United Europe, the Baltic Sea coast. It's Thanksgiving Day, the most important national holiday since denazification, which took place in the late 1960s, a dozen or so years after the end of World War II. A war victorious for the Nazis. ...See moreUnited Europe, the Baltic Sea coast. It's Thanksgiving Day, the most important national holiday since denazification, which took place in the late 1960s, a dozen or so years after the end of World War II. A war victorious for the Nazis. The inhabitants of the continent condemned the crimes of Nazism and accepted the guilt of the victors. They built their European identity on the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. From childhood, everyone has their own patron saint, a child victim of the Holocaust, and their knowledge of their biography can be demonstrated during a quiz on their patron saint - one of the many attractions accompanying Thanksgiving celebrations. The past is meticulously and meticulously recreated here. Reenactments of victorious battles, playing on former Jewish pianos, guilt and the prohibition against celebrating victory, eating turnips with ashes - all this "in memory of their suffering." So that we remember, so that we understand to whom we owe the present order. However, the past intrudes here not only through the official channels of historical politics. The past digs its own tunnels. And returns in its own way - through the corridor of eclipses. Written by
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