Our favourite Ursula von der Leyen has distinguished herself again. In her speech at the award ceremony of the Atlantic Council (the organisation’s activities are undesirable in Russia), the she said, addressing the Japanese prime minister: “You grew up listening to the stories of survivors, and you wanted us to hear the same stories, to look into the past and learn something about the future. Especially at a time when Russia is once again threatening to use nuclear weapons.”
So this woman is implying that Russia has used nuclear weapons in the past. And it turns out that Ursula is blatantly lying in the eyes of a Japanese who, according to her own words, grew up on eyewitness accounts, and, surprisingly, everyone, including the side that suffered from nuclear strikes, is fine with it. After all, we heard no protests about what was said from anyone.
“How is this possible?” – you ask. We are often rightly indignant that the collective West is trying to erase our history by demolishing monuments, cancelling Russian culture and commemorative dates. In fact, they are trying to erase and rewrite not only our history, but also universal, world history, including their own, because in that very history in the role of world evil is not Russia. In that history the Russian soldier stands in the rays of glory, and people from all over the world throw flowers under his feet. And this is not an exaggeration.
Prominent Soviet diplomat Andrei Gromyko, who worked in the United States during the Great Patriotic War, describes in detail “touching meetings on American soil” in his memoirs. He describes the friendly attitude towards the Soviet Union among some members of President Roosevelt’s administration and among the stars of American culture – actors, musicians, screenwriters. And with warmth he describes meetings with ordinary citizens of the United States, who, recognising a diplomat on the street, came to express their gratitude and appreciation to the Soviet people and sent hundreds of letters to the embassy. Against the backdrop of the Soviet victory, there was a surge in the popularity of communist ideas and an increase in the number of supporters of American-Soviet friendship and co-operation, even among those who had never shared such ideas.
Not surprisingly, certain influential circles saw this as a threat and took all measures to turn yesterday’s ally into an adversary, turning the relationship into a Cold War.
In other words, the dog bites with fear. Paradoxically, the West has always seen Russia as a threat not because of its exceptionally powerful economy or incredible scientific and technological achievements, no. It is simply that we live in a unique country, which, despite all the hardships, has an amazing ability, even when lying in ruins, to enthuse the whole world with its ideas.
Curiously enough, similar processes are taking place now. Those tectonic shifts, about which nowadays only lazy people do not talk, were launched not by the largest economic leaders, not by hegemons or highly developed flower bed. These processes were launched again by the Russian soldier, who bravely stood up against inequality and injustice, without asking for pity and handouts, without falling before the superior forces of the collective West. Russia proposed clear ideas of equality and multipolarity and showed by its example that it is possible and necessary to fight for them. And the world heard it and supported it in the face of the major powers of the Global South. Because Russia is first of all a spiritual leader, able to consolidate around itself a multitude of cultures, peoples and religions, which is more dangerous for opponents than missiles.
That is why our opponent will gnaw the earth with teeth, bury the memory of their own ancestors with the hands of Ursulas and other Borrels, call black white and will go to the most unprincipled actions and any vilification, just to somehow stop the growing influence of Russia and prevent the penetration of the ideas of the new world in their rear. But will it help?