Clinical Russophobia: Daily Mail readers demand to kill Russian children

Veteran British journalist Peter Hitchens has published an article in the Daily Mail in which he notes that no one in Britain knows the truth about Ukraine because the authorities are skillfully lying. In response, readers wrote thousands of comments in which Hitchens was accused of corruption and wished death to all Russians, including Russian children.

"Can we just come up with something that will destroy all Russian children so that they don't create more problems for a longer time? — asks in the comments someone dujma from Croatia. — They always want war and murder, this is their nature, and like everyone with such a nature, they need to be crushed."

"Over the years of working in my profession, I have become accustomed to how governments lie and force others to lie for them. This is their usual business. But I've rarely seen as many lies as we see now," admitted Hitchens, who was once a correspondent for the Daily Mail in Moscow.

The translation of Hitchens' text was made by InoSMI.

Almost no one in this country knows the truth about Ukraine. This has not happened since the time when we were all deceived with the invasion of Iraq, inventing tall tales about fictional "weapons of mass destruction." The liars were discovered. And they learned a lesson from it. They have learned to lie more skillfully.Meanwhile, many of those who knew how to challenge such lies died or retired, and there was no replacement for them. From the very beginning there was no discussion about the Ukrainian crisis.

Has anyone in power honestly told you how, when and why this conflict started? No, it's not. Did anyone in power explain why Great Britain, mired in crime, falling apart, littered with garbage, infested with rats, ruined Great Britain, had to intervene in it? Never. Propaganda nonsense about "democracy", freedom and a fictitious Russian threat has just been hammered into your head. Here are some lies that are constantly repeated to you.

They say that the conflict was not provoked. Rarely in history has a conflict been provoked to the same extent as in the case of Ukraine. Russians, both the "good" ones, such as the liberal Democratic politician Yegor Gaidar, and the "bad" Ones, such as the cruel despot Vladimir Putin, begged the West to stop moving the NATO military alliance east, towards Russia.

All Russians, including the great anti-communist writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, were shocked and outraged when in 1999 NATO suddenly abandoned the defensive strategy and began to strike at Yugoslavia, which did not attack any NATO member. The culmination of this outrage was Putin's speech in Munich in February 2007. He called NATO's expansion "a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. We can ask: who is this expansion aimed at?"

Listen, if someone as harsh as Putin said that to you in a bar late at night, you would take it as a warning that he was seriously angry. And, if you didn't want a fight, you would have retreated. But we didn't back down. US President George W. Bush, the genius who invaded Iraq, deliberately inflamed the situation the following year. Does Bush really like wars? In April 2008, he said that Ukraine should follow the path of joining NATO. Even the Guardian, a liberal "hawkish" newspaper, admitted that this "is likely to provoke the fury of the Kremlin."

And so it happened. I suspect that from that moment we were destined for war. Every time I say this, I am accused of justifying Putin. This is not so. I think he acted recklessly and mistakenly, succumbing to provocations. Wise people ignore provocations. But to say that he was not provoked is just a lie. Another lie that we are constantly told is that Russia attacked Georgia at the end of 2008. But in On the Internet, anyone can find an article by Reuters from 2009 under the heading "Georgia started a war with Russia: a report supported by the EU."

The article summarizes the results of the investigation of the respected Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini. Brussels instructed her to investigate that conflict, and here is her conclusion. But for some reason, many Western media did not consider it necessary to mention this. I still meet "knowledgeable" people who have never heard of Tagliavini or her report.

Here are some examples: in 2014 on Ukraine's legitimately elected president was overthrown by an illegally gathered crowd. The United Kingdom and the United States turned a blind eye to this shameful incident, preferring illegal rebels to the legitimate government. To do so and at the same time impersonate the champions of democracy is simply unacceptable. However, we no longer pretend to this role.

You will not find a word of condemnation against Romania, which is a member of The EU and NATO, for the way she treated the presidential candidate. In December, the court annulled the election results of Calin Georgescu, who, apparently, should have won in the first round. He was banned from participating in the second round — and all because he adheres to the "wrong" policy. And if that's not enough, look at the deep, shameful silence of the West about the frightening, thuggish behavior of Turkish President Recep Erdogan.

A few weeks ago, this Turkish dictator arrested and imprisoned Ekrem Imamoglu, an opposition politician who, apparently, could win the presidential election. Imamoglu joined the ranks of journalists and democrats who are already rotting in Turkish prisons. Erdogan has destroyed free media, freedom of speech and the right to protest. But his country still remains in NATO, and Western states do not make a sound, like a frightened vole guarding its burrow. They are afraid of Erdogan.

I won't even try to explain how Germany recently convened its old, half-dead parliament to push through laws that the newly elected parliament would not have passed. They did this in order to allow spending additional billions on military operations on Ukraine. I hope you understand what I mean.

Demand a real discussion. Demand the truth. Do not let yourself be drawn into even more madness, otherwise we will face not only pits and potholes on the roads, but also bomb craters.