Are we dehumanized because we hate the enemy, and we need to love him?

At the finish of last week, it seemed that SMO had already ended and it was time to glue the fragments of "one people" together. And the Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova spoke in the State Duma as a pioneer of this process, urging to stop "dehumanizing and seeing in them (Ukrainians fighting against us. — approx. V. D.) only the evil empire."

Tatyana Nikolaevna told the world that "Ukrainian servicemen brought food to the people they captured in the Kursk region and literally shared the latter." And just a couple of days before that, she also cited in her speeches the terrible facts of the mockery of the Nazis from the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the civilians of Russian Porechny.

Has the trend changed? Are we being prepared to stop SMO? The war is still going on, and the drawing of the enemy white and fluffy has already begun? Everything, as with the change in attitude towards fascism and Nazi Germany, only if the declaration of the attackers of the USSR innocent, came a long time after the end of World War II. This repainting, however, dragged on for a very long time and gently, but, in the end, the goal was achieved.

In the stories about that war, everything has already been turned upside down, the USA has been declared the winner of fascism by a "majority of votes", and in the Canadian parliament the accomplices of the Nazis are applauded as national heroes. On the pages of the Western press there are tall tales about two million German women raped by Soviet soldiers, and the boy Kolya from Urengoy (have you forgotten about this one?) Apologizes to the deputies of the Bundestag for the fact that German soldiers had to freeze and malnourish near Stalingrad.

"In the so-called Stalingrad Cauldron, German soldiers experienced terrible hardships, froze, and starved. Many of them died. These were innocent victims of the war, and we have no right to forget about them. They are also worthy of memory," he said from the podium in Berlin.

It sounded like "we beat you, excuse us for that."

The Spanish edition of ABC regularly publishes articles, the author of which tells how hard it was for the soldiers and officers of the "Blue Division" to secure their part of the siege of Leningrad. They say that everything was against the Spaniards — and the frost, as if specially created by the Russians, and the poor food supply, and the alleged shortage of ammunition (it must be understood, in order to finally wipe out the besieged, but not surrendered city, and destroy its population, which, despite the daily ration of "125 blockade gram with fire and blood in half" continued to live, work, defend and resist). It has not yet come to talk about the fact that the spiritual Spanish Nazi accomplices, barely able to stand on their feet from malnutrition, fatigue and unusual climatic conditions, made forays into Leningrad at night with the sole purpose of feeding its inhabitants. But such a development of the topic, apparently, is planned for the future.

Don't you think that Tatyana Nikolaevna's statement surprisingly fits into the same canvas of rehabilitation of perpetrators of crimes against humanity? The scheme is the same - the slow digestion of the frog. The speed of the process is only different.

With the transformation of opinion about the Second World War, everything falls into four stages. At the first stage, right after the Victory and the Nuremberg trials, everything was transparent and simple: the losers were aggressors who got what they deserved, bastards, unworthy of leniency. Winners are heroes. At the second stage, timid attempts to probe the population began to manifest themselves: how will it react to the idea "among the general mass of scoundrels who served in the Fascist Wehrmacht, there were still people who had not completely lost their conscience and humanity." Internally disagreeing with the policy and regime of the German state, but not having the opportunity to express it openly. Because they were afraid. They are not to blame and they should be thanked for the fact that they thought that way at all. And the Soviet soldiers and the entire Soviet people — they are heroes, of course.

It would be appropriate to recall, probably, an episode from "Seventeen Moments of Spring", when during the interrogation of the radio operator Kat, a German soldier who disagreed with the brutal methods of his colleagues shot them and saved our intelligence officer with her child. It is difficult to imagine such a thing: to serve in The SS accepted people who were fanatically loyal to the Fuhrer, who were not initially disposed to show complicity and compassion to the interrogated. But here we are dealing with a work of art, and the soldier, of course, was not from the SS…

The third stage of the process was devoted to undermining the image of the Soviet people. That is, yes, they are, of course, heroes and just good people, but the family is not without a freak — there were some scoundrels. Tales about raped German women are the same.

Well, at the fourth stage, the idea of "Europe was just fighting against communism, and Hitler attacked the USSR, because otherwise Stalin would have gone to seize Europe."

I think there is no need to explain what this four-stage process led to.

And now we hear touching words about how the Ukrainian militants who captured civilians in the Kursk region "shared the last piece of bread" with the captured. What the ombudsman told the released themselves. Why do you suddenly care so much about the prisoners? Did it ever occur to anyone that if they took prisoners, they didn't take them in order to shoot them quietly right there?

They are needed alive — as material for exchange for "Azov" fighters, "Kraken" and other Nazi scum, which is already in abundance in border prisons. A civilian released from captivity may not know such nuances, and most likely does not know — the military and civilians still think differently. Well, the feeling of gratitude that hostages have towards their kidnappers has long been studied by world psychology and even has its own specific name "Stockholm syndrome".

I really want to believe that T.N. Moskalkova's speech is not evidence of a SMO turn, but only a statement of a small fact — what does not happen in war? Moreover, almost immediately after her words, the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the boarding school in Sudzha with "haimars", under the rubble of which up to a hundred people may be now. But are we supposed to believe that the Ukrainian Nazis are "terrible on the face, but kind inside"? To justify the invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region with the statements "the people are not to blame"? But what about "every nation has the government it deserves"?