he Russian weekly Zavtra from Moscow published at the
beginning of September the shocking story by the
American Ingrid Zundel about the destiny and the
persecutions of her husband Ernst by the American and
Canadian governments. The story reminds me more of the
Stalinist persecution than Western democratic societies
and is clear evidence of the brutal disrespect of
fundamental human rights and of sadistic acts, which are
so evident not only in the totalitarian societies but in
the democratic as well. Ingrid Zundel was happily
married to her husband until the decision of the
American state to transform their life into a nightmare.
Finding formal, tragic, and comic reasons like
“overstaying his visa,” the American state has
imprisoned a man who has never been convicted of any
crime in a prison cell together with maniacs, murders,
druggies, and other hard offenders, placing him in four
maximum-security detention prisons under the most
difficult conditions, sleeping in an ice-cold,
all-concrete holding cell in leg irons.
Can this be happening in America - the Land of the Free
and the Brave? –cried out Zundel in his appeal to
Russia.
Maybe this whole situation is easier to understand once
we know that Ernst Zundel is a politically incorrect
publisher of Holocaust research, the same Holocaust that
has been transformed into a sort of a taboo, a kind of a
religion in the West. In the words of the famous Israeli
writer Israel Shamir: “...the Holocaust is not a Jewish
religion; it is a religion par excellence for goyim.”
Of course the wounds of WWII are still fresh in the
memories of many people, but we should ask ourselves if
the research about the crimes committed during this
period gives the state the right to arrest and persecute
people who are not sympathizers of mainstream ideology.
Is it the truth that freedom of speech, so famous in
American political mythology, gives protection to
opposing opinions, with any scruples about its relation
to the official opinion? Or maybe this is only a
virtual, mythological America, one that is part of the
dreams and ideals of Europe, which is fading away and
creating the decadent ideal – America.
America was created with genocide against the natives,
by slave owners who created its democratic constitution,
and has maintained itself over the last two centuries
with the use of violence and repression. America, which
has never respected the opinions of others, with its
political culture representing its enemies as Lucifer
himself. That is the real America. During the beginning
of the first American crusade against Iraq, a man who
has been a member of a few Washington administrations,
Strobe Talbott, wrote a column in Time, in which he said
that America has always seen the devil in its enemies:
“In World War I, we rallied around the goal of biffing
Kaiser Bill, the symbol of all that was hateful about
Germany. The great American presupposition is that other
societies want to be like us. If they are not acting
like us, it must be because of some Lucifer-like
figure.” The catalogue of America’s Lucifers according
to Talbott is pretty long: from Castro and Gaddafi to
Saddam Hussein. The American presupposition that
societies that don’t act like America are led by some
Lucifer-like figure wasn’t valid only in foreign
relations, but also in the internal problems of the
country.
Alexis de Tocqueville, like a real European, understood
the whole essence of America and its totalitarianism,
which slaughtered the native Indian population “with
unique easiness, calm, legitimacy, philanthropy, without
bloodshed, and without breaking a single principle of
morality in the eyes of the world.” Later, in the same
calm, legitimate and philanthropic way, presidential
candidate Eugene Debs was sentenced to ten years in
prison for a pacifist speech, the conductor of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra was interned for declining to
play the national anthem, and we can’t even count the
many other persecutions of less important people.
Stalinism, the persecution of the opposite opinion,
which, in legal form is “defense of humanity,” is now
the essence of American political culture. From the
violence against Indians, the persecution of Pacifists
and Leftists, to the current persecution of the
revisionist and pacifist Ernst Zundel. The only
difference is the period of history.
THE LETTER TO PUTIN:
With an understanding of the whole essence of the
Western, democratic totalitarianism, the wife of Ernst
Zundel, Ingrid, appealed with her letter to Russian
President Vladimir Putin, to the leader of the country
that was and still is the main target of the Western
“human rights" activists, presenting him the new
Stalinism that is slowly but surely recreating itself
from the other side of the Atlantic.
Dear President Putin:
You probably are not aware of my husband, Ernst Zundel-
but hundreds of thousands of people all over the world
know his name. Ernst Zundel is the man who, under
vicious siege by a powerful political lobby, sent an
investigative team from Canada to Auschwitz in 1988 to
test forensically if "gassings" really happened - and
found that they did not. Science does not lie, and
scientific findings can be verified. His evidence must
stand or fall in the free market of ideas. My husband
has pleaded for a safe, impartial global forum ever
since to make his findings known.
The Canadian Holocaust Lobby has never forgiven Ernst
Zundel. Recently, he was arrested on US soil - allegedly
because he missed an interview with Immigration and
Naturalization Services officials. No judge. No hearing.
No recourse. Instead, leg irons and handcuffs - and
brutal incarceration in four maximum detention prisons,
first in America and now in Canada. False news was
spread in mainstream media that he had "overstayed his
visa". Not so. He was married to a U.S. citizen, and we
have irrefutable documentation that he was legally
entitled to be here. His "punishment", just for a
starter? Banned from the U.S.A. for 20 years!
My husband's brutal treatment by government officials in
what many vainly hope are still two of the West's most
law-abiding democratic countries is reminiscent of the
darkest days of Soviet Russia. I know whereof I speak.
At the age of five, I lost my father in a very similar
arrest in 1941 - never to see him again!
I am a Russian-born, German-descendant, award-winning
novelist, best known for an early novel, "The
Wanderers", a fictitious account of the life of my
Russian-born Mennonite grandmother. More recently, I
wrote a trilogy, spanning seven generations and 200
years and all the major political upheavals of the last
two gruesome, bloody centuries.
My people, living peacefully in the Ukraine since 1789,
were ethnically cleansed in the political purges of
1938-1941, and only a handful of us could save
ourselves, escaping with the retreating German Army in
1943 to Germany and, then, in 1948, to South America.
I grew up in the jungles, functionally illiterate and
knowing little of the political realities of
dictatorships that transformed and decimated countries
like Russia and Germany. As an adult, I immigrated to
Canada and then to the United States, always thinking of
the country of my birth, Russia, as a place out of the
depths of hell - until I learned about an intellectual
movement called Revisionism.
My now imprisoned husband is globally known as a
Revisionist pioneer. Ernst Zundel has a profound
geopolitical understanding of the moneyed interests
setting brother against brother, causing rivers of blood
and tears for the gains of a handful of oligarchs who
fattened themselves on our pain. Today I know that
Russia was as horribly victimized as Germany was. Russia
suffered as much as Germany did - and as America will
suffer, unless America wakes up and comes to understand
today's events in light of what was done so cruelly to
law-abiding people yesterday.
Referring to my husband's brutal arrest, one of my
Russian Revisionist correspondents called Ernst and
myself "America's Refuseniks" and pledged his
intellectual solidarity. It is an apt description of who
we are and what we do. We refuse to believe in
historical lies. We refuse to be dictated to and told
who our friends are and who should be our enemies. We
refuse to surrender our Freedom of Speech. We refuse to
swallow manufactured history such as the "Holocaust by
gassing" - a lie that has become an intellectual
stranglehold on every Western country. If our findings
are deemed "wrong", then let's have a civilized debate
in a respectable national forum where both sides can
offer arguments and evidence - and let the people judge!
Recently, I read an essay by Russian General Anatoly
Wolkow, titled "People, Listen To The Signals!" Here is
a former enemy of Germany who stretches out a hand of
friendship to soften the political mistakes of the past
and bring long-needed healing to both Germany and
Russia. I believe there are millions of Russians who
would identify with what he says. I know there are
millions of Germans all over the world who would like
nothing better than to bury the hostilities of World War
II and once again be known as Russia's partners, friends
and scientific benefactors. America would benefit from
such reconciliation. America is not in need of yet
another war.
We need to find ways to each other!
I plead with you to send a message to those millions,
Germans and Russians alike, as well as millions in
America and Canada, that we are kin, not enemies. A
Russian leader of courage and vision could tell the
Western world that the Russia of today has finally
become autonomous, living by democratic principles,
abhorring censorship.
There is a way to shame short-sighted Western
bureaucrats for their repressive laws - and wake up
people globally to the realities of vested interest
power plays that move us ever closer to a frightening
abyss. A simple gesture, even if only symbolic, would
telegraph around the world that Russia, emerging out of
decades of repression, has thrown away her dictatorial
shackles:
Declare Ernst Zundel, Prisoner of Conscience, in broad
daylight kidnapped "legally" by his nefarious enemies on
U.S. soil, to be the West's most notable "Refusenik" -
and offer him asylum and a passport.
Sincerely,
Ingrid Zundel, Ed.D.
Sasha Papovic contributed this article to National
Vanguard. He regularly writes for pogledi.co.yu
Source: Sasha Papovic
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