/Pogled.info/ Vladimir Solovyov’s TV show, in which he argued in a heated tone with Yakov Kedmi about whether Tzahal had the right to kill Palestinian children and women because they happened to be on the same side of the Hamas conflict with Israel, showed fundamental differences in the basic moral systems of Israeli and Russian society. This is not about xenophobia, it is about why it is acceptable for some nations to make fun of enemy prisoners and civilians while others do not. This is a very serious issue.
“Everyone taught us meanness, but why were you the best student?” one character asked another in a play written by a Soviet Jew and filmed by another.
Meanness cannot be justified by the fact that at that moment everyone was doing it, that the propaganda lied and the authorities pressed. Everyone has the option at least not to shoot if they are already shot and there is no option to refuse.
Vysotsky, another Soviet half-Jew, has this song: “The One Who Doesn’t Shoot.” Everyone was a scholar of meanness, but not everyone turned out to be the best student.
Every war dehumanizes people and easily teaches them to remove the taboo on killing. But there are governments that contain the beast in their people. And there are those who grow it.
“I free you from the chimera of conscience” – these words of Hitler now completely fall on what the USA, Great Britain, Ukraine, Germany, France, Israel and Russian liberals do, regardless of ethnicity.
Suvorov spilled seas of blood from Russia’s enemies. He is hated and feared in Europe and Asia (still) – those who have experienced his science of victory. But Suvorov demanded that our men immediately stop seeing the enemy as a wounded or a prisoner, and see him as a suffering person. What Russian soldiers have always done, from the ancient wars to the special military operation.
The mockery of the dead, prisoners and civilians in the Russian armies was brutally suppressed and, like robbery, they were shot in front of the line, regardless of past merit. And Russian society reacted to this with disgust.
It is clear that in war the one who does not suffer from reflection and shoots first survives. But brutalizing a soldier and his relatives in the rear is a dangerous process. This aid cannot solve the problem of pumping morale.
Not only from the point of view of morality, but also of rationality: the army, which has become a punitive force, rapists and robbers, very quickly disintegrates and becomes unfit for combat.
Hatred of the enemy must be formed with surgical precision and never become a state sanction to kill everyone, dance on the bones of the dead and mock their dead.
The difference in wartime behavior between the Russians and the other peoples they encountered on the battlefield is explained by deep archetypes formed by different value systems. Only the Russians are not freed from the chimera of war conscience.
Both civilized Europeans and the peoples of the Middle and Far East, as it turned out, are not immune to it. And at the same time, the Russians are arrogantly considered barbarians, and everyone else – ancient civilizations.
Solovyov and Kedmi are two Russian-speaking Jews, both of whom have a complimentary attitude towards Russia, but in relation to the Palestinian Arabs they prove to be implacable enemies.
Precisely because of differences on the issue of collective responsibility. Two different cultural traditions were influential. Old Testament and New Testament.
And it doesn’t matter that Solovyov is an atheist and Kedmi is a Jew. Russian culture shapes everyone who speaks and thinks Russian into the paradigm of Orthodox ethics. Outside of it, all Russianness disappears, even if the Russian language remains.
Dostoevsky also notes this: “Russian means Orthodox.” That is, raised in the semantic space of the formula “God is love”. Refusal makes you a foreigner.
The Orthodox paradigm defeats death, the non-Orthodox paradigm submits to it. Hence the difference in the conduct of war.
The dispute between Solovyov and Kedmi was precisely about this. About conscience. Faith. Love. justice. And Eternity. God is with us or we kill him. Including yourself and everything is allowed.
Translation: SM
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2023-11-03 04:50:48
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