A year after the start of the aggression against Ukraine, the Russian Federation remains faithful to the same scheme of crime and state lies. Stalinism is the direction of Putin’s actions. He inspires not only a foreign policy, animated by a call to piracy and expansion, but also an internal one, marked by the desire to strengthen the unity of the entire people around the Leader-savior.

A year after the invasion, the artillery volleys and human waves were accompanied by the momentum of Russian propaganda. The speeches and television appearances of the Russian dictator were, in the same Stalinist way, instructions, texts of totalitarian pedagogy. From history to culture, from the fate of the Russian nation to nuclear weapons, nothing was left out of this Putinist panorama. Palace halls, stadiums and televisions were the scenery for this production: the tyrant addressed his accomplices and subjects as the embodiment of eternal Russia.

Ukraine’s criminal war is becoming Russia’s defensive war. As many times in the Tsarist and Soviet past, Russia has decided to erect a wall of mystification and nationalistic delusion between itself and the rest of the civilized world. Barbarism, murders, robberies, and terror are justified by appealing to the image of a threatened homeland. Her enemies are familiar: the shadow of the West preparing the collapse of Russia, summoned to give the Russians the murderous energy the dictator needs.

Putinist mythology places Russia at the center of a vast conspiracy: Ukraine, which has been attacked and devastated, is at the forefront of this attack to eliminate the Russian state. The decades after the liquidation of the USSR can be read as a time of expansion of the United States in the territory that naturally belongs to the Russian Empire. The integration of formerly enslaved Europe into the Atlantic world is a gesture of hostility towards Russia and its interests.

A year after the invasion, Putin’s vision for Europe and the world is clearly articulated, and those who ignore it are acting like those who, during the rise of the Nazis, refused to accept the evil nature of the German state. . Putin’s strategy goes beyond Ukraine. It is supposed to be revisionist: it calls into question not only the borders, but also the freedom of the former Soviet Europe. The future that Russia aspires to is the editing of the Stalinist past, in which there is no place for the independence of our peoples. Another Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact would mark the accession of our peoples to the possessions of the Russian world.

A year after the invasion, Putin’s Russia chose a long-term confrontation with the West. Solidarity with Chinese totalitarianism is seen as a natural reaction: Russia turns away from Europe in the name of the uniqueness of its destiny. It is necessary to give up illusions of agreement with Putin’s Russia. All that Russia can offer is nuclear blackmail, bloody war and subversive tactics, as in the case of Moldova.

The war for the protection of Ukraine is a war for the protection of all those who are threatened by revived Stalinism. Blind pacifism, hesitation, geopolitical ambiguity are a form of complicity with the Russian aggressor. Sooner or later, if this Russian state is not stopped, it will flood our countries with a human stream. Horror scenes from Ukraine will then become our everyday life. Read the entire article and leave comments on Contributors.ro