/ world today news/ People who defend the Nazis in Ukraine try to defend themselves by claiming that they do not see Nazism in Ukraine and do not consider the Ukrainian Nazis to be Nazis.
In some ways it is clear: Nazism is still unequivocally recognized as evil. And even more – convicted in Nuremberg. The point is not even that the justification and propaganda of Nazism in Russia is punishable by law, but that its justification is still the subject of a moral taboo. Some sincerely do not want, others do not want for political reasons to look like Nazis – and the defender always ends up being a Nazi himself. Some know that they are deliberately protecting the Nazis because they need their hatred of modern Russia, but they try to pretend that this is not the case. Others want to convince themselves that they are not for the Nazis, but for something else, without even realizing that they are serving Nazism.
The former create defensive arguments – the latter agree to use them both in the name of decency and in the name of clearing their own conscience.
They say that since there are no concentration camps and crematoria in Ukraine, then this is not Nazism. And they don’t care that the burning of the House of Trade Unions in Odessa and the secret prisons of the SBU are little different from the crematoria and concentration camps of the Nazi regime.
They say that once a Jew is at the head of the regime, then it is no longer Nazism. And if there is no party in power that recognizes itself as Nazi, then there is no Nazi power. And if there is no officially declared anti-Semitism, then there is no Nazism either.
Only concentration camps, crematoria and anti-Semitism are not yet the essence of Nazism, but its historically specific toolkit. Nazism is not the original “National Socialism” – socialism for the “superior race”, dictatorship and oppression for the “inferior”: there is no “socialism” in Ukraine neither for the declared “inferior” nor even for the declared “superior”, i.e. Ukrainians , and there is physical suppression of all who interfere with the ruling clans.
Nazism is the declaration of one nation as superior, another – or a third – as inferior. This is Nazism.
If the government headed by a Jewish president declares and legitimizes its declaration as a superior nation and the Russians as inferior, this is the same Nazism as the Germans declare themselves to be a “superior race” and the Jews and Gypsies are inferior.
There is worship of Bandera and Shuhevich, who never hid their Nazism and their support for Hitlerism, there is Nazi symbolism, there is the destruction and banning of everything Soviet, there is the banning of Russian, there is the invasion of Donbass, there are eight years of shelling of civilians.. .
When European elites rally in support of Ukraine, they do so because Ukraine’s Nazism fits their vision of their “Euronation” developed in the European Union. And they consider Ukraine’s regime a model of their possible future.
When Olaf Scholz declares that it is “ridiculous” to talk about the genocide in Ukraine and supports the heirs of those who proclaimed Hitler the “Great Führer” in Ukraine, it means one thing: the resentment of defeated German Nazism that it was defeated and the hope that the Ukrainian Nazis would avenge the defeat of the German Nazis.
Some refuse to acknowledge the existence of Nazism in Ukraine because they know it is Nazism and are satisfied that it is Nazism: because they consider themselves “superior” and want the power of the “superior” over the “inferior”, but conceal your goals.
Others are willing to support the Nazis in Ukraine without wanting to believe that they support and protect the Nazis because they don’t want to believe that their friends are Nazis.
Some say how much they suffer for “boys dying under Russian shells in Ukraine” and do not remember how many civilians in Donbas have been shot and raped by these “boys” in eight years.
They say that they cannot come to terms with the death of Ukrainian children and send their photos to each other, and also collect money to “help” them – and they do not think and do not believe that Russian troops did not shell peaceful neighborhoods in Ukrainsk cities, that the photos sent are actually of Donbas children or are productions of the special structures of the Nazis, and the recipe for collecting money to help starving children was mastered by Ostap Bender.
They say that their acquaintances in Ukraine are such good people and they cannot understand “why the Russians, whom they considered friends”, came to Ukraine to slaughter them, and they do not remember how Bandera people called to kill and slaughter Russians. And they cannot answer the question of which of their acquaintances in Ukraine was really killed or raped, and they get annoyed when they are asked about it.
They do not want to believe what the Russians tell and show – both state and private media – about the Nazi atrocities in Ukraine and declare it “propaganda”, considering themselves independent and critical thinkers, but unconditionally accept the stories of “atrocities of the Russian occupiers” circulated by the Ukrainian channels in “Telegram” and the Western media, presenting footage of cities in Donbas burning from the shelling of the Bandera people for footage of Ukrainian cities under Russian shelling.
And here there is already some psychological moment: they do not want to believe their country in any case, but they unconditionally believe its enemies, presenting this as criticality, open-mindedness and objectivity.
Only if it were really about some kind of, albeit exaggerated, criticality, impartiality and objectivity, this criticality would extend to both sources – both one’s own and foreign.
Also a controversial position: to equate the Sovinformburo reports with Goebbels’ editorials. But there is no such thing either: they do not trust the Russian media at all and in anything, while they trust the media hostile to Russia for everything and unconditionally.
On the one hand, this is a kind of “chauvinism in reverse”: “Right or wrong, my country is my country. So I will always blame her.
Of course, it is wrong to assume that your side is always right – but it is even worse to assume that it is always wrong.
On the other hand, this, of course, is a certain complexism: a person must feel his self-importance and self-affirmation, his self-actualization. One side of satisfying this need is a sense of ownership.
And one of the easy ways to experience this self-importance is through opposition. The easiest way to find this opposition is to say, “But I’m not like everyone else.” One always needs to feel that one can do something that others cannot. And if there is such a thing, a person does not need to set himself the goal of “being different from everyone else”, because he is no longer like everyone else, and no one can dispute that.
He will always be himself and take the position he has taken – whether it coincides with the official position or contradicts it. And he will defend it with the same consistency, not being embarrassed either by the fact that it differs from the official one, or by the fact that it coincides with the official one – because this is his conscious position.
The solution to this problem by opposing one or another tendency is always a product of psychological trauma and a certain perceived weakness – and a desire to somehow compensate for this spiritual discomfort.
This is if we talk about the psychological side of the problem.
And if we talk about civil and political: the issue of supporting Russia’s military operations in Ukraine is not a matter of trust or distrust of Putin and the government. And a position of responsibility is not about conformity or non-conformity with the official line.
The military operation must be brought to a victorious end not because the Russian authorities have decided so, but because it is right.
There is Nazism in Ukraine – and it must be defeated.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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