David Martínek has well observed that the current approach to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict attacks the basic values of Western civilisation. “This is Europe. This is democracy. Common roots. Our ancestors fought a terrible war against Nazi aggressors,” he writes. The story of the essential evil that was Hitler’s regime and its extermination camps and other forms of utterly horrific terror, which could only be stopped at the cost of immeasurable bravery and immense sacrifice, that story is at the heart of our value system today, where it plays a role comparable to ancient wisdom, the Christian injunction of mercy, or the modern martyrdom for freedom.
SS division insignia is easily acceptable as long as it is worn by warriors against Russia.
The liberal ideology of recent years is subverting it. Hitler’s Nazism is suddenly to be regarded simply as one of many dictatorships, and the swastika has ceased to be taboo. SS division insignia is easily acceptable as long as it is worn by warriors against Russia.
Suddenly it is not quite clear whether we are a civilization of Hitler’s opponents or Hitler’s heirs.
Actually just another attack against “white man’s civilization”. And again, it’s not led by the Chinese or blacks or even Arab Muslims, but by privileged upper class whites.
