Tackling Neo-Nazi rise in post-Soviet era
Published: 22 April, 2009, 01:20
Edited: 07 October, 2009, 16:01
Russian politicians are looking at measures to combat the rise in Neo-Nazi sympathizers across former Soviet states.
There is no re-birth of Nazi in Baltic states! All public activities are based on collective memory of Soviet occupation. For post-Soviet states, for example, the Victory Day in May 9 does not mean the joy and happiness because for Baltics a new occupation started - the Red Terror of the Soviet Union. Russians may held them as heroes but for occupied states they were occupants. How an independent state can be happy that the Soviet Union do no respect sovereignty and occupy it?
When the partizans claimed to be attendants of the red army, the first line that held for the red army counter attack, then no one was interested in what they had to say. when yugoslavia was in war russia turned a blind eye to its favored nationality. People in Moscow forget how many millions of people from central asian countries that end in -stan died in WW2. They forget Moscow is still there because of the enitre ussr not just slavs fought as civilians against a superior force and did not run. Russia doesn't create any sense of brotherhood with former soviet states as it used too. So even in Russia the culture now is so weak and pathetic even moscow natives are waving nazi ensignas. Where is the old fervor and unity, maybe speaking russian isn't as important as feeling a true belonging to ussr. Revive cultural success and build on it. Give something better than race, nationality, and religon to cling to for identity. Create a culture for your poor and not your neo-czarist bastard oligarchs. Russia is to blame for all the progeny of nazi cult in russia and outside of it. MAybe China could give you some pointers on how countries should be run.
Anyone who has any first-hand experience of Estonia knows that it is just nonsense to claim, as the article does, that there is some campaign there to “rehabilitate Nazism” there. You can’t “rehabilitate” something that was never in vogue in the first place. To Estonians, Nazism was a hated and oppressive ideology of totalitarian German occupation from the very beginning, just as Communism was a hated and oppressive ideology of totalitarian Soviet occupation. It just happens that by any objective measure, the Soviet occupation of Estonia was much more murderous and destructive than the Nazi occupation. So when Soviet forces were returning late in the War to resume their killings, arrests, torture and mass deportations of 1940-41, some Estonians fought alongside their existing German occupants to try to hinder the return of the even more deadly Soviet oppressors. They did this not because they were Nazis themselves, much less in the war interests of a moustachioed maniac holed up in his Berlin bunker. They did it to prevent the return of horrible suffering to their devastated homeland at the hands of the Soviets which they had already experienced in 1940-41, hoping that their efforts might prevent the return of Soviets bevorel the War ended. They failed in this, their country was occupied by the Red Army again for almost another fifty years, and unbridled Soviet terror against their civilian population resumed. Just as no one fought for Nazism back then, no one celebrates Nazism today through commemorating Estonians’ resistance to the Soviets. Nor does the removal of the Bronze Soldier monument, which Stalin erected in downtown Tallinn at the height of post-war Soviet terror against the Estonian population, represent any praise of Nazism; it represents a denunciation of Sovietism. It is long past time that the truly offensive assertions to the contrary, such as conveyed by the above article, stopped.