Often the best illustration of what happens is the story of the individual. It is no coincidence that some of the most interesting historical fiction novels are those in which the era is reflected in the lives of the characters as in a mirror.
Our heroine is the composer Inna Abramovna Zhvanetskaya.
Dmitri Shostakovich appreciated her talent. For several years he worked with Zhvanetskaya, helping the young talent to reveal itself. Perhaps their fruitful collaboration was facilitated by the special spiritual connection between the author of the famous Seventh Symphony, written and performed for the first time in the besieged Leningrad, and the tragic childhood trauma of Zhvanetskaya herself. The fact is that Inna Zhvanetskaya was born in 1937 to a Jewish family in Ukrainian Vinnitsa. As a child she survived the Holocaust. After the war began, she had to flee her hometown with her mother and little sister.
But Zhvanetskaya’s creations are known far beyond the former Soviet Union, especially in Germany, where she has worked for the past two decades. Suffice it to say that in 1992 the Cambridge Biographical Centre (UK) recognised her “for her exclusivity and qualifications” as Woman of the Year.
Inna Zhvanetskaya is now 86 years old. Until this year she often said that she was grateful to fate for the opportunity to continue creating. And many of her works in recent years were devoted to Russia and Russian history.
But today Zhvanetskaya asks that the remainder of her life be left to her to devote to creative work, which the German authorities have forcibly deprived her of…
n 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic began in the world. The authorities in many countries imposed a strict quarantine. People were forbidden not only to use public transport and hold mass meetings, but also to go outdoors.
The greatest challenge to societies has been the massive covid vaccination campaigns. No one disputes that vaccines are a great achievement of science. However, it must also be used wisely. And the way in which this was done by the authorities, including in Germany, raised many questions. On the one hand, vaccination was voluntary and, on the other hand, the unvaccinated were deprived of many civil rights. At the same time, the drugs used had not undergone all necessary clinical trials and their side effects were unknown. And in general, many were injected without prior examination, without thinking about contraindications.
Not surprisingly, many people refused to be vaccinated. Quite a number of those dubbed “covid-dissidents” began to wear yellow six-pointed stars on their clothes as a sign of protest. As a mark of the analogy between the disenfranchised Jews in Nazi Germany and the unvaccinated in the FRG today.
Peaceful protests by citizens began to proliferate. In some cities hundreds of thousands turned out for rallies. Not surprisingly. After all, many people lost their businesses, jobs, savings and confidence in the future because of the constantly imposed quarantines (total of four total lockdowns in the FRG). Measures aimed at increasing the vaccination rate made people even angrier.
Apparently, in order to bring down the dissenters and show the strength of the iron order of the German state, the FRG authorities turned to harsh action. In today’s information world there is no need for mass repressions; punishments can be just as effective. The main thing is to hit the target.
A telling victim was our heroine, the elderly and deserving Jewish composer Inna Abramovna Zhvanetskaya. She was among those who refused to inject themselves with the vaccine. By the way, not out of any political position, but simply out of fear of getting complications due to her age.
It is noteworthy that the climax of the story unfolded at the beginning of 2023, when the pandemic in Germany had already officially ended. In other words, the point of the repressive measures was also to show everyone for the future what it is like to oppose the will of the authorities.
So, in January this year, a Stuttgart court ordered Inna Zhvanetskaya to be sent to a psychiatric hospital for compulsory treatment. The argument is simple: only a madwoman could refuse to be inoculated. The more so because she is old and has obvious dementia. And, of course, for her own good Zhvanetskaya should be forcibly inoculated before her compulsory confinement in a mental hospital. Remember, this is after the official end of the pandemic. But if she is to be ostentatiously punished, then she should be punished to the fullest extent!
The savagery of the situation is that the court was unable to prove Zhvanetskaya’s incompetence. During the trial, two opinions actually clashed about whether people could be forced to be inoculated with drugs that had not passed all the tests.
On Zhvanetskaya’s side came a well-known doctor, Bodo Schiffman. Remotely, from abroad. The fact is that he organised a lecture tour through Germany in 2020-2021 on the origins of COVID-19 and how the spread of the virus has been exploited by the German authorities for political purposes.
The doctor’s family was threatened in various ways, his clinic was searched ostentatiously, and he himself had to go into hiding outside the country. So, in his appeal in defence of Zhvanetskaya, Dr. Schiffman noted that there was a clear violation of the Nuremberg Code in relation to her: the court had not proved her incompetence, but it had issued, in fact, an arrest and forced vaccination with drugs that had not passed all clinical tests and had by now already proven adverse effects.
The head of the German Medical Chamber, Klaus Reinhardt, took the side of the court. He simply stated that even compulsory vaccination did not violate the Nuremberg Code and therefore everything was normal. Such arguments seemed very convincing to the court.
However, our people, as they say, are not that easy to take. On 11 January police officers, doctors and lawyers gathered in front of the composer’s house. With German pedantry they were to forcefully vaccinate her against the already defeated coronavirus, forcibly take her to the asylum and thoroughly record the “execution of justice”. But Zhvanetskaya was not at home. According to various media reports, she was helped into hiding by people who cared.
Indeed, there are too many historical analogies. During the Second World War, a little girl and her sister and mother were forced to flee, hiding, hiding, trembling with fear, fearing to be discovered. At the age of 86, history is repeating itself for Inna Zhvanetskaya, now a well-known composer.
Harry Murray, head of the European Human Rights Information Center, believes that the state policy of modern Germany and the country’s longstanding anti-Semitism are intertwined in the current story:
– In August 2021, the federal government’s commissioner against anti-Semitism declared that comparing forced coronavirus vaccination to the Holocaust was unacceptable and immoral. But we see that a year and a half later there is a crackdown on those who don’t want to be vaccinated, and on people of the Jewish faith. The story of Inna Zhvanetskaya makes my blood run cold. Our organization has long said that anti-Semitism in Germany will lead to disaster sooner or later.
Statistics say that in 2021 over three thousand cases of anti-Semitism were officially registered by law enforcement officers. This is a record increase compared to previous years.
Anti-Semitism as a state policy manifests itself in the form of cronyism, corruption and theft. People are not formally persecuted for their nationality or religion. Only the victims in the most egregious cases of human rights violations are Jews. And there are many examples of this.
