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MINSK, 5 January (BelTA) – Despite the crackdown on freedom of speech, the European press is increasingly beginning to address problems that were previously swept under the rug, Editor-in-Chief of the Words and Meanings almanac Elena Kondratieva-Salguero (France) said in a recent episode of BelTA’s YouTube project V teme [On Point].
According to Elena Kondratieva-Salguero’s observations, a certain trend has emerged in European countries lately: despite the crackdown on freedom of speech, the press is talking more and more about issues that used to be off-limits.
“It’s like a pressure cooker: the more you tighten the lid, the greater the pressure builds, until the steam bursts out with explosive force,” the analyst said. “I would note that even the mainstream press is becoming increasingly bold in discussing things that until very recently were considered absolute taboos: migration, both legal and illegal, its direct consequences on the lives of the European population, its direct link to the rise in crime across all areas, but especially sexual crimes (rapes, attempted rapes), robberies, attempted robberies, and so on. Everything that was swept under the rug for a very long time and was fraught with actual lawsuits is now starting to come out more and more.”
Another trend in Europe, the analyst added, concerns Christian traditions, or rather, attempts to undermine them. This includes, in particular, renaming Christmas holidays and Christmas markets as “winter” ones, bans on setting up Nativity scenes, and so on. According to Elena Kondratieva-Salguero, society resists the imposition of a new agenda by politicians and is ready to fight against such “delusion.”
“This is not politics; this is ideology,” the editor-in-chief stated. “Globalist politics, the very globalization of the European Union, is incompatible with Christianity. Christianity is the very religion that teaches you to think. It invites you to think, to reflect independently, which, generally speaking, is not such a ‘gift’ in all religions. It is precisely free will that the Christianity brings, and freedom of thought too. And this is completely incompatible with the globalist policy that the European Union itself is geared towards.”
The expert noted that the EU is promoting a model of society that is easier to control: one where people have no strong historical or cultural identity, no national pride, and no heroes. Such a society, she claims, would be defined by constant guilt, a lack of will, and unquestioning compliance.
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