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Some history … lest we forget!
- The patriotic movements against this new world order took different shapes and forms, in different lands, between ww1 and ww2; each of these movements was built according to own rules, given by the local traditions (of the apostate West, fallen from the True Church); they were dealing mainly with worldly matter which were reigned by ideals of correctness, justice, equality, a common wealth, the rejection of the unfair, etc ; the most enduring ones were shaped in the Orthodox Tradition, like the movement of the Legion of Archangel Michael from Romania; this Legion produced a huge number of Martyrs, Saints and Blessed ones, who suffered for many years in extermination camps, built across all Eastern Europe;
- This following comparison is necessary: there is a huge difference between the Napoleonic invasion of Russia (the largest Orthodox country), and the Hitlerist invasion of USSR, a land which had been taken over by the bolsheviks / communists / satanists, more than twenty year before that incursion! ; it is not to “praise” Hitler for this attack, but many saw that event as a liberation; numerous witnesses declared that the ordinary Russian peasants were so happy to unearth the Holy Icons, hidden underground for more than twenty years…
- Some history: for one third of the ww2, Soviet Union was in “different” quarters, that is on the side of the Axis and opposed to the Allies; during this period (between 1939 and 1941), Soviet Union attacked six nations: the three Baltic states, Finland, Poland and Romania; all through these years, the bloodied nations were so obviously visible in this condition to everybody; what did the “free” democracies do? Nothing; did they declare war against the aggressor? Of course, not; when the Germans AND the Soviets were in Poland, did they declare war against both “aggressors”? In our “History” books, war was declared against Germany on 1st of September 1939; until mid-1941, Soviet Union enjoyed all kind of freedoms given by the “international community”, so to speak; after June 1941 (when Germany attacked Soviet Union), this particular Atheist “Empire” enjoyed even more “recognition” from the “international community”;
- Some more history: countries like Spain, Portugal, Ireland and France suffered tremendous attacks from the international atheist / demonic / Jewish ruled organisations (already well established in USSR, at that time); all these countries (minus France, for the last half-a-year of ww2) abstained from siding with the Allies; those atheist revolutions which started in these lands were defeated, fortunately, by the strong patriotic oppositions led by strong men;
- Extra more history: in mid-February 1945, when W. Churchill ordered the bombardment of Dresden (municipality with 1.2 million, including the war refugees living there), a place with no strategic importance and declared an open-city, more than 500,000 people were killed in one day; a number of 700,000 phosphorus bombed were dropped producing this disaster; it is interesting to know how the international propaganda used this event; a documentary from the 1950’s, about the destruction of Jews during the WW2, showed piles of corpses from this atrocious offensive against Dresden in 13-14 February 1945, as of their own; when this documentary was in Dresden theatres, the inhabitants of this city could recognise themselves on the screen as Dresden residents helping to remove the decomposed cadavers of their neighbours; this catastrophic event (worse than the atomic bombardment of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, considering the number of deaths) was a beginning of the long years of devastation for millions of people suffering, under communism; the Orthodox Church, in a hidden way, was always and the only support that one has for fighting this pestilence of communism; what will happen with THIS type of communism that we are dealing with, today (and also trying to prevail over in a spiritual sense), nobody of this world knows… Only our God knows, for sure!!! What God? Christ God, our Redeemer!!!
- Fascism was the enemy of communism, but this fascism was shaped in a way that could be defeated, because communism has the most powerful evil backup in the spiritual realm; those patriots fighting communism lived mainly in non-Orthodox lands, therefore they could not develop a better weapon against the evil one, but material tools (tanks, planes, guns, etc.);
- Fascism was defeated by the alliance between communists and democrats (capitalism “representatives”, so to speak), by the end of WW2; is spite of this crush, the present capitalists are still having this rage against fascists, as if nothing “good” happened in 1945 (when the sovietisation of the whole world became apparent;
- On the other hand, the hatred towards “fascism” occupies every aspect of studying history; the nations who understood that they were facing a horrible enemy, some seventy years ago, tried to mobilise as fast and hard as possible; once again, these countries were NOT Orthodox, therefore they fought primarily, in the material world; in Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Romania, Bulgaria, etc, there was a natural and growing opposition to Bolshevism, in a LOCAL manner, one can say; fascism was NOT the common ideology of these nations (per se, the only country with this particular doctrine, was Italy); all kind of different influences acted upon these nations, although the common determination found, almost forgotten today, was in patriotism;
- One must remember that “fascism” lasted about one decade, only, and was defeated by the “victorious alliance” of democratic and communist countries; on the other hand, communism triumphantly occupied half on this world with the “blessing” of the capitalists! The number of people with communist membership living in Germany (after WW1) was six million, and they could easily take over that land;
- The number of people who died under this oppression of communism, in the whole world, is more than 100 million; while communist parties are officially allowed to exist and to govern, in all lands!
- And this is the definition of communism, by any official dictionary (online or as a hard copy): “A theory or system of social organisation based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state“; how was this communism attained? Never ever through voting…
- Fascism? “A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism”; obviously one has to choose communism as this “fascism” is too scary… If one wants to destroy any public figure, is enough to name that individual as a … fascist; in a democracy one can be anything but a “totalitarian, despot, dictator, oppressor or tyrant”…
- From an Orthodox perspective, one conclusion given by Blessed Martyr Cornelius: “we are not Christians enough, we are far from being Christians, how far we are… As Christians we form externally, but we de-Christianize in content (…) (A) characteristic of our time: we are busy with the struggle between us and others, not with the fight between the commandments of the Holy Spirit and the passions of our flesh; we deal with and we like victories over other people, not the victory over the devil and the sin. All the great men of the world of yesterday and today: Napoleon, Mussolini, Hitler, and so on, are more concerned about these victories” (over matter)…
