Dehumanization of Russians: We've seen this before in the 1930s in Nazi Germany

Friends, many of you may have heard of the firing of the conductor Valery Gergiev, the soprano Anna Netrebko, the banning of Tchaikovsky from a concert in Wales (Americans don't expect the 1812 played for any July 4th concerts), the removal of books by Dostoevsky. 

Apparently Gergiev and Netrebko's "sin" were that they were on orders from their employers (the Munich Philharmonic and the Met, respectively) to publicly denounce President Putin. However, grotesque as this cancel culture is, far more sinister is the removal of Russian art from public exposure, especially music. Music, is, after all, the primordial mode of communication, predating language. Music's subjective ambiguity,  it's being primarily emotive, it's ability to entrain people indeed logically make it a target - THE target - if you want to dehumanize and demonize your "enemy". Here, we have the "evil" Gergiev conducting the conclusion of the Firebird by Stravinsky.

 

The leaders of the Third Reich understood the power of music very well, and acted upon it. As such all "Jewish" music was removed from public performance. The Nazis knew of the incongruity if they officially proclaimed to Germans that Jews were poison, yet allowed these same Germans to be exposed to, for example, the music of Mendelssohn. The Nazis would have been in a conundrum: how to explain such beauty created by a man of "poison"? But even more subversive, they could not allow Germans direct emotive contact with Mendelssohn's music and beauty, lest the German realize that the demonization and dehumanization was a monstrous fraud and lie. They could not allow a German heart to be touched by a Jewish heart. You see, ultimately, they were terrified of the power of music to bring people and hearts together.

What brings black and white people together so many times in joyous celebration? Of course its the mutual love of music. Here we have Keith Emerson in conversation with Oscar Peterson; to then jam together. Enjoy! 

The globalist red fascists - friends we have to be honest, we are now living, with cancel culture, and de facto social credit ratings in a quasi fascist society - are following in the footsteps of their fascist predecessors, realizing that the "enemy" must be stripped of his humanity. Hence, music, due to its innate powers to emotionally unite people, must be suppressed or perverted. 

In contrast to the red fascists, a modern example of how music can unite rather than divide is the effort put out by Daniel Barenboim, who created the Divan East-Western Orchestra to bring young Israelis and Arabs together to make music TOGETHER. Barenboim realized that the music can overcome, modulate, revise human emotion and thinking, and can become a place of cooperation and even friendship, where previously there had been animosity or even hatred. Barenboim even put on a concert in Rumallah. Needless to say he was vilified, but he came out triumphant. 

Hear the result of Barenboim's effort with the orchestra's playing of Beethoven's 9th:

Finally, dear friends, let us listen to Mendelssohn being played in Russia, in Moscow! Let us not act like barbarians; rather let us realize that, as Pope Benedict once said, that music of all the arts is God's greatest gift to mankind. Art, music, should NEVER be perverted as to become a plaything, a tool for propaganda by politicians, and evil manipulators.

Here we have the Moscow City Symphony playing Mendelssohn's Overture to a "Midsummer Night's Dream". Enjoy!