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https://therussianreader.wordpress.com/2015/09/05/refugee-crisis-eu-latvia-russia/ Raimond Krumgold, "The Refugees and the 'Death of Europe'" https://therussianreader.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/skoibeda-germany-islamophobia/ Greg Yudin, "Germany Going Down the Tubes, or, Lies Come in All Sizes" Here is what I wrote about Yevgeny Grishkovets's infamous blog post on Facebook: Watching a whole country go off its rockers might, theoretically, be interesting, were it not for the fact that the country in question is the biggest in the world and armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. Russian thespian and opinion leader Yevgeny Grishkovets, writing on the "refugee crisis": Нам всегда нравилась европейская улыбка. Мы знали, что эта улыбка не более чем форма повседневной вежливости. Мы знали, что европеец улыбается постоянно. Но нам это нравилось. Потому что мы не улыбчивы. Но сейчас европейская улыбка выглядит только и исключительно фальшиво, да к тому же глупо и бессмысленно. Чему улыбаться-то? "We always liked the European smile. We knew that smile was no more than a form of everyday courtesy. We knew that Europeans were constantly smiling. But we loved it. Because we are not smiley. But now the European smile only looks false, and stupid and pointless to boot. What is there to smile about?" This is, perhaps, the most innocent passage in Grishkovets's racist, anti-immigrant, anti-European and essentially deranged screed, published on the website of Rossiiskaya Gazeta, the official newspaper of the Russian Federation. http://www.rg.ru/2015/09/08/grishkovets.html If you think Grishkovets is a lone wolf on this matter, think again. The hysteria he exhibits is practically the official Russian position on the "crisis," and the grassroots are being encouraged and encouraging themselves to adopt it as well. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
