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Victory Day in the Motherland

Earlier today, I read that the Russian ambassador to Poland was hit by a paint bomb while laying a wreath for WWII fallen soldiers, with the culprits chanting: “fascist, fascist”! And I thought that is rich, on the day that Russia commemorates the 25-40 million Russian lives lost in WWII fighting fascism.

I don’t know how many of you ever saw Claude Lanzmann’s 1980’s 8-hour documentary “Shoah”, but I did at some point. It shook all of me, every molecule, and I will never watch it again. I come from the land of Anne Frank. What it told me was that nazism wasn’t just a German thing, it was the region, not the nation, it was where most Jewish people lived before Hitler and Goebbels came along.

Lanzmann interviewed scores of Polish people who were loudly proud of having pushed back Jews, trying to flee, onto the cattle trains bound for Auschwitz et al. That same mentality has prevailed in large parts of Ukraine as well over the by now 80 years or so. Just look at the map: that’s where this was happening. And the Russians defeated it in that part of the world, not western troops.

And when it was done, the role of the 25-40 million Russian deaths in it was denied in the west, because: communism vs capitalism. But of course Russia cannot just ignore or deny all those deaths, just because Hollywood wants to sell tickets to Saving Private Ryan. For Russia, WWII meant: never again. And for them that means something slightly different than for us. It’s not just never again fascism or nazism, it’s also that these two things are symbolic for having your motherland invaded from the west, and by the west. Never again. That is why Russia moved into Ukraine.

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Communism — “You Will Own Nothing and You will be Happy” — Who Will Control Central Control? — Cash Must Become King Again – [05-08-2022]

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THIS WEEK’S EDITORIAL

COMMUNISM — “YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY”: The World Economic Forum (WEF) is promising a future where “you will own nothing and you will be happy”. It is an old Communist dream. The leader of the WEF, Klaus Schwab, is making this promise, obscured by his now-familiar terms — “The Great Reset”, “the Fourth Industrial Revolution” and “Stakeholder Capitalism”. But it is far from capitalism and it is not revolutionary. In fact, it is a return to the past and Thomas More’s 500 year old dream of Utopia.

Thomas More was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman and Renaissance humanist. He served Henry VIII (the Eighth) as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote a book called Utopia, published in 1516, in which he described the political system of an imaginary island state — where everyone would be happy and where there would be no need for money.

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