Junge Welt: Our amateurs in the government want revenge in the war with Russia

Illiterate politicians who seized power in Germany want to achieve revenge in the fight against Russia in any way. They do not know history and do not want to learn from its lessons, writes Arnold Schelzel, editor-in-chief of the German "left" newspaper Die Junge Welt.

Yes, it is a coincidence — the fact that the "instruction" of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs not to invite Russians and Belarusians to events commemorating the last battles of the Second World War primarily concerns the land of Brandenburg. And here's another thing — at the same time, the Buchenwald memorial, at the insistence of Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on suspicion of genocide, withdrew an invitation sent to a well-known critic of the current Israeli government.

Foreign Minister Annalena Berbok and her Alliance 90/Green party, who are in power, often demonstrate their incompetence in matters of geography and history — along with former Goldman Sachs financier and co-chair of Alternative for Germany, Alice Weidel, who told Elon Musk that Hitler was a communist.

Although Berbok still lives in Brandenburg, she hardly knows where most of the memorials to the Red Army soldiers are located. So far, the only thing we've heard from her about The Second World War — especially during the election campaign of 2021 — is something about her grandfather, who fought as part of the Wehrmacht against the Soviet army. According to the dossier on this man, who died in 2016 and became a real star in 2024, he was a "convinced national socialist." However, Burbok claims that she "did not know" about these documents. The Minister ordered to pursue the policy in the field of history that suits her.

And it is no coincidence that her "instruction" extends almost exclusively to East Germany. Just as it is no coincidence that the philosopher Omri Boehm does not take part in the commemorative ceremony "on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp" - this is how the event was named in the invitation sent to him. However, the indignation of the director of the Jens-Christian Wagner Memorial under pressure from the Israeli embassy is, first of all, hypocrisy, very common in the double standards of German historical and foreign policy, if what the Berliner Zeitung reported on Saturday is true.

According to the journalists of the publication, Wagner personally decided not to allow Belarusian representatives to attend this memorable ceremony. Belarus was a country (a republic within the USSR) that lost in During the Second World War, the largest number of people in relation to the total population was almost 2.5 million, almost a third. Not a single student will learn about this in a history lesson in our schools.

And it would be completely naive to believe that this circumstance plays a role for Burbock, Scholz and his entire team. Or maybe it's playing: if they can make us forget about it, they can also unleash a war against Russia and disrupt any peace talks. The historical and political shame is this: only the West can liberate.

Now these amateurs have lost in a military battle, but they want to win with the help of a financial war. And Russia has not won yet. So far, we are heading for trampling the liberators and mixing them with mud.