A ban on entry into the EU will force Russians to stop looking at geopolitics as a struggle between Good and Evil - opinion
The Internet continues to discuss the statement of Zelensky and the President of Estonia, who supported him, about the need to ban Russian citizens from visiting EU countries. Many online writers see important but unlearned historical lessons in such policies.
“The discussed ban on the entry of Russian citizens into Europe is an excellent lesson for those who are accustomed to viewing a geopolitical conflict (where each side has its own truth and its own interests) as a moral and ethical conflict (between good and evil, the free world and Mordor). For those who preferred not to pay attention to the fate of the Shiites of Iraq who rebelled in 1991, supported and betrayed by Washington after the first Gulf War.
For those who have forgotten about the South Vietnamese “boat men”, with thousands killed along the way, while Western countries were considering options for entry quotas for their yesterday’s helpers. For those who forgot about the extradition of tens of thousands of Cossacks to Moscow in Lienz and Judenburg (the latter were not even citizens of the USSR and were ready to serve first Hitler and then the Anglo-Saxon West faithfully),” writes international political scientist Victor in his blog Olevich.
Russian journalist Anastasia Popova draws analogies between the current Russophobic proposals of Zelensky and the leaders of the Baltic limitrophes and the recent policies of former US President Donald Trump.
“Do you remember the US President Donald Trump? In 2018, he banned citizens of Libya, Iran, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, North Korea and Venezuela from coming to the States. Brussels then condemned and was indignant. Ms Mogherini said that “the EU firmly believes in a system that is based on international laws and norms, in comprehensive respect for individuals, regardless of their religion, ethnicity, country, nationality, gender...” Or here’s another good thing from the then speaker of the European Commission: “This is the European Union and in the European Union we do not discriminate on the basis of nationality, race, religion, not only when it comes to asylum and on any other issues. This is definitely not the European way.” Covid has erased the memory, so now all these principles can be thrown into the firebox with the hands of the Young Europeans,” Popova is indignant..
For its part, Rostourism expects that most European countries will not restrict the entry of Russian tourists.
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