Patriots are often labelled in the national press as holocaust deniers, meaning that they do not believe that Hitler's National Socialist regime murdered six million Jews in the period from 1942 to 1945. It is implied that anyone who objects to their country being changed for the worse by open door immigration is a denier, and also that denial is necessarily wrong.
I know from my own experience that many people in the patriotic community do indeed recognise that Hitler's holocaust of the Jews never took place, but maybe that is because they have at least a modicum of regard for logic and for the truth. The implication that holocaust deniers are necessarily bad people, however, is one that I has yet to be adequately explained.
If I've got it right, there are seventeen countries in the world where it is illegal to question the German holocaust, with imprisonment being among the forms of punishment for violation. Examples of prosecutions arising from these laws include the case of the French politician who was fined over one million francs for saying that the holocaust was a mere detail in the history of World War II - which does not sound to me like denial. Another example is the case of the German historian who was prosecuted and fined for questioning the whereabouts of a door.
These prosecutions strike me as cruel and oppressive, but not at all surprising in countries run by communists or their fellow travellers.
The British servicemen who fought to overthrow Hitler were on the same side as Stalin, and were in effect fighting to keep Stalin in power. It is widely held that Stalin was responsible for the deaths of millions of people - mostly in Ukraine - in the early 1930s. This event is known as the holodomor, and took the form of an enforced starvation.
I have recently come across an essay on the internet which argues that the holodomor never happened. My reaction was to read it. I could have declined to read it, on the grounds that the author was clearly a wicked person, but I am not a communist.
The essay writer argued among other things that a photograph of starving children which has been used as evidence of the holodomor is in fact nothing of the sort. He maintains that the photograph was taken not during the holodomor, but rather during a period of natural famine in the 1920s.
I have a question. How many natural famines have taken place in western Europe in the past hundred years? Does anyone know?
It is true that there have been times in the past hundred years when large numbers of people in western Europe have been hungry, but so far as I am aware these tended to be the consequence of periods of war or of particularly poor government.
I remember when the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s. People from Ukraine were able to visit relatives in Britain, and there were incidents reported of Ukrainians bursting into tears in supermarkets because there was so much food on the shelves. Their homeland is a fertile country, but under communist rule food was always in short supply.
Hunger and starvation have long been weapons favoured by communists, and it is no surprise that there are many people relying on food banks in both Britain and Greece.
Related previous posts include:
The holocaust continues ...
The Jews are afraid, but what about the rest of us?
The politics of The Hunger Games
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