The Example of Daria Dugina: Address to the Dissident Youth

Nov. 13, 2022, São Paulo, Brazil,

Dear comrades and friends,

Today is a very special day. Nova Resistência is gathered to celebrate another year of unceasing activities for the Cause of Multipolarity. This was a most prosperous year for our Organization, but also the most arduous — and just a foretaste of the trials ahead of us.

However, our ranks are incomplete. Some Comrades are no longer physically among us, but they watch over our Cause from a better place. Over these seven years of existence, Nova Resistência has lost to physical death two of its members: Comrade André Nogueira, who militated in our ranks in Ceará in 2016; and Comrade Daria Dugina, posthumously recognized as an Honorary Member of our Organization.

Both André and Daria were killed by the enemy. The former shot down by our internal enemies and the latter by the universal pariahs and enemies of the human race. André, in the fulfillment of his legal duty, was ambushed and cowardly massacred by common criminals in Ceará state. Daria, likewise, was cowardly killed in a terrorist attack in the suburbs of Moscow, operated, however, by professional saboteurs linked to Ukrainian intelligence.

Unlike Nogueira, a man of arms and professionally fit for combat, Daria was just a young philosopher and journalist, unarmed and unprotected, killed exclusively by the fact that she was good at what she did, as our dear Maram Susli well remembered in a recent conversation with us.

A good philosopher, whose ideas, deeply Christian and Platonic, sounded too subversive to a West that we can call not only liberal and materialistic, but also, without euphemisms, satanic. And a good journalist, whose investigations had led to discoveries that deeply disturbed the Western elites.

In a recent address to the Russian people, President Vladimir Putin commented that the Ukrainian NATO lackeys "kill our philosophers." I believe his words could not have been more direct in understanding what led to Daria's death. Daria died because she had Ideas too dangerous for the West. But not everything is summed up here.

Daria was a Woman of Ideas, a lover of knowledge, but she was also a Woman of Action. Not a mere contemporary academic like so many who spend their lives dwelling on books with no perspective for action and real change in the world. But a Philosopher in the classical perspective, in the full sense. Conscious and active.

And that is precisely where her face as a journalist and activist fit in. Daria was a war correspondent. She was in the battlefield. She was a friend of her people's heroes and spoke "from the inside". She has been in the trenches in all the great moments of her country in recent years, either as a reporter or as an important member of the Eurasian International Movement.

Daria, therefore, was led to the Supreme Sacrifice by the overall sum of the dangers she brought to our enemies. She denounced the wrongs of our world and presented solutions. She was a rightful heir to the legacy of her father — whom they also tried to kill. She was, in short, a living example of what it means to be a Dissident: a Woman of Ideas, of Actions, and of Faith — raised in the purest orthodox piety.

Dear compatriots, we all know that man is guided by example, that our nature demands icons, saints, heroes and notables. And perhaps the greatest misfortune of our age is to live in a time when these people often seem no longer to exist. There is a lack of saints and heroes. A lack of geniuses and notables.

And, reflecting on this, I realize how privileged we are to have lived with Daria Aleksandrovna Dugina. Genius of Ideas. Remarkable at Work. And sanctified by blood, for the Kingdom of Heaven is the destiny of Heroes who give their lives for the Homeland.

Take heed, Comrades, that in the midst of all the misery of our world we have been graced with the company of Daria. We may lack everything in life, but we can never say that we lack the Example. And if we have the example, we can complain about nothing else.

Man is flawed and weak. Man errs and betrays. Many of those who are in our ranks today will abandon us in times of pain. And many of those who join hands with us today will run away when the enemy's step draws near. So let us not make the mistake of inspiring one another. Let us be brothers, not gurus and followers.

By Masters let us take those who have bled for the Cause and validated with their physical existence the convictions they carried in life. In other words, let us take Daria by Example in all that concerns the Dissident Cause.

I beseech you, Comrades: if you are to be dissidents, be like Daria.

And before this simple tribute comes to an end, I would like to stress yet another point. I still remember that late afternoon when I received the news of the attack on Daria. Without a second thought, I wrote a text awarding her, posthumously, as the person responsible for the foreign relations of NR, the title of Honorary Member and promising her the sacred silence before our official events.

Few understood my attitude at that moment, but I hope the reason is clear to everyone by now: Daria was one of us. She lived and militated with us. She talked with us. She held our flag and contributed as much as she could to our triumph.

And now the question remains: how to react to the brutal and cowardly murder of a Comrade? We have many examples far away, of notables who died for their causes in realities other than ours. But how to deal with that in relation to someone so close?

Perhaps therein lies the great question to be answered in our hearts. In my opinion, to be a member of Nova Resistência at the dawn of the Third World War consists precisely in reflecting every day: what have I done today for the memory of Daria? What have I contributed in the search for Justice? How much have I honored the legacy of our Comrade?

And, more than that, let us have clear in our minds the certainty that we are being led to the same slaughterhouse as Daria. Many of us will get out alive, but also many of us will be blown up in the ambushes of the enemy. And if we are really Dissidents, if we are really Traditionalists, if we are really like Daria, this consciousness of the coming death is not a reason for fear or anguish, but an immeasurable encouragement in our struggle.

Death will not destroy us, but will unite us with Daria Dugina, with André Nogueira, and with all the Martyrs of the People's Cause, whether they are members of Nova Resistência or partner organizations around the world. This is what we must seek.

Lucas Leiroz, Nova Resistência’s Secretary of International Relations;

Catarina Leiroz, head of the women's sector of the Nova Resistência.

• André Nogueira was a member of Nova Resistência in the Ceará state, Brazil. He was a prison guard and was brutally murdered by drug traffickers in 2016.
• Daria Dugina has always been close to members of Nova Resistencia and met with the Organization's delegation sent to the World Youth Festival in Sochi, 2017. She was posthumously honored with the title of Honorary Member of Nova Resistência and her memory is revered at all official events of the Organization.

Nova Resistência (New Resistance) is a Brazilian political organization inspired by Aleksandr Dugin's Fourth Political Theory. Since 2015, the group has been active both in Brazilian domestic politics, having elected parliamentarians, and internationally, having sent Brazilian volunteers to fight in favor of the People’s Republics in Donbass. The Organization owns the biggest and most important pro-Russian media channels in Portuguese.