Ukraine Dispatch 15 | When Evil Mirrors Evil

Ukraine Dispatches

Volume 1 2022

PEOPLE call for mass protests in Russia. Simply put, it is not going to happen. Those very brave Russians who do protest, take their lives into their hands. They are, however, vastly in the minority of a total population of 144 million.

It is a terrifying but sober reality, that in the entire 12 long years of the Third Reich, there were no mass protests. Individual protest galore, and the most frightening violence visited upon those courageous souls.

Russia today has slipped into a mirror image of that despicable era.

I do, though, have a long-term hope when I read the accounts of young Russians on BBC Reports, who have managed to escape Russia, or the mothers of young soldiers fighting in Ukraine, who quickly voice their opposition to western journalists before hastily disappearing into the crowds when the police approach.

The young people who have managed to flee Russia, are the people who protested, paid the price, lost their jobs and are cut off from, or alienated by, their families.

But they are Russia's long-term hope.

For now, we have the long dark repression descending upon the entire Russian People...

Let us remember that the world we knew and grew up in ended abruptly on Thursday 24 February 2022, in exactly the same way as a world known to our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents ended abruptly on Friday 1 September 1939, with the Invasion of Poland by Germany and Russia, and the World War that ushered in at 11.15 am Sunday 3 September 1939, London time, GMT and must have hit them like a sledgehammer in the face.

Then, it was Hitlerism. Now, it is Putinism.

21 March 2022
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