It’s like that all over the place… Indonesians dumping the US after literally being a colony, Spaniards being proud of the Spanish empire and now simping for NATO despite being tricked by the government into joining… It’s sad but US propaganda is fucking effective.

It’s intentional and this is the collective neurosis that the West’s victor’s justice deliberately has strived to impose onto the peoples of European formerly existing socialism as punishment for having once made the choice of socialism. Because it is quite telling that this is something that only really occurs in the former socialist states. It’s something I’ve also thought about for quite some time and I’ve written some thoughts about it before:

The aim is to ensure that only the history of the west is worth being proud of. In the former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the educational curriculum drills in the historical shame of the socialist half-century, ensuring that the people will always feel wretched about their socialist past while the west still gets to parade around Cold War war criminal Presidents, Prime Ministers and Chancellors as their heroes “with flaws.” The end result is that the past of former socialist states today is a blank nihilistic void with nothing of dignity to draw upon except going back centuries to fawn over inbred royalty or those Nazi-collaborationist freaks who terrorized their forefathers for their choice of socialism or just outright Westanbetung - “West worship.”

In the former DDR, it’s no surprise that the choice has become the far-right AfD. In this societal self-flagellation where the “Stasi” past is denounced, there’s not even some “post-Nazism redemption story” to grasp, like the fiction which the BRD parades around, because the socialist past is consigned to oblivion, equated almost on par with Hitler-fascism. Consequently, the only source of historical self-worth for many then can only inevitably come from LARPing as generic white people and importing American far-right and neo-Nazism as mimicry, vicariously associating with “Europe” and “the West” for that sense of post-socialist Europe pride that comes from being patted on the shoulder as being “semi-white” and “semi-European,” which has become the principal aspiration for those people.

In the last months of the DDR, the BRD’s wannabe Reagan-in-lederhosen Kohl once shouted during a CDU election rally: “Nie wieder Sozialismus” - “Never again socialism.” In retrospect, it was not just some campaign slogan, but a promise for each and every person who onced lived on the lands where actual socialism in Europe once existed. Every waking day since capitalist restoration, they’ve sought to fulfill that promise chiefly through the suppression of the memory that once upon a time, European soil - which has now become the bedrock for renewed fascism and white supremacist lackey-ism towards the US - on that soil, socialism once stood.

There was once an alternative for Europe beyond the pathetic vicarious imperialist nostalgia of every successive generation spending their entire time just endless fantasizing about having once enslaved the rest of the planet and turning its guns against our own species. That choice was the actually existing existence of (actual) European socialism.

For the DDR, when the real “alternative for Germany”—which will always be socialism—is pushed out of collective memory and condemned, it creates an inevitable spiral towards fascism. When people are deeply dissatisfied yet led to believe that a genuine leftward shift isn’t just unlikely but unimaginable—thanks to the forced forgetting of Germany’s socialist history and the DDR—they don’t realize that there are actually two paths. Instead, they can only see the right path, making it seem like their only option is to move right. In truth, it’s no wonder they start leaning toward fascism in the form of the AfD. This phenomenon was evident in the past with the suppression of the KPD during Hitler-fascism, and it has reemerged once again today.

When you humiliate and degrade the “Ossi” by portraying them as a people without dignity and claiming their history is entirely one of shame and repression, it inevitably fosters a kind of collective neurosis. If the DDR is dismissed as irrelevant, then the values of human dignity, fraternity, and internationalism that it promoted are also erased from memory. This induced disconnect is the real source of both the rise of “far-right East Germany” today and the plain outright servility towards the West that characterizes formerly socialist Europe today.

If your own contemporary history has nothing of “value” then it’s obvious that the best you can do is to worm yourself into vicariously associating with the West, ingratiating yourself in the club by volunteering to debase your own culture and history on their behalf, and hoping this association with the West rubs off on you by having the definitions of the West “extend” to your former East, like all those Slovenes, Croats, Poles and whatnot who spend their entire day giving geography lessons on how “they’re actually Western/Central Europe.”

As a Latinamerican from the Caribbean, even though I wouldn’t pass for a POC because I look like a pasty ass motherfucker, I don’t see a problem with comparing the plight of Eastern Europe with us, because Eastern Europe has been like an internal colony for Western Europe historically, you have undergone the same shock therapy that we got through Pinochet and other dictators imposed by the US, and I think it is vital that we see how similar our histories are, because we have a lot in common. This is why I always stress that Latinamerica, Africa and Asia are family. We tend to forget that Eastern Europe has also been terrorized by the same forces of Western imperialism, but the similarities are there, in the life altering effects of neoliberalism.

On the topic of gusanos, I feel the same when I see a Latinamerican being a westoid, or bending the knee to empire. It is disgusting, and I almost went into the exact same rant you did yesterday when I saw those videos of Trump at Univisión Noticias, because I know how those people in Miami think of their own, and seeing them nod along to someone like Trump, a Republican to boot, sends me. I feel the same fucking way whenever I see an Afrodescendant or LGBTQ+ person supporting empire, like that Ritchie Torres being a zionist. It offends me to a severe degree. That is not our path, our path was paved by the sword of Bolívar, and the sun is setting on the West, this is not the wagon we should hitch, but the wagon we should ditch, to rot as it deserves. I’m gonna stop cause that rant is coming back to me. I get ya, comrade, Hahaha.

I have noticed this for sometime now, it seems there are some people from Eastern Europe that love to post videos/posts/memes where they promote unironically the same fucking steriotypes the US and Western Europe gives to Eastern Europe (The usual garbage that it’s all dirty, poor, broken and cold, people there are racist/xenophobic, all of this because they were part of Axis and then communists, but now that they have “democracy™” they should have been prosperous, but they are too “dumb” to prosper so they depend on the “Good” Europeans such as Germany and France for money and aid).

The worst thing is that Eastern Europe and all of the Soviet countries used to be much better than what they were now. They used the be called the Second World (Part of the Communist/Socialist Bloc), even the US media didn’t portray these countries as poor, mostly they were seen as “victims” of Soviet influence or whatever. With exception of Albania, who due to not having good relations with the US, USSR and China, was treated the same way the DPRK (North Korea) was treated during the 1990’s - 2010’s, specially because it’s a muslim majority country, they were seen as the hermit kingdom of Europe.

Not to say Eastern Europeans can’t laugh and make jokes about their own culture and country, we Latinos do that a lot, but theres a difference in just saying something or being critical of local politics, and being self-hating and considering yourself inferior to Westerns, when 80% of the problems in the Global South and Eastern Europe are the fault of the US and Western Europe intefering in these countries politics and economies. They literally supported people Yeltsin (During the late 1990’s literally everyone in Russia hated him, with exception of his rich friends and westerns. The US literally aided Yeltsin during the 1993 coup and the 1996 election, both cases where the Anti-Yeltsin communists, or even liberals, were going to win fairly), Lech Wałęsa, Viktor Orban. Hell, even Putin was supported by the US until the 2010’s.