by Mikhail
The nazification of Europe is in full swing – or, rather, there is nothing new under the sun, as the masks are off. No, no, racism and xenophobia are not tolerated in modern Europe; some of it is even a criminal offense there – except when it is directed at Russians.
People get beat up on the street for speaking Russian. People lose jobs for being Russian. Students get expelled from universities for being from Russia. Children get bullied at schools because their parents are Russian. Some restaurants deny service to Russians. A German clinic announced it will deny treatment to people with Russian and Belorussian passports. Books by Dostoyevsky and Chekhov, music by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich get banned, etc. etc., etc. Today Russians in Europe are like Jews in the Nazi Germany in 1930’s.
It’s a chance not to be missed to find unity around the idea of hatred, as the idea of European unity around peace, reconciliation and democracy (for which the EU got the Nobel Peace Prize) has not been working.
That Europe is getting united around racism/nazism is a small surprise. Five hundred years of colonialism did not go without a trace. Colonialist/racist Europe never had a problem with nazism; for a short period of time in the 20th century, when it was occupied by Germany, it only had a problem with Hitler.
It is no different today. Leopold II, who killed about 10 million in Kongo, is commemorated in monuments all over Belgium. Open racist Churchill, who starved to death millions in Bengal, is voted the greatest Briton of all time. There are annual marches of Waffen-SS veterans and their fans in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Ukraine that has become a hotbed of nazism is “in good company” there.
Consequently, Western leaders threatening Russia with “The Hague” probably realize that, with Russia declaring denazification as one of its goals in Ukraine, Europe may in fact be heading toward another Nuremburg.
interesting you would frame such a thing as this in terms of: Nazism never died.
Cry cry. Maybe it should have. I dunno. What I do know is that the idea of several states being one Nation is not new, or specific to Germany. By the same token, 12 tribes making up one NAtion of Israel ... is the same thing, yes?
Deutschland, Deutscher, is not an idea that is new. You have to comprehend history here. The lands you now know as Germany, have been ravaged since the year 1500. The 30 years war left many place without inhabitants. Some cities saw a decrease of 50% of the population.
The effect of these 30 years was so heavy, in 1648 the nations of Europe thought it best to agree on certain rules to at least try to evade conflicts of a devastating nature such as that.
Ever since, Germany was divided into all kinds of principalities, fiefdoms etc. The final Unification in 1871 with the KaiserReich was a culmination of 300 years. Hitler promoted the one Deutschland idea. Their is something called: Deutsches Reich. Deutschland is a Nazi thingy. And guess the name of the administrative company the US had set up under the inspiring leadership of JEWS like Morgentau and Baruch: Bundes Republic Deutschland.
You see, the people are employees of this admin company: Deutschland. And are assigned the nationality as Deutsch (which is total bullshit)
However, this world still perpetrates the " hitler" view. You see how deeply flawed your representation of " facts" is?