A few days ago, a video showed and heard the hate that is now being directed at Ukrainian refugees during demonstrations in East Germany.
During a rally in Leipzig against the federal government's sanctions on Russia, Ukrainian counter-demonstrators were verbally abused and mobbed by German participants.
Ironically, they adopted Russian propaganda from "Nazis" who are now "living at our expense" in Germany.
The fact that an arson attack on accommodation for Ukrainian refugees was carried out in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for the first time since Putin's troops attacked the neighboring country is no longer really surprising.
Swastika daubs before the crime point to a right-wing extremist motivated hate crime.
Memories of Mölln and Solingen
The pictures of the burning house bring back memories of the murderous arson attacks on Turkish immigrant families in Mölln and Solingen and the pogrom-like riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen in the 1990s.
The right-wing extremist group “Freie Sachsen” is at the forefront of the radicalization in parts of the East German population against the support of Ukraine.
This is a brown force that previously used the fight against state corona measures such as the AfD quite successfully as a mobilization topic.
Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer experienced the hustle and bustle firsthand.
At a rally in Grimma, the CDU politician, who persistently promotes negotiations with the Moscow regime as a way to peace, clearly and gratifyingly condemned the Russian war of aggression as "huge injustice" - to the angry shouts of right-wing Putin fans.
Leading politicians must take a more offensive stance against the criminal-victim reversal perfidiously pursued by Russia, including in Germany.
They must refrain from using terms such as “social tourism” in connection with refugees from Ukraine, which has been devastated by war and terror.