The whitewashing of communism in the name of a cocktail of anti-globalism and anti-liberalism

I have been warning for some time about what some are trying to pass off to us under the pretext of "anti-globalism". Today I insist on this.

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Is freedom something to be criticized because some people invoke it for perverse purposes?

I insist after having read an article that could have been written by the mother of "Good bye Lenin", even if it claims to be a criticism of that woman. The article is an unabashed criticism of freedom. The author states: "the word "freedom" has been abused, sometimes even referring to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki". Yes, it is true. Many have committed atrocities using the word "freedom", and others have done so appealing to God and Country, but that does not mean that God, Country and freedom deserve to be criticized. Those who should be criticized are those who invoke them for perverse purposes.

El origen comunista de la ideología de género

The author also refers to "gender ideology and other postmodern excesses, often attributed to communism. It is the universities of the American East Coast and not the Kremlin that have exported the woke movement." I find him very ill-informed. The pioneers of gender ideology were communists like Simone de Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone and -above all- the Russian Alexandra Kollontai, who held a high position in Lenin's dictatorship from which she attempted, bluntly, to apply the theses of her work "Communism and Family" (1920), in which she defended the suppression of the family: "the workers' state will come to replace the family, society will gradually take on all the tasks that before the revolution fell on individual parents."

The work of the KGB in the West, told by one of its agents

Certainly, this ideology was successful in US universities, a success that is due, in part, to the work of ideological subversion promoted by the KGB in the West, as recognized by Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, a former agent of that Soviet secret service who fled to Canada in 1970. So the author of the article is wrong to try to exonerate the Kremlin, unless his intention was to be a little more geographically precise and wanted to refer to Lubyanka Square, one kilometer from the Kremlin and where the headquarters of the KGB and current headquarters of the Russian FSB were. Furthermore, let us not forget that Putin's dictatorship's propaganda media have been promoting the far left in the West, the same far left that has promoted gender ideology in this part of Europe.

Religious practice in the former Soviet bloc countries

In another twist, the author of the article states: "Contrary to popular prejudice, the countries on the other side of the wall have today bequeathed more rooted societies, with greater patriotism, higher birth rates and a strong religious identity. Western Europe, according to the 2019 Gallup poll, is the region in the world with the lowest percentage of inhabitants willing to defend their country in a war. Quite an achievement for the free world." The only thing missing was to add that if Eastern Europe is more religious, it is due to the religious persecution carried out by communism in that part of the continent. It would have been fun to read that.

The fact is that parts of former communist Europe are more religious despite communism, not because of it. This is the case in Poland and Lithuania, where the Catholic Church was one of the pillars of resistance against communist tyranny. However, this is not the case in all countries in that part of Europe. For example, in Russia only 1% of the population attend religious services, approximately 1.4 million people out of a total population of 143 million. To give us an idea, in Spain 8 million people go to Mass on Sundays, out of a population of 48 million.

We must not forget the ravages of communist atheism in some countries of that bloc. Today's Estonia and the Czech Republic were two countries with a lot of religious practice before communism, and today they are two of the most secularized countries in Europe, precisely because of the anti-religious campaigns of the communist era. On the other hand, let's compare the situation in two countries that used to have a large religious practice: in Russia, 70% of Russians declare themselves to be Christians, while in the US, it's 90%.

Russia's extremely high abortion rates

As for birth rates, it is worth remembering that Russia is one of the countries with the highest abortion rate in the world, a scourge that has its origin precisely in the legalization of prenatal murder by Lenin's communist dictatorship. As I already pointed out here, in 2022, 506,000 abortions were performed in Russia. That year, 98,316 abortions were performed in Spain. In proportion to its population, Russia (13.1) almost doubled Spain's abortion rate (7.5) per 1,000 women that year. Let us also remember that Putin's party passed a pro-abortion law very similar to the one introduced by the PSOE in Spain in 2010.

The effects of swallowing the lies of Kremlin propagandists

Of course, you get these facts by doing a little research, and not by simply trusting the lies of Kremlin propagandists. The problem with part of the so-called "anti-globalist" right is that it no longer distinguishes so-called "globalism" from liberalism, and even confuses the latter with the ravings of a radio host like Federico Jiménez Losantos, as if he were the Pope of liberals and everything he said was obligatory doctrine for those of us who defend, for example, conservative liberalism.

Some "anti-globalists" have swallowed the Putinist tale that the West is decadent and Russia is the benchmark for the conservative world, and they no longer only support this idea but also start to curse liberal democracy while whitewashing communism. I warned about this two years ago. I wonder how much longer some will continue to close their eyes to this drift of a part of the right, which is swallowing all the Putinist tales without complaint.

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