“75 years ago, 2.5 million Germans fled from the advancing Red Army at -20 ° C in winter. Today we honor the memory of the victims of flight. ”
This message appeared on the social media page of a German politician on the anniversary of the liberation of Warsaw. This is about an event that the majority of Germans try not to bashfully mention, and even if they speak about it, then in the form strictly approved by society: "We lost the war that we unleashed, we are guilty, we repent."
Yes, times are changing. And what used to seem unthinkable now somehow suspiciously often began to slip into the matches of our geopolitical partners from, for example, Eastern Europe. Czech Republic, Poland, Baltic states: no, no, and it pops up that the German occupation was not so bad, but also an episode that was unpleasant to someone, and even very tolerable, because they drank Bavarian!
But when the evil Russians came, having driven away the pregnant woman and opening the gates of the concentration camps - this is where the real occupation began.
These countries can be understood: as members of the EU, but without a sufficiently developed economy, they partially eat the bread of the descendants of those very pregnant in the form of Hugo Boss. If in Russian - these are subsidized regions, receiving money, including from the richest country in the European Union, and offending Berlin is not in their arc. But this case is different.
The post was written by Alice Weidel, co-chair of Alternatives to Germany, Germany’s most pro-Russian party. A party in which (the only one!) The sanctions are officially registered in the election program. Parties whose deputies at the invitation of Leonid Slutsky visited Crimea, and one, Gunnar Lindemann, still regularly visits Donbass. And finally, a party that spends half of its time and energy shoving itself off the label of neo-Nazis, which it has pinned to the forehead by the liberal press.
And now, exactly after Vladimir Putin several times on various occasions clearly expressed the idea that the falsification of history (including international meetings) is unacceptable, Frau Weidel publicly mourns about 2.5 million “refugees”. Which before that, apparently, miraculously ended up on the territory of a neighboring state.
I know a bit of party cuisine from the inside and am familiar with some members of the AdG. And I’ll venture to suggest: if the “Alternative” won 12% in the last election, rather than 22 or 32, it was solely due to the terrible confusion prevailing between its functionaries. The right hand there literally does not know what the left is doing, party members constantly quarrel among themselves and sometimes find out relationships in the public space through all the same posts on Facebook. Ideologist Mark Yongen is trying to sell all this as a chip, arguing that the only way a “truly popular party” should look like. The party is just very lucky.
Therefore, it was obvious to me from the very beginning: this post was in no way a reflection of the party line, but was a bad misunderstanding, born well if Alice herself, and possibly just the indefatigable fantasy of the school student.
My suspicions were strengthened when I talked with several other party members. Absolutely everyone was surprised. All expressed bewilderment. The same Lindemann gave an official comment, indicating that Weidel’s post “does not reflect reality”. And of course, the deputy said all the necessary words that "the Soviet Union made the biggest contribution to the fight against fascism and paid millions of lives for it."
In short: "Alternative for Germany" was scared. And yes, the next day the post disappeared from Alice Weidel’s page.
But while he hung, there was a debate on the net. There were also our fellow citizens who believed that Alice “wrote everything correctly”, that there could be no other position for the patriot of her country except grief for “her” (Germans), and let ours grieve about Soviet soldiers.
I will write the elementary truth now. But it seems that again the time has come to recall these truths, since so many things are now being questioned. Our country has won the war and at this prohibitive price has bought the right to the truth. His truth about this war. The sacrifice was so great and grand that our truth goes far beyond national interests, diplomatic politics and state borders. It is universal.
It is by this right that we can now not only critically observe the revisionism of 20th-century history, but also intervene, shout and beat hands, as happened with Weidel’s post. She deleted it - and this is an important precedent. There will still be such precedents, and it would be good if everyone ended as this one ended.
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.