Europe’s Suicide – Part 2 |
(As published in Part 1 of this series, Europe’s long history of negation—from papal decrees of perpetual servitude to royal expulsions and ecclesiastical cages—reveals an immutable pathology refined over two millennia. This part examines how that pathology exploded into the 20th century’s record of blood, exposing the “Civilized European” as a perpetrator of savage conduct acting rationally for societal “purification.” These atrocities were deliberate tools of a singular agenda, proving the consistency of an annihilationist intent.)
In 1915, the Russian Empire utilized Jews as a military scapegoat for its failures, deporting an estimated 600,000 Jews from frontline areas in an ethnic cleansing that served as a genocidal precursor to the Holocaust. This history is not abstract; it is a direct inheritance of trauma. My grandmother, Brocha Leya Novosedz, was sent to Kharkiv. The Gochin family, including my great-grandparents Chaie and Avrom Yisrael and all their relatives, were herded like cattle toward Melitopol. My grandfather, Sam Gochin, was conscripted into three different armies with the........