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Why Some People in the East Do not Like the West?

Although the Central Europe is not considered to be the Eastern part of Europe geographically, its political adherence to the former Soviet pact carried the “Eastern” fingerprint of communism, which had first materialized in Russia. Thus, the term “Eastern Europe” is often used also for “Central Europe”. We should not slither to a platform what is communism or what it is not, because on a practical premise of what the history showed us it is inappropriate to analyze communism on a theoretical basis if we do not consider what this ideology practically brought to the development of Europe (tortures, arrests, executions, etc.).

The propaganda of communists was based upon looking for an interior enemy and this propaganda hated everything that had originated in the West. They believed that socialism was just the first step to communism, but socialism was not communism; it was only a one stair up (or down?). They had believed that no money would be used in communism and that everybody would have free health care, free education, etc. On the basis of these populist ideas, many people had joined the communist party, but this was substantially different with the pre-war Germany, where the Nazi ideology publicly declared all its evil expectations. Those who joined the communist party were simply cheated.

The basic ideas of communism had been based upon utopian philosophers who discussed social injustice and proposed certain solutions. Marx was one of these utopists. But there are also Christian utopists like Teilhard de Chadrin and many others. If the “few” rule the world, their power is only based upon the abundance of money they possess, but their wish is only to expand their power; they are the “capitalists”, the “rich ones” in the system where the capital has not any obstacles to go up to the astronomical heights. They are befriended with presidents and influential politicians for sake of their pockets. Every door opens to them, whether it is a parliament or not. They can lobby and influence nature of laws. On the other hand, in darker and vast corners of the world many people die from starvation and have not even the most basic things for living. This social injustice is the basis for left-oriented thinking.

As socialism developed in the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s, communists depraved their own people of the most basic human rights – no free elections, no private property, only the personal one was allowed – you could have a garden, a house, but not a truck, neither an airplane, nor a factory.

Why some people in the East do not like the West

Communists ruled half of this world for about 70 years and they also rule it today in countries like China or Cuba. This ideology was correct in some points (only on a theoretical basis), as the capital rises up in hands of those who are the richest, who also own the media and TV channels, and who publish things mostly for the widest audience only, as money is the most important thing for them. These media seldom cover smaller issues. If people commit suicides, nobody cares, but if someone is tattooed from feet to head, he is invited.

I think it is OK to work, earn money, and prosper. But the practices of these “global corporations” are such that, for example, they do not like competition and they push it out of their space. This particular thing happened in few Slovak mainstream computer journals where advertisers paid so much until articles about Linux disappeared. Is this freedom?

I will give a few more examples: In the post-war world age (after World War II), Soviet Union aggressively attacked only three countries: it was Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968) and Afganistan (1979).

Westerners have a coarse perception of this. They see things black and white (not all of them, of coarse) like that Soviet Union was bad and that the USA was good.

The list of the countries that America has been at war with is much larger: China (1945-46, 1950-53), Korea (1950-53), Guatemala (1954, 1967-69), Indonesia (1958), Cuba (1959-60), the Belgian Congo (1964), Peru (1965), Laos (1964-73), Vietnam (1961-73), Cambodia (1969-70), Grenada (1983), Libya (1986), El Salvador (1980s), Nicaragua (1980s), Panama (1989), Iraq (1991-99), Bosnia (1995), Sudan (1998), Yugoslavia (1999), and now Afghanistan and Iraq.

What some people in the East believe is that if Byelorussia (its government is strongly opposed by all European governments), for example, befriended with the West, all these rich companies would come there, bribe politicians and put most of natural and existing resources, such as oil transit, electric plants, etc. in their pockets, and as “private companies” they will dictate prices but never for benefit of the people living there. We constantly hear, too, about bribery from countries like Italy and other EU countries. Corruption is our bread.

I do not want to say that Lukashenko is good, but I give one more example: svastika is an ancient symbol which the Nazi ideology abused here in Europe and all over the world. European Union has full mouth of human rights, but if you show svastika somewhere in Europe, the police will arrest you. The point is that if this symbol is really associated with the Nazi propaganda, then it is OK to arrest someone. EU politicians speak about China abusing human rights; some members of the well-known Falung Gong movement are abused in China, but they use svastika too and they already had problems with this in Germany. First of all, svastika is a Hindu symbol and it is illogical that you cannot explain this to most of Europeans. All mainstream media are simply owned by these advertisers and they do not allow somebody to say a different view about Byelorussia or svastika.

There is a petition for protection of svastika: http://www.petitiononline.com/Swastika/

but the European Union does not care. Many journalists write that Lukashenko is a dictator and that there are no human rights preserved in Byelorussia, but unfortunately, they fail to see that human rights in Europe have also many problems. There are situations when a citizen may feel to be under oppression. A biometric passport is an example. Fingerprints are mostly taken from criminals and many people may have a feeling that their own state makes felons of them when they leave their own country with these passports.

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Richard Stallman, the famous propagator of the idea of free software, also supports this view. Governments require from us our most sensitive data, but there is no guarantee that these data will be duly protected. For example, in Slovakia you must identify yourself with National ID Cards in every bank even if you deposit few Euros. In communism, such identification was not required; not even with foreign currency, as the state was happy to receive foreign money. We have cases when the police was directly involved in criminal acts. What will happen if I win a lottery and put several million dollars in a bank? The police may get to my data, listen to my phone, or even plan to blackmail me. Of course, not officially, but how can I protect myself in case a police official passes this information to mafia? I heard many similar stories from Italy, so we are surely not the worst case. This is just an illustration.

I certainly do not want to support Lukashenko, neither any dictator, but if someone constantly looks at advertisements on TV, think a little how this man’s or woman’s opinion would change if he or she would constantly look at atrocities done in the above countries the U.S. has been at war with.

Every imperial power’s wish is to control others. There are no “good brothers” in this struggle. Whether it is Russia, USA, China, or UK (colonization), these countries have all blood on their hands. I oppose also any ideas in favor of anti-Americanism. America is a beautiful country with good people, but many nations off the U.S. region receive only one picture of it through these media. Americans should do something about this and also fight for their freedoms, as their constitution stands on civil liberties. In other case, the hatred of this beautiful country will even grow up astronomically like the capital of the richest, the most greedy ones.

Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, said that a hundred times repeated lie becomes a truth. Why the US government and the UN speak about human rights, on the one hand, and refuse, on the other hand, to support the Hopi tribe’s wish to have their representation in the UN? Have they already made their own people homeless? This Indian tribe is famous with their svastika prophecy pictured on the rock. If I buy a t-shirt with this prophecy, will European MP’s ever care that I might go to prison with this here in the EU?

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