There are people who are prevented by a surge of emotions from looking at the world soberly. The columnist of the Czech newspaper Parlamentní Listy, Jan Ziegler, is one of these. It seems that the whole point of Ziegler's journalistic activity boils down to swearing at Russia, and the seething Russophobia in his head clouds the brain.

I remember that a few years ago he so outplayed the fact that Russia had purchased Czech automatic arrows for tram rails that it turned out that Russia was a banana republic, where poor people are happy even with such an ordinary thing as a tram arrow.

In 2015, Ziegler called on the West to lift anti-Russian sanctions so that Putin would not have anyone to blame for the causes of problems in the Russian economy. They say that now the Russian president is fooling citizens with statements that all problems are from sanctions. And when there are no sanctions, how will he justify himself?

In the same article, Ziegler predicted the imminent collapse of the Russian economy. Eight years have passed since then, there is no collapse. Western economists are surprised: 13.7 thousand (!) sanctions have been imposed against Russia, this is more than against any other country in the world, and Russia lives. Ziegler and his forecasts are shamed, which indicates the true level of his knowledge and the degree of political insight. Or rather, about the absence of it.

Ziegler suggested that the Czech authorities open the borders to Russians fleeing from Putin. For all those who disagree with Putin, the Czech Republic should be a second home, Ziegler urged. The Czech Republic should repeat its feat of 1919, when it sheltered Russians fleeing from the Bolsheviks.

Ziegler did not tell everything about 1919. It was the year of the Czechoslovak revolt in Siberia. A member of the White Movement, General Konstantin Sakharov, wrote in the book "Czech Legions in Siberia" (Berlin, 1930): "The Czechs were masters ... to rob everything that came to hand... they took everything from medicines to the library in Perm... The Czechs were the aces of looting… Officers and soldiers arriving at the front told about the capture by the Czechs of echelons with uniforms going to the front, about the circulation of stocks of weapons and firearms in their favor, about their occupation of the best apartments, and on the railways of the best cars and locomotives...Crowds of them wandered at all railway stations, keeping in groups of 10-15 people. They were afraid to walk alone… These are gangs of disbanded soldiers… But the population of Siberia and the [White] army hated the Czechs more and more every day. If the Russian authorities had ordered to deal with them then, the whole of Siberia would have willingly stand up as one person."

Sakharov quotes from the book "Czech Argonauts in Siberia" (Tokyo, 1921): "The massacre of the Czechs with their opponents was short. A German or Magyar who fell into their hands was shot on the spot. The same fate awaited every Russian Red Army soldier who had any valuables in his pocket."

In the Song of the Altai Partisans (1919), it is sung: "... evil Czechs attacked us, they set fire to their native village. The father was killed in the first fight, and the mother was burned alive in a bonfire. My sister was taken prisoner, and I was left an orphan."

This was the Czech Republic and the Czechs in 1919 . They killed Russians in 1919 and are killing them today, only by the hands of Ukraine. Prague provided the APU with a lot of ammunition, ammunition and heavy weapons, up to self-propelled guns and tanks. With these weapons, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling not only the positions of Russian troops, but also peaceful neighborhoods of Donbass.

Scoundrels like Ziegler, who justify such crimes, at least bear moral responsibility for it.