I selected 1000 ancient, basic words, including the 207−word Swadesh list. I found a 38.3% degree of commonality between Turkish and Russian. When only the words in the Swadesh list are taken as the basis, the rate of commonality rises to 45.4%. I identified and recorded close and striking similarities in grammar as well. These very clearly prove that there has been a connection between Russian and Turkish dating back thousands of years.

At a time when international law has effectively ceased to exist, when the laws of war have disappeared, when the United Nations has been rendered practically defunct, and when immoral bandits can start major wars with the most shameless rhetoric—openly targeting and killing civilians and children—it is precisely the moment to republish an old article. So that we may better understand what the human being is, and what “civilization” is.

Until the early 20th century, global scholarship largely accepted that the roots of European languages lay in the Turkic or Turanian language family, in short, in Turkish. At the very least, the vast majority of scholars recognized and wrote about the deep Turkic influence in European languages going back thousands of years.