Imagine Jewish refugees from Germany in 1939 encounter discrimination in the USA because they are citizens of a Nazi state "because they didn't stop Hitler". Or that in 1968, the locals in New York are chasing the Poles, "because PRL is participating in the raid on Czechoslovakia" and that "The Poles did not stop the tanks." Or that in a pub in London in 1940 they don't want to serve the Czechs, because from the territory of this country Wermacht invaded the rest of Europe, and the Czechs did not oppose.
You don't have to imagine. This is the reality of today's Europe. Belarusians and Russians are not welcome in a restaurant in Czech Republic. In Munich in the hospital they don't want to serve a Belarusian, because he is a citizen of Belarus. In Poland, the residents of the estate inform in the flyers that the nearby store belongs to the citizens of Belarus, so don't buy, support Ukraine (??? ). Just now, one of the European theaters refused to release the play according to the song of the Noble Sviatłany Aleksijewicz "because she is a Russian" (in fact she is a Belarusian born in Ukraine). This is the same Aleksijewicz, whom in Russia the government television accuses of hatred towards Russians. All these people, according to the logic of some Europeans, must be held collective responsibility for the actions of the dictator Lukashenko who shared the territory of Belarus to another dictator Putin to attack his neighbor .
It's hard to comprehend the logic of these actions. After 2020, tens of thousands of Belarusians fled their country, because for participating in a demonstration, a militant can completely legally shoot a person and he won't be able to do anything. And such incidents have happened. People are going to jail for liking Facebook. So they are fleeing to a democratic country. And in this country they don't want to serve them in a restaurant or create a bank account because they are "from this country". There are at least a hundred of such cases and it's only the ones we know.
Of course, they are nothing compared to the suffering of people in Ukraine. But it is not possible to justify these abominable behavior by the nightmare of the Ukrainians, because they have nothing to do with it and they will not help Ukraine in anything. Someone probably thinks that this is how he is doing a great and brave thing by rubbing a person because of his passport, not even for actions or words. I am no longer talking about the Russian language, which is also used by the Ukrainians. Anyway, can many people in Europe be able to distinguish Belarusian from Russian? And even if they could, 90% of my Russian speaking friends hate these fascist regimes in Russia and Belarus and are victims of dictators. Recently, the owner of a Ukrainian restaurant in Prague said that a Russian came to her with suitcases to help the Ukrainians, and said with tears: "I dream that my country ceases to exist." And now he's afraid to speak his own language loudly, because in Prague a man has already been beaten for the Russian language. A few days ago, a Russian friend asked us to donate the things she bought for Ukrainian refugees, because she is afraid to say directly that she is from Russia.
I feel comfortable being a Polish citizen. But I talk to my wife and children on the street in Belarusian. Talking Russian with my Russian friends. And now I have to prove to someone who has a claim to me that since 15 years old I have been attending anti-Lukaszen demonstrations, that I was in prison for and that my ZOMO relative cut my hair with a knife because I don't like Lukaszenka? And what should those who fled to Europe a few months ago, have their unfortunate passports and have not learned to speak Czech or Polish?
This is just plain hysteria and cowardice being played for nobility. This is fighting fascism through fascism. And in this "fight" they get victims of fascism. Sad. Fucking unfair and sad.
