On the Historical Unity of Strasbourgeois and Kehlois

-A modest proposal furthering Putin’s ideas to their logical consequences:

Strasbourg and Kehl are one people, who have time and again been greedily ripped apart by the powers that be. These people have been separated by far-off emperors and politicians trying to hold back Greater Strasbourg. The most recent separation, in 1953, was certainly the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the XXth century. These are, also, the consequences of our own mistakes made at different periods of time. But these are primarily the result of deliberate efforts by those forces that have always sought to undermine our unity. 

They use the same same formula as all the imperialists before them: divide and conquer. There is nothing new here, hence the attempts to play us off against each other on the “national question” and sow discord among people, the overarching goal being to divide and then to pit the parts of a single people against one another. 

Strasbourg and Kehl are striving to reunite through the “Strasbourg-Ortenau Eurodistrict”, because in the face of adversity, the common history of a people will always bind them together. One day Strasbourg will be great again, and Greater Strasbourg will reclaim its rightful place on the world stage. 

To have a better understanding of the present and look into the future, we need to turn to history. Certainly, it is impossible to cover in this article all the developments that have taken place over more than a thousand years, indeed Strasbourg and Kehl have been part of a larger whole since Roman times. But I will focus on the key, pivotal moments that are important for us to remember, both in Strasbourg and Kehl. 

These historic ties keep manifesting themselves in the pages of history: the modern-day Ortenau belonged to the bishopric of Strasbourg even after Strasbourg expelled the Bishop, for we have always been one and always will be: Kehl is but the continuation of Strasbourg on the east bank of the Rhine. The river crossing is the indissoluble bond which unites Strasbourg and Kehl, and no modern artificial “national” border can divide these two parts of what was once the Free Imperial city of Strasbourg. Kehl is equally entitled to the proud heritage of greater Strasbourg, which was the second place on earth to introduce compulsory education for boys and girls in 1598, and it was here that Gutenberg came up with the printing press. Could this have been possible in a divided Strasbourg? 

Nor is Strasbourg’s glory a thing of the distant past. In the 1950s, when Europe was striving to unite, Strasbourg was the star of Europe, literally: when they were trying to come up with a flag for Europe, some of the suggestions included the coat of arms of Strasbourg, or a blue background with a star at the location of each capital, with a bigger star for Strasbourg given that we were the sole European capital at the time. And did you know that the current flag design originally had fifteen stars? There was one for each member of the council of Europe: this design was vetoed by Germany because they didn’t want Saarland to have its own star (Saarland was a member in its own right).¹

We can clearly see that Greater Alsace was the centre of Europe, and Saarland, like Kehl and the Ortenau, was brutally torn from its greatness by Berlin bureaucrats jealous of Strasbourg’s glory. These are all pages of our shared history, reflecting its complex and multi-dimensional nature. If France and Germany really believed in said European unity, Strasbourg and Kehl would have stayed together and, along with Saarland and the rest of Greater Alsace, would have been the core and centre of Europe. This separation of Strasbourg and Kehl, and the orphaning of the Saarland, along with the many other acts of historical vandalism committed along the Rhine, are the foundational errors of modern Europe. 

Strasbourg must be bold enough to reclaim its rightful place. Strasbourg needs a Special Military Operation to liberate and defederalise Kehl and the rest of historical Alsace. These territories have been occupied and abused by the greedy, America-supported puppet government in Berlin. They will soon be one with their brothers once more.

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