From the Continent

Nowadays Europeans wryly explain to each other that only naive optimists are still studying Russian; the realists have already bought Chinese grammars.

Nor are they merely being facetious. A perusal of the European conservative press reveals a tendency to act upon the old adage, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. This despite European conservatives’ full awareness that the horrors of Mao Tse-tung’s takeover were infinitely worse than those of Lenin’s, and that a repetition of the Cultural Revolution with its barbaric cruelties is, in the light of recent developments, by no means out of the question, especially once Mao is dead. The struggle over who will succeed him is already well under way, and it is unlikely that the eventual winners will not attempt to purge their opponents.

EK

About the Author

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Featured Tags

Nowadays Europeans wryly explain to each other that only naive optimists are still studying Russian; the realists have already bought Chinese grammars.

Nor are they merely being facetious. A perusal of the European conservative press reveals a tendency to act upon the old adage, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. This despite European conservatives’ full awareness that the horrors of Mao Tse-tung’s takeover were infinitely worse than those of Lenin’s, and that a repetition of the Cultural Revolution with its barbaric cruelties is, in the light of recent developments, by no means out of the question, especially once Mao is dead. The struggle over who will succeed him is already well under way, and it is unlikely that the eventual winners will not attempt to purge their opponents.