Darkness was now depicted as the light; lies as the truth. While the West thundered against Bashar al-Assad’s “cruel oppression” of cannibal jihadis last year, its mainstream media largely ignored Fascism’s rise in Ukraine. John Demjanjuk, recently convicted in connection to the murder of 30,000-odd inmates in the Nazi Sobibor camp, was recast as a national hero. A Joseph Goebbels Political Research Center was established to render what I assume to be Yes We Caninto the Ukrainian language.
Things got so bad that the Israeli Knesset issued a protest letter against rising anti-Semitism and Russophobia in Ukraine in July 2013 – a full year before international hysteria simultaneously peaked over Gaza and Eastern Ukraine. When was the last time both communities received the brunt end of the same visceral hate, followed by pan-European ire? Was it the 1930s?
Even the Kapo Brigade was gang-pressed to deflect suspicions of Nazism away from its active purveyors. The Kapos certainly will not explain the profusion of Neo-Nazi thinking, beliefs and symbolism inside the pro-Kiev Azov Battalion, where the volunteers are ominously drawn from all over Europe. These are the West’s “freedom fighters.”
Kiev is the new laboratory for socially-acceptable neo-Nazism. I guess we should get used to the idea of Populist Nazism in some other name down the line. It works best when an anti-Nazi Putin gets transposed as the new Nazi. An ability to repetitious invert reality might be a highly prized skill in the West, worthy of a CV entry in lieu of the recently discredited Jihad.
Concurrently, a new propaganda front was established to investigate any empirical correlation between the Russian Orthodox Church and religious nationalism. The historic bulwark role played by the Russian Orthodox Church against Nazism would naturally be a vexatious fact to be avoided altogether. The church is now insinuated as a retrogressive force out of sync with modern realities.
In a nutshell, the West is frantically throwing everything at Russia, from Pussy Riot to LGBT issues to wreckages of Malaysian Boeing 777s to charges of Nazism, hoping that something eventually sticks.
1930s Redux
Not many people are comfortable with the emerging order, and they are seeing parallels between the current era and the 1930s.
Eastern Ukraine is now reminiscent of the Spanish civil war, with European volunteers offering to fight the old Fascism in the new garb. These volunteer brigades, fighting alongside pro-Russian separatists, are loosely dubbed the United Continent. Is this the “Russian invasion” that was repeatedly pledged to the international media?
Socio-economic conditions in Europe today parallel events leading up to WWII. The only element missing from the overall drama is a 1929-style Wall Street crash, followed by another Great Depression. The descent to barbarism this time will be much more rapid. It will be viral. The current Russophobia is perhaps intended to blame the imminent crash on Russia and Putin.
Alternatively, Europe’s unparalleled expertise in anti-Semitism may come in handy.
In the end, the pantomime’s backdrop is set. Old hatreds and memes are being moulded in the anvils and furnaces of the next great social experiment. Can you hear the lilts of “order” and the harbingers of slaughter and sacrifice?
I conclude by referring to that Dragon in the very first sentence of my article. Did you know that there is a St. George in Russia’s Coat of Arms? And he is actually treading on a dragon. I consider that a serendipitous metaphor for those who say NO to the growing tyranny.
