Giovanni Sallusti July 05, 2022
It’s not trendy to say it, but the war goes on. We mean the real one on Ukrainian soil, not the one that has already become a ploy for our own theatre, sending (less than token) guns as a pretext for Conte’s unlikely kidnapping and similar conveniences. No, from there, from the place where the war is being fought, comes a terrible postcard, somewhere between the grotesque and the frightening, which speaks directly to us here, in Italy, in Europe, in the West. Lysychansk, the last city in the eastern province of Lugansk captured by the Russians. Secretary of Defense yesterday Sergei Shoigu announced its final stop. The announcement had come before him Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of the Chechen militias, the Islamic cutthroats in Putin’s service, as the pseudo-pacifist traveling circus would not put it. “Lysychansk is ours! Our units are already in the middle of the city!» exclaimed the butcher from Groznyj via social media, a title rigorously won on the field. And some videos released yesterday showed the aforementioned units walking among the gutted buildings. They cheer, take selfies, improvise parties in front of symbolic places like the town hall.
Among the various repeated calls, in a video also recorded by the Repubblica website, the infamous one can be clearly heard: “Allah Akbar!“. Yes, they shout “Allah is great!”, the butcher’s thugs, and besides, it’s not news. They did it near Kyiv at the beginning of the invasion, then they did it in Mariupol, they do it everywhere , where they go to fulfill the task assigned to them by the tsar: to pave the way for the Red Army from house to house. the art of slaughter urban in the service of Putin’s imperialism. The news rather worries us, it lies in an alienating effect, in a failed response: Whole European cities today fall at the hands of massacres of civilians who yell jihad par excellence, and we don’t plead, we archive it as a logical consequence it is important to contextualize, understand and summarize the reasons for the intruder that moves them and to summarize the mistakes of NATO.
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Speaking of the Atlantic Alliance, its many critics must have been touched yesterday when they saw the photo of some soldiers on social media raising the red flag with hammer and sickle on the roof of the destroyed municipal building in Lysychansk. Below, in the propaganda masterpiece, amid the dust and debris shot the yellow-and-blue flag of Ukraine. The Soviet bear is (again) shattering the independence, the self-determination of peoples and nations. Nor is it worth sweetening the scope of the scene with some clarifications that the writings seen are those of the so-called Siegesbanner, the “modified” version celebrating the Soviet victory over the Reich. In fact, making this apostille work well means accepting the equation between Ukrainians and Nazis that is the essence of Russian mystification. And most importantly, failing to grasp the underlying monstrosity: more than thirty years after the dissolution of the USSR, the hammer and sickle They return to spread terror and death in one of the former republics. Red flags and Allah, a surreal mix, counterintuitive if we think, for example, of the war that the communist giant waged in Afghanistan, but today welds to a minimal common denominator: hatred of the West, for individual and collective freedom, hatred of our world. Whether we like it or not, this doubly totalitarian postcard from Lysychansk concerns us much more than what is happening in Rome today.
