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Title: They are children
Author: Rev Dia
Date: 1 July 2018
Language: en
Topics: Ukraine, fascism, racism, violence
Source: Retrieved on 26th January 2022 from a translation of https://revdia.org/2018/07/01/voni-zh-diti/

Rev Dia

They are children

I wonder how far-right ideas could take root in Ukraine. The topic of

the Russian-Ukrainian war has become commonplace. But it does not cause

the excitement that was before. Everyone is disgusted to see officials

say that the Kremlin is to blame for the next tariff increase. I’m tired

of hearing odes about fighting the invader and tightening their belts,

from people who cold-bloodedly send citizens to slaughter under enemy

artillery fire, earning money from it.

And it would seem that now the far right will be able to show their

potential? Of course, only in the fight against the “Roma threat”. C14

were the first to start the “holy war”, boldly throwing stones at

children and women. Then the initiative was supported by the National

Corps by dispersing the camp in Holosiivskyi Park. And in the end, the

youth of the National Corps, together with other far-rightists, attacked

the Roma camp near Lviv with knives at night. The result: the death of

one person and 4 others were hospitalized, including a 10-year-old boy.

What can be said in this situation, apart from the fact that the right

has finally found an opponent in its weight category? For example, the

fact that it is just rubbish to attack people for their nationality is

the highest degree of cretinism. Someone will say, “Look, you feel sorry

for these gypsies, but a gypsy woman stole my handbag from my mother’s

friend.” For some reason, nearby people want to use this argument to

justify attacks on Roma. Does the act of an individual mean that it is

possible to attack members of this nationality? If you support this,

then you should not worry too much if your loved one is stabbed for

stealing a handbag from someone’s mother’s friend. Still fair?

Justifying the murder of a person based on one’s nationality is the

first step in justifying the murder of a person who simply does not like

something.

The reaction of the media to this news was especially interesting. It

might seem to you a reinforced concrete fact that the far right is a

scumbag who has already decided on more than one attack on people. The

March 8 pogroms, the attacks on LGBT lectures, the attacks on various

activists, and the culmination of the murder of an innocent man. How did

the media react to this? If you think that they have begun to cover the

arbitrariness of the representatives of far-right ideas, we will

disappoint you. Putin’s traditional agents have been blamed for the Roma

pogroms. On the one hand, it is ironic that those who tried to appear to

be the most consistent fighters against the Kremlin were called his

agents, because the whole right-wing struggle with Russia is just cheap

populism. The loud closure of Sberbank, which is still successful, or

the fight against artists, who were caught and released, even their

showy participation in the anti-terrorist operation, is also just PR,

because ordinary soldiers are hostages of the intrigues of mercenary

politicians and have no influence. Russia is a vital country for the

modern political system of Ukraine: if it does not exist, it will not

have anyone to blame for all the troubles of society. Most information

sources said that the attackers were mostly schoolchildren, so the blame

lies with parents who neglected their children, and not on the media

themselves, who invested a lot of effort to glorify the image of a

right-wing soldier. And it is certainly not that far-right ideology

itself encourages attacks and killings of “wrong” people. It’s all just

juvenile fools who were neglected by their parents.

The official reaction of the far right was no less interesting. Karas,

who organized the entire campaign against the Roma, said that no one in

nationalist circles knew the attackers. To see for yourself how much he

lied, you can view his article, which compares photos from the marches

of the far right and the attackers. And the fact that the people who

organized the attacks were simply afraid to take responsibility, because

it was their activities that inspired people from their ranks to take up

knives, says a lot. Moreover, according to Karas, the nationalists

organized their own investigation to find the thieves. I wonder if he

will organize rallies in support of the Roma so that everyone

understands that he is a cowardly populist? Of course, the motivation of

the leaders of the C14 and the National Corps to take part in the

pogroms of the camps was quite understandable. They wanted to use cheap

PR. But in total, our society has become more tolerant of anti-human

far-right ideas and has given them a hand in killing people.

So, what do we have in total? Pogroms based on racial hostility, the

media trying not to talk as much as possible about the obvious threat of

far-right ideas, people who were sincerely imbued with the spirit of

far-right ideas and began to kill. Our society and the media still have

a poor understanding of the threat of far-right violence. The eternal

principle of “My house is on the edge” is valid again. Everyone ignored

the attacks of the right on their opponents, ignored the attacks on LGBT

people, ignored when they started beating people in sleeping areas for

throwing cigarette butts, ignored when they started attacking random

young people, mistakenly identifying them as anarchists, and calmly

accepted attacks on Roma. It turns out that far-right violence must

affect everyone personally so that society can finally understand the

destructive nature of their ideas.