Hitler's Table Talk

NO EDUCATION FOR NATIVES 33
The essential thing, for the moment, is to conquer. After
that everything will be simply a question of organisation.
When one contemplates this primitive world, one is convinced
that nothing will drag it out of its indolence unless one
compels the people to work. The Slavs are a mass of born
slaves, who feel the need of a master. As far as we are concerned,
we may think that the Bolsheviks did us a great service.
They began by distributing the land to the peasants, and we
know what a frightful famine resulted. So they were obliged,
of course, to re-establish a sort of feudal régime, to the benefit
of the State. But there was this difference, that, whereas the
old-style landlord knew something about farming, the political
commissar, on the other hand, was entirely ignorant of such
matters. So the Russians were just beginning to give their
commissars appropriate instruction.
If the English were to be driven out of India, India would
perish. Our rôle in Russia will be analogous to that of England
in India.
Even in Hungary, National Socialism could not be exported.
In the mass, the Hungarian is as lazy as the Russian. He's by
nature a man of the steppe. From this point of view, Horthy
is right in thinking that if he abandoned the system of great
estates, production would rapidly decline.
It's the same in Spain. If the great domains disappeared
there, famine would prevail.
The German peasant is moved by a liking for progress. He
thinks of his children. The Ukrainian peasant has no notion
of duty.
There is a peasantry comparable to ours in Holland, and
also in Italy, where every inch of ground is zealously exploited
—also, to a certain extent, in France.
The Russian space is our India. Like the English, we shall
rule this empire with a handful of men.
It would be a mistake to claim to educate the native. All
that we could give him would be a half-knowledge—just what's
needed to conduct a revolution!