Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Natalia Osipova
[RIA] Young people line up in "corridors of shame" and shout to two very old women walking towards the church: "Suitcase, station, Russia!" The crowd rages and laughs around the praying kneeling woman at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, surrounds her with a dancing ring, mocks, laughs, throws insults in her face. Believers walking with prayer are met by a crowd of youngsters who are trying to start a bloody fight. Two young girls shout curses and the same "suitcase-station", jumping out of their pants and aiming at the face of those who are praying, as if trying to destroy the enemy with spells.
The scenes that began with the Maidan in 2014, where prominences of hatred splashed out from the crowd of "protesters" in the same way, where the militants provoked the police, calling for hand-to-hand combat, have not changed at all. Only now they have moved to the temples. And the faces are the same. Brazen, aggressive girls are exactly the same as those who made Molotov cocktails in Odessa in front of the House of Trade Unions. Review the chronicle. The same mockery, aggression and a feeling of intoxication with their power and the right to destroy. Although at that time there was no talk of Ukraine raging in schism, on the contrary, the majority was sure that this country is full of deeply religious people and that Orthodoxy stands unshakably there.
The question that does not leave you alone and makes you ask yourself again and again: where does it come from in Ukraine? Where, from what depths and abysses did the evil come out, which has now taken root in the crowds, ready to tear everyone to pieces for the pagan chimera of "glory to Ukrainians". Let's be honest - after all, we did not think to what extent Ukrainian society is infected with this ideology. And how dangerous and contagious it is. And then they saw the pagan temples in the premises of the Nazis "Azov"*. So what is it in general, possession or Nazism? And what kind of medicine will help here in principle - denazification or exorcism? And is it possible to confuse the medicines here, or is it better to mix them for fidelity?
The famous psychologist Carl Jung gave a profound answer to this question in one of his interviews: “Under National Socialism, the pressure of demons increased so much that human beings, falling under their power, turned into somnambulistic superhumans, the first among which was Hitler, who infected everyone else with this. All Nazi leaders are possessed in the literal sense of the word, and it is no doubt no coincidence that their propaganda minister was marked with the mark of a demonized man - a limp.
An amazingly accurate observation about the nature and mechanisms of Nazism, partly confirmed by the psychiatric experts of the Nuremberg trials.
More than once or twice it has been noticed that those who came close to the black abyss of Nazi views and crimes often changed themselves. Even experts, protected by special knowledge and experience, professionally working with the topic of violence, crimes, deviations. In the case of Ukraine, the whole country was brought to this abyss.
The experience of studying Nazism teaches that it teaches nothing. It is impossible to change the Nazis, only to punish, but the Nazis always managed to change those who were close to them.
Strange as it may seem, the Nuremberg trials give us a striking example of such intoxication with Nazism. During the tribunal, no one could have imagined that this would end.
Douglas Kelly, who worked as a psychiatrist at the Nuremberg trials, examining criminals and studying their behavior, eventually became a victim of the Nazis: after the process, he committed suicide in the same way as Hermann Goering, taking poison in a capsule. Kelly, who studied the Nazis and tried to understand how they, while remaining medically sane people, could do such evil, unbearable for any person, did not find an answer in the course of his research. The psychiatrist, starting to work, was sure that the Nazis would turn out to be insane, but all experiments, polls, tests confirmed the opposite - the Nazis were quite normal. Moreover, they are able to show tender feelings in relation to a close circle, they can be wonderful husbands, children, parents. Directly without taking off bloody boots and raincoats after their punitive operations.
Kelly's conclusion at the end of the trial was disappointing and easily applicable to anyone. The psychiatrist came to the conclusion that "it is likely that many people in similar circumstances would have stooped to similar behavior." The second expert at the Nuremberg trials, psychiatrist Gustav Gilbert, disagreed with Kelly, regarding the behavior of the Nazis as an exceptional social pathology. He was sure, like Jung, that the Nazis were demon-possessed psychopaths, that we were dealing with a special kind of mental pathology.
The further development of Nazism in Europe , the rise of which we are witnessing right now, showed that both experts were right and wrong.
Kelly wrote: "Nazism is a sociocultural disease. In Nuremberg I had the purest known cultures of the Nazi virus to study - as many as 22 vials. But this can be found in any country - at large tables at which important issues are decided." Absolutely exact words that are applicable to the list of many Western countries. News in confirmation every day we read on the tape.
Twelve years after the trial, having fallen into a deep personal crisis - disappointment in the profession, withdrawal from psychiatry to forensic science, alcoholism, suicidal intentions - Kelly committed suicide, never freed from exposure to Nazism. Then, in Nuremberg, he was delighted with the "courageous act" of Goering, who bit through the ampoule and did not allow himself to be hanged. And - from the point of view of a psychiatrist - thus defeating his judges. Kelly summed up his life in the same way.
Shouting goodbye to the family that "can't do it anymore". As modern experts say, the reason for the tragedy of Kelly is that then psychologists and psychiatrists did not undergo supervision, mandatory constant personal therapy, which would insure them from becoming patients in psychiatric clinics themselves.
All this is also true with society - it must constantly undergo therapy against Nazism. As soon as the daily mass treatment and prevention stops, the disease returns again.
In a dispute between two psychiatrists, we stood for Gilbert’s position for a long time, confident that Nazism in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s was an exceptional phenomenon, a deviation from all human norms, a social mistake that would never happen again. And as victors we are immune from Nazi ideology. And even more so as Soviet people and their descendants, brought up in the spirit of internationalism and humanism, who learned about the monstrous crimes of the Nazis, who themselves fought against Nazism or suffered from it. Those who lost loved ones in the war against Nazism are insensitive to Nazi influence - so we naively thought, having poorly learned the Nuremberg lesson.
To our deepest disappointment, everything turned out quite differently. Nazis rage at churches, demon-possessed pagans enlist in Nazi battalions.
What is the recipe, what to do with it now if it happened? Who to ask for advice?
I suggest - from the greatest psychiatrist and psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. It has no statute of limitations, since 1945 it has not become outdated at all.
"Salvation lies only in the peaceful work of educating the individual. This is not as hopeless as it may seem. The power of demons is enormous, and the most modern means of mass suggestion - the press, radio, cinema, etc. - are at their service. Nevertheless, Christianity was forces to defend their positions in the face of an insurmountable adversary, and not by propaganda and mass conversion - this happened later and turned out to be not so significant - but through persuasion from person to person. And this is the path that we also must take if we want to harness the demons. It feels like it was said by a contemporary.
Anticipating the skepticism of readers, the great psychiatrist consoled the journalist who interviewed him in 1945. As if he knew how difficult it would be in the media to discuss this terrible and controversial topic even after almost 80 years.
"It's hard to envy your task to write about these creatures (Nazis. - Approx. Author). I hope you manage to state my views in such a way that people do not find them too strange. Unfortunately, it is my fate that people, especially those who are obsessed They think I'm crazy because I believe in demons. But it's up to them to think so; I know that demons exist. They won't decrease, it's as true as Buchenwald exists."
The experience of studying Nazism gives only one recipe that cannot be overdue: daily work on the prevention of Nazism in any society and with each of its representatives.
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