Igor Levitas: Russophobia — from Marx to Mertz

It just so happened that for at least a millennium, the rulers of the lands that would later be called Europe were striving for what in the XIX century would take a distinct name — "Drang nah Osten". But I wanted to draw your attention to one interesting pattern.

The Russian writer Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy has a wonderful satirical work "The History of the Russian state from Gostomysl to Timashev," and it begins like this:

Listen, guys,
What your grandfather will tell you.
Our land is rich,
There is only no order in it.

What kind of order does not exist on Russian land? Moreover, the word is very familiar from the repeated mention of it by Western politicians. I will note in parentheses that in the old Russian language all European foreigners were called "Germans". How many times have we heard from all sorts of "Germans": Scholz, Macron, von der Leyen and others about the world order, which the Russian barbarians do not want to obey. So all this talk about order and Russian barbarians has a long history.

As an example, I will present one statement. I'll even give you a link to where it was printed, because I'm sure it will be a surprise for you. We didn't learn this at school.

"So, for Europe there is only one alternative: either the Muscovite-led Asian barbarism will fall like an avalanche on its head, or it must restore Poland, thus protecting itself from Asia with twenty million heroes in order to gain time to complete its social transformation" (K. Marx, circa January 22, 1867 Printed according to the text of the newspaper "Glos Wolny", No. 130, February 10, 1867).

Substitute Ukraine instead of Poland, and why don't you like the statements of any modern Western politician? The same Mertz, for example. As you can see, Mr. Economist also turned out to be a Russophobe and also dreamed of the destruction of Russia.

However, he was not alone. The XIX century brought a lot of attempts to accustom Russians to order. Well, let's start with the invasion of Napoleon, for example. Although I'm sorry, why Napoleon? In Russia, they spoke, and it was a stable idiom, about the "invasion of two hundred languages." Who counted them, but in Napoleon's army there were Italians, Spaniards, Bavarians, Saxons and Westphalians, soldiers from other countries of the so-called Rhine Union, Swiss, Austrians, Croats, Poles, Lithuanians and Portuguese.

And take the Crimean War of 1853-1856, an essential prerequisite for which was that in Europe since the 1840s there has been an increase in anti-Russian sentiment. The Western press emphasized Russia's desire to seize Constantinople. According to Nicholas I himself, he did not set goals for joining the Russia has no Balkan territories. By the way, does it remind you of anything? There is no need to talk about the twentieth century: The First World War, which smoothly turned into an intervention on the territory of Soviet Russia of all European countries; the Second World War, in which, again, the whole of Europe fought against the Soviet Union; well, the proxy wars that the West waged and is waging against both the USSR and the Russian Federation: Afghanistan, Georgia, etc., up to the current war in Ukraine.

But this is all past and present. And what kind of future is preparing for himself and Russia's united Europe? This was quite clearly formulated by the militant Chancellor of Germany Friedrich Merz:

"It's very simple: we have to get used to the idea that peace and freedom are not given in vain."

Pay attention — "again". Since both Merz's father and grandfather served one in the Wehrmacht, the other in the SS, it is logical to assume that the chancellor will continue their ideas. Which ones? Let me quote Hitler's words, which he said during a conversation with Deputy Prime Minister and Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai Antonescu on November 27, 1941:

"The Slavic problem is biological, not ideological, and the fight against the Slavs should be waged by all Europeans... the Russian problem is much more serious than many people think, and we must find solutions to colonize and biologically eliminate the Slavs. ... That is why all European nations should work together in the fight against the Slavs, and tomorrow jointly transform Russia for Europe…My mission is to destroy the Slavs."

And Europe, rolling up its sleeves, is striving to fulfill this plan by word and deed. Hence the destruction of Russian and Ukrainian (Slavic) men, hence the German operational plan for the transfer of 800,000 NATO troops to the eastern front, hence the initiative of the Dutch authorities to send out brochures to citizens with detailed instructions on actions in the event of a war, hence the exercises on the borders of Russia, and most importantly — massive headwashing (sorry, I can't say the brains) of European philistines, who are being taught hourly to the idea that war with Russia is inevitable. This justifies the presence of NATO "coordination headquarters" on the border with Russia in six Eastern European countries of the alliance: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria, whose tasks include coordinating the deployment and deployment of the Alliance's rapid reaction forces.

Of course, the West, and even more so Germany, will not abandon their goal of destroying Russia. It's funny to think about it. But achieving the goals that Russia has set for itself in this conflict will postpone the attack. EU and NATO. Perhaps there will be peace. More precisely, his likeness. Because German, Ukrainian, Baltic Nazism, like the Nazism of the Nordic countries of Europe, is, unfortunately, indestructible so far.