Russia comes clean

If you expect me to write something today, sorry. I’ll be acting mostly as translator, for Russia has announced her war objectives so lucidly and unequivocally that there’s little anyone can add.

For, not after the Wannsee Protocol has any European (or in this case quasi-European) country outlined the desideratum of a Final Solution in so many words, without resorting to subterfuge.

The banner idea was declared by Dmitri Medvedev, Putin’s loyal poodle. It was then fleshed out by RIA (the Russian Information Agency), the government’s mouthpiece.  

So first Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, formerly her prime minister and president:

“President of Russia Vladimir Putin has firmly set the objective of demilitarising and denazifying the Ukraine. These difficult tasks cannot be carried out instantly. And neither will they be accomplished solely on the battlefields… The ultimate goal is to secure peace for the future generations of the Ukrainians by finally creating an open Eurasia – from Lisbon to Vladivostok.”

The Third Reich, eat your heart out – Hitler had more modest objectives. But what do “demilitarising and denazifying” mean when they are at home? Specifically?

RIA Novosti kindly explains, or rather transmits Putin’s explanation:

“Russia is fighting the West for the future of the world… The Ukraine has become the West’s tool for reshaping the world.”

Therefore, “All war criminals and active Nazis must suffer an exemplary and widely publicised punishment. A total purge must be carried out…

“However, it’s not just the leaders but also a significant part of the people who are passive Nazis, Nazi collaborators. They supported the Nazi regime and kowtowed to it. Just punishment of this part of the population is only achievable by inflicting the unavoidable hardships of a just war against the Nazi system…

“Any further denazification of this part of the population will consist of re-education, to be achieved by an ideological repression (suppression) of Nazi ideas and by strict censorship: not only in the sphere of politics but also definitely in the sphere of culture and education…  

“Hence the denazified country cannot remain sovereign. The denazifying state – Russia – cannot practise a liberal approach to denazification. [Could have fooled me – AB]. The denazifier’s ideology shall not be contested by the guilty party to be denazified…

“The collective West is itself the designer, source and sponsor of Ukrainian Nazism.

“The name ‘Ukraine’ clearly cannot be preserved as the designation of any completely denazified polity on the territory liberated from Nazism… The newly created people’s republics… cannot in reality be neutral – the guilt of treating Russia as an enemy can only be redeemed by depending on Russia for reconstruction, rebirth and development.

“No ‘Marshall Plans’ can be allowed in these lands. There can be no ideological or political ‘neutrality’ in any practical sense compatible with denazification. The personnel and organisations acting as instruments of denazification cannot succeed without Russia’s direct help, both military and organisational.

“Denazification will inevitably also become a de-Ukrainisation… As history has shown, the Ukraine cannot exist as a nation state, and any attempt to ‘build’ one ineluctably leads to Nazism.

“Historical experience shows that wartime tragedies and dramas ultimately benefit the nations seduced and tempted to act as Russia’s enemies. [I’m sure the surviving Bucha residents will take much solace in this – AB]

“The ‘Catholic province’ (the five regions of Western Ukraine) is unlikely to join the pro-Russian areas. The demarcation line will be established empirically. Lying beyond it will be a neutral and demilitarised Ukraine where all the haters of Russia will congregate, but where every formal manifestation of Nazism will be banned. Should these demands not be met, a threat of an immediate resumption of military action will guarantee the neutrality of this rump Ukraine. A permanent Russian military presence may be necessary to ensure this.

“Russia will have no allies in this denazification of the Ukraine. [What, not even North Korea? – AB]. For this is a purely Russian affair. And it is not just the Banderite version of a Nazi Ukraine that will be uprooted, but also and above all Western totalitarianism, the imposed programmes of civilisational degradation and collapse, the mechanisms of subjugation to the superpower of the West and the USA.

“To succeed in carrying out the plan of denazifying the Ukraine, Russia herself will have to abandon for ever all her pro-European and pro-Western illusions. She will have to perceive herself as the last bulwark of defending and preserving those values of a historical Europe that are deemed worthy and that the West itself has given up.”

I’m sure you don’t need any clarificaction, but I can’t resist adding my penny’s worth. For spelled out here is a genocidal plan to exterminate most Ukrainians, while enslaving and Russifying the rest.

But Russia also gets the good news: she’ll have to forget any hope of ever becoming a European nation.

And, since a few million Russians do consider themselves culturally European, they too will have to be purged by re-education, exile, imprisonment or – better still – mass extermination. Mein Kampf meets the Wannsee Protocol and the Bolshevik programme of annihilating whole classes.

This is unvarnished fascism and an open declaration of war on the West. If you still doubt that a Third World War is under way, I suggest you re-read the above. And if after that you still love that strong leader Putin, you must be Peter Hitchens.