Trump’s Quiet Victory in EuropeLeft-liberal elites are meeting their match.American Spectator, May 23, 2018, Hristo Guentchev, Marin Guentchev
In early 1943, pressured by Nazi Germany, the Bulgarian government agreed to secretly deport its 48,000 Jews to Nazi death camps. After fierce resistance from the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and Bulgarian society, however, the deportation was canceled. Bulgarians themselves, for centuries subjected to forced Islamization and ethnic cleansing by the Ottoman Empire, intuitively recognized the predicament of their fellow citizens and opposed it. Nazi officials saw it differently. To explain the failure of the anti-Jewish policy, Obergruppenführer Adolf Beckerle argued that “the Bulgarian people… lack the ideological enlightenment that we [in Germany] have.â€
Now history is repeating itself. Liberal-left ideas dominate European Union (EU) politics, but most Eastern European countries seem to be hesitant to embrace them. The general sentiment in Brussels is that Eastern Europeans lack enlightenment in terms of progressive ideas. However, is the driving force behind Eastern Europe’s conservatism really backwardness? Or is there an experience common to this diverse group of nations that explains their resistance to liberal-left ideas?
The common history of Eastern Europe began with the establishment of communist rule after WWII. Believed to be a progressive idea that would dramatically improve society, communism had only one flaw: People were not eager to accept it. Thus, after the “enlightened†elite seized power by fueling a conflict between different social groups, communism had to be imposed by force, starting with militant atheism, a glorification of the ideas of Marx, gun control followed by the abolishment of private property, minority empowerment, reproductive planning, government involvement in early childhood education, and the introduction of political correctness.
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