>From: "Vera Bjurling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >=========================== >The Committee for National Solidarity >Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU > > >www.tenc.net [emperors-clothes] > >Europe's Dirty Secret > >by Rick Rozoff (3-27-00) > >[Note - the following is excerpted from a most thought-provoking email >note that Mr. Rozoff sent to friends on the Internet. ] > >I've hesitated to weigh in on this issue for fear that my ethnic >background might leave me open to the suspicion of "special pleading." >But this issue has to be met head on. > >To someone outside of Europe or not of European ancestry, all Europeans >must appear homogeneous. Similarly, Europeans and North Americans are >often shocked when they learn of the extensive ethnic and cultural >diversity that obtains in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, as those >areas are presented in the West as stereotyped and monolithic. In fact >Europe is and has always been divided in a number of ways: Language >groups, different branches of Christianity, social class, ethnic >pluralism within nations, with certain groups historically disadvantaged >(Celts, Basques, Romany, etc.), and - perhaps most demonstrably - by >geographic divide. North vs. South and West vs. East are the major >cleavages. > >Anti-Slavic prejudice - more properly, racism - is a dirty secret in >European history. > >It reached its most monstrous level of refinement with Hitler, who both >'scientifically' codified and savagely implemented this prevailing view >of Slavs as Untermenschen - subhumans. Fifty million human beings lost >their lives in World War Two, the majority of them Slavs. Estimates of >Soviet dead, which include Jews, Roma and other non-Slav minorities, but >which were overwhelmingly Slavic, range as high as thirty million. >Additionally, millions of Serbs, Poles and other Slavs were killed in >battle or along with Jews and others in death camps. > >Every action has its rationale and every policy its doctrine. Had >anti-Slavic (and related anti-Eastern - that is, anti-Romanian, Greek, >etc.) bigotry not been allowed to simmer in Europe for centuries, it >wouldn't have been as easy to exterminate tens of millions of Eastern >Europeans as it was for the Third Reich. > >A resumption, an hysterical revival, of this racism has been dredged up >since the beginning of the break up of Yugoslavia in 1991. Often the >pronouncements of Western government and media spokespeople are a barely >disguised recycling of Nazi race propaganda from the 1930s and 40s. As >one British journalist put it a few months ago, this campaign of >collective dehumanization (another trick infamously practiced by Hitler, >Rosenberg, Goebbels and company) has led to the word Slav being >synonymous with criminal. Or subhuman. Or inherently (read: racially) >inferior, lazy, dishonest, violent people who deserve all the misery, >disease, bombing and eventual physical elimination NATO and IMF/World >Bank policies have brought on them. > >When the life expectancy of a Russian male (one current estimate is 56 >years) is lower than that in most 'official' Third World countries; when >Romanians, Bulgarians and others are eating out of garbage cans and >sleeping in sewers; when 1.2 million ethnic Serbs are driven out of >their homes and living destitute in Serbia proper, consituting the >largest mass scale refugee crisis in Europe since World War II and its >aftermath; when all this is occurring and nobody in the West says >ANYTHING about it, except to callously and contemptuously blame the >victims - it's time for all people of good will to oppose the >ethnopsychological (that is, racist) and other propaganda devices use to >perpetrate and excuse this travesty. > >T.V. and Alida Weber and 'Stormie' Leporte (who by the way runs a superb >Web site: http://www.abolishnato.com ) have performed an indispensible >service by analyzing and exposing this campaign of racial dehumanization >and persecution. > >Lastly, it's not a matter of contrasting one group's tragedy with >another's, but of learning from many experiences to recognize a current >catastrophe. The Roman poet Virgil has a line that says, "Taught by >misfortune, I pity the suffering." United by our horror at past acts of >racial stereotypng and persecution, we can condemn it whenever it >occurs. > >One point of information. The D-Day invasion didn't occur until Spring >of 1944. By that time the Soviet Union and numerous Eastern European >partisan groups (Serbian, Greek and others) had been holding off and >driving out the overwhelming bulk of Axis troops for over two and a half >years. They, more than anyone else, saved the world from fascism. They >deserve far more consideration and gratitude than they've ever received >from the Western nations who, with the exception of Britain in Europe, >didn't even put up a decent fight against Hitler. > >*** >If you find emperors-clothes useful, we can use your help... >(The Soros Foundation does NOT fund Emperors Clothes.) >We rely on volunteers for labor and donations to pay expenses. 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