"Brazil above all"? No to Amnesty!

"If the swastika flag was lying on the ground,

"It is now being rebuilt by the arms of Bolsonarism."

(Gustavo Freire Barbosa)

The horror of Nazism - The images captured by Red Army soldiers on January 27, 1945, when they entered Auschwitz in southern Poland, showed a horrified world what Nazism was. Seeing those images, the world came to understand the true meaning of the word 'horror'.

Jewish men and women of all ages were transported to more than 40 concentration camps—or rather, extermination or genocide camps—in windowless trains without toilets, water, or food. There, they were subjected to a sorting process: who should be killed immediately; who would work until they died of exhaustion; or who would serve as guinea pigs in experiments the Nazis conducted to prove the accuracy of their theories. There, the Nazis exercised their extreme racism, with the enslavement or extinction of other races.

In Auschwitz, Soviet soldiers found approximately seven thousand people in deplorable physical and psychological conditions: like corpses that were still moving; destroyed human rags. Among these people were children. The victims were mostly Jewish. Images of mass graves overflowing with unburied corpses were also recorded there. This was the epitome of Hitler's campaign: racism; disregard for democracy; militarism; lies; rhetoric of extermination of adversaries; control of the population through propaganda and religious fanaticism. A campaign that included blaming the communists for the fire at Auschwitz. ReichstagIt included the attacks on Jews and their property during Kristallnacht, the imprisonment and torture of their first opponents; the accelerated and progressive destruction of civil rights and the construction of the first concentration camps, initially created to isolate blacks, gypsies, and homosexuals from German society. From the exhibition of these images in films of the time, around the world, it seemed that, from the human and material wreckage of the Second World War, an inescapable desire to do justice was born, and above all, the will to create mechanisms to ensure that crimes against humanity such as those committed by the Nazis would never be repeated. The art of cinema became a weapon in the fight against horror!

US anti-Nazism succumbs to the interests of capitalism. Russia, the first country to confront these images, lost more than 25 million people in World War II, mostly men of adult age. Therefore, fighting Nazism became a sacred duty for the Russian people, just as the memory of those who fell in that struggle is sacred to that nation.

After witnessing the horror, it seemed as if the world had united in this conviction.

But the illusion soon fades when the United States bans the release, in its territory, of the film directed by Stuart Schulberg, "Nuremberg: A Lesson for the Modern World," which showed images of Nazi terror, collected in various parts of Europe.

Even at that time, when the world was still licking its wounds from the war, the recent Nazi horror was becoming a thing of the past for the American government, which no longer had any interest in publicizing its crimes.

More important than fighting Nazism was strengthening capitalism through alliances established with former enemies. More important was transforming, through relentless propaganda, the communist ideal of equality into terror for the world's poor, shielding themselves, for this purpose, with the crimes of Stalinism and not with ideology. Thus, the film's screening was censored because it was considered detrimental to the interests of the then-established "Cold War" against Russia.

The Hydra of Lerna Why is it necessary to revisit this history? So that it is not forgotten and repeated, some would say, but above all to show the danger that has not yet passed!

On the contrary, throughout the world and, particularly, in mixed-race Brazil, whose people would, for the most part, be the preferred victims of Nazism, Nazi cells, their ideology, and their methods are not things of the past.

Nazism is like the Hydra of Lerna, an animal from Greek mythology, with the body of a dragon and several serpent heads that, when cut off by Hercules' sword, caused others to sprout in their place. But in Brazil, Nazism does not inhabit the Argolis swamp.

It inhabits the barracks which, having been granted amnesty for its crimes during the 1964 dictatorship, is always ready to pounce on any attempt to deepen democracy in Brazil, however timid that initiative may be.

It inhabits the Brazilian parliament in the form of deputies and senators who support its policies; it inhabits the palaces of governors imbued with this political orientation. It inhabits churches led by money-laundering pastors who lead their flock to the slaughterhouse with their preachings in favor of Nazi candidates; it inhabits the corroded minds of Catholics who long for the Inquisition and hate Pope Francis; it inhabits the minds of the widows of the dictatorship who are mobilizing for its return. It inhabits the widespread attack on public universities, science, intelligence, art, and culture.

Let's look at our own very recent history!

The rise of Nazism and Fascism in present-day Brazil - The election of Jair Bolsonaro, his actions, and those of his allies throughout his term are compelling and tangible proof of the rise of the Lernaean Hydra of Nazism and Fascism in Brazil.

Throughout his time in the Army, in the Chamber of Deputies, and during his election campaign, he never hid his antipathy towards democracy, nor his racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and supremacist profile, his contempt for the ethnic makeup of the Brazilian people and for what is dear to Brazil, namely, its history, its democracy, its heritage, its sovereignty, and its culture.

From the Chamber's podium, he praised, without being bothered, the most infamous torturer of the Brazilian dictatorship, when the farce of the trial was accepted. impeachment Dilma Rousseff. And he didn't leave there in handcuffs!

Threatening to exterminate those he considers his adversaries, a profoundly Nazi-fascist characteristic, has always been his discourse.

With "Brazil above all and God above everyone," he replaces Germany with Brazil, and recovers the meaning of Hitler's motto, which became his campaign slogan, his mandate slogan, his rally and motorcycle rally slogan, repeated ad nauseam in the country where Nazism is a crime, since the law belatedly approved in 1989.

Bolsonaro and his team's actions during the pandemic also left no doubt about their hygienist policy of encouraging people to become infected; promoting the use of medicines not recommended by science; and delaying the purchase of vaccines. Of the more than 700 deaths from Covid, more than 300 could have been avoided if he had not been president.

In April 2020, in the midst of Covid-19 pandemicAnd under the seemingly complacent gaze of the three branches of government, the government of the Federal District responsible for security on the Esplanade of Ministries, and part of the corporate press, "The 300 of Brazil," a paramilitary group defending Bolsonaro's policies, established itself in front of the National Congress.

The objective of the group, dubbed by the press as "Bolsonaro's Praetorian Guard" on the Esplanade, was a very clear attempt to prepare a military coup, along the lines of the one promoted by the neo-Nazis in Maidan Square, in Kiev, led by more than 20 Nazi groups, including Azov, the one that organized the genocide of more than 14 Russians, pro-Russians or Russian-speaking people in the Donbass region.

Claiming to have been trained in Ukraine and leading a group willing to "Ukrainize Brazil," the group was headed by Sara Fernanda Giromini, who adopted the codename Sara Winter to honor an Englishwoman who became a Nazi spy and lived from 1870 to 1944.

According to UOL, "in one of the acts, the protesters used torches and masks in front of the STF building," in the best Ku Klux Klan style.

In 2019, she was appointed national coordinator of maternity policies for Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, under the management of the then minister View All, in whose house he even lived, according to an article in Correio Braziliense, and maintained, according to all the press, a close relationship with parliamentarians such as Alê Silva, Aline Sleutjes, Bia Kicis, Carla Zambelli, Caroline De Toni, Daniel Silverira, General Girao, Junio ​​Amaral and with the senator Arolde de Oliveira.

In 2022, encampments in front of military barracks, a re-enactment of the 300 and the neo-Nazis of Maidan Square, were created, supported, and maintained with the encouragement and complicity of the Presidential Palace, whether overtly or covertly.

On November 2, 2022, in São Miguel do Oeste/Santa Catarina – the state with the highest number of Nazi cells – coup plotters gathered in front of the Army headquarters, requesting military intervention to prevent Lula da Silva from taking office as President of the Republic.

Shouting “God, Fatherland, and Family,” the Nazi gesture sieg heilThe gesture, so common in demonstrations supporting Bolsonaro, was made by the protesters, who sang the national anthem.

City councilwoman Maria Tereza Capra, from the Workers' Party, spoke out demanding action from local authorities regarding the incident. The Santa Catarina Public Prosecutor's Office concluded that there was nothing to investigate and that the gesture was a common practice in the community(!?!?)

As soon as the councilwoman's complaint began to be publicized, she and her family became victims of relentless and fierce persecution, which culminated in the revocation of her mandate on February 3, 2023, for breach of parliamentary decorum.

It is appalling how freely Bolsonaro and his cronies demonstrated their ideology and coup-plotting intentions all this time, without being bothered by the full force of the law, before the events of January 8th.

It is no coincidence that the diligent "Hate Cabinet," which operated in the Presidential Palace during his administration, bore all the resemblances to Nazi propaganda, with its strategy of inventing, disseminating, and repeating lies.It wasn't just January 8th - The barbarity of January 8, 2023, was the culmination of an intense campaign of neo-Nazi propaganda and practices, as well as attacks on democracy, which should also include the assassinations of Lula, Alckmin, and Alexandre de Moraes.

There are so many examples that it's impossible to list them all here, but it's worth remembering that, even with all the attacks, these people are only being judged by January 8, 2023!

But it must be said how revolting the leniency and complacency of constituted authorities and institutions "in full operation," of the majority of parliament and most of the corporate press, are with the practice, rhetoric, gestures, and slogans of neo-Nazism in the recent history of Brazil!

Why has there been no denunciation yet of the resurgence, increase, and growth of Nazism in Brazil?

The issue wasn't even a topic in any of the 2018 or 2022 election programs. The similarities between the candidate and Hitler, which were not mere coincidences, were not shown!

Why weren't the militants of this hatred punished according to the law from the beginning of their journey?

Why wasn't Bolsonaro punished for honoring a torturer?

Given the Nazi slogan and rhetoric, why wasn't his candidacy revoked?

Why did everyone who should have denounced, punished, and repudiated this history lesson miss it, and therefore fail to recognize or denounce the proto-Nazi-fascist motto and practices of Bolsonaro and his allies?

So, as Professor Anete Maia states, we emerged from a false abolition of slavery in the 19th century, which guaranteed a range of usurpations for the descendants of enslaved Black people in the 20th century. Now, in the 21st century, will we have to endure the country being ruled by proto-Nazi fascists?

Does the Western colonialist zeal, which subjugates people considered inferior, still inspire people here? What can be said of these compatriots without a mirror image?

Are they nothing more than traitors to the nation, racist supremacists? Will they be future targets of justice? Will history reserve for them its (much-vaunted and unknown) garbage can?

And what are we doing today to ensure they are condemned and swallowed up by a provided containers, Waste?

There is no promising future with a present that is complicit, lazy, and underinvested in making our people see and realize that they are being ensnared in further exploitation, subjugation, and death, through the words of hyper-liberal Christians serving an unchecked capitalism.

Sanitary cordon against the far right. Instead of a hygienist policy, what is needed, immediately, is the creation of a sanitary cordon, as advocated by German MP Heidi Reichinnek against the far-right in Brazil. And this sanitary cordon is built with information, clarification, education, and art. There is no shortage of material! Let films like "The Lost Film of Nuremberg" be shown in public squares, on television – public concessions! – in cinemas, in schools for teachers and students, and in churches. There are several films with this content already being shown. on line for free

Let these films be shown in city bus stations! Let small pamphlets be distributed in places where crowds gather, explaining and denouncing Nazism and fascism, and denouncing the Nazis here, in Argentina, all over the world! Enough of laziness, enough of tolerating the intolerable!

And it is the people who will identify the similarities between Hitler and Bolsonaro. The people will realize that Israel, today, is repeating against the Palestinians what they did to the Jewish people. It is the people who will finally realize that, being non-white, they are the preferred victims of the Nazis!

An unknown author is said to have stated: "If there are ten people at a table, a Nazi arrives and sits down, and no one gets up, then there are eleven Nazis at the table.". Enough of sleeping with enemies! The people need to be helped to recognize them.

Bolsonaro and his supporters are not "common people," they are not "laid-back," they are not "brutally honest"; they are not merely rude and ill-mannered, lacking composure. They are something already recorded by History: proto-Nazi fascists! It is necessary not to be afraid of words; the word "dog" doesn't bite.

If the coup had succeeded, we would already be mourning our disappeared, tortured, and dead today!

Let us spread throughout Brazil our repudiation of Nazism; our outrage at this murderous ideology and our support for its victims of yesterday, today and always!

Amnesty for these people? NEVER!