This article was originally published in Danish on July 3, 2018.
Hardly a day goes by without newspapers and television being filled with hate speech against Vladimir Putin’s Russia, often by people who have no idea about the reality of this country – or who, like Samuel Rachlin, were born with a fierce hatred of Russians and all the rest of us who are not easily swayed by the Jewish New World Order. The attacks are happening on two fronts, domestic and foreign policy.
On the first point, it can only be said briefly that it is really none of foreign countries’ business how the Russians want their state to be organized and what values they want to form the basis of that state. Western politicians believe that the world can only be organized according to their insane standards, which are destroying the entire European culture and turning the world into chaos. The Russians do not want their country to be organized according to these so-called values. They got a taste of them during the Yeltsin years, when the country was systematically plundered by international big capitalism, starring the usual types (of Russia’s 10 richest men, 8 were Jews). The country was chaotic, the infrastructure in disrepair, and Western experts with strange names flocked to the country to “modernize” it. One of the main targets was of course the education sector, which was the best in the world, but which was now to be enriched, i.e. destroyed, by modern pedagogical principles. Denmark set up a “Democracy Fund” to support efforts to make the Russians think like us, and confused fools with no knowledge of Russian conditions and history thought in all seriousness that we were about to dictate to the Russians how they should build their society and their education system and how they should do their work. Meanwhile, Russia sank deeper and deeper into chaos. The newly rich could buy things again, of course, but the common people were relegated to starvation and begging in front of the country’s churches. It was a time when colossal fortunes were built at the expense of the people – and millions of lives were destroyed.
Of course, these years have deeply influenced the Russian people’s view of the West, as well as the shock of the fall of the Soviet Union. From being a superpower, Russia had become a colonization area for Western charlatans who only invested in the country in order to extract even more wealth from it, while the US and NATO slowly but surely began to encircle Russia, in violation of the agreements made. All in all, it was a national disaster. But then Vladimir Putin came on the scene and, through consistent efforts, managed to turn the tide and win the trust of the Russian people. Our domestic politicians lament the lack of ‘democracy’ in Russia and talk about the ‘opposition’ not being given a fair chance. But does this opposition really exist as a popular force, or is it just the usual confluence of destructive forces that we know so well here? Not long ago, the “Danish” press reported on a “large” popular demonstration against Putin in Moscow. It was expected to attract 1,000 participants. Now Moscow alone has about 18 million inhabitants (no one knows exactly). Of these, 1,000 had chosen to demonstrate against Putin. In Denmark, this would correspond to around 300 participants. Hardly impressive!
The fact is that the Putin years have led to a huge improvement in living conditions in Russia, especially of course in the big cities – even with the low oil prices and the Western boycott. There are very few beggars today, the standard of living has risen, Moscow’s worn-out infrastructure has been renewed and expanded at a record pace. The road network has been modernized and the inner ring road has been given an extra floor, there are new metro lines, a new outer overground metro ring, new metro trains, new trams, new buses. It’s embarrassingly clean everywhere. The unregulated street trade of the Yeltsin era has been put in a tighter framework. People are therefore reasonably satisfied. And the Russians don’t want Pussy Riot types or Gay Pride parades or other decadence. They are very happy that these things don’t happen, and they also fully understand the crackdown on various American sects that only divide the population, which supports the Orthodox Church quite massively, even though many are not particularly religious. However, the church is an expression of Russian culture. We have seen what the Western interpretation of “human rights” leads to – the loss of the rights of the vast majority to the culture and values of the majority, drowned in the media and education system’s attention to decadence. Where this attention comes from is clear when you look at the ownership of the media world and the individual journalists and editors. Here, it is not the people’s agenda that prevails, but that of the usual vocal minority. It is the same minority that conjures up a non-existent Russian opposition. It is worth noting that “protesters” in Russia always carry English-language signs. English is not widely spoken in Russia. I wonder who the protesters are trying to impress? Today it happens under Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s headline “Russians take to the streets”. The picture shows 8 people with plenty of space….
Putin’s Russia is often criticized for being corrupt. Well, corruption has a long tradition in Russia, starting with communism and reaching its peak under Yeltsin. It would probably be asking a lot to expect it to disappear under Putin. One of the reasons is ridiculously low salaries for politicians and civil servants that almost require a certain amount of corruption to exist. A well-educated Russian recently claimed to the author of this article that there was more corruption today than under Yeltsin. Having lived through the Yeltsin period, you know that this is not the case, so I asked for the source. It was Western media. Well, not a very credible source. It should also be remembered that Putin’s political prospects depend on his ability to balance the various power bases in Russia, including the remaining oligarchs and other wealthy individuals. If he cuts off their economic lifeblood, his stool could quickly falter. Crucially, however, corruption in Russia is productive. Something is actually created for the benefit of society. It is not like corruption in Africa, where vast amounts of money simply disappear into the sand.
In this connection, it should be remembered that corruption occurs everywhere, including in Denmark, where we are simply taught not to investigate it. The entire privatization process, which has been mandated by the EU in order to steal the people’s assets and transfer them to big business, has been a grab bag for politicians and officials who have either been totally incompetent or totally corrupt. The best documented case is the sale of public property in the former GDR, but one can’t help but wonder how The State’s Serum Institute’s vaccine production could be sold to Saudi Arabia at a loss, or how parts of DONG could be sold off to Goldman Sachs for a fraction of the real value. Corruption is not always a brown envelope. It can take many forms!
Through his foreign policy, Putin has incurred the wrath of the outside world but won the respect of the Russian people. The simple fact is that Russia is a large and important country that deserves to have its interests taken into account. This has not been done, to say the least. Although the West promised not to push NATO’s borders further east, it has done virtually nothing else since the fall of the Soviet Union. Most recently, it is closing off the Adriatic coast to the Russians by admitting Albania and the operetta state of Montenegro. The West is outraged by Putin’s annexation of Crimea. Well, perhaps it could have been done in a more elegant way, but elegance has never been the strong point of Russian foreign policy. The clear fact is that Crimea has never really been Ukrainian. It was a gift from Khrushchev because it had fought so bravely in World War II, but the population at the time was mainly Russian. In the Soviet Union, internal borders had no meaning whatsoever. With the fall of the Soviet Union, that changed overnight and one of Ukraine’s inherent problems is that they never established a sustainable eastern border. You cannot have an independent Ukraine if you have a very large Russian-speaking minority that forms a majority in vast areas bordering Russia. This pressure is compounded by the fact that Russia’s economic development is far ahead of Ukraine’s, mainly because Ukraine is ruled by corrupt and inept politicians, supported by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, which is a guarantee that it will never get better. There will be no way around holding referendums in the disputed areas and carrying out large-scale population relocations if peace is desired. Otherwise, open conflicts will continue forever and Ukrainians will move out of the affected areas in any case.
Under no circumstances will the West’s boycott actions have any decisive effect. Russia is a rich country with inexhaustible resources – contrary to what our ignorant foreign minister claims – and if it has to be, it can take care of itself. The people you specifically want to target will know how to circumvent these ridiculous measures.
This row over Crimea and Eastern Ukraine was predictable. Exactly the same situation occurred in Georgia in 2008, when disputed territories were occupied by the Russians and the Georgian population fled more or less voluntarily. This was in response to Georgia being promised NATO membership. Of course, it is unacceptable for Russia to have a foreign alliance’s attack forces in its backyard – just as it was unacceptable for the US to have Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba. However, this has been forgotten. It was the same mechanism that triggered the crisis in Ukraine. Too close ties with the EU and NATO in a neighboring country would be unacceptable to Russia. It only succeeded in the Baltic States because these ties were established at a time when Russia was unable to react. Today, Russia can react, and as we have seen, NATO’s encirclement maneuvers trigger a reaction. You might as well accept the facts. Crimea will never return to Ukraine – and neither will Donetsk and Lugansk. The same is most likely true for the annexed Georgian territories.
Western media consistently portrays this as Russian aggression and compares it to Hitler’s annexations, but isn’t it the other way around? Isn’t the constant expansion of NATO and the EU an aggression against Russia? People would say that independent states should be free to decide whether they want to be members of various alliances, but that has never been the case. Finland only survived as an
independent state by refraining from participating in such alliances and generally showing extensive consideration for its big neighbor – the so-called Finlandization. The same applies to a lesser extent to Sweden. How freely these new states choose is another matter entirely. Because it’s not always very free!
Putin is accused of being the first to forcibly change Europe’s borders since World War II. Once again, the West’s memory seems to be weakened by dementia. In 1999, NATO planes bombed Serbia at the behest of the US until it was forced to relinquish control of Kosovo, which historically has always belonged to Serbia (insofar as one can speak of ‘always’ in the Balkans). Here, NATO – i.e. the USA – arbitrarily changed the borders of an independent European country and created an American sound state in the middle of the Balkans, a center of drug, organ and human trafficking, where Muslim hordes violently harass and terrorize the remaining Serbian population and attempt to burn and destroy historic Serbian monasteries and other Serbian cultural heritage, while exporting crime throughout Europe. This is truly a latrine, a disgusting brown spot on the map of Europe that only retains its status as an ‘independent’ country with the help of foreign bayonets. Now you might ask why Kosovo was so important to the US. The excuse that they intervened for humanitarian reasons can be forgotten. Kosovo has arguably the world’s largest known deposits of lithium. …. That’s why it was important to wrest this small spot on the map from Serbia’s control, as Serbia is traditionally closely linked to Russia. However, this link is also being broken by manipulating elections and bribing politicians to create a government that obeys America and not the Serbian people. It is expected that Serbia will join both the EU and NATO by 2025. Another encirclement maneuver aimed at Russia. As a symbol, the US has just built a huge new embassy on a hill near the Royal Palace in Belgrade. This is where Serbia’s real government is located.
In Macedonia, the American Embassy has even more impressive dimensions worthy of the villain in a James Bond movie. A huge complex of windowless buildings, three stories above ground and seven stories below ground, built on a site of ancient buildings that were simply removed without any archaeological investigation. One might ask why the US would need such a large embassy in a small country with less than 2 million inhabitants. One answer is that it houses one of America’s secret prisons, where prisoners are locked up and tortured indefinitely without any form of judicial review. But that’s not all. During and after the last election, they actively intervened in the country’s decision-making process and overthrew the nationalist government. The process is well described in the Macedonian press. The aim was to bring the country into the EU and NATO as part of the containment of Russia and the annihilation of the European peoples in favor of the unrestricted domination of international big business. In the way was apparently the name dispute with Greece, which claims exclusive rights to the name Macedonia. Under American pressure, an agreement was negotiated with Greece for the Republic of Macedonia to change its name to the Republic of North Macedonia. That’s all the Western press reported on this, but the well-informed reader had to wonder about this storm in a teacup and when Greece’s EU-funded communist ruling party started to take an interest in nationalist affairs. The thing is, that’s not what this is about either. At the same time, Macedonia is waiving all claims for compensation for the nearly 500,000 Macedonians who were expelled from Greece after World War II and the 50,000 to 100,000 who were expelled from Bulgaria. This is what the dispute was about, not the name, but Western readers didn’t need to know that. With Macedonia’s entry into the EU, both Greece and Bulgaria should otherwise have been out of pocket. Now the survivors of the displaced must look in the guidebook for their compensation or right to return. The President refused to sign this agreement. He was then abducted and held captive at the US embassy for three days, where no one knew where he was. Then he wanted to sign. Now doubts have been raised as to whether he will do so, but I guess you can always make it up with another “visit” to the embassy or a simple car accident. The US can do it all.
The United States is not a state in the normal sense. Today it represents no nation, has no history and no culture. It is a well-developed gangster organization whose only task is to promote big capitalism at the expense of the peoples. Russia is in the way and the military and economic containment taking place under the guise of NATO and the EU is either an attempt to strangle Russia or, at worst, to prepare a war of aggression against Putin. Neither is in Europe’s interest. National forces that talk dreamily about America’s willingness to sacrifice and help Europe have no understanding of history. The United States only ever acts in its own interests, and these are defined in Jerusalem. And let’s be clear. If we have to choose between the colonization of Europe by the ruling American financial imperialism with its decadence, degeneracy and its insane and life-destroying ideas and political correctness on the one hand and Putin’s Russia on the other, we would rather be colonized by Russia. Russia is a European cultural country that is still imbued with European values, which today are completely absent in the USA. From the USA comes only filth, lack of culture, death and misery.
Of course, Putin should not be seen as a messiah of nationalism. He is a politician, but a good one. However, he has no sense of the importance of race, and there are already plenty of Negroes and Muslims in Moscow and especially St. Petersburg – but compared to here, of course, that is nothing. However, we know from experience how it goes. Residents from the former Asian Soviet republics are also free to move in. Furthermore, ultranationalists will point to a ban on certain ideologies and currents and a lid on historical research. This has to do with Russian history and self-perception. Few Russians doubt that communism was evil and cruel and that the Red Army committed atrocities against both Russians and Germans, but as they say: “It’s our history, and what’s the point of digging into it?”. You don’t do what the Germans do, who have been spiritually castrated by a completely excessive sense of guilt over German history and who have had their entire historical and cultural identity ripped from under their feet. The German people today are suffering from a collective hysterical neurosis with accompanying self-hatred and self-destruction that is unknown in Russia. A statue of Adolf Hitler in the middle of Berlin would be unthinkable, but the Jew Karl Marx – history’s greatest desk killer – still stands tall and mighty in front of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, and countless cities, streets and metro stations are named after the heroes and great criminals of communism to this day. Russians have not been robbed of their identity and pride – and that’s great. One great European people with collective insanity is more than enough! If Europe is to be saved, the rescue today must come from Russia!
Povl H. Riis-Knudsen
Translated by means of AI
Danmarks Frihedsraad 