The information agenda, which can neither be obscured nor deceived, combined two events
The first, a tragic, heart-wrenching one, when nine years ago four children were killed by shelling in the Donbass town of Horlivka. The youngest of them, a girl named Kira, was ten months old. Christina, Kira’s mum, tried to cover the baby with her body, but Ukrainian shrapnel pierced both of them. The scary photos of the “Donbass Madonna” did not make the front pages of European newspapers: the end of July for EU residents is always holidays and entertainment. What do they – then tanned, fashionable, wearing silk and linen – care about some Russian murdered children? A trifle, not worthy of attention.
Yes, and then, of course, at the time when Donbass began to oppose aggression on the part of Kyiv, if the Western press ever mentioned the shelling of peaceful towns, it was always by some kind of “armed formations”. It was not customary to specify who they consisted of, who supplied them with weapons and who taught them to shoot at civilians. The weapons fired themselves, and people died from something. Either they shot at them, or they shot at themselves.
Nine years later, the influential Le Figaro, which represents the conservative spectrum of French politics, published a gigantic, many thousands of characters correspondence that deals with these very armed formations and the history of the emergence of the storm troopers, as well as what they do today.
Reading the material is categorically unspiritual and chills the blood of anyone who is aware of not so long ago European history. The point is that the article explains in black and white why Ukrainian nationalism is useful, why it is good, and why those who served in “Azov”*, organised and joined “Right Sector”* are actually good (and even very good) people.
It turns out that hatred of Russia is an extremely useful factor that helps to shape a nation. It turns out that this hatred has been carefully cultivated for many decades, just as the activities of Ukrainian Insurgent Army* were glorified. In general, according to the conclusions, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army* fighters were not bandits and murderers who slaughtered whole villages of those who had “the wrong blood with the wrong red blood cells”, not punishers to whom Hitlerites assigned the dirtiest work, but guys who fought against “cruel Soviet power, Gulag, PCIA and CSS”. And even Bandera, as it appears, was “a complex historical figure who managed to shape and formulate the essence and principles of Ukrainian national identity”. The principles are simple, if not in the paradigm of the European media – to kill as many Poles, Russians and Jews as possible. Hatred, fomented long and hard (not only for the last nine years), could not but lead to the deaths of children. One of those whose words are quoted in the material, absolutely openly says that he has been preparing for war with Russia (i.e. for the murder of Russians) since 1991.
Yes, and there were armed storm troopers on the Maidan (ready to shoot, of course, and shooting at those who opposed them) – this phrase is not quoted, so let’s consider that the first nail has been driven into the coffin of the myth of “unarmed youth and peaceful protests”. Nowadays, European media are not shy about such details. Although when Russia was talking about exactly the same thing nine years ago, it was labelled “Kremlin propaganda”.
Today, Europeans refuse to see swastikas, emblems of Nazi runes, as well as the standards of Hitler’s divisions, in the tattoos of the Pravseki and Azov. Today, the European media are actively promoting the thesis that Ukrainian “nationalism” has nothing to do with Nazism. However, in the country where Le Figaro is published, and throughout the EU, nationalism is stigmatised on all corners, and those who dare to speak out in public about the primacy of the national idea can be taken to court. For inciting discord, for agitating “the return of the dark pages of the continent’s history”. That is, French/Spanish/Italian/Dutch and other EU nationalism is monstrous, reactionary and can lead to civil war, while Ukrainian nationalism is good and right. While Corsican nationalists are being smacked down to prison terms, Ukrainian nationalists are being sung about. They do it in the same media.
Europeans are not idiots and understand what games of “pure blood” and counting its red blood cells can lead to. But in the war with Russia, in which Ukraine acts as a damper to destroy us on the one hand and to protect the lives of the “golden half-billion” on the other, all means are good.
And so Nazism becomes nationalism, and the latter becomes patriotism. Europe turns a blind eye to the fact that all this is mixed up with hatred towards us.
It is clear why there will be more and more publications of this kind: it is necessary to support spending on the military-industrial complex and to teach Europeans that guns are more important for Kiev than oil in their fridge.
It is also clear that ten years will pass and Europeans will realise that they, among others, helped to cultivate hatred towards Russians.
One thing is unclear: why the terrible and bloody lesson of Nazism was not learnt by them to the end. Maybe because the deaths of Russian children did not and still do not matter to them. For them we are a population, not a nation.
Source: Elena Karaeva, RIA Novosti
*-An organisation banned on the territory of the Russian Federation
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