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    «Two skeletons in the closet» of the German reunification.
    «Two skeletons in the closet» of the German reunification.
    «Two skeletons in the closet» of the German reunification.
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    «Two skeletons in the closet» of the German reunification.

    By V.V.Voronov

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    Now, it is about a topic of this work. The big part of text is dedicated to the largest and, I suppose, the most important country in Europe. This is Germany. The fact that Germans had not comprehended their own nature, its basics, led to two world wars, greatest tragedies of the 20th century. But even today one can authoritatively add that they have not studied historical lesson properly.
    As the last crisis showed, the German «market command economy socially-oriented» is far from the most effective economic systems in the world, the German pension system, was near to collapsing in 2013, but the main example for the above thesis is the German reunification.
    Still today many Germans are indignant with the Soviet «occupying forces», comrade Stalin, the whole Russia and Russian people over the establishment of GDR. Strange, but they do not remember their own unique contribution to the development of communist doctrine! Were it not for the two key Marxists, Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin and some other German activists too, would communism develop in a way it did? May the establishing in the east part of the Germany of the separate «republic of workers and peasants» not be seen as the return of «the spectre of communism», what was glorified by Marx in his famous «manifesto», to its «historical homeland»?
    Others reasons for charges against Russia are Berlin Wall and East German security service Stasi. But it might have been much worse! For example, the Ulbricht Mausoleum in Alexanderplatz with a mummy of «comrade Walter» inside could be added to this list of «sights of GDR»! And, I am sure, if it happened the «soiled reputation» of Russian folk would become dirtier!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9783959260824
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      «Two skeletons in the closet» of the German reunification. - V.V.Voronov

      FOREWORD.

      Banal as it is, history really repeats itself. Immediately, many of us can recall the rest of the quote on tragedy and farce as well as those numerous historians, from Sima Qian to Lev Gumilev, trying to suss out the topic. Additionally, also Anatoly Fomenko, «a new chronologist», may be mentioned [1]. This is obvious that historical cycles are of different character. Some are global and prolonged, others are Local and short-dated. It is better to entitle these cycles as ones of resemblance.

      It is a truth, Tsar Ivan the Terrible resembles Stalin and another Russian ruler, Alexander III, is identical in some respects with Gorbachev. But this is merely a surface resemblance. Ivan IV carried out the policy of oprichnina that included mass repressions of aristocrats and common people [2], but on the other hand he lost a big war [3] and in consequence left his successors the still widespread but considerably weakened state.

      In contrast, Stalin, who also was an enthusiast for «tightening the screw», won the big war [4], enlarged the territory and strengthened the position of the state. At what cost? That is the other story.

      Facing the necessity for reforms, Alexander III managed, at least partly, to modernize Russia. Having been assassinated by terrorists, he could not complete what he planned. As it comes to Gorbachev, the course of events is exactly the reverse. He keeps living, having completed his mission, but the country he once had power over, unfortunately, exist no more...

      But these are, as I may say, the Russian deeds. Meanwhile, we can watch alike analogies in Europe, too. Many researchers persistently create a parallel between the Roman Empire (taking into account not the best times of it whatsoever) and the present European Union…

      It is difficult to say something in opposition to this. Nowadays, filling the Continent, crowds of immigrants seem to resemble hordes of antique barbarians, just as indolent «native» Europeans resemble ancient Roman populace. «Circuses» as their favourite entertainments changed, because races of chariots, gladiator fights already went out of fashion. Probably, the prevailing policies of tolerance and political correctness do not allow continue these «pastimes». Television shows became substitutes of antique circus games. There are many of them; one could even say their quantity is excessive. «Bread» changed, too. Modern «Caesars» do not distribute it in the streets. They have social welfare system for this purpose.

      But despite all the above, there is a difference in regards to Europe fifteen centuries ago and now. Degradation processes of that time were spontaneous. And whatever numerous amateurs of conspiracy theories say, e.g. those convinced in the «Judaic conspiracy»against Rome in revenge for demolishing Jerusalem, or the ones of malevolent pressure put on the Huns by the Chinese to have them invade into Europe, or the ones alluding to the Persian «footprint», one sees it hard to believe them.

      At present all is different. It is senseless to deny that the New World has an immense influence, especially ideological, over the Old World. Consequently, borrowing the melting pot concept from USA, and the concept of multilateralism from Canada, seems to be the most negative expression of that influence. That is why there are enough «grave diggers» of Europe among European intellectuals, starting from a Russian journalist and writer, Yulia Latynina, to a German sociologist, Gunnar Heinsohn. As early as in 2003 Heinsohn was foretelling the process of Islamisation of Europe, including the evacuation of the last «true» Europeans to Canada and USA (His book «Sons and World Power. Terror in the Rise and Fall of Nations» [5]).

      The author of this work, do not share such pessimism. That is true that the last economic crisis and the military operation in Libya revealed, that Europeans work and fight worse and worse. Nevertheless, while in the past the «barbarian» groups came from the outside of the «civilized»Europe, now they have already been here; i.e. their counterparts in the form of immigrants’ ghettos, to mention the suburbs of Paris and district of Berlin Kronplatz, town Teplice in the Czech Republic and city Rotterdam in Holland. One can assume that these places play the role of time bombs and they may explode any time now.

      But still it is too early to dance on EU’s grave, as all member states have been undergoing the same processes, but at their own varied pace. Besides, we can even sometimes observe «movement back» as the «nationalist» Renaissance. Yesterday it was Holland and Denmark, today Finland and Scotland, tomorrow it will be… who? We can only guess…

      Now, it is about a topic of this work. The big part of text is dedicated to the largest and, I suppose, the most important country in Europe. This is Germany. The fact that Germans had not comprehended their own nature, its basics, led to two world wars, greatest tragedies of the 20th century. But even today one can authoritatively add that they have not studied historical lesson properly. As the last crisis

      showed, the German «market command economy socially-oriented» is far from the most effective economic systems in the world, the German pension system, was near to collapsing in 2013, but the main example for the above thesis is the German reunification.

      Still today many Germans are indignant with the Soviet «occupying forces», comrade Stalin, the whole Russia and Russian people over the establishment of GDR. Strange, but they do not remember their own unique contribution to the development of communist doctrine! Were it not for the two key Marxists, Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin and some other German activists too, would communism develop in a way it did? May the establishing in the east part of the Germany of the separate «republic of workers and peasants» not be seen as the return of «the spectre of communism», what was glorified by Marx in his famous «manifesto», to its «historical homeland»?

      Others reasons for charges against Russia are Berlin Wall and East German security service Stasi. But it might have been much worse! For example, the Ulbricht Mausoleum in Alexanderplatz with a mummy of «comrade Walter» inside could be added to this list of «sights of GDR»! And, I am sure, if it happened the «soiled reputation» of Russian folk would become dirtier!

      The remainder of the chapters are devoted to more general and theoretic issues, e.g. to the impact of globalization on the situation in Europe, or to the preservation of ethical identities by European nations, finally to some features of the modern «white» movement.

      Now let us return to the ancient Rome and barbarians around it. God only knows why it is widely acknowledged that when it collapsed the whole antique civilization ended with it. It is amazing, but the Eastern Roman Empire, the one that was able to repulse the attacks of barbarians for a much longer time than the Western Empire, is often labelled «oriental despotism». But also the Western Empire did not cease to exist in 476 year. The last bastion of this civilization, Soissons, heroically kept repelling the attacks of barbarians not for a week, a month or a year, but for a decade! I dare to say that it was not only due to the leadership and diplomatic talents of their ruler Syagrius. The people of Soissons simply understood that they

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