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.