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The Biological Superiority of the Nordic Race
by by Vladimir Avdeyev
(translated by Constantin von Hoffmeister)
6 December 2004
Until now, nobody thought of studying the Soviet works of anthropology and
genetics on the basis of classic racial science, and thus re-evaluate them.
From this point of view, the infamous concept of "the biological superiority
of the Nordic race" reaches the status of academic fact - all achieved by
"the leading Soviet science" that was supposedly serving the ideals of "all
progressive humanity."
As the ideological confrontation was in full force, the famous German race
scientist Ilse Schwidetzky, in her book RACIAL SCIENCE OF THE OLD SLAVS
(1938), proved that "the western and eastern branches of the Slavs belong to
the Nordic race." Poland and Germany were no allies of the Soviet Union at
this time, even though its leading anthropologists Yan Chekanovsky and Karol
Stoyanovksy had the same points of view on the racial belonging of the
Slavs. The American scientists Lothrop Stoddard and Madison Grant
characterized the population of the northern and central parts of Russia as
"continental Nordics."
One of the leading scientists of Germany in the field of biochemical
analyses of racial characteristics, Otto Reche, conscientiously referred in
his works to the writings of the Soviet scientists B. N. Vishnevsky, A. A.
Melkich and V. Y. Rubashkin. He was a member of the NSDAP, but as a true
scholar he could not ignore that, for the basis of the method for the
calculation of pure-blooded Aryans in the Third Reich, the contributions
from the permanent board of the blood group research department in Charkov,
as well as the magazine DOCTOR'S ISSUE, the NEW BIOCHEMICAL AND RACIAL
MONITOR and other accomplishments by Soviet scientists were all
fundamentally important.
The German specialists in the field of dermatoglyphics (the science of
determining races and nationalities with the aid of finger prints) referred
to the Soviet scientists P. S. Semyonovsky and M. V. Volozky. The developers
of the concept of racial hygiene in Germany consciously published the works
of N. K. Kolzov, Y. A. Filipchenko and B. I. Slovzov. V. M. Bechterev was
highly esteemed among the German race psychologists, as were N. V.
Timofeyev-Resovsky and A. S. Serebrovsky among geneticists. In his book
RACIAL HYGIENE (1988), the reputed modern English writer Robert N. Proctor
mentions following interesting facts, based on his archival research. N. V.
Timofeyev-Resovsky was sent to Germany as part of a government pact with the
USSR and became the director of the Institute for Genetics at the
Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. Later, he lectured at courses for
qualifying SS-officers, and in 1938 he participated in an open meeting of
the party elite. He gave his lecture immediately after the leader of the
Racial Policy Office of the NSDAP, Walther Gross, but before main ideologue
of the Third Reich, Alfred Rosenberg.
Immediately after the victory over Germany, a broad campaign was launched in
Soviet scientific literature to change the historical concept of the origin
of the Russian people, based on the latest data of anthropology and
archeology. Even in the year 1930, the Soviet historian Y. V. Gotye wrote in
his work THE IRON AGE IN EASTERN EUROPE, "The settlement of the Slavic
tribes on the left shore of the Dnepr made me think that the companions of
the early Slavic advances towards the East and Southeast should have been
the Nordics." In his work THE EAST-SLAVIC TRIBES, P. N. Tretyakov colorfully
confirmed this thought. In the publications of this time, one clearly felt
the political objective to prove that "the oldest brother in the brotherly
family of Soviet peoples" was the Russian, precisely because he is of Nordic
descent. Cinema, paintings and sculpture of this era bear witness to this
truth. The racial ideals that were inherent in the artistic artifacts of the
vanquished easily transferred to the victors. The paintings and sculptures
of Josef Thorak and Arno Breker - the leading German sculptors - found their
reflection in the Mamayev Cemetery in Stalingrad and in the design of the
metro stations in Moscow. Until today, the main entrance of the Lenin
Library is - as one drop is to another - identical to the facade of the
Reich Chancellery.
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