Russia must break off relations with new little Third Reich

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Recent events in Tallinn did not yet raise the question on the limits of European hypocrisy which seems to be boundless. News of police assault against demonstrators reminded of reports from a warzone. It was indeed very much like war zone reportage. Brutal beatings of tens and hundreds, mass detentions in a facility that was so poignantly similar to a concentration camp did not get even slightest symbolical condemnation from the European Union officialdom or from America’s ever vigilant Department of State. In his time Victor Yanukovich got so scared tha the decided against employing force to disperse Orangist demonstrators, gripped with justified fear that the humanistic West would accuse him of all mortal sins. We have a saying that human blood’s color is the same all over. Well, it’s not so in the West.

Opinion by Edvard Popov — Novaia Politika

May 3, 2007

Russia must break off relations with new little Third Reich

Events around Tallinn’s Bronze Soldier are reminiscent of a cinematic dystopia. The time reference: beginning of the ultra-enlightened twenty-first century. The location: Estonia, a nation proud of its European heritage so different from neighboring Asiatic and barbarous Russia. Though at a closer inspection one discovers that the only European features those Estonians possess (yesterday’s serf Untermenschen of the German nobility in the Baltic provinces) are haughtiness and arrogance. These people who (unlike Russia) — to put it mildly — have not contributed too much to the treasure chest of the European and world culture and represent a country that has absolutely no tradition of statehood (the historic incident of 1918—1940 does not count), so these history’s unloved stepchildren have now excel in stubbornly displaying their narrow-minded nationalism, itself a product of historical and cultural inferiority complex and of their leadership’s political dwarfism.

Obviously one cannot ask puerile though undeniably very evil children to behave like adults. But not they but those who stand behind them are the real cause for outrage and indignation — those who direct aggression of Estonian Neo-nazis against Russia and Russians; and those whose cowardly silence and acquiescence made this nightmare possible.

To talk or write about Europe’s double standards is akin to grinding water. Tallinn pogrom just spiced insincere declarations of European Union’s leaders with greater than usual dose of hypocrisy. This sort of removal of soldiers’ remains is sacrilegious no matter what’s your view of Soviet occupation (on the other hand the real non-Soviet Russia has plenty of claims against «democratic» Estonia that once made a deal with Lenin and condemned white North-Western army to oblivion, remnants of which together with Bolshevik-fleeing civilians were interned in Estonian death camps). But when this sort or removal or re-burial is accompanied by both hurling insults at Russian and Soviet soldiers and simultaneous rehabilitation of Nazi Germany and SS formations, under which colors Estonian volunteers fought so «gallantly», one feels a slight sense of unease. The dwarfish statelet which was admitted to the EU just to annoy Russia and to please United States, is rehabilitating Nazism and Waffen SS, and is in process of making a precedent both for rewriting the history and for vindicating the Third Reich. It’s not difficult to guess against whom this affair is directed. We now have a Museum of Soviet occupation in Tbilisi, and Kiev is already waiting in line. Poles are about to begin rewriting the entire history of concentration camps, factually equating Soviet authority with Nazism. The Soviet state was indeed bad, even revolting but death of every fourth Pole is certainly not on its consciousness.

Ratko Mladic, the warleader of Bosnian Serbs, once said in an interview that Americans do not know history. By invading the Balkans they empower German revanche. One cannot avoid the feeling that Germany may somehow gain from Estonian malfeasance but let’s not rush into making premature conclusions. What is apparent is that the affair was a part of American strategy of building a hostile cordon sanitaire around Russia. Nothing is off the table to achieve this goal. Once in the past the American companies made a fortune by selling war materiel to both the British and the Third Reich simultaneously. Today they are ready to forget not just Russia’s wartime sacrifices, but also Holocaust to which Estonian SS butchers «contributed» so much.

It’s also convenient to close one’s eyes on direct violations of democracy principles in Estonia as long it stays hostile to Russia. Independent Estonia is a state where democracy functions selectively. Estonia’s political regime can be described as racist liberal democracy. How otherwise could one explainthe fact that 40% of the country’s population are stripped of all civil rights. Appeals and pleas by human rights organizations and by Russia, a UN Security Council member, were powerless when confronted with stubbornness of tiny but «proud» Estonia.

Recent events in Tallinn did not yet raise the question on the limits of European hypocrisy which seems to be boundless. News of police assault against demonstrators reminded of reports from a war zone. It was indeed very much like war zone reportage. Brutal beatings of tens and hundreds, mass detentions in a facility that was so poignantly similar to a concentration camp did not get even slightest symbolical condemnation from the European Union officialdom or from America’s ever vigilant Department of State. In his time Victor Yanukovich got so scared that the decided against employing force to disperse Orangist demonstrators, gripped with justifiable fear that the humanistic West would accuse him of all mortal sins. We have a saying that human blood’s color is the same all over. Well, it’s not so in the West.

But the West is not the main issue here. Its double standards are understandable though hardly excusable. Geopolitical and inter-civilizational confrontation goes on even in the super enlightened twenty first century and as we now know anything goes and nothing is ever off the table.

However any self-respecting state in response to the Estonian authorities’ actions, which could only be compared to a public slap, would have found the strength to counter force with force and to respond to humiliation — with humiliation. The death of a Russian citizen was a direct justification for Russian armed forced to enter Estonia. No exaggeration here. Americans act that way under similar circumstances and the world fears and respects America. We’ve made impression that big Russia is afraid of small Estonia. Yet another «final» warning by the Russian foreign ministry, which somehow managed to gather strength and audacity and ask Estonian authorities to provide some information on «that… accident» (that’s how they referred to the death of a human being and our citizen).

Shame on such government.

The only decent declaration made in response to what happened was an appeal by the Federation Council speaker, chairman of the Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov who called to break off diplomatic relations with Estonia.The speaker of the Federation Council then meekly made a disclaimer that perhaps he might have overstepped his authority. Well, I am sorry if he did. It turns out the traditions of Yeltsenism are alive and well in Moscow’s Old Square. Even Putin’s Munich speech was insufficient to change the vector of Russian foreign policy toward defense of national interests and national dignity.

One can only hope that there are still individuals among Russian leadership who, like Mironov, think about nation’s interests and are not afraid to be denounced by lying West for their lack of democratic fervor. We must adopt the arsenal of Western propaganda and hit the enemy with its own weapons. If Estonia is violating human rights, is engaged in ethnic cleansing, shows no mercy either for the living or the dead, then we should say it out loud and clear. And whatever we say we also must back with real force. To call on the extraordinary meeting of the Security Counsel, and then to break of relations with the little Third Reich that calls itself Estonia. Then we must (renounce its independence) and bring territorial claims against it which should raise the question of legitimacy (from NATO charter standpoint) on why Estonia is in this organization.

And after that will something happen in the world? Yes, something might — the West will threaten Russia but eventually would have to back off and shut up gripped by fear after it grasps that the words Russian president said in Munich are not entirely meaningless. Most importantly the trust of people toward the state would be reestablished; for some reasons the authorities here believe themselves to be extremely smart while they consider the people to be equally stupid. This is not so. One can indefinitely deceive only oneself. But feeding the nation with a diet of empty patriotic slogans can only go on for a certain and limited period oftime.