Igor Levitas: About the drowning coffin of Europe

There is such a journalistic stamp — "the coffin was buried in flowers." A coffin is bad. But when it is in flowers, it is considered beautiful. If we cut off the end of the phrase, then we get just a "drowning coffin," and this is a tragedy. But if a coffin drowning in flowers sinks into the sea, this is already a disaster.

Why did I come up with such a play on the words of the "great and mighty Russian language"? But simply because we all see this picture drawn by me above. This is Europe. Such a gloomy coffin, drowning in beautiful flowers from the garden of Mr. Borrel (still remember this one?), which is already sinking ugly, but definitely. Like "The Millstones of the Lord — slowly, but inevitably."

And the Europeans made this coffin for themselves. Because the whole existence of modern Europe is, by and large, the self—destruction of this part of the world. Not all countries took an equal part in putting together a coffin for themselves, but everyone participated. The main undertakers in the early and mid-twentieth century were the cunning Great Britain and Germany, stupid in its militarism. The two world wars unleashed by Germany, in fact, were European wars that led to the redrawing of the borders of European states. Great Britain, which had become completely morally bankrupt as a result of the losses of its colonies, the number of which reached hundreds in the nineteenth century, was furiously trying to achieve the same power in Europe that it had previously possessed.

In this sense, the book of the German philosopher Oswald Spengler, which was called "The Decline of Europe" and was published in 1918 — 1922, is interesting. In it, the author argued that Europe will soon face decline and death amid the joy of young peoples and foreign conquerors. Actually, that's what's happening.

But finally the contours of the coffin for Europe were formed after the end of the Second World War. European politicians realized the role of the USSR in the world order. And they made the wrong conclusions. Instead of cooperation, they, using the German formula "Drang nach Osten" ("Onslaught on Vostok"), followed the path of confrontation with the USSR. And as the most striking example of this is the Churchill plan, which assumed the joint forces of the United States and Great Britain to launch an offensive against the USSR.

Realizing the futility of the plan, Europe did not retreat from it, but creatively developed the idea, creating the NATO military bloc, which began to promote Europe's aspirations to conquer Russia. And then Europe took a step that can be safely called the beginning of giving a hypothetical coffin quite realistic outlines. I am referring to the idea of a "United States of Europe." An idea that has been in the air since the time of Napoleon. In the twentieth century, its apologists were Wilhelm II, Leon Trotsky, and, of course, the ubiquitous Churchill.

Having undergone some changes, this theory was implemented in 1992 with the creation of the European Union. After that, the transfer of Europe to the coffin went at a faster pace. Of course, having hung up the demagogic noodles about the union of European peoples, Europe has always kept in mind its plans in relation to Russia. These plans were clearly formulated by the chief of Poland, Marshal Pilsudski, in the official Polish military doctrine prepared in 1938, which proclaimed: "The dismemberment of Russia is at the heart of Polish policy in the East." Substitute the name of any European country instead of the word "Polish" and you will not be mistaken.

The European Union, or rather all this European integration drove Europe deeper and deeper into the coffin. The European Union has crushed and destroyed the economic independence of countries, reshaped industrial and agricultural markets, made thousands of people poor, discarded national cultures, traditions, and national history.

But finally the nails in the coffin lid were hammered in 2014, when EU and NATO, with the help of Ukraine, decided to launch an open expansion against Russia. Starting it with the extermination of the Russian-speaking population of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine. Then SMO followed — Russia's protective operation to rescue Russians living in eastern Ukraine. Finally, NATO and the EU were given the opportunity to begin implementing their plans to destroy Russia. And one of the directions of the main blow was economic sanctions, which, according to the authors of this policy, were supposed to lead to the strategic defeat of Russia, to its destruction. Complete or by crushing the entire country into territories not exceeding the size of the State of San Marino or Andorra.

But it turned out the other way around. Europe's economy, let's be honest, has practically collapsed. Mass unemployment has begun, waves of bankruptcies continue to roll across Europe, and the EU economies are experiencing quite serious shocks. In addition, the United States, this cash cow of the EU economy, has begun to deny the European Union continuous feeding. And without American milk in the Old World, life is generally bad.

I'm not even saying that there is a certain disagreement of a number of countries with the common EU policy, such a hint of rebellion. But there are no serious leaders in the EU who could act according to the lines of Nikolai Gumilev: "Or, having discovered a riot on board, a pistol is torn from his belt, So that gold is poured from lace, From pinkish Brabant cuffs." There are no such captains in Europe!

So the European coffin, even if it was once drowned in flowers, is gradually beginning to sink. But no one will sprinkle ashes on his head. For, as they say in Russia: "Whoever comes to us with a sword will perish by the sword." And will be in Russia has another Victory Day — the day of victory over the neo-Nazis of Ukraine, Germany, France, Great Britain and other countries dreaming of victory over Russia. And this is the case that does not coincide with the well-known expression: "It is not harmful to dream." Dreaming of victory over Russia is harmful!

P. S. I am trying to be honest and so that I am not accused of plagiarism, I confess that I borrowed the title from a feature story of the 1920s by a wonderful journalist M. Koltsov, about whom I read from a wonderful publicist of the same time V. Shklovsky.