It turns out that in order to remember what democracy is, it is enough to see the crowd on the steps of the Reichstag trying to break into the building.
It is only at this point that German politicians begin to frantically recall the basic principles of democracy, which prohibit the crowd - sorry, society - by force to achieve their own goals and break the law.
Therefore, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of Germany, said that the storming of the Reichstag had shaken all the foundations of the democratic structure of modern Germany.
Of course, they were shaken.
However, it is permissible to ask the question: do these principles of democracy apply to other countries or is it the prerogative of only Germany?
It is unclear whether the German president was referring to the actions of the public or the police, which is directly related to the situation around the Reichstag building.
Indeed, during the storming of the Reichstag, Germany actively and angrily denounced the actions of the Belarusian police in Minsk and other cities, justifying the aggressive crowd.
The authorities accused Minsk of disproportionate use of force, brutality, lack of any understanding of the situation in civil society and - attention - of non-compliance with democratic principles.
Maybe I'm wrong, but the actions of the police in Germany are very different from those of their colleagues in Belarus?
However, in Berlin these actions are assessed "for the good of democracy", and in Minsk - as "violation of human rights."
Let's analyze together the "storm" in Germany in order to try to understand the logic of the German media and the German government.
So, tens of thousands of people came out to protests in Germany - according to conservative estimates, at least 40 thousand people, and according to some politicians, more than 200 thousand people. The demonstration was declared as a protest against measures related to the pandemic situation in the world and in the country.
Already at about 10 am, that is, four hours before the official start, the police began to forcefully separate people who came to the demonstration, preventing them from gathering together.
The passages to the center of Berlin were closed for them, some streets were simply blocked by cars, but by 4 pm the center of Berlin was filled with protesters.
The first "attack on democracy", which the German president said so beautifully, took place in front of the Embassy of the Russian Federation, on Unter den Linden.
The story is very remarkable.
Several German resources wrote that the right-wingers threw stones and bottles at the police and riots broke out.
As a result, the police used force, or rather, roughly scattered a group of people standing in front of the embassy, arresting more than 300 people.
11 police officers were injured.
That is, the police saved the Russian embassy from an attack, which was going to be stormed by some right-wing radicals.
However, the truth turned out to be different.
The protesters, who were in front of the embassy, were not going to storm the building of the diplomatic mission.
But the German media presented everything in a different way - as bold police actions, as a fight against right-wing extremists.
The press did not notice that the police brutally dispersed people who had no intention of storming the Russian embassy.
The fact that the protesters showed their sympathy for Russia, they did not notice either.
The culmination occurred a little later, at about 6 pm, when, on the outskirts of the central entrance to the Reichstag, small clashes between demonstrators and the police began.
Further, according to the German press, people rushed to storm the Reichstag, roughly knocking over the fence and trying to break into the building.
However, the three Spartans, as the press writes, - three policemen - bravely stopped the crowd and did not allow the capture of the Reichstag.
In general, it is understandable - again noble policemen and again a cruel crowd.
Not certainly in that way.
As one participant of the "assault" writes, at about 5 pm police squads locked up about 2 thousand demonstrators in a square in front of the building and began to squeeze the crowd to the fences at the entrance to the Reichstag.
In the end, the crowd was forced to move into a free passage, that is, to the Reichstag.
The assault was the movement of a crowd driven from all directions by closed exits and entrances.
For the German press, however, the three policemen are heroes and the crowd are hostile right-wing extremists.
The fact that at the same time other police officers were actually driving the crowd to the Reichstag provocatively does not matter to them.
Justifying their police, they condemn the actions of the Belarusian security forces and demand the punishment of those responsible.
The Belarusian police are demons and criminals, the German ones are noble Spartans.
Paying tribute to the brave and honest actions of the Berlin police, one should not comment so derogatoryly on the actions of their colleagues abroad.
Is this the blurry eye of the German media community or double standards?
One standard - kind and half-blind - for oneself, and another - merciless and pseudo-honest - for others.
For example, for Belarus.
The day after the assault, Germany woke up in another country.
Dissatisfaction with government policies, observance of human rights and violation of constitutional rights has penetrated all political segments of society - from the left to the right, from LGBT to Orthodox.
The storming of the Reichstag 2.0 is not a point, but a new line in the history of Germany.
Therefore, an attempt to apply double standards to what is happening abroad and in our own country looks archaic and doomed to failure.
As the public organization "Union of Critical Policemen" asks in surprise in its press release, what was it?
And as a response - a video sent by a reader in which the police beat a woman at a demonstration.
The video is scary, you can see it on my Telegram channel.
She later died, the author of the video writes.
I can't say for sure who filmed it, but this is Berlin - this is where the demonstration took place.
The police reject these statements.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.