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The rawness of silence

WAR / The barbarism of the West came from the "free world" itself. Because it was silent




(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)

By Sigurd Evensmo
ORIENTERING 1972

The so-called "post-war period" constitutes an almost unbroken chain of limited but frightening wars and abrupt superpower confrontations (Middle East, Cuba) that confronted us with the possibility of the Third World War.

In recent months, there has been no panic in our "free world", on the contrary, a great relief over the so-called relaxation during Nixon's visits to Beijing and Moscow. And yet we are some who in this spring and summer have experienced the most outrageous period in the entire post-war period. And not least because so many other people thrived in their peace or were completely engrossed in, for example, the bloodless battle for Norway and the EEC.

Vietnam

Some of us have felt the American genocide in Vietnam as the most barbaric war crime of recent times, and we have seen Nixon as a greater war criminal than Hitler.
The victims in Vietnam are estimated at a few million. More the expression a few million. One can not even figure out the nearly exact number of hundreds of thousands of human lives.
In the Third Reich, Himmler and Eichmann organized the industrial murder of 6 million Jews. So surely that crime must rank as a record?

In numbers – yes. At least for a while. If the Americans succeed in blowing up the dams in North Vietnam and sending tidal waves over central, densely populated areas, hundreds of thousands may die.(1) But in any case, Himmler–Eichmann were primitive craftsmen, and perhaps – or probably – psychopaths.
The mass extermination of Vietnamese people in recent months has been staged by the statesman who is the leader of the "free world" and by an intellectual elite who have invented murder weapons with unprecedented efficiency. Psychopaths? It is about the cream of the crop of scientists who experiment and constantly make progress.

In total, the US has dropped a bomb load on Indochina that is twice as large as that used by the Americans during the Second World War in Europe, Africa and Asia.

And increasingly accurate, whether it concerns dams, hospitals or schools. A poor peasantry dies from the scientists' laser-guided bombs and chemicals. Not only are today's people dying, but the suffering and death of future generations is a given, now with the methods used. The very basis of life is razed and poisoned.

Hitler and Mussolini were amateurs compared to Nixon and the Pentagon.

Hitler and Mussolini were not so bad in Spain. The parallel is otherwise striking: They also experimented with their new weapons on poor people – but this was genocide then – and not with effects on later generations. Even then, the Leaders were amateurs compared to Nixon and the Pentagon. Napalm and poisons that destroy the vegetation for decades, they did not know, these savages in 1936-39. Guernica, which became genocide's No. 1 example, pales as the slaughter of rebellious peasants in the Middle Ages. Nixon has created thousands of "scientific" Guernicas in Vietnam.

Vests

And "the free world" is silent.
The horror settled over us because we have had the imagination to see the death of thousands in Vietnam during the bombing offensive. But still, the coldest gush of the West's barbarism came from the "free world" itself. Because it ticked.

This free, democratic world became an almost compact silence, while thousands upon thousands of Vietnamese were blown to pieces or burned to death – children, women, old.

America's warfare in Vietnam was perhaps worse than the persecution of Jews during World War II.

From the so-called "Socialist International" came a – no, not even a mouse beep, because you didn't have to annoy the Americans. The decision at the congress in July was that "all foreign troops" had to be withdrawn.

But someone had to sing out? Yes, Sweden did it. In June, the social democratic Aftonbladet's editor-in-chief Gunnar Fredrikson wrote that the US's war in Vietnam was perhaps worse than the persecution of Jews during the Second World War. "This is the humiliation of the western countries. It is perhaps worse than the persecutions against the Jews, although it was believed that nothing could get worse".

Increasing decay

But Norway? Here, Dagbladet has been an honorable exception, while Arbeiderbladet ascertained from day to day that so and so many tons of bombs had been dropped on Vietnam, without having their sleep disturbed for that reason – Arbeiderbladet's leaders were concerned with the EEC's blessings.
But the nomination of McGovern then? Yes, but the most important issue at the congress in Miami was not Vietnam, but the bus traffic in the racial conflict.

In Western Europe not a sound.

"The free world" has reached the maximum of indifference, calmly and silently accepting the most cynical genocide in history. The murderer is our great protector, and we must not create difficulties for our own "safety". Besides, it's summer, and people should enjoy themselves, not least with NRK's ​​cuddly programmes.
After all, all this is nothing new, just a growing betrayal of the people of the West.

Night of the Long Knives

I am sitting with a book between my hands, and you are going to read it: The Night of the Long Knives by Max Gallo (Aschehoug). The book provides a perspective on "the free world".
We are back in June 1934, when Hitler slaughters thousands of his fellow fighters and takes the decisive step from a revolutionary-proletarian appeal to the alliance with the big capitalists. Over the course of a couple of days at the end of June 1934, a systematic bloodbath takes place affecting the SA (Sturm-Abteilungen), Hitler's mass organization (250 men) which had strong anti-capitalist currents. Again, the number is floating, but Max Gallo states a couple of thousand, of which 000 are generals. In those days, the whole of Germany was a slaughterhouse, the murderers went from door to door and shot when the door was opened.

Two years later, in the summer of 1936, the entire sportsmen of the "free world" paraded before the great butcher in Berlin's Olympic Stadium, while the concentration camps were filled and Ossietzky was tortured to death. In Norway, the Conservative press, especially Drammens Tidende, paid tribute to the free-born Third Reich, and sympathy was widespread in both the Conservative and Peasant Party press. And then everyone knew what had happened in 1934 and later.

To this day, our mass media remember from time to time the great triumph of Norway's "bronze team", which beat Germany in football. No one, absolutely no one, has assessed our participation in the Berlin Olympiad.
In 1936, the Norwegian labor movement fought against participation in the Berlin Olympics. Today? We shall indulge ourselves in the mass media's reportage from the Munich Olympics, and no one shall think of burnt to death or drowned children in Vietnam.

(1) MODERN TIMES today: We refer to SNL which says the following: "About two million Vietnamese, half a million Cambodians and Lao, and 58 Americans lost their lives." and "Since 220, no other war has had so many people killed." (updated 1945) See https://snl.no/Vietnamkrigen

Orientering (1953-75)
Orientering (1953-75)
Orientering is MODERN TIMES's forerunner (1953-75), herein absorbed in MODERN TIMES.

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