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A beam in another's eye: the West accused Russia of 'neo-colonialism'
2023-02-20
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Elena Karaeva

[RIA] Finally, the current opponents of Russia, whom we considered, if not friends, then definitely partners, and sometimes allies, found the time and place to make a new accusation. At the Munich Conference, it was announced that Moscow was pursuing a policy of "neo-colonialism." And not only in relation to their neighbors (the word "Caucasus" was heard), but also in Africa.

In the hall sat the British, Belgians, Spaniards, Portuguese, subjects of the Kingdom of the Netherlands . With that general expression on their faces, as if none of them knew that their countries for centuries built their wealth, prosperity, prosperity on the monstrous exploitation of states turned by the British, Belgians, Spaniards, Portuguese, subjects of the Kingdom of the Netherlands into colonies. Turning the natives - practically (and sometimes, as was the case with Belgium , and legally) - into slaves. Accusations against Russia, calling its policy "neo-colonialist", were put forward by the President of France.

Of course, it is Russia's "imperial ambitions" that are the cause of the current geopolitical crisis in Europe . And what else? Not the expansion of NATO to the east, not lies in international relations, not lies at the time of signing agreements and treaties. If you start looking in the mirror, you can see the events and more ancient history. The Bayerischer Hof, where Russia was "run over" by the western political beau monde, is within walking distance to Arcisstrasse. There, in the building that now houses the Munich Academy of Music and Theatre, an agreement was signed, which as a result led to the outbreak of World War II. Yes, and a "beer putsch" was also arranged in Munich . There are a lot of historical allusions, but those who make accusations against Russia pretend that they do not exist.
Nobody pretends the national socialist Nazis did not exist, nor that they were expansionist, totalitarian, and evil. Those with some historical awareness understand that the same was true about the international socialists of Russia’s self-named Soviet Union.
Let's restore justice at least partially - let's recall this.

The liberation movements of the colonies of France and Britain for independence are not the legends of antiquity. This happened almost yesterday. Those states that now accuse Russia of non-existence have shed so much blood that it is terrible to say. The Algerian authorities believe that during the ten years of confrontation, the French and the NATO countries that helped them killed at least one and a half million people.

It was even worse in the then Belgian Congo - all its inhabitants were considered personal slaves of King Leopold II. And little Congolese were shown at the Brussels Zoo back in 1958.
I’ve toured the museum in Brussels holding the royal collection from the Congo, where they ignore all the horrors promulgated with his permission in favour of some interesting curiosities. We were only there a year, so never got to the zoo, but there were interesting things being ignored about the children of refugees. An interesting culture, the Belgians.
When Europe diligently divided people into blacks, whites, Aryans, Slavs, Ubermens and Untermens, and in the USA mixed marriage was a "racial crime", in the USSR they said: "Give birth to children of any color - even with stripes, even with polka dots."
They did indeed. But visiting African students and such were still neaten in the streets from time to time, and being Ukrainian or Jewish or practicing Christian or not a member of the Communist Party sometimes became very interesting indeed. Psychiatry had different definitions in the Soviet Union than elsewhere in the world.
When Europe was pumping resources out of the colonies, the USSR built schools and hospitals in the republics, introducing quotas for talented youth in the best universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg to support higher education.
As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined — all those talented youths were eother kept in Moscow and St. Petersburg Leningrad or sent back as devout Communists, tying their home countries more closely to Moscow, which in the long run benefitted nothing but the Russian ego.
When the inhabitants of the colonies did not have the slightest access to the culture of the metropolis, national cultures flourished in the USSR. Chingiz Aitmatov , Fazil Iskander, Rasul Gamzatov, Ibragimbekov brothers, Rustam and Maksud, Alexander Dovzhenko, Vytautas Zhalakyavichyus, Viya Artmane, Ada Rogovtseva, Rudolf Nureyev- these were Kyrgyz, Abkhazians, Azerbaijanis, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Latvians and Tatars. And they constituted perhaps the brightest constellation of talents in the world of European culture (very white at that moment, strictly metropolitan origin).

The theater from the Lithuanian Panevezys thundered throughout the vast country. They almost prayed for Georgian cinema, how good it was. And, most importantly, Russia has managed to continue this tradition of preserving its national identity by adding color to Russian culture.

Today in France, whose leader has accused Russia of "neo-colonialism", according to published figures, 91 percent of the French, whose skin is "not white", told pollsters that they have been or are being subjected to racial discrimination - at school, at work, on their way home, in places of leisure.

And these figures show who actually still lives according to colonial rules, and for whom all people, regardless of skin color, are equal.

So let the political beau monde not blame the sick head for a healthy one, he will not succeed!

Posted by:badanov

#1  Yes, I believe there is plenty enough sin to go around. And it seems that everybody wants to talk about how dirty everybody else is instead of taking a bath and trying to wash it off.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-02-20 13:47  

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