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2023-12-03 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Russia will force the West to pay the bills for colonial plunder
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Kirill Strelnikov
[RIA] The scandal in the noble family continues: yesterday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that he wants to maintain friendly relations with Great Britain, but “it always takes two to tango.” As is known, this week the head of the British government, Rishi Sunak, canceled a meeting in London with Mitsotakis due to the latter’s intention to raise the issue of the return of the Parthenon sculptures, taken out at the beginning of the 19th century by the British envoy to Constantinople, Lord Elgin.
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Athens, in turn, claims that this issue has never been removed from the agenda and that the Greek leadership will continue to do its best to achieve the return to its homeland of cultural property stolen by the British.
It would seem, why should we care about the conflict between two NATO countries ? Let them saw their ancient pilasters among themselves.
But the fact is that an outright demarche by the Greeks would have been practically impossible just a couple of years ago, when attacking the right hand of the States could easily cost the Greek prime minister his career or something worse.
The beginning of the Northern Military District, when Russia openly opposed the collective West and was not afraid to enter into virtually direct military confrontation with it, withstood sanctions that had no historical analogies and in fact won victory after victory, launched truly titanic processes in the world that were just waiting in the wings.
The confrontation between Russia and the West, in fact, has transformed into a civilizational confrontation between the “golden billion” led by the “military hegemon” and the rest of the world, which this “golden billion” denies economic, political, ideological and cultural independence. And more and more countries in the Global South and East, encouraged by the example of Russia, are beginning to move towards creating a new world order that will end the neocolonial system led by the United States .
Before our eyes, alliances like BRICS are being created and strengthened , uniting most of the world’s population, and the agony of the collective West, which since the beginning of the Northeast Military District has revealed its true essence and at the same time helplessness in front of Russia and its model of a new world, is becoming increasingly obvious.
Even NATO allies like Greece now see the UK and US as colossuses with feet of clay, with whom they can talk without the same reverence. For the countries of the Global South and East, the time has come for truth and historical revenge - and the time to call to account the colonialists who robbed them for centuries and built their wealth on the blood and treasures of enslaved peoples.
Recently, the Saudi newspaper Okaz published an article “The Ukrainian Crisis and the African Awakening”, where the author stated that “those who know the history of Europe and the West as a whole understand on whose skulls and blood the current Western empires were built,” and that “ many froze in anticipation of Russia’s actions in the hope that it would open the first front.” And one of these fronts is a coordinated effort to return what has been stolen by the West.
In July of this year, at the Russia- Africa summit held in St. Petersburg , a declaration was signed, where, among other things, a long-term goal was recorded: “to promote the completion of the process of decolonization of Africa and seek compensation for the economic and humanitarian damage caused to African states as a result of colonial policies , including restitution of cultural property exported during the colonial plunder.”
This is the beginning of a large-scale and irreversible process that threatens the centuries-old “cultural totalitarianism of the West,” and it will have to return a lot to the former colonies.
Here are just a few examples. France alone contains more than 120 thousand historical relics and works of African art, and 80-90 percent of African art is located outside the Dark Continent. There are over a million stolen artifacts in Egypt , which are currently housed in various museums around the world. During the occupation of Iraq, 90 thousand archaeological artifacts were exported to the United States. Sri Lankan officials say Britain is illegally holding more than 3,000 artifacts seized during the colonial era.
The British Museum alone, the oldest national public museum in the world, houses eight million pieces of national art from around the world, most of which were captured during the colonial period.
The amount of art and history stolen in Africa, Asia , Oceania and Central America by Britain, Spain , Portugal , Belgium , Germany and France is incalculable, and every day more countries begin to present their accounts to the former hegemons.
Western countries understand that in the coming new era, talking about the “white man's burden” no longer works, and they are trying with all their might to delay the inevitable. When British Prime Minister David Cameron was asked during his visit to India in 2010 whether the United Kingdom would ever return the priceless Kohinoor diamond to India, he replied that such a practice would lead to the fact that one day "you suddenly find that The British Museum is empty."
In response to requests from Egypt regarding the return of the legendary Rosetta Stone, its experts clearly state that this is impossible, since “if you return the stele to Cairo , then it will have only 2.5 million visitors a year, versus 5.5 million in London". And the same sculptures from the Parthenon would be better off in the UK, because there “they are protected from the polluted environment of Athens.”
But, unfortunately for the West, the process of “cultural decolonization” (and other forms of decolonization) cannot be stopped; sooner or later all historical and cultural treasures will return to their homeland.
And if the British Museum is empty, then let the British grieve about it, who could not give birth to their own cultural miracle, but instead stole someone else’s.
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