Robin
Since you ask to stick to your theme, I’ll not go into details about Shoah right now. But you asked for questions, and indeed I have some.
Let me say right at the beginning, to avoid misunderstandings: I’m feeling deep sorrow when thinking of all the Russian poeple and their relatives, who have been killed and wounded in this war, murdered by SS-squads behind the frontline, and maltreated by patriotic folks coming from Germany. This is not be narrowed on Russian people, but my sympathy equally goes out to all others who had to suffer from NS-Germany. But you asked to stick to your theme, so I’ll discuss here merely what is relevant under this constrained point of view.
At the same time, the USSR and Russia removed their troops from Germany.
There wouldn’t have been any concern about them staying, from point of view of the people and everyday living. I’m sure they would have been welcome as friends. But there are political bondages, which are historically grown from the years after 1945. Since Germany is part of NATO, there is nothing strange about US as well as other NATO member countries are military present in Germany. Just as German army is present in other NATO countries, most time of the year for training. I’m in doubt whether you can call this still occupation. What do you try to construct here? Is this kind of new conspiracy theory?
Back to your original theme.
Russia is a great country, has ever been. And Russia has a great and long culture. It has born great writers, artists, philosophers, architects, musicians and composers… Many of its people are hospitable. It is a shame, a disgrace, Germans did attack Russia. Nothing can be done about that, it has happened.
Another question, to which I cant find any answer: What do you believe, how it was possible, cultivated people who had Immanuel Kant, Herder, Goethe, Schiller and many others among their ancestors, representing and advocating the spirit of humanity, could have been falling back into barbarian pre-enlightenment thinking and acting? Allowing Shoah to happen. Starting war not only against Russia, but against any other country within their reach? Recent results of the latest research proved, they actually planned to make war on USA also (“Amerikabomber”), once they would have had subjugated Europe completely… So what you call restrictively “Great patriotic war” was indeed a world wide war, not only between Russia and Germany. Russia was part of the alliance of countries fighting against a Germany whose people were gone collectively mad, following their “Führer”. I do understand you need some catchy formulated expression to bring people in line behind your ideas. But it is simply not true, Russia didn’t have a private war with Germany. It was a world war. So call it what it really was. If you have an answer: Who has invented this war glorifying expression »Великая Отечественная война« as an official language regulation in Russia, and why is this expression still in use today? There is nothing great about any war. And it was not patriotic, it was world wide.
in every family there is a deceased, a participant or those who survived it in the rear, there are families who died completely – as 6 million Jews.
There were not only people in Russia being killed by the german attacks. Again, the victims of german world power fantasies lived also in Britain, France, Poland, Greece, Czechoslovakia and many other countries.
Even if it was years before Soviet era, during the tsaristic era that Russia had attacked and occupied its neighbours. What is the point of keeping them under impressment, even if people of these other cultures have had clearly expressed they wanted to get their own state back? Wouldn’t have it been the duty of the new Soviet government stright after revolution to free these people instead of sending red army to kill people standing for their culture? How could they justify keeping these countries Russia had stolen under the tsar? I can’t understand this.
Take into consideration this was one of the excuses nazis had used to justify making war on other countries. They simply said: “We are late in occupying parts of the world, just as other countries (among them not at least Russia) did before. So let’s start right now, let’s ensure our share”. Don’t misread me, it was a crime what Germans of those days did and what they thought. But the question is to be allowed whether Soviet Russia was actually what it portrayed itself to be in its own propaganda.
Another question: Would the war that Germany unleashed have been possible without Stalin’s permission to invade other countries? The sharing of Poland between the two dictators was the beginning of the war. Would there ever have been a Second World War if Russia had stopped the Germans when they invaded Poland in 1939 already, together with the other countries who were allied with Poland? Instead, Stalin and Hitler had long since secretly decided on the partition of Poland. Hitler’s popular support grew mainly through his apparent success in realising his great power fantasies, in combination with this baneful patriotism. Patriotism blinded people to the cruelty of their deeds. Under this aspect, how does people in Russia assess the role of Stalin and the Soviet Union in the genesis of that war?
And what is your point of excluding this role of Soviet Union from history, only focussing on the german breach of the Non-Aggression Pact between Hitler and Stalin and its secret appendix protocol? A crime among two dictators, who were both nothing but criminals? To pose this question is not to debase in any way the memory of the victims of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
Next question. What kind of presumptuousness is it for a country to declare itself a world power, an empire? This is sheer megalomania. It doesn’t matter whether it is Russia, the USA or China. Germany under the Nazis also once had these fantasies of world power. We all know to what that has led. This much-vaunted patriotism is nothing but a kind of religion, usually imposed by the state and firmly anchored in the brains of young children by means of a permanent public and media presence. Children who are “allowed” to cheer for their respective leaders, their country, while waving small flags.
It is exactly this patriotism that makes wars possible. Patriotism is defended with the same fanaticism as a religion is defended by its adherents. It is the catalyst that allows masses of people to be driven to war. It is the vehicle that permits people to feel superior to others. It is the soil on which National Socialism flourished. The war between Germany and Russia could only be fought because the dictators on both sides knew exactly how to stultify the population with this patriotism.
I believe I can read it from your contributions here also. Don’t take this as an accusation. If you feel this way, there is nothing wrong about it, for you personally. But please don’t try to use modern mass medium internet to promote it. You can produce incredible damage this way. Remember Shoah. Again, Russia IS a great country, its people are good people with whom one wishes friendship and peace. Only stupid believe in the fairy tale of the “big bad Russia” in the East. So my final question on your topic is: Does Russia, I mean its people, really need this patriotism? And if so, why?
Please put your original (untranslated) answer (probably cyrillic, in Russian language) below the automatic translation. This makes it easier to sort out any kind of mistranslation. Some of your thoughts and sentences are hardly understandable, which is caused by the automatic translation. If there would be the original text below, this would be a great help in understanding, allowing a second translation attempt.
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