Talking heads on other #western #news:
«Brave #Isreal is fighting against the terror that is #Hamas»

Chad expert on #NRK news:
«Hamas just wants to survive and unless there's an election the only thing the #Isreali government wants is war»

OoOoOOOo, but #state sponsored #media is bad, whereas privately owned is totally honest!

It's also worth noting that NRK was designed to withstand #Russian subversion during the cold war. Some of the old heads at NRK can still speak Russian even.

He was no one just 2 weeks ago, but now this #Russian-backed candidate for the #Romanian Presidency has millions of social media followers, pushed by #Russia's paid influencers, bot networks and troll farms, and yesterday was paid a personal visit by a #Polish far-right politician, also with a sympathetic eyes on #putin.

Let the world know.

#Russian #Chinese #Iranian #Brazilian #SouthAfrican #Indian capitalists feeling pressure and hostility from the global banking cartel (Western Dominant Capital) were forced/reacted and are constructing capitalism #2

#Neoliberalism is the century long reorganization of capital at above and beyond state power, to something #classic #critical theory has failed to conceptualize and theorize on.
#marxism #anarchism #libertarian #communism

Hubby called that! Apparently, there have been a LOT of these sorts of incidents involving #Russian captains or crews...

#Cargo ship captain arrested in #NorthSea collision with US-flagged tanker is Russian national, owner says

Christian Edwards, CNN
Wed, March 12, 2025

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cargo-ship-captain-arrested-north-095438051.html
#Sabotage?

No threat of encirclement for Ukrainian troops in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, Syrskyi says

Syrskyi’s statement follows reports on #Russian & #NorthKorean troops launching an attack on #Ukrainian-held town of #Sudzha, #Kursk Oblast. #Russian forces have made a breakthrough south of the Ukrainian-held town Sudzha in Kursk Oblast, potentially threatening to cut off some of the Ukrainian positions in the Russian region.

https://kyivindependent.com/there-is-currently-no-threat-of-encirclement-of-ukrainian-units-in-russias-kursk-oblast-syrskyi-says/

#RussianAggression #RussiaInvadedUkraine #StandWithUkraine

#Ukrainian drones attacked #Russian oil refinery in Leningrad Oblast

#Drones attacked an #oil #refinery in #Russia's #Leningrad Oblast overnight on March 8 in an operation carried out by Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR)

According to the HUR source, the drones attacked the #Kirishinefteorgsintez enterprise in the #Kirishsky district of Russia’s Leningrad Oblast.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-drones-attacked-russian-oil-refining-complex-in-leningrad-region-military-intelligence-source-says/

#RussiaInvadedUkraine #OilRefinery #StandWithUkraine #OilRefinery

#supportUkraine #summit

#Denmark's Prime Minister Mette #Frederiksen at the Support #Ukraine Summit conference in #Kyiv on the third anniversary of the #russian invasion of Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025.

Powerful words! And she's absolutely right!!

To understand #Trump's intentions, understand that the #US just additionally cut off #Ukraine's ability to use their #HIMARS, one of the key tools of stopped the #russian advance.

It’s not only the air #defenses that save thousands of lives a month that will be gone, it's the #front as well.

Trump is working with #putin on this, total #genocide.

About the “poisoning” of the Skripals
This was clear from the very beginning, for those who think logically.
But for some reason many people believed this Western lie and provocation.
#Western #lie #deception #fraud #MI6 #UK #britain #england #british #provocation #blameRussia #russian #history #Russia

National Endowment for Democracy Deletes Records of Funding Projects in Ukraine

The NED played a pivotal role in helping to trigger the conflict with Russia by supporting two color revolutions directed against Ukraine’s pro-Russian (not really - note mine) leader Viktor #Yanukovych — a potential successor to Vlodymyr #Zelensky if Russia wins.

The 2004 color revolution replaced Yanukovych with Viktor Yushchenko, who favored admitting Ukraine to NATO and adopted an International Monetary Fund (IMF) structural adjustment program that benefitted U.S. investors while cutting social programs.

NED activists employed a broad public relations strategy that included: a) busing paid out-of-town protesters into Kyiv; b) creating an online TV protest station and agitation paraphernalia; and c) providing offshore training to the anti-Yanukovych student leadership. The strategy was based on the writings of Gene Sharp and a template that the NED had successfully employed in Serbia with a youth group called “Otpor,” which helped secure the defeat of socialist Slobodan Milosovic in September 2000 elections.
…
As a sign of the NED’s influence, Ukrainian President Petro #Poroshenko (2014-2020)—a main beneficiary of the #Maidan coup currently awaiting trial on treason charges—bestowed the Order of Princess Olga, one of Ukraine’s highest honors, on Dr. Nadia Diuk,[42] a former vice president and senior adviser to the NED for Europe and Eurasia.

US: overt and covert destabilisation

When a scandal in the 1980s revealed the CIA’s 35 years of international manipulations, President Ronald #Reagan established the National Endowment for Democracy as a more discreet and less controversial instrument. It had the same purpose – to destabilise unfriendly governments by funding the opposition.

#NED #USA #US #american #democracy #CIA #IMF #NATO #deepstate #intelligence #NED #propaganda #fraud #psyops #ukraine #ukrainian #war against #Russia #russian #history

Specific Authors of the Ukrainian War

In the early 80s, our ambassador Alexander #Yakovlev (a classic example of the genre - bed and whiskey) was recruited in Canada. In 1985, he became Mikhail Gorbachev’s chief adviser, and it was through Yakovlev that the last General Secretary was instilled with a plan to reform the USSR economy. In essence, the plan was very simple - to get rid of the superfluous Union republics and then, with the help of the USA, to become a prosperous capitalist state. It was this plan that #Gorbachev proposed to Ronald #Reagan at his very first meeting.

And here is the first remark - historians will probably argue endlessly whether Gorbachev knew or not that this plan was foisted on him by the Americans themselves, or was simply a fool. Personally, I think that he knew and openly and purposefully destroyed the Union. Because this plan included not only the collapse of the country’s rather strong economy under the guise of reforms, but also the bringing to power of outright renegades - #Yeltsin and the group of American advisers who stood behind him, who came to “help” the Soviet Union.
…

Specifically, for the deployment of military operations in Ukraine, a number of contractors were involved, both already well-identified Russophobes and specially established ones at that. Here, we will only list some of them and, accordingly, their main sponsors:

The Atlantic Council- Sponsored by SAAB, Raytheon, and Lockheed. This is the director of the Ukrainian project. Their main lobbyist, by the way, is the same Alperovich who recently authored “The World on the Brink.”

The Center for Analysis of European Policy (established in 2005) - Sponsored specifically by Lockheed, BAE System, Bel Helicopter, and Raytheon, and was designed to promote the agenda in the media.

The German Marshall Fund- Sponsored by the Ministry of Defense of Latvia, Airbus, Boeing, and Raytheon. The main lobbyist is still the same William Kristol, and the former president of Estonia and our old enemy McFaul are also involved.

The Institute for the Study of War (2007) - Sponsored by Raytheon and General Dynamics Dean Corporation. The director of the institute is Kimberly Kagan (wife of Victoria Nuland’s husband’s brother).

These are just a few of the contractors that, by various estimates, handled up to $7 billion in U.S. government and private spending on military corporations to fuel the Ukrainian war. Much of that money ended up in the pockets of the #Nuland family and the #Kagan clan, who are connected to the #Clinton and #Obama families.

#USA #US #american #deepstate #CIA #MIC #warmongers #neocons #russophobia #ukraine #anti-Russia #ukrainian #war #history #soviet #russian #USSR #Russia

Cold War Canada: Ongoing state support for East European émigré groups with deep fascist roots

“Manufacturing Consent”
… for fascism

“If the triumph of communism
is the worst imaginable result,
the support of fascism abroad
is justified as a lesser evil.”

In 1988, just before the destruction of the USSR, #Herman and #Chomsky published a theory on the use of mass media “to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior” that “integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society.” (p.1.) The media’s “societal purpose,” they explained, is to “defend the economic, social, and political agenda of privileged groups that dominate the domestic society and the state.” (p.298.)

This propaganda model focused on five thematic “filters” of the mass media:

size, concentrated ownership, owner wealth and profit orientation…;
advertising as primary income source …;
reliance… on info. provided by government, business and “experts” funded and approved by these primary sources and agents of power;
“flak” as a means of disciplining the media;
“anticommunism” as a national religion and control mechanism. (p.2.)

With the “specter” of communism as “the ultimate evil,” the media created a “cultural milieu in which anticommunism is the dominant religion.” By “elevating opposition to communism to a first principle of Western ideology and politics,” the media used it as a “potent” “political-control mechanism.” This “fragment[ed] the left and labor movements” and sidelined “social democrats” accused of being “too soft on communists.” While many Cold War “liberal” progressives supported US-led wars justified with anticommunist pretexts, “others lapsed into silence, paralyzed by the fear of being tarred with charges of infidelity to the national religion.” (p.29.)

By stirring “anti-Communist fervor … the demand for serious evidence in support of claims of ‘communist’ abuses is suspended, and charlatans can survive as evidential sources.” These “charlatans” take “center stage” as media “experts” and “remain there even after exposure as highly unreliable, if not downright liars.” (p.30.)

Source: Edward S.Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent, 1988.



Source: Ukraine: A Captive but Unconquerable Nation, Bulletin of the World AntiCommunist League, Jun 1969

The Civil War: A Brief History of the Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada
https://aftershock.news/?q=node%2F1419406

#europe #Western #coldwar #USA #US #canada #ukraine #Vietnam #Iran #Guatemala #Brazil #Dominican #NATO #propaganda #fascism #anticommunism #mccarthyism #russophobia #anti-Russia in #soviet #USSR #russian #ukrainian #Russia #history

💥 #Ukrainian #Resistance Blows Up #Russian FSB Officer in Occupied #Mariupol

🚀 Ukrainian resistance fighters in Mariupol successfully detonated a car bomb targeting a Russian #FSB officer in the #Primorsky district on 28 February, Mariupol Resistance reports. The officer is in intensive care, with little chance of survival.

⚔️ Following the attack, Russian forces launched mass arrests and security sweeps across the city. However, the partisans confirmed that their operatives had already escaped safely. The ATESH resistance group noted that Russia has increased patrols and document checks, fearing the growing underground movement.

💡 #Politico previously highlighted Russia’s population replacement strategy in Mariupol, where 460 Ukrainian residential buildings have been demolished to make way for Russian settlers. Despite Moscow’s crackdown, partisan activity continues to rise, proving that even deep in occupied territory, Ukraine’s resistance remains active and effective.

About the pathological lies and Russophobia of ukrainian dictator

That was not his only false statement. In insisting that Putin can’t be trusted, Zelensky omitted his own record in undermining diplomacy with Moscow.

The December 2019 Paris agreement recommitted Ukraine and Russia to the Minsk peace process, the UN Security Council-endorsed framework for ending the war that broke out in 2014 between the post-coup Ukrainian government and Russian-backed eastern Ukrainian rebels.

After initially taking some positive steps toward implementation, Zelensky ultimately refused to comply, a stance that he previewed in Putin’s company.

...

The Russian invasion forced Zelensky to abandon his hostility to negotiations, resulting in the Istanbul talks of March-April 2022. While Zelensky now claims that Russia cannot be negotiated with, his own representatives in Istanbul hold a much different view.

“We managed to find a very real compromise,” Oleksandr Chalyi, a senior member of the Ukrainian negotiating team, recalled in December 2023. “We were very close in the middle of April, in the end of April, to finalize our war with some peaceful settlement.” Putin, he added, “tried to do everything possible to conclude [an] agreement with Ukraine.”

#ukraine #ukrainianconflict #ukrainian #lie #war #russophobia #Zelensky #liar against #Putin #Russia #russian #Donbass #history

Sheremetyevo, servicing the leased Tu-114 Tupolev of Japan Airlines. The Japanese leased several 114s and used them on a nonstop connection flight between Moscow and Tokyo, with the possibility of foreigners transferring from European hubs like Frankfurt.
In the 1960s, only the Tu-114 was able to fly to Tokyo without landing.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ту-114
#history #USSR #soviet #russian #aviation #photo #Tu-114 #1960s #СССР #история #авиация

Jeffrey Sachs' Explosive Address at the EU Parliament Sends Shockwaves Across Europe!

Video Summary:
The NATO enlargement in 1999, which included Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic, led to Russia's displeasure but was not met with successful opposition. In 2001, the US decided to launch seven wars, according to General Wesley Clark, with the goal of removing supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah and controlling all territory in the Middle East. Victor Yanukovich was elected in Ukraine in 2010 on a platform of neutrality, but the US sought to overthrow him as part of a regime change operation. The US has a history of interfering in other countries' politics, often through covert means. The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine began when the US encouraged Ukraine to turn away from Russia and towards the West, leading to tensions and eventual military intervention. The US has been accused of wanting to control the entire Middle East and has been a major obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state. The US has also been criticized for its close relationship with Israel and for dominating American politics through the Israel Lobby. The US and Russia have had strained relations due to their differing interests and ideologies, but direct negotiations between Europe and Russia are necessary for peace in the region. It is important for Europe to maintain mutual respect and negotiation with Russia, rather than provoking conflict.

#NATO #USA #US #ukraine prehistory of #ukrainian #war #Russia #russian #history

A recent US Department of Justice indictment (sadly, probably the last one we’ll see for a while for this type of activities) revealed that the #Kremlin funnels money to social media influencers who then spread #Russian #propaganda for profit.

18/25

There are other sources of #Russian #disinformation, too. AI-generated #fakenews sites have been spreading lies for years. One of the masterminds behind these networks is an American living in #Moscow, John Mark Dougan.

17/25

Many of the major lies now being spread by #Trump and his associates originated from #Tucker’s show on X. For example, Bob Amsterdam, who has been pushing #Russian narratives and who was working for Russian oligarch Vadym Novynskyi, has appeared on Tucker’s show twice.

15/25

Most of you already know Tucker #Carlson and probably remember how he was humiliated by #Putin, or how he was astonished to find fresh bread in a #French supermarket in #Moscow. For years now, he’s been busy laundering #Russian lies into social media.

14/25

Macgregor has been consistently wrong about #Ukraine since day one of the full-scale #invasion yet people still take him seriously. Unsurprisingly, #Russian state media frequently cite him.

13/25

In today’s #Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce #Russia’s main narratives and explain how they are being spread online by #Russian operatives and #MAGA Republicans. After three years of war, Russia still relies on old narratives, now amplified by the #Trump administration.

1/25

The ammont of #Russian propaganda that the #Trump 'administration' cahannel to the #US #News #media is .... staggering

is there someone in US that still believe that Trump is NOT a russian puppet ?
🤣

#nazi #russian prosecutors seek new sentence for imprisoned #journalist #ponomarenko on assaulting prison guard.

She was thrown in jail for 6 years after telling the truth about the #UkraineWar and now #kremlin want to add another 2 years to ensure she will die in prison either mistreatment or suicide (she has histrionic personality disorder)

Source: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/24/russian-prosecutors-seek-new-sentence-for-imprisoned-journalist-ponomarenko-a88132

С годовщиной создания Рабоче-крестьянской Красной армии!




#Russia #USSR #soviet #russian #army #red-army #history #onthisday

Plastic House, Leningrad, 1961
#photo #Russia #USSR #Leningrad #soviet #russian #architecture #history

Google Censorship

We terminated 7 YouTube channels as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Ukraine.
This campaign uploaded content in Ukrainian and Russian that was supportive of Russia’s government and critical of the Ukrainian military. We received leads from FireEye that supported us in this investigation.
We blocked 10 domains from eligibility to appear on Google News surfaces and Discover as part of our investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Russia. This campaign uploaded content in Russian that was critical of Ukraine’s government and supportive of Russia.

#censorship #youtube #google #ukraine #ukrainian #ATO #civilwar #war #psyop #bigbrother #1984 against #russian #Donbass #Russia #history

Happy Soviet Army and Navy Day!

“We have only two true allies in the whole world - our army and navy. All others will turn against us at the first opportunity.”
Alexander III

#Russia #USSR #soviet #russian #army #naval #history #poster #onthisday

Thousands of protesters have marched on the #Russian embassy in #London as they called on the international community not to “betray #Ukraine”.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/ukraine-russian-donald-trump-moscow-john-mcdonnell-b1212655.html

US intel community killed its own credibility by revealing its Ukraine policies (from 2022)

#ScottRitter




‘They #lied. They may hold that they lied for a noble reason, but they lied. They knowingly circulated information they had no reason to believe was true, and that lie was amplified by all the most influential #media outlets in the #western #world.’ Using #disinformation to thwart an enemy is one thing. Spreading it to your own #public and #policymakers is another.

#us #intel #lies #ukraine #russia #biden #disinfo #nbc #news #propaganda #psyops #uk #us #govt #caitlinjohnstone #audio

#russian #ukrainian #history

Holodomor falsification of the national scale-2

The story about the falsifications in the preparation of the “Book of Memory of the Victims of the Holodomor” would not be complete if we had not touched upon another mandatory section that, according to templates sent down from Kiev, had to be included by the creators of the regional "Books. This section includes documents of the historical period, which, according to the idea of “orange” ideologists, must visually demonstrate the intentional nature of "genocide.

We must pay tribute to the authors of “The Book” - they have done a tremendous and very useful work. Yes, yes, I am not joking. I say this as a historian by training. Thanks to those people many unique, earlier unpublished documents concerning the period of 1932-1933 and absolutely precisely proving that there was no genocide, that is, the conscious extermination of the population on ethnic grounds!
I can even imagine how the process of compiling these sections looked in practice. The Kiev authorities issue a command to their governors and administrations: to make public the documents proving the existence of the “genocide” of the 30s. Local administrations give a command to honest and responsible employees of regional archives: to raise everything about the famine in that terrible period. The archivists meticulously perform the task and hand over the really unique documents to the administrations. Next, the officials, who rarely read such materials themselves or think about their meaning, post everything on their websites and include them in the “Books of Memory,” and Kiev receives a report on the work done. In return, awards and prizes are handed out. Everybody seems to be happy.
But if Yushchenko and Co. had read carefully what they are referring to, they would have realized that by making these documents public, they whipped themselves and all their “genocidal” theories.

Establish Control of the Neighbor over the Neighbor

Let’s open the website of the governor of the Kharkov Oblast, Arsen Avakov, which contains a huge number of valuable documents of that period - after all, we should not forget that in the early 30s, Kharkov was still the capital of Ukraine. The lion’s share of these documents (as well as in other oblasts) are the complaints and screams of the “dispossessed” peasants in connection with the abuse of power. Indeed, it is hard to read the stories of the villagers about how their last cow was taken away from them, condemning them to poverty and starvation. It is frightening to turn over the yellowed papers with the story of a widow who was thrown out of her house with her children, or with the complaint of an elderly woman, a former landowner, who was deprived of her last food supply by her former serfs.

But there is one problem: I did not find in any of the masses of these statements complaints that abuse of the peasants was committed by hordes of visiting “Moskals,” Jews (and we remember who at one of the exhibitions the SBU accused of organizing the “genocide”) or Latvian riflemen. Practically all of these were complaints about their own, their own village council chairman, their neighbors, their fellow villagers. Complaints were written precisely to Moscow, and it was there that local peasants often found support and protection from arbitrariness and starvation. So who committed “genocide”?

For example, I will give one of the many documents submitted by Kharkov residents: a complaint from peasant Mark Yevdoshenko to the Cheremushnyansk Village Council of the Valkovsky district. Note the language used by the rural population of Eastern Ukraine, which in those years was experiencing the peak of Stalin’s Ukrainianization: “I ask the Village Council to tear up my former farmstead with the buildings, since my moyno is sold for the current payment of a penny tax. I myself work in manufacturing and my family lives on the quarters. No one lives in my former home. Please stop my request. 23.07.32 р.” And a short resolution in the upper corner of the document in literate Ukrainian: “Please deny my request. Kovalenko”. There are a lot of similar requests to the Cheremushnyansk Village Council with absolutely identical resolution of this Kovalenko. And behind each document is a tragedy and even possibly the death of the applicant. But let us ask ourselves the question: if the petitioners are ethnic Ukrainians, then who are these same Kovalenko’s?
Here is the heartbreaking complaint of P. Tymchenko, a middleman from the village of Korotych, to Stalin, dated November 13, 1931: “There is no mercy, but arbitrariness and human life is trampled underfoot and what can be expected from such lords as the chairman of the s. Rada, Ivan Fomovich Kandyba.” Judging by the peasant’s confused story, this Kandyba constantly demanded “a liter of vodka” from him, threatening “to kick him out of his hut” otherwise. “These are already subhumans and barbarians,” continues Timchenko in his complaint, “and their methods pale before the actions of the tsarist gendarmes. Protect me from such bandits who do not know what they do.” A story which, unfortunately, can be heard even today. But the mentioned “bandit Kandyba” - who is he? A local resident, a victim or an instrument of “genocide”?

Another typical case is reflected in the Act of inspection of the work of the Union of Joint Land Treatment (UJT) in the village Varvarivka, Volchansky district. The inspectors from Kharkov revealed that the cause of the problems in the collective was the arbitrariness of the local government. “When 2 kulaks were dispossessed,” it is written in the Act, "the farm as well as cattle were taken away, then the chairman of the former SOZ slaughtered one cow and divided it among some peasants. Note that the villagers complained to the inspector not even that someone had been dispossessed (most peasants agreed with that at the time), but that in the division of the “dispossessed” property a large part of the peasants had been bypassed. “When the men sowed the fields, they slaughtered the cows, prepared the oil for their work, and in the work of women’s labor, i.e., in the regiment of borage and potatoes, hungry broads and young people had to work. The men began to drink, and on the basis of this went the collapse of the SOZ”.

A very telling example (I emphasize that similar stories are described in various documents)! We see that in this case there were both the offended and the dispossessed, and even hungry women and young people. But the outrage was not committed by newcomers, not “Moskals” and not even Kharkovites, but by fellow-villagers, who got to power.

Again, I will emphasize the fact that current historians do not want to talk about, who talk about organized mass resistance to dekulakization on the part of the Ukrainian peasantry: in fact, the broad masses of rural residents (and they were mostly poor) not only supported the dekulakization campaign, but were active participants in it. This is also confirmed by quite a few documents made public as part of the current “famine” campaign. For example, the report of the Zolochevskoy township commission of February 25, 1930 tells us that local citizens formed a detachment of 120 people to carry out the kukulakization (5 activists for every kulak). Two kulaks escaped to Kharkov, but the villagers sent a detachment there as well in order to capture the fugitives in the capital. “The mood of the poor and middle-class masses is good. The kulaks are behaving quietly,” the commission reports. The signatures are Shlapak, Ryabukha, Kovalenko, Lisun. All the same, it was a strange “genocide”, if their own organized it against their own people, and there were more those who did it than the victims (somewhere in the ratio of one to five).
The minutes of the general meeting of the Cheremushnyanskaya village council of August 2nd, 1932 is also revealing in this respect. Here is one of the decision points: “To establish control of a neighbor over a neighbor, a tenth over a tenth - if he was not influenced by the henley and could not get his bread”. Both established and denounced the neighbor to the neighbor, and there are also many documents about it.

How the authorities saved the population from "genocide

In addition to these materials, the creators of the Book of Memory of the Victims of the Holodomor, without going into the content of the testimonies they publish, cited a mass of documents proving one undeniable fact: the Soviet authorities, both central and local, undertook desperate measures to save the local population from starvation and disease.



I want to note right away: I am not going to absolve these very authorities, Stalin, and Soviet officials of various levels of responsibility, whose unprofessional actions during the period of crop failure exacerbated the natural problems. But it is impossible to ignore the fact of assistance to the Ukrainian population. As the American researcher Mark Tauger reasonably pointed out, why save the population from starvation if the goal is their extermination?
The U.S. professor’s study, based on documentary evidence, can now - after Yushchenko and his team have done a Herculean job of proving otherwise - be supplemented with new documents. Here are just a few of those that Kharkov archivists cited as evidence of "genocide.

For example, a quote from a letter from the Ukrainian Commissar of Health Kantorovich to the Kharkov Regional Executive Committee dated June 1, 1933: “According to the decree of the SNK of the UkrSSR, for the hospitalization of the emaciated in the Kharkov region we allocated for May, June and July 300 thousand rubles and suggested that the Kharkov regional executive committee should additionally allocate 150 thousand rubles for the same purpose.” In this letter the People’s Commissar writes about the insufficiency of the allocated funds and asks for additional appropriations, reporting on how many beds for the sick are deployed in Kharkov. You have to agree that these are rather atypical actions for the government, which decided to starve the local people to death.



A telegram from the Kharkov Oblast Executive Committee on July 3, 1933 reads: "To allocate to Balakleyevsky district in the month of July 4,300 poods of food aid. There is also a list of rye distribution to the collective farms of the given district for children’s food.

Secret minutes of the Izyum District Party Committee of the CP(b)U dated March 23, 1933 show that at the personal direction of P. Postyshev, who is now listed as “the main instigator of genocide,” the collection of eggs and milk for needy peasants and children was organized. To fulfill Postyshev’s demands, the Izyum authorities decided, in particular, to send “25 shoe-repair brigades” to the collective farms with the necessary materials, to distribute veterinarians and six mobile medical posts to the collective farms, to send confectionery to the village nurseries, to allocate five railcars of salt to the villages of the district, to organize mobile stalls and wagons in each village, etc. Recall that this document, as well as all of those cited here, are considered by the current Kharkov authorities to be proof of the "genocide of the Ukrainian people.



Here is a paragraph from the resolution of the bureau of the Dzerzhinsky district party committee of the Communist Party of Kharkov “On the state of vegetable procurements in the district” of August 19, 1933: “Comrade. Kiselgof (Rayrobkop) and Raisnab to ensure the deployment of the trade network with vegetables on Rayrobkop for 100 units, Raisnab - for all other ZRCs, on Oblovoschu and Khatorg - 325 units. Trade should be deployed in the LCs, on distribution and especially in collective farm bazaars”. The same District Party Committee in its report of March 26, 1933 stated that there was organized a bread trade network in the region serving 98 thousand people and selling 39 tons of bread a day. But the problem that was brought up at the committee meeting was not the lack of bread but the low-quality service and boorishness of the bread cutters and it was decided to stop it on the spot.
And here is a quite typical document of those years - the resolution of the Kharkov regional committee of the CP(b)U dated December 1, 1932, which says: “To suggest that the regional secretary of state must give flour to Lebedinsky region - 10 tons, to Sumy - 4 tons, to Oblagroles - 2 tons, to paper mills - 2 tons. Signed - the secretary of the regional committee Golub”. Another resolution of the same Obkom on September 7, 1932: “In view of the loss of oats, as well as due to hailstorms, which significantly reduced the yield against the figure recorded by the commission in determining the plan, the bureau of the regional committee considers it necessary to reduce the plan for the Lozovsky district by 2,000 tons.”
What kind of logic is required to present these documents as proof of the theory of a conscious effort to starve the inhabitants to death?

How the Ukrainian population was “exterminated” by advances and crèches

Yes, there are indeed photos that testify that on the streets of Kharkov in those days one could see lifeless bodies (mainly these are photos from the archive of the Austrian engineer A. Wienerberger). But the lion’s share of photographic documents, which should confirm the fact of “genocide”, are pictures of completely different content. It is enough just to look at the captions under them: “Issuance of advance payment to the best collective farmers - shock workers in the artel of Pavlov village in Bogodukhov. Pavlovka of Bogodukhov district in Kharkov region. 1932”, "Checking the working order of the threshing machine before the start of the harvest in the collective farm named after Kalinin. Kalinin collective farm in Lozovsky district of Kharkov region. 1933, “Weeding tomatoes in the collective farm, v. Pokotilovka Kharkov region. Before 1935”, “The construction of granaries in the village of Krasnopavlovka Kharkov region. Before 1935.” And these photos should convince us today of the evil shenanigans of the “Moskals”, who seek to “exterminate Ukrainians by the roots”?



And here’s another photo: “The teacher of the nursery in the village of. Zolocheva accepts children. 1933 г”.

It is remarkable that the authors of the books of different regions (not only Kharkov region) thought it necessary to include in the “Books of Memory” the documents evidencing the efforts of the authorities to organize kindergartens and nurseries during the hungry years. Here, for example, an extract from the letter of the secretary of Balakleya district party committee of the CP(b)U to the secretaries of party cells and chairmen of village councils of May 12, 1933: "Within a 2-day period, take concrete measures to improve the cause of helping children (allocate a portion from the Prodzruida and from the available Prodzerno-bread for children, organize hot lunches in the school… When organizing aid to children in need, eliminate the division of collective and individual children. Thanks to those who included this document!
Among the archival documents cited by the present theorists of the “genocide” version, there is plenty of evidence of how the then authorities (both central and local) organized canteens in schools and universities, free medical care for children, allocated funds to build bathhouses to prevent epidemics, etc. Strange behavior on the part of the authorities, who decided to fight their own population. Apparently, lessons have been learned from the “genocide” of those times - now our authorities do not bother to do anything of the kind.

Proof of the Holodomor: "there were no deaths from starvation"

I have mainly cited the documents provided by archivists in Kharkov. In other regions of Ukraine, although not as much “documentary evidence of genocide” has been collected, there are also many similar archival rarities.

For example, on the site of the Donetsk Regional Administration, in confirmation of the “genocide” theory, a memorandum by a member of the Presidium of the Stalin City Council M. Agranovich on the inspection of complaints in the village Aleksandrovka, Selidovsky district, was posted. Here is a quote from the document: “The general state of food provision in the village… is satisfactory, with the exception of some families up to 15-20 households out of the total number of 208 households that do not have any bread today and some 10-12 households that have no potatoes”. The inspector personally visited all the disadvantaged families and found out the following: “There were no hungry in the literal sense (starving) among all surveyed families… The majority of surveyed families had vegetables (cabbage, carrots, burak), some of them had potatoes… Except for potatoes, these families have vegetables for the next month, in addition, those who do not have vegetables receive periodically from the collective farm. As a rule, all households, not excluding the most food-insecure ones, have 5-10 poultry (chickens). The food is prepared mainly from vegetables… and some meat. For January and February of the month, all collective farmers, including the disadvantaged families I surveyed, the collective farm … gave out on average 30 liters of milk per household, one liter of sunflower oil and half a kilo of butter”. I emphasize that this document is cited as evidence of a deliberate famine in the Donetsk region.

And here is the report of the Secretary of the Makeyevka City Committee of the CP(b)U on the results of the inspection of several villages dated March 8, 1933: "At the beginning of February, the Gorpartkom received information from the City Department of the GPU that in the Slusaro-Shurupovka village council Art. “Lenin’s Way” and E-Khoprovsky village council of Art. “Wave of collectivization” there was mass starvation and swelling from hunger of collective farmers and persons outside the collective farm, the use of dead horses for food by collective farmers “Leninsky Put’” and individual farmers… On the basis of direct inspection on the spot on all the listed sources the following was established: according to the data of the leadership of both village councils and personal acquaintance there were no pronounced signs of starvation among the one-man farms in the mentioned collective farms. As for the kulak families, there is evidence that they live much better than the one-man farms… There were no cases of death from starvation in any of the village councils.
The reporter made a detailed study of the ration of the villagers and wrote: "T. Gerashchenko told us that he got acquainted with some “starving” people and concluded that there was no need to eat dead horsemeat, especially as 50% of those who took horsemeat had their own cows, some salted vegetables and poultry. There is no doubt that horsemeat was taken for other needs. The author of the report cites the testimony of a peasant who admits that he took horsemeat from the collective farm for baiting predators during hunting and for his dogs. The rapporteur further reports on the availability of food supplies in the said artels and the regular distribution of grain, milk, and other products to the peasants.
Similar documents are posted on the website of the current Dnepropetrovsk regional administration. Thus, in the informational message of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the CP(b)U “On cases of diseases and deaths due to starvation,” written to Stalin and Kosior in 1933, it is noted: “Many facts of simulated starvation have been revealed, when individual collective farmers asking for bread - sometimes from their houses - are found when checking the bread buried. There were even cases of simulated feeding with dead horse meat (they took horse meat for themselves, but fed it to dogs)”.

Party officials also cite statistics on deaths from starvation, reporting on measures taken to overcome the problem, in particular the provision of bread to the needy villages. Why would the leadership of the regional party organization think about saving the population from starvation and report on the measures taken to Stalin, who allegedly gave direct instructions for the physical extermination of the population in these regions?

A “genocide” in the 1930s and a “genocidal” in the 2000s?

And what about the present capital? The documentary evidence of the “genocidal” theory in the Kiev “Book of Memory” turned out to be quite weak. More than 20 pages are devoted to the materials of the famous case, conducted by the OGPU against bribe takers and speculators in Kiev in April 1934. But in this case, the Soviet authorities appear as fighters against those who “created the Holodomor,” they stopped attempts to export food from Ukraine, shut down the network of illegal trade and speculation in scarce goods for food. Why did the authors of the “Book” decide to make this process almost central in their evidence base? After all, the names of the accused are Vladimir Borisovich Rohvarger, Arnold Moiseevich Luchansky, Solomon Isaakovich Zilberman, Abraham Davidovich Virozub, Lev Elkonovich Brudman, Aron Abramovich Goldstein and others. Apparently, the desire to show the nationality of the accused outweighed the need for the compilers of the “Book of Memory” to search for evidence of the official theory of "genocide.
Among the documents, cited by the current Kiev authorities as a proof of the “genocide,” is a memo from the chief doctor of the Kiev Hospital No. 2, with a request to immediately increase the supply of food (dated January 16, 1932). Complaining about insufficiency of food, the chief doctor says: "According to estimates, the hospital must spend 60 kopecks per day on food for the sick, but cannot afford to buy fat at 10-12 rubles per pound, potatoes 8-10 rubles per pud, and eggs 8-10 rubles per dozen.

Terrific figures! But think about it: authorities of those days allocated 60 kopecks per patient while in January price of potatoes was 50 kopecks per kilo (remember: one pud - 16,4 kg). Present “orange” authorities allocate 66 kopecks per patient per day on the average in the country at the summer price of potatoes 3 hryvnias per kilo (and more than 5 hryvnias in winter). Odessa journalist Grigory Kvasniuk found hospitals where the daily food allowance per patient is equivalent to the price of a slice of bread, which is less than the ration from the blockade of Leningrad.

And if the 1932 letter cited by the Kiev authorities should testify to the deliberate extermination of the population by the authorities, what do today’s hospital supply standards testify to? If there was “genocide” then, today we should speak of “genocide”?

I could go on and on, giving excerpts from documents that local executive officials have included in regional "Holodomor memorial books. I can assure you that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of such citations and similar documents. But no matter how hard the authors of these compilations tried, they could not provide a single document proving their ideologists’ delusional theory that in the 1930s the authorities, both central and regional, undertook actions to consciously exterminate the Ukrainian or any other ethnic group on the territory of Ukraine.

I will never tire of repeating that I am in no way going to justify the authorities of those years. It is clear from the documents cited that the often brutal famine that struck then the grain areas of the European part of the USSR and Kazakhstan caught the then bureaucrats unawares. The tragedy was often aggravated by the arbitrariness of local officials, who got into power and were completely unable to govern, which, as you understand, is present in today’s Ukraine. But unlike today’s officials, who have destroyed free medical care, almost completely eliminated the system of accessible kindergartens, and even introduced entrance fees to cemeteries, the then authorities-often on direct orders from Moscow-had made belated, at times clumsy, but real and consistent efforts to overcome the tragedy and save lives. And this in no way fits into the concepts of contemporary falsifiers of history.

That is why I want to say a huge thank you to the historians serving the current government for their idea of “memory books”, to the heads of regional administrations for their sycophantic zeal and to honest workers of local archives - for the useful work they have done to fulfill the whims of the central authorities. Seeking to falsify the country’s history and present the tragedy of the last century as ethnic genocide, the authors of the idea of a “National Memory Book of the Victims of the Holodomor” have completely refuted their own theory, providing their opponents with irrefutable evidence to the contrary.

Instead of an afterword, the voice of the people

The resonance after the publication of the first part of this material was very great. It is pleasant that many readers of the Ukrainian and Russian Internet responded to our call to copy the materials that accompany the publication of "Memory Books. Judging by the reaction of many readers who duplicated the call, a lot of copies were made - which means that forgers will not be able to “clean up” “inconvenient” lines concerning the true causes of death of “victims of the Holodomor”, their nationality, or to silence the already named documents.

Following our appeal to familiarize themselves with the “martyrologists,” some Internet users found their ancestors who were not actually victims of the famine. Here, for example, is what user Gina wrote on the forum site “Forum”: "And now pay attention! Found my great-grandfather, who died for a completely different reason. I told you once that he was dispossessed and had a huge garden and an apiary. In general, he was deprived of the meaning of life. He died at the age of 72, in 1933, as my mother said, from boredom. He was my mother’s father, they had a big hard-working family. At least they had potatoes and borage in the cellar. No one in my family ever starved to death. And I’ve heard about this great-grandfather since I was a kid. About how he grieved over the garden… But my great-grandfather did NOT die from hunger! My mother is still alive, thank God. She knows. So, they put him in the book of the famine in vain.

Readers of the forum of the newspaper “2000” shared information that confirms your humble servant’s logic on the methods of preparing “memory books”. Here are a few typical quotes (of course, the responsibility for the accuracy of this data lies with the Internet users).

VadKol: "I have long suspected possible falsifications… It was embarrassing to look at our superiors, university rectors and researchers, whose voices trembled with fear in front of these bastards, who told them off for the small number of victims of the Holodomor. It was disgusting to look at the journalist of regional television… cheerfully reporting on her falsified film about the Holodomor. But, thank God, the INP is not staffed by the smartest people, and what if they were?

Ledechka: "At our school last year they gathered teachers - distributed them around the village and said 'as you wish, look for victims of the Holodomor. They found 92 people in the district. One of them my friend made up himself out of despair. Name, surname, etc. And passed!!! At a conference where rehearsed kids were shouting Nazi nonsense, a grandmother was pulled out - she pursed her lips and declared: "We didn’t have hunger in our village, but our neighbor did. All the bosses, all the participants knew that there was no famine in our district, neither in '33, nor in '47.

sibriz: “In Shostka district of Sumy region, village Ivot - on the monument to the victims of the Ivot tragedy (erected in Soviet times) where in 1943 the Germans shot civilians, the local authorities put up a sign “in memory of victims of the famine of 1932-1933”. There is nothing to be surprised with - the corrupted power and officials serving this power have no honor, conscience and memory”.

The latter response is echoed by ros_sea_ru in the Live Journal of Miroslava Berdnik, a well-known reader of “2000,” who reprinted the first part of the article: "There is only one conclusion: today’s officials in Ukraine do not differ from those who organized grain procurements and the “fight against hunger” in the 30s. The results of their work are evident. Both then and now. Nothing has changed.

I think there is nothing to add to these words…

https://varjag-2007.livejournal.com/1080100.html
#USSR #soviet #russian #ukraine #history #ukrainian liying #holodomor


Plus:

In Russia and the USSR, the citizens of the country were never deliberately starved, but in the United States they were.

The myths that the USSR under Stalin deliberately starved people are fabricated by those who actually starved their people. It was in the United States in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, that they deliberately starved their people. And if in Russia famine occurred spontaneously due to food shortages, then in the U.S. famine was the work of the American financial elite. Millions of people died of starvation in the U.S. at a time when store shelves were overflowing with food.

https://aftershock.news/?q=node%2F931339
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbec -

#USA #US #lang_ru

About Famines in Russia
#^https://hub.hubzilla.de/channel/kuchinster/?mid=b64.aHR0cHM6Ly91c3NyLndpbi9pdGVtLzZlYzIzMzM3LWM0ZWEtNDdlZS04MzM5LTdhZTVkNDIzYzUzOA
#lang_ru #farmie #Russia

About the Periodization of the History of the USSR

… touching on the question of the periodization of the history of the CPSU and the USSR, we should talk about two stages. The first stage, under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin, during which the political and theoretical superstructure was organized and filled with such content (due to the genius and education of the leaders, the growing education of specialists and consciousness of the masses, and an uncompromising struggle against anti-communist views) that ensured a dynamic ascent of the Soviet basis and the entire society, moving away from the system that collapsed during World War I to the country that actually won World War II and the United States and Britain, especially Germany, whom Russia lost World War I, and Japan and Finland were defeated twice by the USSR, both in the clashes of 1939 and 1945… Until 1953, the basis of the first phase of communism successfully took root in many countries liberated from fascism.

But now few dispute that after 1953 there came a second phase, when the basis in the USSR, especially in large industry and state farms, outwardly, until 1983, still remained within the limits of the USSR constitution, but at the head of the CPSU and in the superstructural institutions, i.e. In the USSR Academy of Sciences, Lenin Academy of Sciences, “Znanie” society, “Communist” magazine there were fewer and fewer people with a good command of dialectical-materialist methodology, so everything communist in the country went to zero after Andropov introduced the self-accounting reform.

#soviet #russian #Russia #Lenin #Stalin

Where does peace come from in Europe and Stalin’s “bloodthirstiness”?

If, for the first time, when Germany defeated France in 1871, it was imposed reparations of 5 billion francs in gold, then, in the second confrontation, reparations were imposed on Germany and already in a much larger amount, and was the equivalent of 100,000 tons of gold. For comparison, eight thousand tons were stored at Fort Knox. Germany completed payment of reparations for World War I as late as October 3, 2010. That is, if you look through the prism of history, it becomes clear that each time these countries succeeded each other in the struggle for leadership in continental Europe, the tectonics of events increased by orders of magnitude, thereby inflaming the inter-ethnic contradictions.

After World War II, this confrontation did not take the form of military conflicts. Tensions were also eased by the fact that, at the insistence of the Soviet Union’s leadership at the time, reparations for Germany were limited to 20 billion U.S. dollars. Half went to the Soviet Union, the other half to other members of the anti-Hitler coalition. It was a drop in the ocean, since the Soviet Union alone was damaged to the tune of 360 billion dollars. Thus, one factor of contradiction was leveled. Europe gained the long-awaited peace.

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Откуда в Европе мир и о “кровожадности” Сталина

Если, в первый раз, когда Германия взяла верх над Францией в 1871 году, на нее были наложены репарации в размере 5 миллиардов франков золотом, то уже во втором противостоянии репарации были наложены на Германию и уже в куда большем размере, и составляли сумму, эквивалентную 100 000 тонн золота. Для сравнения: в Форт-Ноксе хранится восемь тысяч тонн. Германия завершила выплату репараций за Первую мировую войну только аж 3 октября 2010 года. То есть, если посмотреть через призму истории, то становится понятно, что с каждым разом, когда эти страны сменяли друг друга в борьбе за лидерство в континентальной Европе, тектоника событий увеличивалась на порядки, разжигая таким образом межнациональные противоречия.

После Второй мировой войны это противостояние не вылилось в форму военных конфликтов. Напряжение было снято и благодаря тому, что по настоянию тогдашнего руководства Советского Союза репарации для Германии были ограничены 20 миллиардами долларов США. Половина пошла в пользу СССР, вторая половина – остальным участникам антигитлеровской коалиции. Это было каплей в море, так как одному только Советскому Союзу был нанесен ущерб в размере 360 миллиардов долларов. Таким образом, один из факторов противоречий был нивелирован. Европа обрела долгожданный мир.

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#WWII #WW2 #Russia #USSR #soviet #russian #Stalin #germany #france #europe #war #WWI #WW1 #reparations #economy #СССР #история

Great Finland, 1942



https://ia804505.us.archive.org/33/items/smtie/Suomen%20uusi%20tie%20-%20Vietti%20Nyk%C3%A4nen%20%281942%29.pdf
#WWII #WW2 #war #map #finland #military #finnish #invasion #USSR #soviet #russian #Russia #history

#Trump escalates attacks on #Zelensky, calling him a “#dictator without #elections” and a “comedian with modest success.”

He also accused #Ukraine of derailing a rare earth metals deal.

While politics differs from personal relationships, such statements would normally lead to a complete breakdown. However, Ukraine remains dependent on the #US.

A #media assault is underway, with Elon #Musk, Tucker #Carlson, and others amplifying #Russian #propaganda.

https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/trump-has-started-a-war-to-destroy-zelensky/

Who first spoke Indo-European? DNA points to Eurasian herders 6400 years ago
https://www.science.org/content/article/who-first-spoke-indo-european-dna-points-eurasian-herders-6400-years-ago


Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages spoken by 40% of world
Origins of Indo-European? Diagnosis bias?

#europe #european #Russia #russian #history

Yak-40 (Yakovlev), Airport Khorog, Tadjik SSR, 1970s
#photo #USSR #soviet #russian #aviation #history

14 May 1938, the players of the #England football team raised their arms to give the #Nazi "Heil #Hitler" salute before a match in Berlin. They had been instructed to do so directly by the #British Foreign Office. Reportedly the players at first refused, until the British ambassador and Football Association secretary intervened and ordered them to do so. At the time the British government was pursuing a policy of appeasement of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, and shortly after signed an agreement permitting Germany’s annexation of parts of then-Czechoslovakia. Much of the British ruling class supported Hitler, as well as the dictatorships in #Italy, #Spain and #Portugal, as bulwarks against communism and an organised working class. According to his biographer one of the players, Stan Cullis, would not perform the salute and was dropped from the team for that match as a result.

And today, UK special forces are fighting together with Azov battalion nazi thugs against Russia.


#photo #history #UK #britain #europe #nazism #fascism #anticommunism against #russian #Russia #soviet #USSR

Allies of Nazi Germany who fought against the USSR
“The European Union is more united than ever as a result of the joint war against Russia.”
(Adolf Hitler. June 30, 1941)



Shields and symbols of SS and collaborationist formations of Nazi Germany from European countries and occupied territories of the USSR.
Some useful commentary with more information: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/b2f9yn/map_showing_the_shields_and_collar_insignia_of/
#Russia #USSR #soviet #russian #history #anticommunism #WWII #WW2 #Western #european #nazi #nazism #war #europe #germany #Hitler #quotation

Cold War, Beginning
In 2020, the world celebrated the 75th anniversary of the victory over fascism, made possible by the efforts of the Soviet people and state. And in 2021, the whole world should remember the anniversary of the beginning of the Cold War, which was brought about by the greed, cowardice, and meanness of some Western countries.



There are many meanings of the term "Cold War. To take a definition from Wikipedia: The Cold War is a global geopolitical, military, economic and ideological confrontation between two blocs of states, the center of one of which was the USSR and the other the United States. Officially, the beginning of the Cold War is considered a speech Winston Churchill gave less than a year after the end of World War II on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, USA. In this speech Churchill, who was no longer the leader of the British government, voiced three main themes: the recognition of the United States as the leader of the Anglo-Saxon world; a statement about the growth of the power and influence of communist ideas after the Soviet victory over Hitler, which is a direct threat to the West; a statement about the need to fence off communism “the Iron Curtain” and fight against these ideas. Everything here is surprising.

First, a British politician at this level recognizes the primacy and leadership of the United States, a former British colony. This is simply because the United States has a nuclear bomb. Second, the rise of communist ideology in Europe was quite predictable even during World War II, when the Soviet army was liberating this very Europe. Churchill could not fail to understand this. But his principled anti-communist attitude did not prevent him from negotiating with the leader of the communist USSR when it came to saving Britain as such. Thirdly, the division of Europe into two parts by the Iron Curtain was already very similar to the Nazi theory, only now it was about the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon world (not affected by communism) over the rest of Europe, which was under the influence of the USSR. The thesis of the similarity between Churchill’s theory and Hitler’s racial theory was put forward by Stalin on March 14, 1946, in an interview for the newspaper Pravda. It was a kind of response to Churchill’s speech. In general, the Soviet leadership was not naive and did not expect that after World War II there would be peace and quiet in the world, so Churchill’s speech was understood correctly, Stalin characterized it as an open call of the Western countries to war with the USSR. The challenge was accepted by the Soviets. The Cold War had begun.

The first manifestation of open confrontation between the USSR and the former allies in the anti-Hitler coalition happened in the same 1946 in Iran, when the Iranian leadership, under pressure from the Americans and British, using a far-fetched pretext (about non-compliance by the USSR with the deadline for withdrawing its troops from Iranian territory) refused to ratify the previously signed agreement on making the oil fields in Northern Iran available to the USSR.

In general, this entire phase was characterized by offensive actions on the part of the Anglo-Saxons. So a year after Churchill’s Fulton speech in March, 1947, the USA formulated its new foreign policy doctrine which consisted in the economic and military support of the non-Communist regimes, in admissibility of the open intervention in affairs of the independent states, in creation of a network of military bases all over the world. Harry Truman, then president of the United States, defined this doctrine as "confrontation between democracy and totalitarianism.

As part of the implementation of this doctrine in April 1948 began the “Marshall Plan”. This plan was put forward in 1947 by U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall. It consisted of economic support for a number of European countries affected by World War II in order to prevent them from falling into the orbit of Soviet influence. Seventeen European countries participated in this plan. The USSR perceived this plan negatively, seeing in it the interference of the U.S. leadership in the affairs of European countries.

Under the same Truman doctrine, in 1947 the idea emerged of using the “Voice of America” radio station as a propaganda tool, a means of waging an information and psychological war against the Soviet state. First the Russian-speaking editorial office appeared, and then the Armenian, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Ukrainian and Baltic editorial offices.

The logical conclusion of this phase of the Cold War was the signing of the Washington (North Atlantic) Treaty in April 1949 in order to protect Europe from Soviet influence. On the basis of this treaty, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - NATO - began to function. The organization consisted of 12 states: Belgium, Great Britain, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Canada, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the U.S. and France. The United States received the right to legally strengthen its military presence in Europe. In fact, NATO is focused on countering the USSR.

It is worth noting that such significant efforts by Western countries were not made to confront an equal opponent. So much effort was expended by the U.S. to counteract the war-ravaged USSR. Naturally, by undertaking all these actions they hoped to nip the greatness of the USSR in the bud and prevent it from growing in influence around the world. As we know, these plans were not destined to come true, but about this in the following articles…

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В 2020 году мир отметил 75 годовщину победы над фашизмом, ставшую возможной благодаря усилиям советского народа и государства. А уже в 2021 году весь мир уже должен вспоминать годовщину начала Холодной войны, к которой привели жадность, трусость и подлость ряда западных стран.

Значений термина “Холодная война” можно найти множество. Возьмем определение из Википедии: Холодная война - это глобальное геополитическое, военное, экономическое и идеологическое противостояние между двумя блоками государств, центром одного из которых был СССР, а другого - США. Официально началом Холодной войны принято считать речь Уинстона Черчилля, которую он произнес меньше, чем через год после окончания Второй мировой войны 5 марта 1946 года в Вестминстерском колледже в Фултоне, штат Миссури, США. В этой речи Черчилль, который уже не являлся лидером правительства Великобритании, озвучил три главных темы: признание США лидером англосаксонского мира; констатация роста могущества и влияния коммунистических идей после победы СССР над Гитлером, что является прямой угрозой Западу; заявление о необходимости отгородиться от коммунизма “железным занавесом” и бороться с этими идеями. Тут удивительно все.

Во-первых, британский политик такого уровня признает главенство и лидерство США, бывшей британской колонии. Это просто объясняется наличием у США ядерной бомбы. Во-вторых, рост могущества коммунистической идеологии в Европе был вполне предсказуем еще во времена Второй мировой войны, когда Советская армия освобождала эту самую Европу. Черчилль этого не мог не понимать. Но его принципиальный антикоммунистический настрой не мешал ему вести переговоры с лидером коммунистического СССР, когда речь шла о спасении Британии как таковой. В-третьих, разделение Европы на две части “железным занавесом” - это уже очень сильно похоже на нацистскую теорию, только теперь речь шла о превосходстве англосаксонского мира (не пораженного коммунизмом) над всей остальной Европой, находящейся под влиянием СССР. Тезис о сходстве теории Черчилля с расовой теорией Гитлера был выдвинут Сталиным 14 марта 1946 года в интервью газете “Правда”. Это был своего рода ответ на выступление Черчилля. В общем-то, советское руководство не было наивным и не ожидало, что после Второй мировой войны на планете установятся мир и спокойствие, поэтому речь Черчилля была понята правильно, Сталин охарактеризовал ее как открытый призыв западных стран к войне с СССР. Вызов советской стороной был принят. Холодная война началась.

Первое проявление открытого противостояния СССР и бывших союзников по антигитлеровской коалиции случилось в том же 1946 году в Иране, когда иранское руководство под давлением американцев и англичан с использованием надуманного предлога (о несоблюдении СССР сроков вывода своих войск с иранской территории) отказалось ратифицировать подписанное ранее соглашение о предоставлении в пользование СССР нефтяных месторождений в Северном Иране.

В целом весь этот этап характеризовался наступательными действиями со стороны англосаксов. Так через год после Фултонской речи Черчилля в марте 1947 года США сформулировали свою новую внешнеполитическую доктрину, суть которой заключалась в экономической и военной поддержке некоммунистических режимов, в допустимости открытого вмешательства в дела независимых государств, создании сети военных баз по всему миру. Гарри Трумэн, в тот момент занимавший пост президента США, определил эту доктрину как “противостояние демократии и тоталитаризма”.

В рамках осуществления данной доктрины в апреле 1948 года началась реализация “плана Маршалла”. Этот план в 1947 году выдвинул госсекретарь США Джордж Маршалл. Он заключался в экономической поддержке ряда европейских государств, пострадавших от Второй мировой войны, с целью недопущения их попадания в орбиту влияния СССР. В осуществлении этого плана участвовали 17 европейских стран. СССР воспринял этот план негативно, увидев в нем вмешательства американского руководства в дела европейских стран.

В рамках той же доктрины Трумэна в 1947 году появилась идея использовать радиостанцию “Голос Америки” как инструмент пропаганды, средство ведения информационно-психологической войны против советского государства. Появилась сначала русскоязычная редакция, а потом и редакции на армянском, грузинском, азербайджанском, украинском и прибалтийских языках.

Логичным завершением этого этапа Холодной войны стало подписание Вашингтонского (Североатлантического) договора в апреле 1949 года с целью защиты Европы от советского влияния. На основе этого договора начала функционировать Организация Североатлантического договора - НАТО. В организацию вошли 12 государств: Бельгия, Великобритания, Дания, Исландия, Италия, Канада, Люксембург, Нидерланды, Норвегия, Португалия, США, Франция. США получили право на законных основаниях укреплять свое военное присутствие в Европе. Фактически НАТО ориентирована на противодействие СССР.

Стоит отметить, что столь значимые усилия западными странами предпринимались не для противостояния с равным противником. Столько сил США потратили для противодействия обескровленному разоренному войной СССР. Естественно, предпринимая все эти действия у них была надежда в зародыше задушить величие СССР и не допустить роста его влияния по всему миру. Как мы знаем, этим планам не суждено было сбыться, но об этом в следующих статьях…

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