Communism In Romania: The Anti-Humans by Dumitru Bacu

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To this end the students were obliged to crush under-foot everything they held most sacred ­– God, family, friends, love, wife, colleagues, memories, ideology ­– everything which bound them to the past, anything that might give them inner support while in prison. (Dumitru Bacu, The Anti-Humans)

The story of Communism in Romania may not be a unique story. The familiar elements all present their ugly heads. As the Bolsheviks came to power the lives of the indigenous population worsened precipitously — the ideology of the enlightened government against the backward people. Foreigners became policy makers. Peasants starved. Prisons swelled. Slave labor killed hundreds of thousands. And lastly, the indigenous intellectual class was suppressed. What is unique about what happened in Romania is how the intellectual class was suppressed. Rather than simple suppression through imprisonment and discouraging political activity, the intellectual class in Romania was subjected to sadistic experimentation in what has been dubbed “re-education experiments.”

The intellectual class targeted for re-education was a specific group of people. Rather than target older academics or those of influence, the Communist regime targeted university students for their experiments. These students were chosen for a variety of reasons. To become a student in a Romanian University was a difficult task. For example, to be a student, an individual was expected to know French and German as well as either Latin and Greek or English and Italian. This demanding language requirement as well as other academic requirements brought a high degree of prestige to the very word student. The prestige of being a student could not be bought either. The wealthy who wanted to send their children to university had to send their children to another country if they did not meet the requirements. The result was that a large portion of the student body came from peasant backgrounds.

The final, and perhaps most important reason for targeting students, was their ardent patriotism. Students in Romania were patriotic for a number of reasons. Just as our American rural class is disproportionally conservative, the Romanian students who mostly came from an agrarian background were also a highly conservative group. Furthermore an influential man on the student body was Corneliu Z. Codreanu. He established the Legion of Michael the Archangel (the Iron Guard or simply the Legionary Movement) in 1927. The organization’s principles were love of country, a code of honor and moral intransigence, the reciprocal loyalty of knighthood, rigorous subordination of body to spirit, and an absolute faith in Christ. These high-minded ideals attracted students and other intellectuals to the movement. Even 30 years after Codreanu’s murder by Bolsheviks in 1938 he had faithful followers, many being students who were still part of the nationalist Legionary Movement.

The most intense and psychologically damaging experiments were done at Pitesti Prison between 1949 and 1951. The primary victims were students, the majority of whom had previously been a part of the Legionary movement. The students were often arrested for being involved in “anti-Communist activities” which could mean essentially anything that the Communists found politically expedient. Often times being part of the Legionary Movement was reason enough to arrest a student but in other instances, telling an anti-Communist joke could be grounds for arrest. Regardless of how or why they were arrested, the true horrors of Communism made themselves apparent inside the walls of Pitesti. Read more

Jewish Privilege Devours Itself

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Octopus self-cannibalism

Octopuses can sometimes engage in self-cannibalism, eating their own arms in what is thought to be a stress reaction. What initially begins as a nervous biting of one’s own limbs, descends into frenzy, as bacteria take hold in the resultant wounds. As the infection spreads, and the stress levels increase, the octopus savages its own arms at a rate faster than it can heal, or grow new limbs. Survival in such instances is rare. There is only a terminal fate for a cephalopod in which such behavior has firmly taken hold.

Stress-related self-destruction is also relatively common among humans, and not merely in the obvious form of deliberate suicide. Melville captured it best with Moby Dick’s Captain Ahab, a figure so psychologically and spiritually wounded, so bitterly sensitive, that he would give his own life and the lives of others in pursuit of revenge — the only palliative he felt would appease his mental self-gnawing. Rebuking the admonishments of Starbuck, he cries with barely concealed anguish: “Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me.” Ahab’s insatiable hate for the white whale was certainly not intended as an allegory for the hatred felt by modern ‘progressives’ for the White man, and yet I feel that such a comparison is apt. These people will do anything to ‘strike the sun,’ to bring down their great opponent, and we may expect self-destructive behaviors to be an aspect of their maniacal pursuit of ‘Whiteness.’

The last few weeks have witnessed a couple of important instances in which the memes of ‘privilege,’ racism, and anti-Semitism, the chief intellectual harpoons forged to pierce the White behemoth, have been turned inward on those largely behind their construction. Very recently, England’s Bristol University has been caught up in a scandal after it emerged that one of its lecturers, Dr Rebecca Gould, who is almost certainly both Jewish and a ‘progressive,’ penned an article for CounterPunch in 2011 in which she argued that “Jews should stop privileging the Holocaust.” Given that such an argument simultaneously infringes upon several taboos, and thus casts Dr Gould into the nebulous category of a ‘self-hating Jew,’ it is a miracle that her career has managed to progress uninhibited for the last six years. Apparently the piece was only brought to light, and subjected to ‘social justice’ action, after one of her undergraduate students unearthed it and initialized a campaign against her. Read more

How to Cure a White Zombie: Ants, Crabbs and Societal Control

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If grovelling ever becomes an Olympic sport, Britain has a potential world-beater ready and waiting. He’s called Stephen Crabb, and he was a minister in David Cameron’s Tory government. Here he is displaying his skills before an appreciative audience at Finchley Synagogue in London:

Israeli Independence Day: Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb leads UK celebrations

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions addressed over 1000 people at the service at Finchley Synagogue, organised by youth organisation Bnei Akiva, as Israel’s Remembrance Day (Yom Hazikaron) led into Israeli Independence Day (Yom Haatzmaut). Mr Crabb began: “The remarkable sense of fellowship and unity felt in Israel, and in Jewish communities all around the world, as we remember those who have given their lives in the defence of Israel, is something truly beautiful and inspirational.”

He went on to describe Israel on Remembrance Day as “a country united as one to remember their fallen.” The former Wales Secretary said that “the need for a Jewish state remains as crucial now as it was in 1948”, and that the British Government “does not take the safety of the Jewish people for granted.” He said that on Israel’s 68th birthday, “we recall that this relatively young country – young but with deep ancient roots – has endured so much. It has also achieved so much.” …

The Minister, who visited Israel for the first time in 2007 with CFI, said that, as a Christian, he has “always felt a very close affinity with the Holy Land”. “At a time when the Christian population of the Middle East is in steep decline due to systematic and sustained persecution, Israel continues to be a place where Christians are welcomed and feel safe,” he said. …

Mr Crabb referred to the “repugnant rise in anti-Semitism both in Europe and here in the UK”, describing it as representing “a stain on our nation”. He said: “I want to reassure you that this government has an unequivocal zero-tolerance approach to this racist ideology. We need to make it clear that anti-Semitism, whether it is expressed through the pernicious illiberal boycotts and sanctions bandwagon; through pouring out hate on twitter; or through any other means, is totally unacceptable.”

He emphasised that “we should in particular hold those in public life to the highest standards on this.” The UK’s Jewish community, Mr Crabb said, “is, unquestionably, part of the fabric of our society and the contribution of Jewish people in business, in media, in politics, in culture, in all parts of our national life, has been truly immense.”  (Israeli Independence Day: Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb leads UK celebrations, Conservative Friends of Israel website, 12th May 2016)

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Henrik Palmgren – Trump is Right about Sweden – Identitarian Ideas IX

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The Failure of Multiculturalism in Polish Ukraine

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Mykola Pymonenko – To War!

We are often told today that multiculturalism, that is to say a state made up of a diversity of peoples, is a great strength. No, it is in fact our greatest strength! To state any concerns or criticisms, no matter how mild, is seen as sacrilegious.

However, the opposite is true and throughout history where there are many examples of diverse and multicultural societies falling into discord and strife. The focus of this piece will be on a place that has been praised in hindsight for its liberalism and tolerance: the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania.

Poland-Lithuania came into being after the 1569 Treaty of Lublin when the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were unified and made into one country. Prior to this, in the 1385 Union of Krewo, the two were linked in a personal union under the reigning Lithuanian monarch. Before 1569 what are now Belarus and the bulk of Ukraine[i] were also part of the Grand Duchy, which was the largest European country at the time. As per the 1569 treaty, however, Ukraine was handed over to Poland, thus setting the stage for a violent future of ethnic conflict.

The Polish nobility or szlachta was used to a high degree of autonomy which only became greater after the old Lithuanian Jagellonian dynasty died out. After this occurred, the monarchy was elected and became increasingly subservient to the nobles. The szlachta, it should be noted, was not entirely ethnically Polish. It would come to include Lithuanian, Ukrainian and other non-Polish noble houses that Polonized to such an extent that they may as well have been ethnically Polish. Examples of the power to which the nobility held include their ability to bring back serfdom (so-called neo-serfdom) and a 1518 law which stated that the king could not accept in his royal courts complaints of subjects on noble land, giving the nobility a free hand. Nobles eventually gave themselves power to introduce corvée labour, seize peasant land and the peasants working it.[ii]

Yet all was not well with the nobility during the years leading up to the tumultuous seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,

Perceptive foreigners… saw, for instance, that the much vaunted freedom of the szlachta, which gave Poland the reputation of being one of the freest states in the world, rested on the complete deprivation of rights and enslavement of all the other classes of the population, that along with the unlimited freedom of the nobles, the burgesses were deprived of all participation in political life, hampered in their economic development, and shut within the walls of the towns. Parliamentarianism was flourishing in Poland, but alongside it, the executive was powerless to function. … The royal power was rigidly limited, and all decisions were made by the powerful ruling classes of nobles. This class, moreover, was degenerating. The Polish nobles had lost their former chivalrous and fighting spirit. They were corrupted by wealth and had lost their former energy which could now be aroused only to fight for privileges against real or imaginary attacks by the royal power.[iii]

Not only were they corrupted by vice and power, but the szlachta had ceased to see themselves as having any relation to the people they ruled over. The nobility had developed, from the sixteenth century on, an ideology known as Sarmatianism, which erroneously said szlachta were the descendants of Sarmatians, a steppe people originating in what is now southern Russia. Importantly, szlachta saw themselves as ethnically distinct from even the Polish peasants.[iv] It also came to view Roman Catholicism as the only true form of Christianity. Such an ideology was bound to create sharp social divisions but especially with their Ukrainian subjects. This was to have a great and terrible impact on the Commonwealth in the mid-late seventeenth century. Read more

Worte als Waffen: Asymmetrie und Vorteil im sprachlichen Wettstreit

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Was haben Schach und Pfauenfedern gemeinsam? In der Geschichte der Menschheit gab es  auf eine derartige Frage lange Zeit keine vernünftige Antwort. Heute können wir antworten: „Sie können beide mit Hilfe eines Zweigs der Mathematik, nämlich die Spieltheorie, analysiert werden. Bei Spielen wie Schach geht es um Wettbewerb, um Strategien für mehr Erfolg und zur Vermeidung von Fehlschlägen.

Tarnen und Täuschen

Die Pfauenfedern sind ein gutes Beispiel fortgeschrittener Evolution. Man kann sie nicht verstehen, ohne zugleich die Augen und das Gehirn des Weibchens zu berücksichtigen, deren Paarungsvorliebe über Jahrtausende hinweg zur Selektion eines zunehmend schillernden männlichen Gefieders geführt hat. Männchen senden Signale aus, Weibchen entschlüsseln sie. Entsprechend kann man nicht Blumen verstehen, ohne das Nervensystem der Insekten zu berücksichtigen. Die Blumen senden Signale aus, die Insekten entschlüsseln sie – oder mißverstehen sie, denn biologische Signale können irreführend sein.

Lunar Hornet Moth (Sesia bembeciformis) by Ian Kimber

Falsches Signal:  der große Weiden-Glasflügler (Sesia bembeciformis),
ein Schmetterling, tarnt sich als Wespe

Manche Orchideenarten überlisten männliche Bienen mit Blüten, die das Aussehen oder den Geruch weiblicher Bienen nachahmen. Die männlichen Bienen bestäuben die Orchideen, indem sie versuchen, sich mit den Blüten zu paaren. Falsche Signale können auch abschrecken oder verbergen: manche harmlosen Insekten ahmen Wespen nach, andere imitieren Blätter oder Stengel. Wie den Parasitismus, so findet man auch das Tarnen und Täuschen überall in der Natur. Diese drei biologischen Aspekte können auch ein Licht auf das menschliche Verhalten werfen.

Barrieren durch Worte

Denn schließlich stehen Menschen auch im Wettbewerb miteinander. Wie die [anderen] Tiere senden und empfangen wir Signale, aber wir haben eine zusätzliche Form Signale entwickelt: wir sind die einzige Spezies, die eine vollausgebildete Sprache hat. Tatsächlich definiert uns die Sprache als eine Spezies und sie steht im Mittelpunkt allen Sozialverhaltens. Aber sie kann dabei auch in einem negativen Sinn wirken, indem sie Fremde ausschließt. Es gibt eine faszinierende Theorie, daß die Sprachenvielfalt – die Anzahl unterschiedlicher Sprachen, die in einer bestimmten Region gesprochen wird – von der Vielfalt der Parasiten dieser Region gefördert wird. Das würde erklären, warum  die Sprachen in den Tropen  am vielfältigsten und unterschiedlichsten sind. Je mehr Parasiten es gibt, umso wichtiger ist es für einen Stamm, eventuell infizierte Fremde fernzuhalten. Ob nun Parasiten die sprachliche Vielfalt ankurbeln oder nicht, auf jeden Fall stellen unterschiedliche Sprachen vorzügliche Barrieren dar – nicht nur gegen Infektionen, sondern auch gegen Schmarotzer.

Die Sprache kann aber auch eine Hilfe für Schmarotzertum und andere Formen der Ausbeutung sein. Überall in der Welt findet man Gaunersprachen und Slang: sie stärken die Bindung innerhalb der Gruppe und schirmen die Tätigkeit der Gruppe gegen prüfende Blicke von außen ab. Wenn aber Kriminelle fern ihrer Heimat operieren, brauchen sie keine neue Sprache zu erfinden. Das dümmliche liberale Motto “Vielfalt ist unsere Stärke“ kann falscher nicht sein, denn die Bekämpfung der Krimi­nalität wird weit schwieriger, wenn die Kriminellen Dutzende verschiedener Sprachen benutzen. In London oder New York muß sich die Polizei Informationen in allen möglichen Sprachen verschaffen – von Albanisch und Russisch bis Türkisch und Arabisch. Außerdem können fremde Kriminelle den Gang der Justiz verschleppen und erschweren, indem sie bei der Verhaftung oder Verurteilung vorgeben, kein Englisch zu können (siehe meinen Hinweis in “When with Roma”) Read more