Prague, Oct 7 (CTK) – Every country only has certain ability to accept other ethnicities based on its historical experience and those that do not admit the limits forget that going beyond them poses the danger of growing extreme nationalist tendencies, sociologist Antonin Rasek writes in daily Pravo Wednesday.
He writes that Czech politicians and commentators show their satisfaction with the migrant waves bypassing the Czech Lands, but historical and personal experiences should not be forgotten.
Czechoslovakia between the two world wars preserved its democracy and lived in a sort of “splendid isolation” mainly thanks to president Tomas Garrigue Masaryk’s policy, Rasek writes.
This was at a time when Hitler came to power in Germany and soon annexed Austria and when there was Beck’s Poland to the north of the country and Horthy’s Hungary to the south, Rasek writes.
Now, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has strongly aggravated the situation with her unpardonable statement that Germany will accept all Syrian refugees and that Germany will be able to manage the migrant influx, Rasek writes.
At the same time, however, she is pressing for mandatory refugee quotas for the EU member countries to be introduced, while she is running into opposition in this respect even in her own country, Rasek writes.
The around 200 refugee accommodation facilities set on fire and the activities of nationalist organisations are a memento, Rasek writes.
He writes that those showing an unlimited flexibility in relation to the refugees will not help them, but on the contrary, they will endanger them just as their own fellow inhabitants. The principle of preliminary caution should be given preference, Rasek writes.
The migrants may become a substitute target of dissatisfaction and at the same time an object of resentment if Europe again falls into a more serious crisis of any character, whether of an economic, political, or security one, Rasek writes.
He writes that there are dozens of examples of this in history.
Rasek writes that the possible argument that a couple of millions of migrants cannot jeopardise a continent with half a billion inhabitants can be refuted by the history of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks).
He writes that 100,000 bolsheviks ready for anything took over power in the disintegrated Russia of 150 million inhabitants.
