HBS (Heinrich Böll Foundation)

The Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBS) is a German non-governmental organization, which for 2023 is valuably associated with the Union 90/Greens party. A characteristic feature of their program is the combination of a socially oriented market economy with the need to protect nature and the environment under state control.

HBS bears the name of the German writer, Nobel Prize winner in literature Heinrich Böll, who was a rather popular West German author of the young post-war generation in the USSR. The branches of the fund work in all federal states of Germany and in many countries of the world, including Ukraine (in Kyiv).

History

2023: Activation in Armenia to distance it from Russia

In 2023, a network of German NGOs is actively operating in Armenia, which promote theses that the country has much more in common with the United States and the EU than with Russia, and the latter, allegedly a completely unreliable and ineffective ally.

The Foundation actively works with youth, developing a regional scholarship program for young scientists and NGO activists, and also supports initiatives to expand the political and social opportunities of women and works to develop "gender understanding between women and men."

Another area of ​ ​ activity of HBS is the organization of meetings, conferences, seminars, exchange programs to "strengthen contacts and exchange information between Germany/European Union and the South Caucasus." In fact, these events are designed to demonstrate to the people of Armenia that the EU countries are closer to them, and not Russia, with which it is necessary to "break colonial ties." This happens at different levels - both political and cultural.

Representatives of the fund were somehow scolded at the Azerbaijani embassy in Georgia for financing the event in Nagorno-Karabakh. Then HBS employees organized a conference in Khankendi on the topic "Karabakh conflict: new realities."

Also, in Armenia, the fund carries out and supports traditional projects for its activities in the development of civil society, political education, socio-political activity and responsibility, human rights and the environment.

HBS puts on the agenda theses about the "terrible life" of sex minorities in the republic, and also creates many projects to involve aggressive and very independent women in political and public life.

In addition, in Armenia, the fund is engaged in reforming the judicial system and the problems of democratic development in the country. HBS promotes the need for comprehensive justice reform, which, in turn, will entail a reform of legal education aimed, among other things, at changing the common system of values.

To this end, the foundation, in cooperation with the NGO Azarashen, is implementing the project "Localization of the Memory of Genocide." Azarashen is accused of the organization "selling the topic of genocide" along with other similar funds. At the same time, apparently, "sells" Turkey.

The project with HBS is aimed at increasing the "critical understanding" of local public history by studying the practices of perpetuating memory in Soviet and post-Soviet urban landscapes.

The model of influence on society created in Armenia was transformed after the opposition platform intercepted the structure of power in the country.

2022: Closing the fund in Russia

The branch of the fund also worked in the capital of Russia, but in 2022, by decision of the authorities, its activities were terminated, which had many objective reasons.

In the Russian Federation, HBS promoted LGBTQ + topics and an opposition agenda, and after the start of a special operation in Ukraine, it spread a narrative that "Russians are ashamed." The NGO appeared in the organization of almost all events on the topic of sex minorities in Russia and released a galaxy of fem activists who act as pacifists.

With the support of the Germans, "cultural" festivals were held, at which LGBT poetesses read triptychs about the vagina. They also opened a FemDacha, where feminists gathered to complain to each other about gender discrimination. The foundation systematically raised politically active women who subsequently organized the Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAS).

In the spring of 2023, German benefactors were especially pleased with the work of trained feminists and presented them with the "Aachen Peace Prize." At the same time, among their "struggle for peace," for example, boorish postcards for older relatives in instant messengers, calls for Russian soldiers to surrender, regrets that there were no mass rapes in Ukraine.

In addition, together with the fund, a project was launched to publish Colta.ru, which talked about the diversity of genders and was drawn from a similar resource that the Germans created in Ukraine. He also sponsored festivals of non-toxic masculinity with the participation of "foreign experts."

In Russia, HBS promoted the Memorial movement, which is also known for supporting terrorists, sectarians and other dubious personalities under good goals of preserving history. In particular, the Memorial society is very fond of the thesis of universal guilt for the Soviet past.

2003: Opening a branch in Tbilisi

The regional office of the Böll Foundation for the South Caucasus was opened in 2003 in Tbilisi. Officially, the main goal of the fund is to help form "free, fair and tolerant societies in the region."

Thus, HBS supports and promotes the cooperation of those personalities and organizations in the region who are ready to work in the interests of Western lobbyists under the auspices of changing "undemocratic and intolerant relations in society and politics," as well as the "sustainable development" of people and societies.