| MitjaBelak4. 04. 2024 09:47:55 |
In my opinion, interesting reading, so I'm sharing it.
https://uncutnews.ch/warum-der-westen-die-russen-nicht-leiden-kann/
WHY DOES THE WEST NOT TOLERATE RUSSIANS?
Author: Andre Vltchek
In the West, they don't like those who defend themselves, those who fight against them, especially those who win.
When it comes to Russia or the Soviet Union, reports and historical records become blurred; in the West and consequently in all its "client states," fairy tales mix with reality, inventions are masterfully injected into the subconscious of billions of people around the world. Russia is a huge country, the largest country in the world by area. It is almost uninhabited. It is deep, and as a classical writer once wrote: "Russia cannot be understood with the mind. You can only believe in it."
The Western mind generally doesn't like the unknown, spiritual, and complex things. From "old times," especially from the Crusades and monstrous colonial expeditions to all corners of the world, Westerners have been told stories of their own "noble deeds" done in plundered lands. Everything had to be clear and simple: "Noble Europeans civilized savages, spread Christianity, and thus saved the poor, dark souls of primitives."
Of course, tens of millions of people died, while tens of millions of others were chained and taken to the "New Worlds" as slaves. Gold, silver, and other spoils along with slave labor paid for all European palaces, railroads, universities, and theaters, but that didn't matter, as the bloodshed was mostly something abstract and far from the oversensitive eyes of the Western public.
Westerners adore simplicity, especially when it comes to moral definitions of "good and evil." It doesn't matter if the truth is systematically "massaged" or if reality is even completely invented. The important thing is that there are no deep feelings of guilt and soul-searching. Western rulers and their public opinion shapers know their people—their "subjects"—very well and most often give them what they demand. The rulers and the ruled usually live in symbiosis. They always complain about each other, but mostly have similar goals: to live well, to live exceptionally well, while others are forced to pay for it; with their wealth, their labor, and often their blood.
Culturally, the majority of citizens of Europe and North America hate paying the bills for their high life; they even hate admitting that their life is exceptionally "high." They like to feel like victims. They like to feel "exploited." They like to imagine that they are sacrificing themselves for the rest of the world.
Above all, they hate real victims: those they have been killing, raping, plundering, and insulting for decades and centuries.
Recent "refugee crises" have shown how Europeans are ashamed of their booty. People who enriched them and who lost everything in the process are humiliated, despised, and insulted. Be it Afghans or Africans, people from the Middle East or South Asians. Or Russians, although Russians fall into their unique category.
Many Russians look white. Most of them eat with knives and forks, drink alcohol, shine in Western classical music, poetry, literature, science, and philosophy.
In the eyes of the West, they look "normal," but in reality, they are not.
Russians always want "something different"; they don't want to play by Western rules.
They stubbornly demand to be different and to be left alone.
When confronted, when attacked, they fight.
They rarely strike first and almost never invade.
But when threatened or attacked, they fight with tremendous determination and power and never lose. Villages and cities turn into graves for the attackers. Millions die defending the homeland, but the country survives. And this happens again and again, as Western hordes have been attacking and burning Russian lands for centuries without ever learning the lesson and without abandoning their dark dreams of conquering and controlling this proud and determined colossus.
In the West, they don't like those who defend themselves, those who fight against them, and especially those who win.
Things get much worse.
Russia has this terrible habit... not only does it defend itself and its people, but it also fights for others, protects colonized and plundered nations, as well as unjustly attacked ones.
It saved the world from National Socialism. It did so at a terrible cost of 27 million men, women, and children, but it succeeded; brave, proud, and selfless. The West never forgave the Soviet Union even for this epic victory, because everything selfless and sacrificial is always in direct contradiction to its own principles and is therefore "extremely dangerous."
The Russian people rose, fought, and won in the revolution of 1917—an event that frightened the West more than anything else in history because it wanted to create a completely egalitarian, classless, and race-blind society. This was also the birth of internationalism, an event I recently described in my book The Great October Socialist Revolution: Impact on the World and the Birth of Internationalism.
Immediately after the victory in World War II, Soviet internationalism directly and indirectly greatly helped dozens of countries on all continents to rise up and confront European colonialism and North American imperialism. The West, and especially Europe, never forgave the Soviet people in general and especially Russians for helping to liberate their slaves.
That was when the greatest wave of propaganda in human history truly began to pour. From London to New York, from Paris to Toronto, a sophisticated network of anti-Soviet and covertly anti-Russian hysteria was unleashed with tremendous destructive power. Tens of thousands of "journalists," intelligence agents, psychologists, historians, and academics were deployed. Nothing Soviet, nothing Russian was spared (except glorified and often "fictional" Russian dissidents).
Excesses or contextual mistakes of the Great October Socialist Revolution and the pre-war period were systematically invented, exaggerated, and then engraved into Western history books and mass media narratives. These stories made no mention of the horrific invasions and attacks from the West aimed at destroying the young Bolshevik state. Of course, there was no room for mentions of the monstrous atrocities of the British, French, Americans, Czechs, Poles, Japanese, Germans, and others.
Soviet and Russian views were hardly allowed to penetrate the monolithic and one-sided Western propaganda.
The Western public accepted the disinformation they were fed like obedient sheep. Over time, many people living in Western colonies and "client states" did the same. A large number of colonized people were taught to blame themselves for their misery.
Then the most absurd, but somehow also the most logical thing happened: numerous men, women, and even children living in the USSR fell for Western propaganda. Instead of trying to reform their imperfect but still very advanced country, they despaired, became cynical, aggressively "disillusioned," corrupt, and naively but steadfastly pro-Western.
This was the first and probably last time in history that the West defeated Russia. It happened through deception, shameless lies, and Western propaganda.
What followed could easily be described as genocide.
First, the Soviet Union was lulled into Afghanistan, then mortally wounded by the war there, the arms race with the US, and the final phase of propaganda that literally flowed like lava from various hostile state-sponsored Western radio stations. Of course, local "dissidents" also played an important role.
Things became extremely bizarre under Gorbachev, the West's "useful idiot." I don't think he was paid to destroy his own country, but he did almost everything to destroy it; exactly what Washington wanted from him. Then the mighty and proud Union of Soviet Socialist Republics suddenly shook with pain before the eyes of the whole world, screamed loudly, and collapsed; it died painfully but quickly.
A new turbo-capitalist, predatory, pro-oligarchic, and confusedly pro-Western Russia was born. Russia ruled by the alcoholic Boris Yeltsin, a man loved and supported by Washington, London, and other Western powers.
This was a completely unnatural, sick Russia—cynical and without compassion, built on other people's ideas—Russia of Radio Liberty and Voice of America, BBC, Christian merchants, oligarchs, and multinational corporations.
Does the West now dare claim that Russians are "interfering" in anything in Washington? Have they lost their minds?
Washington and other Western capitals didn't just "interfere," they openly tore apart the Soviet Union and then began kicking what was then a half-capable Russia. Is all this forgotten, or does the Western public simply not know what happened in those dark days?
The West continued to spit on the impoverished and damaged country that didn't want to honor international agreements and treaties. No aid was offered. Multinational corporations were unleashed and began "privatizing" Russian state companies, essentially stealing what had been built for decades with the sweat and blood of Soviet workers.
Interference? I repeat: it was direct interference, invasion, resource grabbing, brazen theft! I'd happily read and write about it, but you don't hear much about it anymore, do you?
Now they tell us Russia is paranoid, its president is paranoid! The West is obviously lying; it behaves as if it didn't try to assassinate Russia.
Those years... Those pro-Western years when Russia became a semi-client state of the West or let's call it a semi-colony! There was no mercy, no pity from abroad. Many of those idiots—kitchen intellectuals from Moscow and the provinces—suddenly woke up, but it was too late. Many of them suddenly had nothing to eat. They got what they were told: their Western "freedom and democracy" and Western-style capitalism or in short: total collapse.
I still remember how it was then. With horror, I returned to Russia and worked in Moscow, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, and Leningrad. Academics from Akademgorodok outside Novosibirsk sold their libraries in the severe cold, in the dark Novosibirsk subways... tracks on the banks... old pensioners dying of hunger and cold behind huge doors of concrete blocks... unpaid wages and starving miners, teachers…
Russia in the deadly embrace of the West, for the first and hopefully last time! Russia whose life expectancy suddenly dropped to the level of sub-Saharan Africa. Humiliated, wild Russia in terrible pain.
But this nightmare didn't last long.
And what happened—those short but terrible years under both Gorbachev and Yeltsin, especially under Western dictation—will never be forgotten, never forgiven.
Russians know well what they don't want anymore!
Russia has risen again. Big, angry, and determined to live its life, in its own way. From an impoverished, humiliated, and robbed people, subjugated by the West, the country developed, and in a few years, free and independent Russia was again one of the most developed and strongest countries in the world.
And just like before Gorbachev, Russia is again in a position to help those nations that are under unjust and evil attacks by the Western empire.
The man leading this renaissance, President Vladimir Putin, is a tough man, but Russia is in great danger and so is the world—now is not the time for weaklings.
President Putin is not perfect (who is?), but he is a true patriot and, dare I say, an internationalist.
Now the West hates Russia and its leader again. No wonder, because undefeated, strong, and free Russia is the worst possible enemy of Washington and its vassals.
This is the West's opinion, not Russia's. Despite everything done to it, despite millions of lost and destroyed lives, Russia has always been ready for compromise, even forgiveness, if not forgetting.
There is something deeply pathological in the Western psyche. It cannot accept anything other than complete and unconditional submission. It must control, be the boss and above everything; it must feel exceptional. Although it kills and destroys the entire planet, it insists on feeling superior to the rest of the world.
This belief in exceptionalism is the true Western religion, much more than Christianity, which has not played an important role there for decades. Exceptionalism is fanatical, fundamentalist, and indisputable.
It also insists that its narrative is the only one that exists in the whole world. The West is considered the moral leader, the beacon of progress, the only competent judge, and guru.
Lies pile up on lies. Like in all religions, the more absurd the pseudo-reality, the more brutal and extreme methods are used to maintain it. The more ridiculous the inventions, the more effective the techniques used to suppress the truth.
Today, hundreds of thousands of "academics," teachers, journalists, artists, psychologists, and other highly paid experts around the world are employed by the empire for only two purposes—to glorify the Western narrative and to discredit everything that stands on its own and dares to doubt it.
Russia is the most hated adversary of the West, China, Russia's close ally, is almost second.
The propaganda war unleashed by the West is so insane and intense that even some European and North American citizens are beginning to doubt the stories coming from Washington, London, and elsewhere.
Wherever you turn, you encounter a huge mix of lies, half-lies, and half-truths; a complex and unmanageable swamp of conspiracy theories. Russia is attacked because it interferes in US internal affairs, because it defends Syria, because it stands by powerless and intimidated nations, because it has its own strong media, because it dopes its athletes, because it is still communist, because it is no longer socialist, in short: for everything conceivable and inconceivable.
The criticism of the country is so thorough and ridiculous that one begins to ask completely legitimate questions: "What about the past? What about the Western narrative of Soviet history, especially the post-revolutionary and wartime periods?"
The more I analyze today's anti-Russian and anti-Chinese propaganda from the West, the more determined I am to study and write about the Western narrative of Soviet history. I intend to examine these questions in the future together with friends—Russian and Ukrainian historians.
In the eyes of the West, Russians are "traitors."
Instead of joining the robbers, they stood by the "poor of the world," both in the past and present. They didn't want to sell their homeland and enslave their own people. Your government does everything in its power to make Russia self-sufficient, completely independent, successful, proud, and free.
Don't forget that "freedom," "democracy," and many other terms have completely different meanings in different parts of the world. What happens in the West, in Russia, or in China could never be called "freedom," and vice versa.
Disillusioned, declining, atomized, and selfish societies of Europe and North America no longer inspire even their own population. Every year millions of them flee to Asia, Latin America, and even Africa. They flee from emptiness, meaninglessness, and emotional coldness. However, it is not Russia's or China's task to tell them how to live or not live!
Meanwhile, great cultures like Russia and China do not need or want the West to tell them what freedom and democracy are.
They do not attack the West and expect the same in return.
It is really awkward that countries responsible for hundreds of genocides, for hundreds of millions of people slaughtered on all continents, still hope to preach to others.
Many victims are too afraid to speak out.
Russia is not.
It is calm, friendly, but determined to defend itself if necessary; itself and many other people living on this wonderful but deeply scarred planet.
Russian culture is immense: from poetry and literature to music, ballet, and philosophy... Russian hearts are soft, they melt easily when they encounter love and kindness. But when the lives of millions of innocent people are threatened, both the hearts and muscles of Russians quickly turn into stone and steel. In such moments, when only victory can save the world, Russian fists are hard, as are Russian tanks.
The sadistic but cowardly West is no match for Russian courage.
Hope and the future are irrevocably moving eastward.
And that's why the West desperately hates Russia.
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