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Kiev has left Donetsk totally in the dark with all
electricity supplies cut off. The ensuing humanitarian disaster has been not
only ignored by the German media, but there are alarming similarities in
today's press with how press outlets from Germany and central Europe spoke of
the same places in the 1940s.
When one looks at the
Western (and in particular the German) interpretation of news from Ukraine and
Crimea, the impression is that journalists in modern Germany (and in the
West in general) have an even more crooked psyche and conscience than
journalists in the Hitler-dominated Nazi Third Reich.
Wednesday’s news is a
good example. The Ukrainian media triumphantly reported that “on July 26
Ukraine has totally stopped all deliveries of electric energy to the
temporarily uncontrolled territory of Donetsk region (ORDO).” Explanation for
the Westerners: ORDLO is the abbreviated name which the Ukrainian
“revolutionary” authorities gave to those areas in Donetsk region which did not
recognize the post-Maidan “revolutionary” government of Ukraine and managed to
fend off the Ukrainian army’s punitive onslaught during the summer war in 2014.
There are more than 2.3
million people living in Donetsk People’s Republic. Can you imagine what
happens to 2.3 million people without electricity in the modern world? But the
head of Ukrenergo (the Ukrainian energy monopoly) Vsevolod Kovalchuk remained unperturbed
, saying that “our supplies to Donetsk have been reduced to zero, but that
will have only positive consequences.”
In the neighboring
Lugansk People’e Republic, where 1.3 million people live, Ukraine cut all
energy supplies back in April.
Now all the electricity
that Donetsk and Lugansk consume is either produced by themselves or supplied
from neighboring Russia – much to the chagrin of the German chancellor Merkel
and similar European humanists from France, the UK and Poland, who set
themselves the aim of reducing Russia’s involvement in these areas to zero.
The story with the total
cut of Ukrainian energy supplies to Donetsk, however, did not interest the EU
countries’ media in the least. What kept them busy was the recent scandal with
Siemens (a German company producing energy equipment) infuriated as they were
with Russia’s “abuse” of its confidence. Siemens even offered to “buy back”
from Russia the gas turbines produced with the use of Siemens’ technologies on
Russian territory and brought for installation in Crimea.
From the modern German
point of view, what an awful perspective, no wonder the German press is up in
arms! These turbines may help to provide warmth and light to 2 million of
Crimeans, so that they don’t share the gloomy fate of the people of Donbass.
“Schrecklich”, as Mr. Hitler would have said in his days in the 1940s, when the
inhabitants of Donbass were guaranteed security by the Germans only as “forced
workers” (Zwangsarbeiter) on the territory of the Reich – in special clothes,
that used to be called slaves’ attire in less politically correct Roman and
medieval times.
Indeed, Siemens’ turbines
in Crimea – this is a total breach of the great world order which the EU and
the US have been building during all of those years since the collapse of the
Soviet Union in 1991. With its humanistic bombing, aka“democratizations” of
Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria, that left millions of non-democrats dead or
starving, not to speak about such “luxuries” as light and warmth, what sort of
record does NATO have? Clearly it is a negative one to put it mildly.
So, no wonder the German
authorities issued a tough statement about Russia’s “breach of confidence,”
generously allowing the insulted and sobbing Siemens to go off the hook without
fines – for now. There was, of course, no German protest against Ukraine’s
cutting electric supplies to its own citizens or to Crimea.
Somehow, Mrs. Merkel and
other humanists from the EU are NEVER concerned by the continued water
and food blockade of Donetsk and Lugansk from the Ukrainian side, which has
been continuous since 2014. Almost no one in the Western press was concerned
when the so called “Ukrainian nationalist activists” a few months ago plunged
Crimea into darkness by blowing up the energy lines near the Crimean border.
These lines for decades have been allowing Ukraine’s electricity (Soviet and
non-Soviet) to flow to Crimea. Putin’s horrible Russia signed a contract on energy
supplies to Crimea with Poroshenko’s government in 2014-2015, but Poroshenko
still allowed the electric lines to be blown up.
No one in the Western
publications was then concerned about young women in Crimea (including those
sweethearts of Western propaganda, the “Russian-oppressed” Crimean Tatars)
giving births in maternity wards in complete darkness and without minimal
medical aid. No one in Germany, supposedly full of regret about the World War
II, asked questions about the transportation in Crimea, which came to its first
full stop since 1943 because of the German-supported Ukrainian and Tatar
nationalists.
Somehow, Hitler’s ideas
are very much alive in today’s Europe. The Fuhrer dreamed of that “new
consciousness” under which only the “right” suffering will be pitied and
alleviated – that is, the suffering of Nazi Germans and their allies among
Ukrainian and Tatar (or Latvian, or Croat) anti-Russian nationalists. The
suffering of “Zwangsarbeiter” was of no importance, and the suffering of
“Partisanen” (whose successors are now defending the Donetsk People’s
Republic) under Hitler was supposed to be made as great as possible – with
electricity and water cuts for “hostile territories” celebrated.
Now show me ONE
difference between the attitudes to Donbass and Crimea from the German press of
1941-1945 and of 2014-2017.
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