Imperialists! Hands off the bomb before we throw it in your face!
I remember discovering this extravagant banner in the 1960s, during a May Day parade in the capital of an affluent European country. It was led by an old trade unionist, a rude and somewhat sectarian man.
Reminding him that his organization was in favor of peace, of peaceful coexistence among peoples, he replied:
Yes dude. But my government has deprived me of my civic rights; They allege that I am a traitor to the Homeland for having participated in the Spanish Civil War.
Traitor to the country?
Do not forget; We are in the middle of the Cold War.
I understood that for the author of the bizarre message the war, the confrontation between the right and the wrong, it wasn’t over.
In reality, the Cold War began just a few months after the end of World War II. According to Anglo-Saxon political scientists, it was the continuation of the confrontation between the democracy western and the totalitarianism Soviet. The project was conceived during the 1940s, coinciding with the war effort of the allied powers: the United States, the United Kingdom and the USSR.
The areas of influence established in February 1945 at the Yalta conference were fictitious; the country of the soviets had to disappear. The British Churchill and the American Roosevelt knew this when they attended the meeting with Stalin. The Russian dictator himself was suspicious of the apparent good faith of his allies. However, when it comes to sharing the world, reluctance vanishes. The future ex-partners were satisfied; the three of them left Yalta, taking their share of the cake with them.
But the Yalta agreements were criticized by US congressmen after Roosevelt’s death. Politicians in Washington accused the United Kingdom and the USSR of not having established an international control mechanism for the European territories administered by Moscow. Two years later, Winston Churchill intoned a mea culpa by solemnly announcing that a Iron Curtain divided the Old Continent. The Cold War was served; with all its ingredients.
Whoever writes this was lucky – or unlucky – to live those years on both sides of the curtain. It was a Kafkaesque experience, whose common denominator was the word enemy. Crossing the curtain through one of its cracks necessarily meant go over to the enemy. For the border police of Eastern Europe, on the other side of the border there were only American spies, warmongers, imperialists. Their counterparts from the so-called free world imagined that the (few) travelers heading east were moscow agents, communists or, pure and simple, reds. Be that as it may, the mere act of abandoning – even temporarily – one of the well-to-do paradises was equivalent to recklessness, if not treason.
But more was needed, much more, to achieve the cohesion of the inhabitants of both blocks. The first Russian nuclear test in 1949 became the ideal pretext to create the imaginary of fear of the holocaust. It is true that the United States had experienced its atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, discovering the terrifying effect of nuclear weapons, but the prospect of rubbing shoulders with Russia in this club of death… with the Russians!
The BOMBA thus became the ghost of the first stage of the Cold War. The imminent danger of atomic attack created the psychosis necessary to reinforce the evil specter of global destruction. This was a golden age for the manufacturers of anti-nuclear shelters and the companies that produce long-lasting canned food registered on the essential supply lists for survival in the event of an atomic conflict. The visit to friend’s haven it was part of the ritual of social relations imposed by the bomb.
In the 1960s, when the expression peaceful Coexistence, the term provoked general bewilderment. Coexist with the enemy? What a crazy think! However, the marathon conference on Cooperation and Security in Europe, which established new rules of conduct between the States of the Old Continent, managed to change the physiognomy of relations between the two blocs. Fictitious or real, the Cold War death certificate was signed in Helsinki on August 1, 1975.
Fictitious or real… Something very similar to the Yalta incident happened in the Finnish capital. Leaving the Conference Center after the signing of the supposedly historical agreement, a young Dutch diplomat commented quietly: Now begins the ideological disarmament of communism. He was not wrong: the process led to the dismantling of the main fiefdoms of the Kremlin, the Warsaw Pact and the COMECON, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of the USSR itself and the expansion of the Atlantic Alliance to the far reaches of Russia.
A quick review of the situation in the world today allows us to find parallels and similarities with the Cold War period. No, the consecration of the United States as the only great world power after the diplomatic failure of Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 did not mean the End of the story pompously announced by Francis Fukuyama. Not the catastrophic end of the world, proclaimed by the detractors of the quasi-secular stage of economic and social progress that began in the mid-19th century. end of the world It will most likely be, as Frenchman Michel Maffesoli, a member of the European Academy of Science and Arts, points out, the end of worlds lacking spirituality of science and governance emerged in the last two centuries.
The reforms are urgent. But the road to the indispensable social change stumbles, once again, with… the BOMB. This time, it is not an imaginary artifact, but a real danger. While the belligerents of the 21st century have chosen a neutral ground – the war of Putin, of NATO, of Soros, of Biden – is fought in a territory carefully chosen by the authors of the perverse script of the disarm and demolish of communism. Interestingly, the protagonists of this sad modern masquerade play the roles of well-known historical figures: Stalin, Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Chamberlain, Molotov, Ribbentrop… Choose your champion, dear reader, and give him a name.
And don’t forget that, in the case of the putin War, euphemism fabricated by the Anglo-Saxon intelligence or intoxication services, the economic sanctions decreed by the West have had a boomerang effect. In short, Europe has managed to shoot itself in the foot. The bomb, this load of dynamite that our inexperienced and unscrupulous political class handles at its will, could explode at any moment. It is something that the deluded, the globalists and the good guys prefer to discard, forgetting that the danger of nuclear holocaust does not disappear with a simple click on the screen of a video game.
This time, the Bomb is real; the bomb kills We have been able to verify this in recent months in Ukraine, in Crimea and also… in Moscow.