Os Blumthal

God, how many people are disapointed with comunism! The Portuguese newspaper number 10513  (Público 03/02/2019) reproduces an interview between the journalist João Ruela Ribeiro and the writer of the book Os Blumthal, about one Estonian family.

«As personagens viveram assim, morreram assim, sofreram assim e tomaram aquelas decisões.»

In the book, its author describes the life of his wife´s family, and in spite of having a rich material he didn´t write a novel, and that someone thought that things were being invented.

I am anxious that the book is in my hands, but meanwhile, the two pages that the interview provides are enough for me to reflect again on some of the things that I have written from my Borstal.

José Milhazes, warns that we are at a time when political values have been degraded and that the EU could disintegrate, to continue along this path. Opinion that I share and I put for example the case of Spain, here next. The political height of government and opposition of the neighbouring country is the lowest that I have reference. Politics in Spain is in the hands of young people with high levels of testosterone - including women - and with the neurons unfinished properly covered precisely by that youth.

Eu não quero que este livro seja escrito, said the Milhazes´s wife. She didn´t want because every revelation about her gran-grandmother, murdered by the Nazis, or some family members sent to Siberia, one of them was six years old, it was a new stab to her feelings.

In the interview it´s said that small countries that are between two much larger, many times, are divided among the powerful; so when Russia invaded the Crimea five years ago, the Estonians began to tremble: the Ribbentrop-Molotov treaty came to mind.

That is why Mr Milhazes proposes to work to maintain peace; because the historical memory is a kind of vaccine, but that its protection has a limited time. This usually happens every three or four generations and, if those generations have lived well even before. Mathematically it doesn´t fail. When an economic crisis appears, saviours emerge and these tough guys are very dangerous. My stomach is churning when we speak about bankiticians, but with these it´s even worse!

In the interview, the author makes a reference to Lenin. Apparently, the dictator once said that a cook could run a state and the writer adds that we are checking that some great powers are not governed by cooks, but that there are better cooks than some leaders.

Denounces the author of Os Blumthal to politicians who are only thinking about the next four years, when they should look longer term; but that isn´t profitable and power is wanted immediately. They are spoiled brats who have achieved everything quickly, after a tantrum or blackmailing their parents.

I have a Spanish acquaintance that I occasionally meet at the train station that says exactly the same as Mr Milhazes says: I don´t see a way out and I'm afraid to think that the false prophets come to power.

From my Borstal.

LDR