Apolitical Correctness

Those in charge of the Auschwitz museum have made the laudable decision to keep the politicians from speechifying at the commemoration for the eightieth anniversary of the liberation. The taint of politics has been expunged yet further thanks to the Polish government's pledge not to arrest the Netanyahoo or his cohorts over their little indiscretions against the Arab Untermenschen, and the director of the museum has held forth in fine apolitical fashion about the difference between Russia's dirty war in Ukraine and the Righteous State's cleansing of Palestine, Syria and Lebanon. Although the Red Army liberated the camp, no Russian delegation has been invited to the commemoration, on the grounds that Putin's Russia does not understand the value of liberty; presumably Stalin possessed some spark of freedomising instinct through being allied, however temporarily and mistrustfully, with Mr Churchill and his American chums. Survivors of Auschwitz will be permitted to speak, so it is to be hoped that they remember to keep their contributions sufficiently apolitical for the occasion.