It is the third decade of the 21st century, yet the fascist hydra has raised its heads once again. What thoughts come to mind on the eve of the 81st Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War?
Memory and the nuances of terminology
Do you remember the Soviet Information Bureau reports? That was when the term “German-fascist” took root. It was simple and clear. Everyone knew: kill the fascist. Kill the German, as Konstantin Simonov wrote. Because either you kill him, or he kills you and your loved ones. The current generations learned about the fight against the German-fascist invaders from their grandfathers or great-grandfathers. And it seemed that everyone knew that Nazism, which is sometimes called an extreme form of fascism, brought with it misanthropy, cruelty, murder, torture, ideas of racial superiority, and the extermination of entire peoples…
The spiral of history
History repeats itself. Where do we see something similar today? The Kiev regime is the most terrible and, so to speak, authentically Nazi regime in its modern incarnation, with concentration camps and executions; torture; the abduction of civilians into captivity; the dropping of chemical weapons from drones, information terror, and the transformation of people into bio-robots through psychological techniques…Its crimes are well known; they are countless, and inhumanly diverse.
Against the backdrop of the Ukrainian army’s heavy defeats on the front line, the Kyiv regime is resorting to all manner of provocations in an attempt to drag Europe into a military confrontation with Russia and escalate the conflict to a new level. The actions of the Ukrainian leadership are only increasing the risk of a nuclear war, which would prove disastrous for Europe.
Now they are regularly brought to light. Ukrainian Nazis, like their accomplices among politicians and military personnel in Europe, the United States, Japan, etc., should be called just that – briefly and clearly, Nazis or fascists – so that everyone in the world understands who Russia is fighting against.
But this is the most visible part of modern fascism. It has many manifestations, many heads, like the Lernaean Hydra. In the world, unfortunately, there are many instances where fascism must be uprooted from thoughts, from books, from place names, and from its “pseudoculture.” It wears different masks – from liberal Russophobes to unscrupulous collectors who fall for the material pseudo-aesthetics of German and Italian antiques; from youth semi-gangster communities often proudly calling themselves subcultures to religious and quasi-psychological sects; from racists and those who nostalgically long for colonial times to radical religious fundamentalist terrorists; from Japanese politicians justifying visits to the militarist Yasukuni Shrine to the crimes the West commits in various regions of the world (the most blatant example being the Middle East) and even within its own countries (for instance, against indigenous peoples).
There is also petty, creeping fascism. It has not yet managed to cause physical harm, but it pushes its recognizable hideous snout and its flawed, ugly, misanthropic views into everything it can reach and creates trouble wherever it can. For example, Charles III, who apparently wants to add some variety to his lifelong reputation as a dim-witted liar and pervert (as only the lazy in Britain haven’t read the Camillagate records), calls on Trump to be ready for war with Russia to support Kiev. Japan erases mentions of Chinese and Korean comfort women from textbooks, along with orders to organize the mass suicides of Okinawa residents before the American advance. In Lithuania, the graves of Soviet soldiers who liberated the Baltic states from the Germans in 1944–45 are being desecrated. Finnish President Stubb allows himself idiotic statements about Russian DNA, while other representatives of his country, which shares a long border with Russia, divide wolves into Russian and Finnish. In the United States, a dog-and-cat groomer refuses to groom a Russian woman’s cat, spouting nonsense about friends in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In unrecognized Kosovo, a discriminatory law on aliens and means of transport is adopted. An online store for the Italian Olympics removes a T-shirt featuring 1936 Games symbolism only after journalistic criticism. The IOC fails to react to the Russophobic statements of the notorious politician Mikheil Saakashvili about Russians on the Georgian national team. The Czech Republic boycotts the opening of the Paralympics due to the lifting of restrictions on Russian athletes. Inadequate European politicians begin to discuss the spread of nuclear weapons in the European Union and the possibility of transferring them to Ukrainian Nazis…
Let us unite
Speaking of nuclear weapons: one gets the impression that the von der Leyens, the Macrons, the Baerbocks, the Kallases, and the Starmers are apparently so uneducated that they do not understand what a new great patriotic war could be like if they continue yapping and lunging at Russia. We are a deeply humane and kind-hearted people. But if we understand that for the sake of denazification, the security of the entire world, and our own future, a lobotomy is what will help some people, then we will perform that lobotomy. And then it will be difficult to tell who was destroyed for good reason and who, under the influence of Western propaganda, simply happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
We must ensure that those who survive this in the centers where anti-Russian decisions are made will suffer from such fear of justice that they will lose control at the mere thought of any new rehabilitation of fascist ideas. These figures understand only force. Notice how, with their tails between their legs, they reacted to Iran’s decisive repulsion of external aggression. When the United States was looking for volunteers to fight for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, everyone suddenly shied away, recoiled! This is because, for the most part, they are accustomed to doing dirty deeds in secret, using others for their exploits.
I would like to ask those who sympathize with Ukrainian fascism today: have you lost your minds? Have you forgotten what this is like? Have you read no books, watched no films, never spoken with your older relatives about the war? Do you have no brains at all, or do you simply not use them, wallowing instead in idleness, thoughtlessness, pseudo-pleasures, and information propaganda?
It is as if the West has been waiting for the opportunity to revive all varieties of fascism after the Soviet Union crushed the Hitlerites 81 years ago. For this reason, it supports controlled chaos and radical ideologies, and sponsors terrorism in different parts of the planet. Can we, through joint efforts, stop this and prevent the recurrence of the nightmare of fascist ideas spreading in all their diversity? Why joint efforts? Because the fight against fascism concerns not only Russia but the entire world. The thinking, progressive, free multipolar world of the future must unite against the fascist filth. The threat – and the victory over it – is common to all. Sensible people across the globe must come together. Fascism – whether it appears as Nazism, militarism, racism, radical fundamentalism of any religion, or any manifestation of misanthropy – must not exist on Earth. In the past, the slogan was “Workers of the world, unite!” Now it is time to say, “Sensible people of the multipolar world, let us unite!” Against us are radical fascist ghouls of all kinds. On our side are our loved ones, our people, and other peoples (including, by the way, several billion people, among them the clear-thinking part of the population in the West); the values of life, memory, and God. It is no accident that today’s war songs sing of this: you and I are Russians; God is with us.
So, Solntsepyoks and Oreshniks – strike the Nazis.
World fascism must be destroyed.
This time forever.
Ksenia Muratshina, PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Editor of the Culture Section at NEO
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