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| Legendary composer Mikis Theodorakis, 91. |
Translation from Greek: In Defense of Communism.
I
am watching in live broadcast the visit of the Pope, the Religious
Leader of the majority of Europe's people in Lesvos, where tens of
thousands victims from Syria and other Middle East countries- who
defying death and leaving behind dozens of drowned, especially
children- arrived from Turkey.
Who
is responsible for that big tragedy that millions of innocent fellow
humans are living today?
It
is the Black Death that the US and Europe's states, which have war
industries, are exporting. How many thousands houses, schools,
hospitals and other infrastructures were demolished, how many million
people were killed or injured and how many of them were uprooted from
their countries and forced to search a foreign refuge because of the
weapons made by the hands of Europeans and Americans...
Here
it is the splendor, the big crime of our era with the modern
victimizers-predators from the one side and their victims-quarries from
the other. The big crime which transforms our era into a Jungle and
the uncountable hypocrisy of the supposedly civilized European People
who seal their countries with wire, like the Nazis were doing with
the numerous Auschwitz, Dachau and Mauthausen. With the difference (being) that, this time, the victimizers are inside and the victims are out.
In
other words, those who are powerful are killing and uprooting them in
order to get rich and the weak ones, their victims, are abandoned in
their bad fate, in hunger, in the cold and the illnesses, upon whom
the powerful ones are building their own happiness.
And,
furthermore, without being ashamed (as they should be), they declare
themselves as superior People, civilized ones, People who, based on
wealth and power, have the nerve to give lessons to the weak ones,
thus imposing with their IMFs and Troikas the rules of their lives,
namely the austerity and disaster, which are also a different kind of
“destruction weapons”.
If
the first quarries are suitable for their “nutrition”, the
second ones are intended to become pet animals, useful for the rest
of their needs.
Is
there an image clearer than this? From one side, the Pope caressing
the little children who were saved from drowning in Aegean and from
the other side, his coreligionists of Europe, who are responsible for
the Black Death that led them in this Tragedy...
Athens, 16.04.2016.
Mikis Theodorakis.
