Paul Goble
Staunton, Nov. 7 – If Russia’s “hurrah patriots” were to think about it and consider the most obvious historical parallels, they would understand that the fate of their country would be far better if Russia lost its war in Ukraine and did so quickly, according to opposition Russian commentator Igor Eidman.
“Had Germany lost its Polish campaign in 1939,” he writes, “World War II would have ended before it began. Not only the victims of German aggression but Germany itself would have avoided millions of victims and total destruction” (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=639196F48EED9).
Had Germany lost in Poland, Hitler and his Nazi regime would have collapsed, Eidman argues; and Germany likely would have been able to “return to the path of democracy. But to their great misfortune, the Germans easily won the Polish war” and Hitler continued the policies which led to his end.
As of now, the Russian liberal commentator says, “Russians have had more luck. They are losing the war against Ukraine. If they had won, God forbid, the adventurers int eh Kremlin would have gone on until they landed in a war with NATO and Russia would be left without a stone standing on a stone … Moscow would then envy the ruins of post-war Berlin.”
“Even hurrah patriots like Strelkov-Girkin already understand that Russia is losing the war,” Ediman says. But “it remains for them to come to an understanding that an early defeat, including withdrawal from the occupied territories and the payment of reparations would be a great blessing for Russia.”
They must come to see what others already have: “Putin has dragged Russia into a situation in which all the other options would be even worse and more destructive.” That raises the question: “will they understand?” and another one as well: will the West recognize just how important it is for the world and for Russia to ensure that Russia loses and loses quickly?
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