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Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels, April 19, 2025. This dictation was given at 2025 Easter Webinar for Ukraine.
I AM the Ascended Master Saint Germain. I have been pondering what I could add to what has been released at this conference that might be helpful to at least some people, both Ukrainians and Russians and others.
Why Russians submit to a strong leader
What I want to begin with is to take a look back at the history of Russia. Russia has had a series of, from a certain perspective, powerful leaders. From another perspective, very abusive leaders that misused the power they had over the Russian people, often very cruel, often very insensitive, from Ivan the Terrible to Stalin and the tsars. If you look at the history of Russia, you can see the pattern repeating itself, that the people, at least the majority of them, submit to these strong, powerful leaders. It is, as in tsarist times, the serfs that submitted to the tsar and the noble class. In Soviet times, the people, the workers, submitted to Stalin and the party bosses and the secret police. You, of course, see the same pattern in all of those who are of the Russian descent, both in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
What is essentially behind this pattern? Well, there is a certain psychology. The psychology is what we have talked about before, that the Russian people in the distant past made some severe mistakes and therefore, have come to doubt their own ability to know what is true, what is real, to make decisions, and therefore they want to submit to a leader. Since they also have a desire to be special and feel superior, they want to submit to a powerful leader because the more powerful the leader is, the more they think they gain status by submitting to this leader. Now, you will clearly see that Ukraine has broken free of this pattern more than the people in Belarus or Russia. Yet, I still want to address this because there are people who can benefit from contemplating this and making calls on it.
The power elite, the people, and the scapegoat
What is this belief? What is behind this belief? Well, it is actually a belief that was not created by the fallen beings but certainly magnified and given a certain direction by the fallen beings after they came to earth. The idea is that there are two distinctly different kinds of people, or rather we might say three different kinds of people. There is the power elite, the tsar, the noble class, Stalin, the party elite, who are special. They are in some kind of special category, superior to the people. Then there are the people who are clearly below the power elite and therefore have no way to object to them, to stand up to them, to make demands on them. They need to submit. And then the third category of people are those who are even lower than the people. This could be people from other parts of the Russian Empire, such as those east of the Urals. It could be the Russians centered around Moscow, even the Ukrainians. Or it can be people from other Warsaw Pact countries, other Soviet states, or people from other parts of the world, even people in the West.
You see that when you have this pattern, that you have a power elite that has set itself up as being superior, you have to have people who support them because without people supporting them, the power elite can do nothing. But in order to make the people who are supporting the power elite submit to the power elite and at the same time feel special for submitting, there has to be a scapegoat, a third group of people that are lower than the people who are submitting. This is a pattern you see in Russia even today. You see many, many people in Russia who are trapped in it. But you also see people in Ukraine who are trapped in it and that is why you have a certain awareness, consciousness in Ukraine that there are certain people that have special abilities. It can be political people, but mostly it is the oligarchs, those who are in charge of the economy, who are better at running businesses than other people.
I am not saying you do not see it in other parts of the world, including the United States, where you have this belief about the financial elite and the business people but that is not the point here. The point is that this is a tendency that you see in the Russian people, you see it reinforced by the Soviet Union. What is the effect of it? Well, the effect of it is that the majority of people submit to the elite because they believe the elite has special abilities and therefore, the people accept what they are told by the elite without questioning it, which essentially means that the people who submit stop thinking. You could say they stop thinking critically, but in reality they really stop thinking about certain topics relating to the state and the affairs of the state. They focus on their ordinary daily lives and they think that they cannot have an opinion about the affairs of the state because they cannot really know what is real and unreal.
No need for en elite to run the country
When you look at the contrast between such societies and democracies, the change that needs to occur for a country to move into a democratic form of government is twofold. Well, it is manifold, but I am focusing on the two aspects here.
First of all, the people have to begin to see that the elite are not infallible, that they do not actually know better. And then the people have to be willing to question, to think, and to realize that they can actually think because their ability to think is no worse than the ability of the elite and they of course most easily see that when the elite makes major mistakes. The problem here is that the Russians in Russia have not actually been willing to go through this transition. When I say the Russians, I mean a majority of them. There are, of course, many, many Russians who have been willing to do this, but they have either left or they have chosen to remain silent because they do not want to go to prison. In Ukraine, many more people have started doing this. Unfortunately, this can become a double-edged sword and has to some degree already become this in Ukraine but let us first focus on the elite.
What can help the Ukrainians see that you do not need a political or business elite in order to run the country? Many people believe, for example, that the oligarchs have special abilities to run a business and therefore, they should be allowed to have these virtual state-sponsored monopolies, even though it exploits the people and allows them to become insanely rich while not filtering the money down to the general population. But they believe that these have special abilities. So this elite has special abilities. Well, this was a difficult belief or a more difficult belief to question before the war. But now, after the war, it has become much easier to question this. Here is why. What is it that has secured the survival of Ukraine as an independent nation so far? It is that there have been people out there in the muddy trenches who have put their life on the line in order to repel the Russian aggression. Who are those people? Is it the oligarchs, the political elite or their sons who are out there in the trenches? Nay, it is the people, or at least part of them. So if you do not need the elite to fight the war that secures your survival, why would you need the elite to run the country? This then can help a critical mass of Ukrainians shatter the last remnants of this belief in the superiority of the elite and the belief that the people need the elite to run the country.
What is needed to run a democratic country is that the people start thinking, start realizing that actually their ability to think is just as good if not better, than that of the elite. What is it that, once the war is over, as it eventually will be even though it does not seem like it at times, what is it that will make Ukraine survive economically and make the transition into being an affluent, modern nation? It is not the elite. Why can I say this? Because the elite has had pretty much free rein since the fall of communism, since the fall of the Soviet Union. So why have they not in that time span, turned Ukraine into a prosperous nation? Well, because they have no interest in turning Ukraine into a prosperous nation. They want to maintain their privileges.
Taking initiative
You see here, what is it that will turn Ukraine into a prosperous nation? It is entrepreneurship. That many, many people take initiatives, start businesses, and start doing something that raises the economy to another level. But what does it take for people to do this? They have to overcome this illusion that they do not have the ability to do this because they do not belong to the elite.
You have to recognize here that all people, well, not all people but most people, have the potential to take an initiative that will help Ukraine progress. This is what has happened in all nations that have made this transition from these poor, dictatorial nations to affluent, democratic ones. Why is it that no dictatorial nation has ever given real affluence to the broad population? Well, because the elite can never get enough. It is never enough for the elite. But in a democratic nation, there is ideally, at least, a lid upon how much individuals can hoard and there is an attempt to spread the wealth among the general population. It does not mean everybody has to start a business, but many people do. Otherwise, the transition cannot be made. It does not come from the top down. It comes from the bottom up. That is how democracy emerges, and that is why democracy survives and why it will survive in the long run over the dictatorial nations, because there is room for initiative. There is freedom to do more, freedom to transcend yourself, freedom to think about new ideas and new ways of doing things.
This is one of the big differences between democracies, free nations and autocracies that are always restricted, because there is an elite that wants to maintain their privilege. I am, of course, fully aware that there is an elite in many democratic countries, especially the United States and that right now what you are essentially seeing in the United States is a fight between the old established elite and the new technocratic elite. But nevertheless, my point is still that there has been room, even in the United States, for entrepreneurs to start businesses, to come up with something new that nobody had thought about before. That is why there has been the emergence of the technocratic elite, the tech billionaires that are challenging the old established elite in the Northeast. What can the Ukrainians learn from this? They can learn that if Ukraine is to survive economically after the war it must give freedom so that as many people as possible can start businesses. If Ukraine seeks to maintain some kind of monopoly for the oligarchs, Ukraine will not make it economically. It is that simple.
The inhumanity and relentlessness of Russia
Now, another aspect that I want to comment on here is division. There is a very old strategy of the fallen beings called divide and conquer. Putin has for a long time been employing this strategy against Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. Even before that, it was employed by the Soviet Union. By creating this division between the party elite who had privileges and power because they were loyal to the party, and therefore loyal to Russia, and those who did not. But Putin has attempted to subvert Ukraine pretty much from the day he took power and certainly up until the Maidan revolution where he thought he could insert a candidate that was loyal to him and when that failed, well, you saw the results. But still today, there is an enormous effort by the Russian propaganda machine to undermine the unity of the Ukrainian people and they do it in all kinds of ways.
One of them is, of course, to use any means possible to sow doubt in the people in their own government. Doubt about the president, doubt about the government. You even saw some of the questions submitted at this conference promote conspiracy theories that are simply created to cast doubt, to put a wedge between the people and the government. But another way this is done is, in a sense, through what we can call the Russian mentality that has not really been seen by very many people, neither inside nor outside of Russia. There is an old television series in the United States called Star Trek and there is an alien civilization that has this motto: “Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.” And in a sense, this is what the Russians have projected at Ukraine, even before the war, but especially after the war started: “We are so mighty, we have such power, we have such brutality, we are willing to do anything it takes. You simply cannot resist us and therefore, you should just give up and stop fighting, because it will be much better for you if you stop fighting than if you resist.”
We have said before that this is, of course, a lie. If Ukraine had been conquered by Russia, many more Ukrainians would have been killed and deported and suppressed and tortured and so forth. But nevertheless, there is this projection and this comes from a certain aspect of the Russian mentality. To illustrate it, we can see that there has often been talk about the Russian bear. Well, what is a bear in the animal kingdom? It is not a particularly fast animal. It is not the most powerful animal. It is not the smartest animal but it is adaptable and can live in many different environments. But what we can say about the bear is that it is one of the most stubborn animals and once it gets angry, it will keep struggling and struggling and struggling and this is what you see in the Russian mentality. You see that they will keep pursuing a certain goal, and even if they fail, they will just pursue it in different ways. You also see that there is no means that are too low, too dirty, too primitive for them to use. They will lie. They will cheat. They will kill. They will torture. There is really no humanity in what Putin has demonstrated in Ukraine.
This is not to say that all of the Russian people support this. Most of the Russian people do not understand what is happening and would be shocked if they knew. But on the other hand, they have not really made much of an effort to get to know, have they? What I am pointing out here is that in a sense you can say that the Russians, the Russian mentality I am talking about is: “We are willing to do anything to achieve our goal, no matter how primitive, no matter how low, no matter how inhumane because if we are more inhumane, more cruel, more stubborn, more relentless than our opponents then we will eventually beat them into submission.” This was essentially Stalin’s tactic with Red Terror, kill so many people that nobody dares to object and then even when people stop objecting, kill some more people just so nobody can feel secure. And this is the relentlessness that you see.
Now there are, of course, limits to this, because it uses up enormous amounts of resources and an enormous number of Russian soldiers are killed but my point is that there is this projection at the Ukrainian people that it is futile to resist. And people need to resist this, because as we have said, it is only a matter of time before something breaks and either the army or the economy forces Putin to stop the war. It is only a matter of time and you might say that in picking Ukraine to attack first, Putin put himself up against a group of people who have that same stubbornness and relentlessness. But as we have said from the beginning, the challenge for the Ukrainians is to resist the Russian aggression without becoming as low as the Russians, because then you cannot form that karmic mirror and by and large, Ukraine has done well in this respect and has not sunk to the same level as the Russians.
The call for unity
But my point here is, those of you who are concerned about the situation can make the calls for this, that the Ukrainian nation will be unified, because right now there are people who are doubting that it is even worthwhile, that there is even a point in continuing the war. Is it worth fighting on? And of course, it is only worth fighting on if you want Ukraine to survive as an independent democratic nation. But if you did not want that, you might as well have submitted three years ago so my point here is, and I am directing this into the collective consciousness as always, that the Ukrainians need to resist the divide and conquer tactic, strategy. You need to resist, and you can only resist by being unified. It does not matter whether your current government and the current president has this weakness or that weakness, has made this mistake or that mistake. It is only by being united behind the government you have right now that you can survive. You can always later have elections, but now you need to be united behind the government you have.
President Zelensky is a very important figure for the future of Ukraine. I am not trying to say that Ukraine cannot survive without him, but it really is uncertain if it could have survived this far without him. I am directing into the collective consciousness this impulse of unity. Unify! Unify behind the leaders you have. You can always evaluate later. But right now, if you allow the Russians to divide you, you will make it much more difficult for you to survive and if you become divided enough, you will not survive. Unity is essential at this point, more so than it has actually been earlier in the war, because you are at this critical point where there is a twilight zone, where it is difficult to see what will be the outcome. But as we have attempted to explain, there is such upheaval beyond the physical level, even in the emotional, mental and identity bodies of Russia and the Russian people, and even at the physical level, the upheaval in the economy, and the upheaval in the Russian armed forces and in the production of armaments and materials, that it is just a matter of time before something breaks.
How long of a time? Difficult to predict exactly, but there is a very high likelihood that the entire equation around the war will shift during this year, in Ukraine’s favor, I might add. And this will not happen through any peace initiative from Donald Trump, which was never sincere, but only really a PR stunt of trying to score some cheap political points, coming from a completely naive view of the entire situation. It will happen in other ways but it requires that the Ukrainians are persistent and unified.
With this, I have given you what I wanted to give you. You may say, we have been somewhat sobering, somewhat practical, down to earth, in our releases for this conference. Yes, but we have given many teachings previously about Ukraine and its future, and those teachings are still valid, you can still study them, you can still apply them in the years to come. But right now, we are talking about the nation needs to survive as a nation, as a unified nation in order for there to be any point in talking about the future. There is no point in looking back, regretting, worrying about what could have happened, what we might have done or not have done. You are where you are, and you need to move forward from here. And that is what we are attempting to do, not only by our words, but by the release of light through your decrees and invocations and through this dispensation from Surya, which is very significant.
We hope that you will take some encouragement from what we have said, even though for some of you it was not what you expected that we would say. And therefore, you have my gratitude for being willing to be part of this, to give the decrees and invocations that have already made a difference and I seal you, therefore, in the Flame of Freedom that I AM. Saint Germain I AM and I am committed to the future of Ukraine as a democratic, affluent nation.
Copyright © 2025 Kim Michaels