Russia's War Taboos

A CIA-operated propaganda outfit named Open Democracy (can't deny the fact that those creatures got an uncanny sense of irony) published a piece by a lowlife called Andrey Kalikh, kindly forwarded to me by Mike A' (otherwise I would be totally oblivious to his existence), heroically titled Russia's WWII: still too many taboos? i am not going to provide a link to that virtual puddle of effluent as anyone can look it up but here I am going to post my response which  I believe answers a few questions on what taboos about Second World war exist and ultimately who  lost or won the war (which as far as I am concerned is not yet over).

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I have no idea who is Andrey Kalikh except that he is a  lowlife, a writing parallel to the old concentration camp guard conscripted or rather hired from the ranks of the natives to do the dirtiest jobs lest whiter masterpeople get their hands dirty. The Nazi attitudes toward Russia were  formulated by Alfred Roseberg (incidentally a Tallinn, Reval native) and the strategy chosen by the Nazis was that of ethnic division and of breaking Russia into parts along tribal and ethnic lines, of creating "nations" and supporting them in opposition to Russia (or to Great Russians). It is probably worth reminding those with particularly short memory that Hitler came to power not on the promise of conquering the world or exterminating the Jewry as if that were the case hardly any German would have voted for him, but for rectifying evils of the Versailles (though not of all provisions of a far more unjust Saint-Germain-en-Laye treaty) and for combating evil Communism, which as the narrative evolved into something else, equalled countering Russia. This ideology, the one on which Nazism rose to power and the one on which Nazism is based, was borrowed wholesale word by word and deed by deed by the postwar United States and Britain (true heirs to the Nazi cause their understandable fondness for Israel notwithstanding) and this ideology drives CIA sponsored organizations like the hilariously named Open Democracy.  The case of ethno-Nazi satrapies like Estonia and Latvia is different, especially that of Estonia, which is far worse than the Nazi Germany was (without the concentration camps) as it is based on the notion of both ethnic exclusivity and racial superiority (pretty much in accordance with true principles on which the EU, the Evil Union, was founded) within a given territory, something Hitler's Germany never professed to be as most Nazi crimes were committed in foreign lands by helping hands of native Andreys Khalikhs, German Nazis never glorified barbarism or ethnic exclusivity - which are essential to the self-identity of the post Soviet ethno-Nazi states like Estonia. 

The motives of the CIA-funded Open Democracy (one must admit those guys have a great sense of humor when it comes to picking names for their propaganda ventures) which  employs human scum like Andrey Kalikh are apparent as is the obvious lack of good will toward Russia and its peoples. 

A few notes though:

The three Baltic States today are ethnocracies or ethno-Nazi formations which officially and informally practice ethnic discrimination that puts old South Africa (with which I am well familiar) to shame. It is pretty disgusting that the Andrei Kalikh, for propaganda purposes, placed today's Belorussia and its good natured people into the same category as Estonian and Lettish ethno-Nazis. 

Now let's get down to the beef. A disclaimer needs to be made here as why did Soviet authorities have problems with explaining how come the friend suddenly turned foe. First of all,  Hitler's Germany or the Weimar's Germany as Hitler did merely take over the German Federation (the Reich, not the Bund) without changing its constitution, was never presented as a friend to the Soviet public.  That is understandable as Hitler came to power on the promise of eliminating Bolshevism. History falsifiers, CIA-stooges, Anglo-American Nazis or treasonous human trash like Andrey Kalikh may claim that Hitler came to power professing love for the Soviet Union and Stalin reciprocated but any serious historian, professional or amateur, would have no difficulty in getting period materials from the era, from periodicals to speeches by public officials to uncover the truth. Considering the external isolation of the USSR and Hitler's successes, it was natural on the part of the Soviet Union to seek either neutrality arrangement or a split into spheres of influence with Germany that became a party with which the Soviet Union could do business and did do business while the USSR could stay neutral or collaborating on some issues as was the case with partitioning armed, aggressive and viscerally anti-Soviet Poland along historic and ethnic lines.   Secondly and most importantly, Hitler's racism and antisemitism notwithstanding, until the day of June 22, 1941 the war Germany waged was justified, just and noble, forced upon her by Britain which turned a German-Polish conflict (in which Germany's cause was just as it was trying to protect civilians of wrong ethnicity, namely German speakers, against  wrongs of a rabidly violent post Versailles and totally artificial ethnic state. A justification far more just or at least believable than phony claims of protecting civilians with napalm and depleted uranium that are now used by the Nato Nazis in the war of aggression waged against Muslim countries with Libyan people being the latest victim). It is worth remembering that for most of population of dismantled monstrosity called Czechoslovakia (or for  2.5 million Germans,  millions Slovaks and Hungarian nationals of that post-Versailles state) Hitler was a liberator and German Reich a force that brought justice and peace. Bloodlessly.  On June 22, 1941 when Hitler  at the head of the united Europe attacked Soviet Union the just war of defense , at least from the German standpoint,   turned into a war of aggression and became the point of no return after which the crimes of genocide, extermination of POWs and then Holocaust followed.

But taboos exist, The biggest taboo in respect to WWII that exists in Russia today is that it is unable, no wonder as so many historians belong to the caste of Russophobe Moscow-based "liberal intelligentsia" and CIA-run NGOs and "foundations" provide so much clout and stench, to clearly say that the Nazism was not defeated as the USA, Britain and the NATO collective are just continuation of Hitler's Reich in ideological and spiritual terms, and as long as there is NATO and Nazi war criminals and murders are glorified in the statelet of Estonia and Latvia under US protection,  the Nazi cause is alive and well,  but also Russia (and Russian historiography) is unable to admit that things are not black and white and that while Germany did attack the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 without any provocation, Germany did not start the Second World War, a tragedy for which Britain and its overseas backers bear sole responsibility and blame. That not the German Nazis but also the little ethno-Nazis, the nationalists of the new ethnic formations, bear most blame for the crimes of genocide as they were the ones who gathered the victims, murdered them or shipped them off to the concentration camps.  Practically all Jews were murdered in Estonia (it was safer to be a Jew in the Third Reich itself than in Estonia at the time) as long as all Russians, Slavs, gypsies - Germany bears the blame though it is obvious that a German in Estonia who can't speak the local language is helpless. Only Estonia and its ethno-Nazis are guilty of the most thorough ethnic cleansing continent saw. As long as there is "independent Estonia", the Nazism is not defeated. Russia is unable to say, for political reasons, that Finland bears greater blame for the Siege of Leningrad and is guilty of murdering over million civilians in Russia than does Nazi Germany which would have been totally helpless at the Siege business if not for enthusiastic Finnish assistance. One important taboo is the deportation and murder of millions (in case of Czechoslovakia alone of some 2.6 million deported and 250 000 murdered) of German speakers by the "democratic" ethnic states and Soviet allies which was probably the worst crime after the Holocaust itself and the murder of Soviet POWs, but since the victims were "Germans"  and the murderers ethnic nationalists in newfangled ethnocracies (which are all now NATO protectorates) and because the Soviet Union also participated in deportations (from its part of annexed East Prussia though unlike Czechoslovakia the USSR did not disenfranchise anyone as deportees were not its citizens), the subject is kept as a taboo.