Our Western partners are still afraid to call Russia fascist, as it really is, preferring to use the shy category of “authoritarian.” Such hatred of Ukrainians is widespread in this country, reminiscent of the German Nazis’ hatred of Jews. Calls for the physical extermination of Ukrainians, their language and their culture are heard on Russian TV screens. For example, the Russian propagandist Skabeeva demands: “Mix them all with the ground!” Propagandist Mardan: “Destroy Kharkiv quarter by quarter!”
The deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Matveichev, wants “Severe punishments for any attempt to speak Ukrainian.”
The Russian mass media quite openly call for the genocide of Ukrainians so that there would be no such nation. The Russian politician Boris Berezovsky was right, who, fleeing to Great Britain (where he was found and destroyed by Putin’s agents anyway), said in farewell: “Russian fascism will be scarier than German fascism.”
In our country and the West, there are still people who try to prove that Soviet communism (according to its general negative assessment) was still better than German Nazism. Once upon a time, back in communist times, the Bulgarian doctor of philosophy Zhelyu Zhelev, who became the first president of non-communist Bulgaria, wrote a fundamental research book, Fascism. There was not a single word about communists but they recognized themselves and Zhelev knew one soldier of the Bulgarian People’s Army who was sentenced to 4 years in prison for reading Zhelev’s book. Already in democratic Bulgaria, its president wrote in the preface to the new edition of his study:
“If there are any differences between fascism and communism, they are not all in favour of communism.”
Indeed. There are such facts and phenomena. For example, Rosenstrasse. This is a street in Berlin where the special services of Nazi Germany were located. Several hundred German women gathered there in 1943 to demand that their Jewish husbands, who were about to be sent to death camps, be released from prison. The Nazis released these men and did not touch them until the end of the war.
Now imagine that sometime in 1937 in Moscow, the wives of the “enemies of the people” would gather on Lubyanska Square and demand their release. What would the communist government do to these women? The Rosenstrasse phenomenon was so impressive that after the Second World War, a movie was made in Hollywood under that name.
Another example. The name of the outstanding German philosopher and sociologist Max Weber is well-known in the world. He had a brother, Alfred Weber, who was rector of one of the German universities.
After the Nazis came to power, they “decorated” the university building with Nazi flags. Alfred Weber summoned the head and ordered him to remove these rags. The Nazis “cruelly” treated the rector: they sent him off with a good German professor’s pension. Imagine what would have been done to the Soviet rector if he had done so. Not even in Stalin’s time (they would just be shot ), but in Khrushchev’s or Brezhnev’s time?
Bulgarian President Zhelyu Zhelev was a wise man…
Today in fascist Russia, the population is zombified in a way that it seems was not the case under Hitler in Germany and under Mao Tse Tung in China.
Putin managed to completely destroy the (already small) capacity of Russians for critical, logical thinking. And maybe to think in general…
We have a psychologist and sociologist Volodymyr Zolkin working with Russian prisoners of war. Here are his impressions:
“The Russians are angry at themselves, their relatives, their home, their city, their country. They will sneeze at all of humanity. They are not afraid to die, they basically want this world to end. Because they hate to live.” It is difficult to call them people, some creatures, biological robots… There is no logic in their statements, conversations with them are pointless. They cannot think for themselves. What their propaganda suggests becomes their opinion.
Back in 1932, academician Ivan Pavlov, a Nobel laureate, wrote in the article “On the Russian Mind”: “I have to express my sad view of the Russian person – he has such a weak brain system that he is not able to perceive reality as such. There are only words for him. Her conditional reflexes are coordinated not with actions, but with words.” This person is not able to compare words and thoughts with the realities of the surrounding world. Therefore, a Russian person is an ideal object for any kind of propaganda. Our nation was also a victim of Soviet and Russian propaganda for a long time. But Russia’s genocidal war against us opened our eyes. Currently, the absolute majority of Ukrainians feel hatred, contempt and abomination for Russia.
Now, Russia is being given the credit it deserves. The hero of the defence of Mykolaiv, Major General Marchenko, when asked by journalists what feelings Russia evokes in him, answered: “Hatred.” By the way, the general’s mother is a Russian from Arkhangelsk… And Vasyl Bohdan, the lieutenant general of the Ukrainian special services, defined Russia as a fascist state.
The Russian philosopher, historian and Orthodox priest Georgy Fedotov once wrote: “For Russia itself, the forced continuation of imperial existence would mean the loss of hope for its own freedom…
As the Moscow autocracy was the price paid for expansion, so fascism is the only system capable of continuing the existence of the penal empire.” Today, fascism continues the existence of Putin’s penal Chekist-criminal empire.
