Deprive Russia of The Moral High Ground

The lessons of World War II must be reevaluated for the West to act confidently

If the West is to regain its confidence in international affairs, if it is to become more decisive against its implacable enemies like Russia, there needs to be a moral re-evalution of the outcome of World War II. It doesn't need to go into full-blown revisionism, nor, needless to say, into whitewashing of Nazi crimes. Nevertheless, there must come the realization that the western powers made a grave mistake by allying with Soviet Union against Nazi Germany and assuming it to be the "lesser evil" compared to the latter.

A lesser evil was it certainly not. In fact, by all parameters it was the greater Evil. It's just Russians, the masterful manipulators and inveterate liers they are, were very successful at hiding their crimes and manipulating the narratives in the West. Whereas Germans, because of their innate honesty and directness - a total opposite of Russians by nature, were literally telegraphing their crimes and intentions for the whole world to see. This state of affairs, among other things, fooled the Anglo-Saxon powers into allying with Russian barbarians, and using them in order to prevail against their civilizational rivals - i.e., the Germans.

The invasion of Europe by the Red Army, fully equipped and pumped up by American weapons and with the full backing of American industry, without which it would have been defeated by Germany within months, was the gravest tragedy and horror for Europe comparable to the Mongol invasion.

German crimes during World War II were something out of the ordinary and unnatural for this civilized culture nation. One can regard them as some kind of a mental blackout, like a normally nice guy momentarily going crazy for various reasons. And reasons did they have enough, one could argue. At the end of the First World War, Germany was humiliated by the punitive Versailles Treaty. In its aftermath, the Entente powers were more preoccupied with extracting revenge on Germany by demilitarizing it, demanding inordinate reparations and choking it economically, to which ends they also didn’t shy away from using brutal force (e.g., French occupation of the Ruhr region), while remaining oblivious to the wild beast that was raising its head in the east - i.e., Russia that had shed away its unnatural European veneer and re-emerged as the Soviet Union hellbent on destroying the West. Such extreme mistreatment was sure to backfire at some point, turning civilized, good-natured and amicable Germans into cold-blooded executioners.

But precisely because the crimes of the Nazi era were so unusual and unnatural to Germans, they repented soon after, being shocked at the things they had done. They repented and continue to repent up to this day (which at this stage does more harm than good, by the way) not because they were defeated, as is often being claimed in the mainstream narrative, but because they are a moral people with a deep-seated sense of dignity and the ability to admit and feel shame for their misdeeds.

None of this can be said of Russians however. The bestialities of the Red Army, in contrast, were not an exception, but rather the norm for the Russian people, perfectly reflecting their nature and innate behavioral characteristics. German crimes reflected the cruelty of the civilized people, that was not innately driven and was very unnatural to them, but which emerged in response to a trigger at a time of huge distress that was the Versailles Treaty and its aftermath. Moreover, as a rule, German atrocities were characterized by their procedural and impersonal nature, which had the effect of minimizing contact with their victims, partly inadvertently and partly deliberately. One can be brainwashed. One can go crazy. One can be filled with hatred, and wish death and to incur suffering on someone. But normally, even for the most cruel person, at some point a visceral repulsion will be activated in the brain, which would force him to avoid witnessing for a prolonged time the agony of his victim while committing the atrocity.

Russian crimes, on the other hand, were not only orders of magnitude more barbaric, but one can say that they operated on a totally different dimension, without any inhibitions and within a mental universe unfathomable to civilized peoples. Even the residual empathy and repulsion seemed to be absent from them. And this is precisely how they treat their Ukrainian victims in the current war as well.

As the famous Polish writer Stanisław Lem observed in his letter:

The cruelty of the Germans who entered occupied countries during Hitler's time cannot be compared to the Soviet cruelty in terms of either depth or breadth. For the Germans, it was simply a trivial matter, and they mechanically and impersonally followed the commandments that made them consider themselves the superior race while calling us Jews 'Ungeziefer' - pests and parasites to be exterminated. They considered us devious pests, endowed with such chutzpah that, through cunning mimicry, enabled us to acquire a resemblance to humans.

The Russians, on the other hand, recognized their own meanness and baseness in a wordless, muffled manner, which made them capable of anything: raping 80-year-old women, killing as if in passing, destroying and obliterating all signs of wealth and prosperity that civilization had achieved. In this destruction, they showed significant foresight, initiative, attention, concentration, and willpower. In doing so, they took revenge not only against the Germans, but also against the entire world outside of their prison. It was the vilest kind of revenge. They defiled everything - no animal demonstrates such, so to speak, excremental cruelty as the Russians did, smashing and filling with their excrements entire living rooms, hospital halls, bidets, closets, destroying books, carpets and altars. In this act of defilement directed against the whole world, which they could now (oh what a joy!) trample upon, crush, destroy, and also rape and kill (they raped women after childbirth, women after major surgeries, raped women lying in pools of blood - raped and defiled), they had to steal wristwatches as well. When one poor soldier had no chance among the Germans in the hospital because his predecessors had taken everything worth taking, he burst into tears and simultaneously shouted that if he didn't receive a wristwatch immediately, he would shoot the first three people he met.

One can say that when someone is dead it doesn’t matter whether he/she was killed in an impersonal manner or not. However, one could also argue that it makes a huge difference for the victim whether he/she was killed immediately by a bullet shot, or by being crucified to a barn door, with limbs and breasts cut, eyes pierced, and after being gang-raped by 100 soldiers.

The most damning long-term outcome of the Second World War for the Western Civilization, however, was that Russian barbarians, animated by a deep-seated envy and hatred of the West, suddenly acquired an undeserved moral high ground! Simply for having been allied with the western powers and thereby emerging at the winning side. And they would go on to use this ostensible moral high ground fully, to shame their victims, to guilt trip anyone pointing out their crimes, and as the current war in Ukraine shows, to justify their invasions and their barbaric behavior.

The memory of World War II encapsulated within the current mainstream narrative is what is holding the West back and putting a leash on it in the confrontation with Russia. This especially applies to Germany, where one of the frequent methods used by the pro-Russian leftist groups to prevent arming Ukraine is to allude to Germany's Nazi past in order to guilt-trip Germans against confronting Russia more decisively.

Russia must be deprived of this assumed moral high ground. Russian people were not the victims of the war by any means. They were the perpetrators. Far more vicious and evil perpetrators than the Germans. Nor was there anything good in that Soviet Union, instead of Germany, ended up occupying half of Europe. Soviet Union, like present-day Russia, was the most evil, barbaric and also mendacious entity in modern history, that like its successor present-day Russia acted as the paragon of anti-western/anti-white resentment throughout the world and animated by the goal of destroying the West, both through inflitration and direct invasion - Stalin was planning to invade Europe in 1941, he was just preepmted by Hitler. It therefore needed to be attacked and destroyed. As late as in the 1930s the West should have already embarked on a long-overdue Holy Crusade against this vile abomination. Too bad that the only entity that took upon itself this mission at the time was the one who also rebelled against the West from within and therefore couldn't convince the other civilized nations to join it in this endeavor.