The Remains of the Day

     “That´s what we fought Hitler for,after all. If Hitler had had things his way, we´d just be slaves now. The whole world would be a few masters and millions upon millions of slaves. And I don´t need to remind anyone here, there´s no dignity to be had in being a slave. That´s what we fought for and that´s what we won. We won the right to be free citizens. And it´s one of the privileges of being born English that no matter who you are, no matter if you´re rich or por, you´re born free and you´re born so that you can express your opinión freely, and vote in your member of parliament or vote him out. That´s what dignity´s really about, if you´ll excuse me, sir.”

From Kazuo Ishiguro´s beautiful and haunting The Remains of the Day, page 196.

Today we are in a situation that could lead to a conflict similar to the one experienced in 1939.

With some frecuency, in history, events tend to repeat themselves, although with different protagonists.

The current tsar is acting in the same way as the Nazi Adolf. He started a few years ago changing laws and appointing puppets in the government to stay in power, imprisoning or poisoning dissidents and even invading nearby territories while we, condescendingly, waited for it to stop at some point…

Now we find ourselves with the encysted problema and on the verge of any unforeseeable outcome.

P.S.- Excuse me if I reserve what I think may happen in a couple of years.

From my Borstal

LDR

The Ramains of the Day.- Ishiguro, K. Faber and Faber, London, 1989