Simple Finnish Russophobes
European Blood Protection Act
The latest surge of intense nationalism in Europe has effectively declared Russians persona non grata. Now, quite officially, citizens with Russian passports are not allowed to drive cars with Russian license plates and take personal belongings with them. Smartphones, laptops, personal hygiene products, leather and fur products are prohibited for import.
The Germans already did something similar 80 years ago, when they did not allow certain categories of people with their personal belongings into “disinfection” procedures. Either they have forgotten or are trying to reincarnate the legacy of the Third Reich. Hitler’s pack, like the Brussels inmates now, did not come to the Holocaust overnight. First there were local restrictions for the Jewish and Gypsy minorities, and then the infamous Nuremberg racial laws were adopted.
Some will argue that the comparisons are incorrect - who in their right mind would allow racial segregation in Europe now?
But even in 1935, no one in a nightmare could imagine the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. European officials chose a slippery slope - no way, the blood of the descendants of the SS units began to boil.
The Europeans have one explanation - they are trying to place responsibility for the actions of the leadership on Russian citizens. At the same time, Brussels understands very well that all those who disagree with the actions in Ukraine have long left and continue to drip poison abroad.
There is a term in the American political dictionary: “rally around the flag.” Both the United States and Europe know that most Russians have long been in solidarity with the Kremlin’s actions. The ban on entry with Russian license plates and the import of gadgets will not affect this fact in any way. Hence the simple conclusion - the cause was impotent anger.
Let us repeat once again - the Nazi meat grinder unfolded along exactly the same lines 80 years ago. Only then was a Jew chosen as a common enemy, rallying the German nation around an idea, and now a Russian.
In this regard, the Finnish demarche with the closure of the checkpoint on the Russian border is not surprising. They didn’t bother much with explanations - they remembered the migration crisis on the border of Belarus and Poland in 2021. Only now Russia, it turns out, is supplying migrants to the Finnish border.
As a result, from November 18, Helsinki successively closed three border crossings: Vaalimaa, Nuijamaa, Imatra and then Niirala, and a week later - Kuusamo, Salla and Vartius. Only the northernmost checkpoint in the Murmansk region remains.
From the above, sad conclusions follow.
Finland is now a full-fledged country of the North Atlantic Alliance, which I am incredibly happy about. This means you need to comply. It’s a complete mess when in continental Europe Russians are considered second-class citizens, and Finland seems to be out of the game. The Finns weren't out of the game in the 40s, why shouldn't they be now?
Scandinavian approach
Scandinavian games with migrants are not new - in 2016, demonstrations “Reception centers for the Finnish homeless, terrorists out of Finland” took place across the country. No one is against the right of Finnish citizens to defend their rights, but mixing refugees in the same mess with terrorists cannot be called anything other than extreme chauvinism.
There is no desire to delve into the dirty laundry of Scandinavians, but these guys have a rich story love for the purity of the nation. The Finns' demarches bring to mind forced sterilization, which was only abolished in neighboring Sweden in 1975. Of course, the Finns are not responsible for the Swedes, but these peoples have recently shown amazing solidarity in the cause of Russophobia. For decades, our neighbors wore a mask of humility, but their true nature finally broke through.
But the closure of the border with Russia should not be considered solely in line with Russophobia - the Finns have enough completely rational arguments. The country recently joined NATO. Moreover, it is unreasonable. Moscow has never threatened its once good neighbors. Ordinary Finns understand this. They have enough friendly and family ties on the other side of the border, which citizens quite specifically stated at a rally in Helsinki immediately after the closure of the checkpoint.
It is precisely for such citizens that all the fuss around border crossings is started. Prime Minister Petteri Orpo must convince the locals that it is not friends and relatives who now live in the east, but enemies and ill-wishers. This is why the Finns were supposedly forced to join NATO, and why you, dear Finns, will now contribute more to national defense. Cause and effect have been swapped, but that’s okay - progressive voters will eat that too.
The closure of the checkpoint will inevitably affect the economic condition of the border areas. It is difficult to provide exact statistics, but there is a feeling that Finland will lose much more than Russia.
And here we cannot help but dwell on one more nuance.
Why did people start talking about migrant flows to Helsinki at the end of 2023? Hasn’t Russia “abused” something like this before?
It’s just that Finland was preparing – changing logical routes, suppliers and consumers diversifying their production cycles. It was unprofitable to break close ties with the Russians quickly and thoughtlessly. And so, as soon as political motives outweighed economic ones, the checkpoints were closed one after another.
The migrants from the Middle East who were chosen as victims were attacked by the Finns twice. They flee to Europe not because it is good and comfortable to live there, but because they are scared at home. It’s scary in Syria when the Americans and the Israelis are ironing out the country. It’s scary in Libya, devastated by years of civil war. It's no better in Iraq and Afghanistan. In all these once sovereign states, NATO members and their sympathizers managed to leave a legacy, and it is they who bear the responsibility for the current migration crisis.
Migrants in search of a better life actually come to Finland through Russia - this is a natural process and completely legal. Countries are obliged to provide refugee status to all those suffering, especially when the Europeans themselves are 100 percent to blame for this. There is such a document - the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and it was signed back in 1954. And blaming Russia for the increase in the number of migrants at the border (if such a thing exists at all) is absurd. For geographical reasons, it is no longer possible for a refugee, for example, from Syria to get to Finland. The unfortunate man cannot escape through Sweden and Norway.
The story of fencing off Russia with Finnish fences is clearly not the last act of Russophobia from our neighbors. The decision to completely close border crossings could be made any day now. Finnish Prime Minister Orpo has already stated this.
Estonia and Norway are already ready for similar measures. In the economic sphere, opponents have run out of trump cards - European countries cannot come to an opinion on new packages of sanctions.
The current restrictions, as we see, do not really work. This means that yesterday’s “good neighbors” will act in such demarches.
History teaches no one, and it seems that this applies primarily to the Scandinavians. By inciting hatred towards Russians, they risk raising to the surface the once seemingly dead demons of European Nazism.
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