A malignant spectre is again creeping across the streets of Europe, it is the ghost of simplistic truths and self-appointed saviours of the West as a whole. The nationalist ideologies of the 19th and 20th centuries are on their way to a sickening revival in many countries.

Hitler, Stalin and Co. at Nordart Exhibition 2018

The responsible politicians – harmlessly called populists – have started a postmodern witch hunt, the victims of this undeclared war are now refugees, foreigners or people of other faiths and lifestyles. The globalisation of this retrograde zeitgeist has opened up new battlefields where peace should actually reign.

Winning the Arms Race in Red Square, Carl Chaplin, 1986

These ruthless ideologues want to turn back the clock, which risks reheating old, already forgotten conflicts. Like unscrupulous sorcerers’ pupils, the radical nationalists have lit blazing fires and pyres all over Europe and elsewhere that urgently need to be put out again. Poland has just shown and proven by the national election of October, 15, 2023, that this is possible and feasible – a great significant step and symbolic signal!

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Phillip Boa & The Voodoo Club, And Then She Kissed Her – 2010

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