Three steps to hell

Carlo Musso

Russia's war against Ukraine is not necessarily worse than previous wars. But the vast amount of images, videos, audios and eyewitness accounts that we have access to in near real time allow us to see how mean and cruel human beings can be... And it's not just the killings, rapes, kidnappings and the devastation carried out by Russian soldiers, it is something more malignant, which takes us down a few rungs on the ladder of evil: Russians have taken three steps to hell...

The first step is the organized and premeditated multiplicity of crimes committed during the military invasion: not only the systematic bombing of non-military targets and the use of weapons prohibited by the modern rules of warfare, but also rapes, prolonged detention in inhuman conditions, executions in cold blood without reason, torture - both physical and psychological - of many civilians in all temporarily occupied regions, including the deportation of thousands of Ukrainians, many of them children, to the territory of the Russian Federation.

What emerged from the testimonies and factual evidence tells us of such a structured and widespread cruelty that it can only be explained by accepting the (false) Russian theories on the superiority of Russians over the Ukrainians and on the need to 'denazify' Ukraine: it is not a simple military strategy or the uncontrolled violence exerted by a corrupt and untrained army, is in fact the attempt to erase an entire nation and its people from the face of the Earth...

The second step is the conscious and systematic rejection of the evidence, even in the face of an enormous amount of well-documented proofs, relying on the simple but sadly effective method of refuting an obvious truth with the incessant repetition of blatant lies.

The effectiveness of this approach is based on a number of factors: the well-established habit of believing that the Russian foreign minister or Kremlin spokesman should be listened to not because of the credibility of what he says, but because of the role he officially plays; the natural inclination of people to be attracted more by complex lies rather than a linear and simple truth; the support that Russian lies obtain incredibly not only in those countries that value good relations with Russia more than respect for the rule of law and the sovereignty of nations, but also in the West, where a mixture of anti-Americanism, a strange admiration for the he arrogance and a misunderstood pacifism lead one to think that the Russians can't be all that bad (even at the cost of admitting that, in this case, the Ukrainians should be even worse).

The third step is the unbearable sense of impunity which, faced with the indisputable evidence of a certain crime, pushes the Russian authorities and officials to publicly admit it, while trying to convince the public that it is not a crime.

The clearest example - but not the only one - is the organized deportation of thousands of children from Ukraine to Russia: the Russians first tried to ignore the allegations, then to deny them, and finally - after the arrest warrants against Putin and Lvova-Belova were issued by the ICC, following the silly and provocative video of the two openly discussing the success of the process of re-education of Ukrainian children - of turning reality upside down, pretending to act in the sole interest of the children, to save them from the risk of war. Leaving aside that all responsibility for the war falls on Russian shoulders, and that at any moment the risk can be eliminated, if only Russia stops fighting and starts retreating, "Russia claims it is protecting these children. Instead this is a calculated policy that seeks to erase Ukrainian identity and statehood", as clearly stated by Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN Kyslytsya.

It is no coincidence that in Christian culture the devil is called 'the father of lies', because his strategy is to do evil, deny having done it, and finally disguise it as good, which is exactly what the Russians are doing in Ukraine... It's up to us not to follow the path of Adam and Eve, who in the Garden of Eden listened to the serpent, but to recognize the reality of the facts and side with no doubts from the right part...

April 6, 2023

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