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'The Source Of Russian Brutality' As Proven By Fiction
'The #Source Of #Russian #Brutality ' As #Proven By #Fiction #Russia #Ukraine #NATO #US
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"*Russia's reason for the war is the threatened entering of its neighbor country Ukraine into an aggressive NATO. The Secretary General of NATO recently said so. That may(!) be "inadequate" to justify a war. But what about a war over fake WMD claims in a country on the other side of the planet? Has any U.S. reason for waging wars ever been "adequate"?On top of that, in its prosecution of an illegitimate war, Russia continues to practice war crimes—systematically and deliberately attacking noncombatants, including medical personnel and facilities. We may continue to debate whether allowing Russia to reclaim the USSR’s sphere of influence is acceptable as a tradeoff to prevent a global conflict. Still, there can be no question that Russia’s continual rape, torture, and murder of noncombatants is illegal and damages Russia’s reputation on the world stage.
The question, then, is, what explains Russia’s behavior?
Those are strong claims. Strong #claims require #strong #evidence. But the link under "continual rape, torture, and murder" does not go to any evidence. The link instead goes to an overview of the Geneva Convention. In fact - the whole piece does not contain ANY evidence of 'Russian brutality'. #ZERO ! NONE!"
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'The Source Of Russian Brutality' As Proven By Fiction (www...
'The Source Of Russian Brutality' As Proven By Fiction (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/09/the-source-of-russian-brutality-as-proven-by-fiction.html#more) 'The #Source Of #Russian #Brutality ' As #Proven By #Fiction #Russia #Ukraine #NATO #US [...diaspora* social network
The CIA and Fake News (1986) CBC/Radio-Canada - InvidiousFrom 1986 Fifth Estate host Eric Malling investigates the covert falsification of news reports by CIA propagandists attempting to influence public perception of the world. Former CIA officer John Stockwell explains how a CIA task force wrote misleading news releases all over the world which were picked up by international media organizations.
The CIA and Fake News (1986) CBC/Radio-Canada - Invidious (...
The CIA and Fake News (1986) CBC/Radio-Canada - Invidious (https://yewtu.be/watch?v=XibCflWxZuA) From 1986 Fifth Estate host Eric Malling investigates the covert falsification of news reports by CIA propagandists attempting to influence public percep…diaspora* social network
Long history of Ukrainian-Canadian groups glorifying Nazi collaborators exposed by defacing of Oakville memorial
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists was founded in 1929. Its fascist and openly anti-Semitic ideology was that Jews and Russian-speaking citizens must be removed from Ukrainian society at any cost. They enthusiastically collaborated with Nazi Germany in the 1940s to exterminate Jews, Russians, and anyone who attempted to protect them. The OUN was only forced out of Ukraine after the USSR took control of the country, upon the end of the Second World War.
The Ukrainian fascists found new homes in Canada, where the ideology of anti-communism was extremely potent. Peter Vronsky, a former documentary Director at the National Film board revealed that:
“a little known US-financed group in Canada called the "Canadian Christian Council for the Resettlement of Refugees" privately lobbied the Canadian government in the 1950s to admit former Nazi Waffen-SS 'foreign legion volunteers' like the Moslem Bosnian-Albanian Nazi SS troopers, Ukrainian SS volunteers, and others, to come to Sudbury wholesale to work in the mines.”
The Jewish News of North California reported that the Canadian government admitted more than 2,000 Ukrainian members of the Nazi 14th SS Division in the 1950s. This was done to crush the burgeoning leftist Ukrainian diaspora that was building up during the previous few years.
One way of getting into postwar Canada "was by showing the SS tattoo," Canadian historian Irving Abella told 60 Minutes interviewer Mike Wallace in 1997. "This proved that you were an anti-Communist."
#Trudeau #canada support #ukrainian #nazi #WWII #WW2 #history #ukraine #neo-nazi
Long history of Ukrainian-Canadian groups glorifying Nazi collaborators exposed by defacing of Oakville memorial
Written by: Aidan Jonah News broke on July 17 that a war memorial honouring Ukrainian Nazis who served with the German SS recently had the phrase “Nazi war memorial” painted on it .Aidan Jonah (The Canada Files)
Today is the anniversary of the mining disaster that took the lives of the 'The Nine Men of Madeley'. Most were still young boys. I've rewritten my article to bring light to this Shropshire tragedy and discuss its impact on the community.
https://nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-nine-men-of-madeley.html
#Shropshire #History #Industrialisation
https://nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-nine-men-of-madeley.html
#Shropshire #History #Industrialisation
This War Wasn’t Just Provoked — It Was Provoked Deliberately
This #War Wasn’t Just Provoked — It Was #Provoked #Deliberately #US #imperial #aggression #Russia #Ukraine #Obra #CIA #NATO
This War Wasn’t Just Provoked — It Was Provoked Deliberately
So while we members of the public were blindly speculating about whether or not Russia would attack Ukraine, the US intelligence cartel was fully aware that the US was taking actions ensuring that …Caitlin Johnstone
Let’s hear it for England’s royals – and centuries of incompetence, criminality and failure - David Mitchell https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/24/england-royals-history-kings-queens-david-mitchell-unruly-book-tour #royalty #history
I remember how a few days after the shooting in Kiev, suddenly all the Ukrainian media simultaneously started calling those shot "the Heavenly Hundred". It was immediately clear that this (the shooting) was a prearranged provocation against the legitimate authorities.
I also remember how in the second half of 2013 all Ukrainian channels and media outlets were hyping the theme "stop feeding Donbass", as if it were a subsidized region. Although I, an economist by training, knew that this was complete nonsense, it was Donbass that was making the biggest contribution to Ukrainian GDP.
#ukraine #Maidan #ukrainian #corruption #history
I also remember how in the second half of 2013 all Ukrainian channels and media outlets were hyping the theme "stop feeding Donbass", as if it were a subsidized region. Although I, an economist by training, knew that this was complete nonsense, it was Donbass that was making the biggest contribution to Ukrainian GDP.
Slowly we get to the truth of it all. Of course it's no surprise to those of us who have been paying attention since 1990
Ukraine’s ‘biggest arms supplier’ orchestrated 2014 Maidan massacre
The libs managed to worship the only uniformed military on the planet with Nazi military units.
The same people who constantly cry about Nazis, guns, and militias, also support sending billions of dollars and weapons of war to literal Nazis in Ukraine.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cohen-ukraine-commentary/commentary-ukraines-neo-nazi-problem-idUSKBN1GV2TY
At one time 72% of people voted for clown Zelensky because Poroshenko got everyone sick of his Russophobia.
#history #USA #us #sbu #ukraine #ukrainian #nazism #nazi #neo-nazi #Azov #Kiev #Avakov #Poroshenko is #western #puppet after government #coup #Maidan
Commentary: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
As Ukraine's struggle against Russia and its proxies continues, Kiev must also contend with a growing problem behind the front lines: far-right vigilantes who are willing to use intimidation and even violence to advance their agendas, and who often d…Josh Cohen (Reuters)
In 1916, 23 yr old chemist Alice Ball discovered a breakthrough in treatment for Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease). She was the 1st woman & 1st Black chemistry professor at UHawaii.
Tragically, Ball passed away months after her discovery due to complications from a lab accident.
What happened next? Arthur Dean, head of her dept, continued the work publishing Ball’s process as “Dean’s method.”
Fortunately, a colleague spoke up & the name was changed to “Ball’s method.” #HistoryRemix #science #history
Tragically, Ball passed away months after her discovery due to complications from a lab accident.
What happened next? Arthur Dean, head of her dept, continued the work publishing Ball’s process as “Dean’s method.”
Fortunately, a colleague spoke up & the name was changed to “Ball’s method.” #HistoryRemix #science #history
About the pathological predilection for nuclear weapons
"According to declassified documents made public under the Freedom of Information Act, on the night of December 3, 1949, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission sprayed radioactive iodine-131 (12,000 Curies) and xenon-133 (20,000 Curies) over 500,000 acres of land, including the Washington State towns of Hanford, White Bluff and Richland as part of Project Green Run.
About two thousand square miles of land in Washington State was contaminated. The radioactive cloud spread throughout that state and went into Oregon. The purpose of this exercise was to practice what the military would do after a nuclear strike."
“Fallout from the nuclear tests—radioactive particles that were swept into the atmosphere and fell back down to the earth—found their way into crops and livestock, whose radioactivity humans took on when they consumed milk, meat and produce. Fallout takes many different chemical forms, one of which is iodine-131: an isotope, or version, of iodine that has the usual 53 protons but 78 neutrons instead of the standard 74. Inside the body, the thyroid gland will absorb iodine-131, which eventually decays to produce radiation that can cause thyroid cancer and other problems.”
“The Nuclear Arms Race was the direct result of America’s September 1945 plan to “blow up the Soviet Union”, formulated by the US War Department.
The Soviet Union tested its first nuclear bomb in 1949. Without the Manhattan Project and the War Department’s September 15, 1945 “World War III Blueprint”, the Arms Race would not have occurred.
The September 15, 1945 War Department set the stage for numerous plans to wage World War III against Russia and China:”
“The city leaders were very excited to have a nuclear test site on their doorstep. After all, the tourists showed unprecedented enthusiasm for what was happening in the desert. The first test, code-named Able, which was held Jan. 27, 1951, was celebrated with a musical parade attended by young girls dressed in costumes resembling a nuclear mushroom - says Fuhrer. - "Then a B-50 bomber dropped a nuclear bomb on the range whose power matched the power of both nuclear bombs the Americans dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.”
“Typically, over the next 12 years, tests were conducted every three weeks. Soon they became a real event. Tourists and locals drove to the desert, had picnics and watched the explosion from about 100 km away .”
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The Pentagon wants to play with nuclear weapons again
#USA #us #american #nuclearbomb #atomicbomb #nuclear #experiments #weapons #history #lang_en #photo #pentagon #warmongers
About two thousand square miles of land in Washington State was contaminated. The radioactive cloud spread throughout that state and went into Oregon. The purpose of this exercise was to practice what the military would do after a nuclear strike."
“Fallout from the nuclear tests—radioactive particles that were swept into the atmosphere and fell back down to the earth—found their way into crops and livestock, whose radioactivity humans took on when they consumed milk, meat and produce. Fallout takes many different chemical forms, one of which is iodine-131: an isotope, or version, of iodine that has the usual 53 protons but 78 neutrons instead of the standard 74. Inside the body, the thyroid gland will absorb iodine-131, which eventually decays to produce radiation that can cause thyroid cancer and other problems.”
“The Nuclear Arms Race was the direct result of America’s September 1945 plan to “blow up the Soviet Union”, formulated by the US War Department.
The Soviet Union tested its first nuclear bomb in 1949. Without the Manhattan Project and the War Department’s September 15, 1945 “World War III Blueprint”, the Arms Race would not have occurred.
The September 15, 1945 War Department set the stage for numerous plans to wage World War III against Russia and China:”
“The city leaders were very excited to have a nuclear test site on their doorstep. After all, the tourists showed unprecedented enthusiasm for what was happening in the desert. The first test, code-named Able, which was held Jan. 27, 1951, was celebrated with a musical parade attended by young girls dressed in costumes resembling a nuclear mushroom - says Fuhrer. - "Then a B-50 bomber dropped a nuclear bomb on the range whose power matched the power of both nuclear bombs the Americans dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.”
“Typically, over the next 12 years, tests were conducted every three weeks. Soon they became a real event. Tourists and locals drove to the desert, had picnics and watched the explosion from about 100 km away .”
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The Pentagon wants to play with nuclear weapons again
#USA #us #american #nuclearbomb #atomicbomb #nuclear #experiments #weapons #history #lang_en #photo #pentagon #warmongers
Atomic Tourism in Nevada
The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce issued a calendar for tourists, listing the scheduled times of the bomb detonations and the best places to view them.American Experience
Bombshell: NATO Says “War Started in 2014”. “Fake Pretext” to Wage War against Russia? To Invoke Article 5 of Atlantic Treaty?
#Bombshell : #NATO Says “ #War #Started in #2014 ”. “ #Fake #Pretext ” to #Wage #War against #Russia ? To #Invoke #Article #5 of #Atlantic #Treaty ? #Ukraine #US
Bombshell: NATO Says “War Started in 2014”. “Fake Pretext” to Wage ...
Bombshell: NATO Says “War Started in 2014”. “Fake Pretext” to Wage War against Russia? To Invoke Article 5 of Atlantic Treaty? (https://www.globalresearch.diaspora* social network
Slavery was limited in the US in 1865 by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. #Mississippi finally gave its support only 28 years ago (and ratified only in 2013).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Only 3 years ago was a bill introduced in Congress to actually outlaw #slavery. To date, it remains legal in the US: any citizen convicted of a crime may be enslaved.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/33
The things you learn as a grown-up...!
#woke #history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Only 3 years ago was a bill introduced in Congress to actually outlaw #slavery. To date, it remains legal in the US: any citizen convicted of a crime may be enslaved.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/33
The things you learn as a grown-up...!
#woke #history
How Fascism Serves Capitalism
#fascism is an instrument of #capitalism #imperialism #history
How Fascism Serves Capitalism | FULL DOCUMENTARY
In this documentary, Dr. Michael Parenti defines fascism, describes its characteristics, and explains the role fascism plays in serving the rational interest...YouTube
NATO’s Fascist Inheritance & the Long War On the Third World, with Pawel WarganTo understand how this new Cold War might play out, we have to understand the foundations of the original Cold War of the 20th century. What was NATO’s role? What did it mean for the Third World back then? What does it mean for the Third World today, particularly those countries that seek an independent, sovereign path? What is the danger of rising fascist movements? And what are the lessons for anti-imperialists who live and organize in the imperial core?
To discuss this and more, Rania Khalek was joined by Paweł Wargan, an organizer and researcher based in Berlin, the coordinator of the secretariat of the Progressive International and author of the recent Monthly Review article “NATO and the Long War on the Third World,” in which he looks to the past for lessons about the future, concluding that capitalism cannot be overcome until the arteries of imperial plunder are severed.
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NATO’s Fascist Inheritance & the Long War On the Third World, w/ Pawel Wargan
To understand how this new Cold War might play out, we have to understand the foundations of the original Cold War of the 20th century. What was NATO’s role?...YouTube
On issues of periodization of the history of the USSR
In October 1917 in Russia, when not a single industrial enterprise, not a single locomotive had yet been destroyed (the Bolsheviks had not planned this at all), Russian society, the first in the world, got rid of the parasites who used their enterprises for the purposes of waging invasive, destructive wars. The liberation of Russian society from the selfishness and uneducated entrepreneurs, from the power of banking monopolies, already at the end of the 20's, provided not only a complete restoration of industry, not only the highest in the history of mankind rates of development of productive forces, but also the pace of scientific, technical and cultural progress. Already in the 20-ies Zhukovsky, Timiryazev, Pavlov, Michurin, Tsiolkovsky, Kapitsa, Kurchatov, Tupolev, Polikarpov, Degtyaryov, Paton, Lebedev, Meyerhold, Eisenstein, Pyatnitsky, for the first time in history, received all the necessary conditions and means for their scientific, design work and artistic creativity.
In August 1991 in the USSR, too, not a single enterprise had been destroyed yet, but the CPSU, Soviets and Gosplan of the USSR had maliciously abstained from managing all the productive forces of society, voluntarily giving banks and enterprises into private hands, including foreign ones. I.e. huge production capacities of the superpower stopped for 10 years not because the communists violated the laws of "copromatism" or thermodynamics, but because the majority of the "party billet-bearers" of the CPSU, professed not diamatic, but some kind of "economic thinking", which made the party members and technical intelligentsia unemployed, homeless, criminals, egoists, liberals, nationalists, clerics and, in the near future, millions of ruined "shuttle traders", deceived tourists, shareholders, shareholders and depositors.
Some comrades still explain the collapse of the CPSU and the USSR only by the betrayal of the top, but do not try to explain neither to themselves nor to others, why in August 1941 in the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b), in the army and in industry there were only a few traitors, and half a century later, in August 1991, the Central Committee of the CPSU, the directorial and ministerial corps, the Soviet generals, almost in their entirety, refused to do anything in defense of socialism, and painted themselves as democrats, liberals, nationalists and clerics?
In Stalin's time, the entire ministerial and directorial corps knew that it was very seriously responsible, first of all, for the quality and quantity of products manufactured in accordance with the proportions of the strategic plan of the whole country, and cost, indicators played only a modest accounting role. Only with the revival of capitalism on the territory of the USSR was the stupid phrase revived: "all the necessary material means are available, but it cannot build, there is no... financing", as if factories and bridges were being built out of bills.
Since Andropov's time, in the USSR, the so-called economic, i.e. egoistic criteria have prevailed over scientifically grounded real proportions of social production. The ministries and administrations of enterprises, having switched to full self-sufficiency, objectively and practically turned into capitalists working for personal monetary profit. The practice of harnessing the financial "cart" ahead of the "horse" of a concrete plan for the development of productive forces reigns in the Russian Federation to this day. Having no concrete plans, but only the general national wishes of the president to improve some things, to mend gaping failures, the government in 2020 is forced to state that billions of rubles have been plundered, and 148 billion rubles have not been spent.
But this situation did not arise under Yeltsin. The practice of Andropov's time had already shown that both the General Secretary himself and the members of the CPSU Central Committee had no concrete scientific idea of what should be done to continue building communism. They began to treat the imperfections of socialism... with capitalism.
Therefore, concerning the question of periodization of the history of the CPSU and the USSR, we should speak about two stages. The first stage, under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin, under whom 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, the uncompromising struggle against anti-communist views), which ensured the dynamic ascent of the Soviet base and the whole society, moving further and further away from the system that collapsed as a result of the First World War, to the country that, in fact, defeated both the USA and Bree in the Second World War. Before 1953, the basis of the first phase of communism had successfully taken root in many countries liberated from fascism.
But now few people dispute that after 1953 there came a second stage, 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, in the Lenin VPA, in the "Znaniye" society, in the "Communist" magazine, there were fewer and fewer people with knowledge of dialectical-materialist methodology. In the USSR Academy of Sciences, in the Lenin Military Academy, in the "Znanie" society, in the "Communist" magazine, there were fewer and fewer people who possessed dialectical-materialist methodology, and therefore everything communist in the country went to zero after Andropov introduced the self-financing reform.
I.e., if the USSR and the CPSU retained the communist names of the elements of the superstructure and, nominally, party superstructure institutions, but there were practically no connoisseurs of Marxist methodology in the country and in the party, which brings scientific content and communist tendencies to the development of production relations, then the construction of communism is out of the question. If the complete collections of the works of the classics of Marxism, if they are quietly covered with dust on the shelves in party committees and regional committees, but are not properly studied by the members of the Communist Party, if this knowledge is not clarified in connection with new objective circumstances, then all this literary heritage of the victorious classics remains a "thing in itself" that has no positive influence in real time on society, which is once again sliding into the era of mass bourgeois, and therefore liberal, Nazi and clerical ideology.
In view of the defeats suffered by the CPSU at the second stage of its history, it is necessary, as diamatics prescribes, to once again logically "dance from the stove" of simply contemplating the facts of the decay of social formations observed in world history, to the theoretical generalization of conclusions from these facts, to the search for regularities of all such collapses, and from them to the formulation of a conclusion about the presence or absence of a single cause and antidote to such phenomena in the history of mankind.
of mankind.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/6796858.html
#russian #soviet #history
Мой дед (сидит на гусенице трактора) со своими товарищами. Справа с ключом, Иван Арестов, слева, уже не помню кто. Саратовская область, Подлесновская МТС, трактор Сталинец С-80, ~ 1949-й год.
Служил после войны, командиром танка Ис-3.
Долгое время работал начальником колхозной мастерской.
#photo #grandfather #russian #USSR #history #tractor
Служил после войны, командиром танка Ис-3.
Долгое время работал начальником колхозной мастерской.
#photo #grandfather #russian #USSR #history #tractor
Raising anti-Russia
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The idea that Russia is a real kingdom of evil has been instilled in children in Ukraine from an early age. A large amount of children's propaganda literature was found on the territory liberated from Ukrainian neo-Nazis during a military special operation. At the same time, the books are designed for children of any age, starting from the very young.
In 2015 the publishing house "Mamino Solnyshko" published a children's book "Glory to Heroes! Stories for Children about Heroes of the Front and Home Front", which describes the "feats" of the participants of the ATO ("anti-terrorist operation" of Kiev's neo-Banderites in Donbass). The 15,000 copies of this publication were sold out in a few days. The authors thought that children should know the language of hatred from a young age, and put in the book such expressions as "the Muscals showed their animal face," "Muscal tanks," and "the Separas lost a dozen killed."
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https://aftershock.news/?q=node%2F1281837
#ukraine #Maidan #ukrainian #propaganda #children #study #mindmanipulation #Bandera #nazi #neo-nazi destroy #culture #ato #anti-Russia #Donbass #blameRussia #history #USSR
The idea that Russia is a real kingdom of evil has been instilled in children in Ukraine from an early age. A large amount of children's propaganda literature was found on the territory liberated from Ukrainian neo-Nazis during a military special operation. At the same time, the books are designed for children of any age, starting from the very young.
In 2015 the publishing house "Mamino Solnyshko" published a children's book "Glory to Heroes! Stories for Children about Heroes of the Front and Home Front", which describes the "feats" of the participants of the ATO ("anti-terrorist operation" of Kiev's neo-Banderites in Donbass). The 15,000 copies of this publication were sold out in a few days. The authors thought that children should know the language of hatred from a young age, and put in the book such expressions as "the Muscals showed their animal face," "Muscal tanks," and "the Separas lost a dozen killed."
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https://aftershock.news/?q=node%2F1281837
#ukraine #Maidan #ukrainian #propaganda #children #study #mindmanipulation #Bandera #nazi #neo-nazi destroy #culture #ato #anti-Russia #Donbass #blameRussia #history #USSR
Polish 7TR tanks enter the Czech town of Teszyn (Cieszyn). Polish flags are hung on the walls of houses. October 1938
The partition of Czechoslovakia by Germany and Poland according to the Munich Collusion.
#czech #history #WWII #WW2 #poland #czechoslovakia #czechia #tanks
A Soviet soldier in the lair of the fascist beast
Our greatest holiday, Victory Day, is approaching. And once again the liberal-fascist international will try to belittle the feat of our fathers and grandfathers, who defended our country and peace on earth, belittle it in order to cast doubt on it. And once again the myth of two million raped Germans or bloody atrocities against white and fluffy Germans will be disseminated.
This is how, literally with one stroke of a journalist's pen, the Germans were transformed from aggressors into "sufferers", and the Red Army, on the contrary, from liberators into occupiers and rapists. Mass rapes, as if committed by the Red Army in Germany at the end of the war, is one of the most widespread anti-Russian myths in the West. It began to be used almost immediately after the end of the war to discredit former allies and ideologically justify the coming Cold War. Practically all the data on the total rape of Germany by Russian barbarians "historians" (including Anthony Beevor) take, as a rule, from the book by Austin J. App "Ravishing the Women of Conquered Europe" (Ravishing the Women of Conquered Europe) published in April 1946. True, the figures of German women raped by Soviet troops there are clearly taken from the ceiling. Thus he writes: "No one knows exactly how many women were raped, but according to doctors' estimates, in Berlin alone there are at least 100,000 women between the ages of 10 and 70." And literally on the next page, describing the atrocities of our soldiers in Austria, he continues, "In Vienna alone, they (Soviet soldiers) raped 100,000 women, not just once, but many times, including girls under the age of 10, and old women." That is, according to him, Soviet soldiers raped an average of 100,000 women in each major city. At the same time, these figures are not supported by any documentary evidence. I will not claim that there was nothing like this, but that it was not on such a scale is certain. Here, for example, what Osmar White, an Australian war correspondent, wrote in 1945: "In the Red Army, severe discipline prevails. There is no more robbery, rape and abuse here than in any other zone of occupation. Wild stories of atrocities are brought out by exaggerations and distortions of individual cases under the influence of nervousness caused by the immoderate manners of the Russian soldiers and their love of vodka. One woman who told me most of the hair-raising tales of Russian atrocities was finally forced to admit that the only evidence she had seen with her own eyes was drunken Russian officers firing pistols into the air or at bottles...."
Since then, the number of raped German, Romanian, Hungarian, Czech, etc. women has been inexorably increasing every year. Soon it will turn out that all white Europe is the fruit of forced love of Russian barbarians. And what was it really like?
In the magazine Spiegel for 1975 in the 20th issue of DER SPIEGEL 20/1975 vom 12.05.1975, Seite 70 it was told about then new documents found by one of the editors of Spiegel in the archives of the S.S.A., concerning orders from the Soviet military headquarters, court verdicts, diaries /statements of the Red Army. The article mentions:
Malinovsky ( in connection with certain disturbances during the offensive on Romania in the fall of 1944), who took decisive measures. A number of punishments and sentences by military courts followed. Contacts with the civilian population were restricted and soldiers were required, under threat of punishment, to "preserve military dignity and decorum in their outward behavior", "do not allow yourself anything that is contrary to your honor".
On entering Hungary there were again breaches of discipline. Then came a warning from the military council of the 3rd Ukrainian Front: "Do not harm the civilian population. Do not allow yourself anything that disrespects your honor and blackens your glorious name. Wherever you are, always behave in such a way that your behavior arouses respect before the Red Army and our Country. Everyone must see that the Red Army is the strongest and its soldiers are the bravest, most courageous and at the same time the most civilized and disciplined."
This decree, however, was violated. Then the NKVD introduced special units, which dealt harshly with the guilty; as soon as they (NKVD) started their activities, no stealing and no looting - their harsh punishments acted intimidatingly. Soviet officers shot rapists - now citing a decree. Every Red Army man, officer or soldier, could kill a fighting comrade if he violated Stalin's orders.
At the same time, the propagandists' posters called for vengeance against the Nazi bloody murderers. Soon, however, the military commanders concluded that these emotional appeals undermined discipline. The 2nd Belorussian Front forbade in one order any looting in East Prussia; other orders presumed harsh punishments for rape and deliberate destruction of German property.
On January 29, by order of Marshal Zhukov, an order was read to all battalions of the 1st Belorussian Front that forbade Red Army soldiers to "harass the German population, loot apartments and burn houses." At the same time, Stalin's advance order was also to be read:
"Officers and Red Army men! We are going into the enemy's country. Everyone must keep his composure, everyone must be brave...The remaining population in the conquered areas, whether German, Czech or Polish, must not be subjected to violence. The guilty will be punished according to wartime laws. Sexual intercourse with the female sex is not allowed in the conquered territory. For violence and rape the guilty will be shot. "
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https://varjag-2007.livejournal.com/807876.html
#russian #sovier #USSR #history #blameRussia
Our greatest holiday, Victory Day, is approaching. And once again the liberal-fascist international will try to belittle the feat of our fathers and grandfathers, who defended our country and peace on earth, belittle it in order to cast doubt on it. And once again the myth of two million raped Germans or bloody atrocities against white and fluffy Germans will be disseminated.
This is how, literally with one stroke of a journalist's pen, the Germans were transformed from aggressors into "sufferers", and the Red Army, on the contrary, from liberators into occupiers and rapists. Mass rapes, as if committed by the Red Army in Germany at the end of the war, is one of the most widespread anti-Russian myths in the West. It began to be used almost immediately after the end of the war to discredit former allies and ideologically justify the coming Cold War. Practically all the data on the total rape of Germany by Russian barbarians "historians" (including Anthony Beevor) take, as a rule, from the book by Austin J. App "Ravishing the Women of Conquered Europe" (Ravishing the Women of Conquered Europe) published in April 1946. True, the figures of German women raped by Soviet troops there are clearly taken from the ceiling. Thus he writes: "No one knows exactly how many women were raped, but according to doctors' estimates, in Berlin alone there are at least 100,000 women between the ages of 10 and 70." And literally on the next page, describing the atrocities of our soldiers in Austria, he continues, "In Vienna alone, they (Soviet soldiers) raped 100,000 women, not just once, but many times, including girls under the age of 10, and old women." That is, according to him, Soviet soldiers raped an average of 100,000 women in each major city. At the same time, these figures are not supported by any documentary evidence. I will not claim that there was nothing like this, but that it was not on such a scale is certain. Here, for example, what Osmar White, an Australian war correspondent, wrote in 1945: "In the Red Army, severe discipline prevails. There is no more robbery, rape and abuse here than in any other zone of occupation. Wild stories of atrocities are brought out by exaggerations and distortions of individual cases under the influence of nervousness caused by the immoderate manners of the Russian soldiers and their love of vodka. One woman who told me most of the hair-raising tales of Russian atrocities was finally forced to admit that the only evidence she had seen with her own eyes was drunken Russian officers firing pistols into the air or at bottles...."
Since then, the number of raped German, Romanian, Hungarian, Czech, etc. women has been inexorably increasing every year. Soon it will turn out that all white Europe is the fruit of forced love of Russian barbarians. And what was it really like?
In the magazine Spiegel for 1975 in the 20th issue of DER SPIEGEL 20/1975 vom 12.05.1975, Seite 70 it was told about then new documents found by one of the editors of Spiegel in the archives of the S.S.A., concerning orders from the Soviet military headquarters, court verdicts, diaries /statements of the Red Army. The article mentions:
Malinovsky ( in connection with certain disturbances during the offensive on Romania in the fall of 1944), who took decisive measures. A number of punishments and sentences by military courts followed. Contacts with the civilian population were restricted and soldiers were required, under threat of punishment, to "preserve military dignity and decorum in their outward behavior", "do not allow yourself anything that is contrary to your honor".
On entering Hungary there were again breaches of discipline. Then came a warning from the military council of the 3rd Ukrainian Front: "Do not harm the civilian population. Do not allow yourself anything that disrespects your honor and blackens your glorious name. Wherever you are, always behave in such a way that your behavior arouses respect before the Red Army and our Country. Everyone must see that the Red Army is the strongest and its soldiers are the bravest, most courageous and at the same time the most civilized and disciplined."
This decree, however, was violated. Then the NKVD introduced special units, which dealt harshly with the guilty; as soon as they (NKVD) started their activities, no stealing and no looting - their harsh punishments acted intimidatingly. Soviet officers shot rapists - now citing a decree. Every Red Army man, officer or soldier, could kill a fighting comrade if he violated Stalin's orders.
At the same time, the propagandists' posters called for vengeance against the Nazi bloody murderers. Soon, however, the military commanders concluded that these emotional appeals undermined discipline. The 2nd Belorussian Front forbade in one order any looting in East Prussia; other orders presumed harsh punishments for rape and deliberate destruction of German property.
On January 29, by order of Marshal Zhukov, an order was read to all battalions of the 1st Belorussian Front that forbade Red Army soldiers to "harass the German population, loot apartments and burn houses." At the same time, Stalin's advance order was also to be read:
"Officers and Red Army men! We are going into the enemy's country. Everyone must keep his composure, everyone must be brave...The remaining population in the conquered areas, whether German, Czech or Polish, must not be subjected to violence. The guilty will be punished according to wartime laws. Sexual intercourse with the female sex is not allowed in the conquered territory. For violence and rape the guilty will be shot. "
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https://varjag-2007.livejournal.com/807876.html
#russian #sovier #USSR #history #blameRussia
Lies about the Red Army
This photo is often seen with the caption "A Soviet soldier takes away a bicycle from a German woman in 1945". In the original publication of LIFE magazine, the caption under the photo reads: "There was a misunderstanding between a Russian soldier and a German woman in Berlin over a bicycle he wanted to buy from her". But a careful parsing leads to the conclusion that this photo is a staged fake. The location of the photo is on the border of the Soviet and British zones of occupation, near Tiergarten Park, right by the Brandenburg Gate, where at that time there was a Red Army regulation post.
When examining the photo, virtually everyone standing nearby shows complete indifference to the situation. In addition, there is a US Army soldier in the background, also acting indifferently. The photo itself raises a lot of questions.
The soldier is alone and unarmed (he is a "looter" in an occupied city!), his uniform is not up to his size, with a clear violation of the uniform and the use of elements of someone else's uniform. He is wearing a Yugoslavian cap, his trench coat is worn in a different way than was customary in the Red Army, and the material of the trench coat is also not Soviet. Soviet turtlenecks were made of first-class felt and did not wrinkle as it can be seen in the photo. He looted openly, in the center of the city, near the post, and even on the border with the foreign occupation sector, that is, in a place that initially enjoys increased attention.
He does not react at all to the people around him (the American, the photographer), although by all the rules of the genre he should have given up by now. Instead, he continues to pull the wheel, and does it for so long that he has time to be photographed, the quality of the photo is almost studio quality.
The conclusion is simple: to discredit the former allies it was decided to produce a "photo-fact" confirming the "crimes of the Red Army" in the occupied territory. The actor portraying a Russian soldier was dressed in elements of various military uniforms, trying to get as close as possible to the image of a "Soviet soldier".
To avoid conflict with Soviet soldiers, the authentic elements of uniforms, such as epaulettes, emblems and insignia, are not used. For the same purpose, they refused to use weapons. It turned out unarmed "soldier" in the cap of the "Balkan" army, with an incomprehensible cloak or a piece of tarpaulin instead of rolling pin and in German boots. When creating the composition, the actor was deployed in such a way as to hide from the camera the absence of cockades, awards, badges and patches; the absence of epaulettes was concealed by an imitation of a cape, which had to be worn in violation of the statute, which they, quite possibly, did not even suspect.
source: https://aftershock.news/?q=node%2F1265949
#photo #history #fake #western #myth #media #lie about #WWII #WW2 #Berlin #germany #blameRussia
If you were Stalin, what would you do when your Plan A is dead? You know war is coming, you believe Hitler when he says his aim is to seize lebensraum to the east. Your potential allies don’t get it. What would you do? While London and Paris dither and Warsaw dreams dreams (what dreams? Hitler just tore up the non-aggression pact you were counting on: you’re next) Hitler strikes. How about a non-aggression pact? Stalin seizes the chance, the agreement is immediately signed. Stalin knows perfectly well that Hitler is going to attack the USSR and so he starts to grab as much territory to the west as he can and put off the day as long as possible.
Patrick Armstrong Wrote A Must Read.
#Patrick #Armstrong #Wrote A #Must #Read #WWII #Hitler #USSR #Stalin
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Patrick Armstrong Wrote A Must Read. (https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/08/patrick-armstrong-wrote-must-read.html) #Patrick #Armstrong #Wrote A #Must #Read #WWII #Hitler #USSR #Stalindiaspora* social network
A fighter against Russians and Jews
Oleh Tyahnybok (Ukrainian right-wing politician. Ukrainian nationalist, chairman of the Svoboda party) has repeatedly made statements that were seen as Russophobic and anti-Semitic. One of the most scandalous statements took place on July 17, 2004 on the Yavoryni Mountain in Ivano-Frankivsk region, when at a closed event dedicated to the memory of one of the leaders of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - Dmytro Klyachkivskyi (Klim Savur) - Tyahnybok made the following words:
They were not afraid, just as we should not be afraid now, they took an automatic rifle around their necks and went into those forests, they prepared and fought with the Moskals (Russians), fought with the Germans, fought with the Yidva (Jews) and with other filth who wanted to take our Ukrainian state away from us... It is necessary to give Ukraine, finally, to the Ukrainians. These young people, and you, gray-headed ones, are the mixture that is most feared by the Moskal-Zhidov (Russian-Jewish) mafia, which today rules in Ukraine.
We can also see in the photo Arseniy Yatsenyuk another Ukrainian politician involved in the looting of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.
#ukraine #ukrainian #USA #us #politics #Nuland #McCain #Tyahnybok #Yatseniuk #nazi #neo-nazi #anti-Semitism #neocons #deepstate #anti-Russia #russophobia #history #photo
The textile factory girls of early 19th century #Massachusetts made a phenomenon of themselves during their own time by functionally converting the town of Lowell into a sprawling college campus for the working class.
Anyone who feels trapped in a brain-dead job ought to check out these factory workers.
Some articles about them are here: https://earlywithdrawal.net/victoriana/index.php/articles
#19thcentury #history #industrial #feminism #bookstodon #midjourney
@histodons
Anyone who feels trapped in a brain-dead job ought to check out these factory workers.
Some articles about them are here: https://earlywithdrawal.net/victoriana/index.php/articles
#19thcentury #history #industrial #feminism #bookstodon #midjourney
@histodons
fuck your mount rushmore...
#fuckyou #colonizers #mountrushmore #usa
fuck your mount rushmore... 64.media.tumblr.com/f8e42f17496...
fuck your mount rushmore... https://64.media.tumblr.com/f8e42f17496a20dc6201da5217dc62bb/e5303e7b56ae8606-ed/s1280x1920/0e38c40f0aea290e8a65ee052e97875dc394ba7d.jpg #fuckyou #colonizers #mountrushmore #usadiaspora social network
The International Origins of Nazism
The report by Leo Löwenthal concerning Germany in the twenties can be of interest here:
We used to laugh about the fact that there was a tiny hotel in Frankfurt […] that had a sign saying “Jews not welcome” or “Jews not wanted.” Then there was a small bathing place, Borkum near Norderney, that was “reserved” for anti-Semites. But we didn’t take any of it seriously. […] I didn’t truly experience the kind of anti-Semitism that made it impossible to go to certain restaurants, hotels or clubs until I came to America. [31]
#USA #us #germany #nazism #history #anti-semitism
The International Origins of Nazism
Is it possible to understand the emergence of Nazism while looking only at Germany? References from two very different authors will help us to tackle this problem.redsails.org
The American Nazis of the German American Bund, 1930s
German American Bund parade in New York City on East 86th St. on October 30, 1939.
Pro-Nazi members of various singing and gymnastic societies salute a procession of flags at White Plains Hall in New York in the 1930s. They were gathered for a German Day celebration. The German-American Bund disclaimed this large group
A crowd of approximately 20,000 attends a German American Bund Rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939.
#photo #history #us #USA #germany #german #american #fascism #1939 #WWII #WW2
The American Nazis of the German American Bund, 1930s
After Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, some German Americans formed groups to support the Nazi party in Germany and attempt to influence American politics. The most notorious of these…RHP (Rare Historical Photos)
Fidel Castro
August13, 1926 ~ November25, 2016
https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=liCEZ0tzJ9s
Fidel Castro in Guadalajara [w/ subtitles] (1991)On this day in 1926, #Cuban #Revolutionary #Fidel #Castro was born. He would lead a guerilla campaign with other revolutionaries such as Che Guevara to overthrow the US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Before Cuba's revolution, US financial interests owned 90% of Cuba’s mines, 80% of public utilities, 50% of railways, 40% of sugar production & 25% of bank deposits.
In the first 30 months after Fidel Castro and Cuba’s communists came to power, more classrooms were built in those 30 months than had been built in the previous 30 years. Within the first six months of Castro's government, 600 miles of road had been built across the island, while $300 million was spent on water and sanitation schemes. Over 800 houses were constructed every month in the early years of the administration in a measure to cut homelessness, while nurseries and day-care centers were opened for children and other centers opened for the disabled and elderly.
With the arrival of the revolutionary government, Cuban healthcare was nationalised and expanded with heavy investment, bringing free healthcare access to millions. Universal vaccination for childhood diseases was introduced, leading to infant mortality rates plummeting. Cuba's 'army of doctors' is now sent to crisis-hit countries around the world. Since 1963, more than 600,000 Cuban health workers have provided medical services in more than 160 countries.
Fidel Castro's Cuba was also instrumental in many anti-colonial and liberation struggles across the developing world, Cuba provided material support to the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. Cuban material support was also given to Angola and Palestine.
Despite being under the illegal embargo imposed by the US, Cuba now has a higher life expectancy than the US, has more doctors per capita than the US, and is among the top 35 countries for lowest child mortality rates. Under Fidel Castro's rule, UNICEF declared severe child malnutrition to be eradicated.
#fidelcastro #guadalajara #speech #1991 #subtitles #capitalism #ecology
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro August13, 1926 ~ November25, 2016 https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=liCEZ0tzJ9s Fidel Castro in Guadalajara w/ subtitles (1991) (https://invidious.lunar.diaspora social network
At a time when people increasingly feel disempowered and without outlook, the "mill girls of Lowell" offer an inspiring story of human triumph in face of withering conditions.
https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2064-d799-cfb1-993552020832
#capitalism #unions #industrial #feminism #midjourney #history #19thcentury #NewEngland #Massachusetts
@histodons
https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2064-d799-cfb1-993552020832
#capitalism #unions #industrial #feminism #midjourney #history #19thcentury #NewEngland #Massachusetts
@histodons
The Mill Girls of Lowell
At a time when people increasingly feel disempowered and without outlook, the "mill girls of Lowell" offer an inspiring story of human triumph in face of wit...libranet.de
Crying from the Ukrainian side and confirmation of the situation from a pro-Russian Ukrainian
Two worlds (July 2023)
I am increasingly haunted by a strange sense of unreality of what is happening around me.
People pass me by, very close, a meter, half a meter, so close. People, lots of people, but at the same time there is often a feeling of oppressive loneliness... You look at faces, have a conversation, and regularly notice that one thought does not let go. That we are in the same place, but scattered in some parallel worlds that do not intersect in any way. We have nothing in common, and we speak different languages.
In one of these worlds, there is a brutal, bloody war for survival, and in the other... it has already ended. Or it hasn't started. Or it has just been shaken up a bit and everything is back to normal. And then there is the world of near victory, where the hard and terrible work has already been done and paid for. With the hands of others. With the blood of others. And the terrible world of people who are for "peace at any cost". And an indifferent world for those for whom nothing has changed.
A lot is often (and rightly) written about male princesses on peas. But this is only part of a huge problem, the tip of the iceberg...
Many of these "men" who happily hide behind other people's backs (both male and female) have one common quality. And, unfortunately, they are not the only ones.
Some people still have the scoop in their minds. The scoop is not about age, it's about mentality. "I do not participate in the life of the state, and the state should not touch me," "it is not my business" - this is it. It entails the passivity and infantilism of a large part of the population, unwillingness and inability to analyze and draw conclusions. And in principle, to think... And an aggressive defensive reaction when such people are poked in the nose with the truth, when it turns out that they are not as good as they used to think they were.
These people limit their area of responsibility exclusively to their family, and more general categories, such as nation, state, homeland, are some distant, pompous concepts that have nothing to do with their lives. For them, defending their country, their freedom, is completely incomprehensible, alien, wild... This does not respond in any way, it causes rejection. Will the war come to their loved ones? Take your loved ones under the arm and run. And do not touch me.
The trouble is that the priority of such people is exclusively themselves, and there is no integration with society as such.
A huge number of people have not grown to the level of civic responsibility when they realize they belong to something more than a narrow family circle, when a sense of belonging appears, an idea that motivates people to volunteer, to do everything in their power, to give their last, to sacrifice themselves
And do you know what is particularly scary? The fact that the government not only does not contribute to solving this problem, but on the contrary, acts with it in mind, encourages a similar type of thinking, gives the masses what they want.
And the masses do not need the truth, they are not interested in the real situation or facts, because it is pain, horror, death, destruction, and the realization that this will last. It's unpopular, it's scary, it breaks into their narrow little window and breaks it into small pieces.
Hence the popularity of easy solutions, 2-3 weeks, a vacation in the Crimea next summer, that it will be over in a little while... Very convenient thoughts, aren't they? It's very convenient when everything has already been thought of for you and you don't have to strain?
And these thoughts come in.
And it's scary.
Very scary.
Lately, I have been living in permanent shock and realizing that my idea of society is not in line with reality. Most often, my arguments for such people are like shouting into the void, they are shattered by immaturity of personality, selfishness and aggressive defensive reaction. And sometimes it's also about this fucking "little man" type who "can't change anything". It all goes through me, leaving a bitter emptiness behind.
Sometimes my psyche is saved only by the fact that there is a world of people who have gotten out of this quagmire and understand... They understand that it is not enough to build peace and happiness exclusively in one particular family.
Especially if it is paid for with the blood of others. That we need to develop, think and act. And finally stop shifting responsibility onto the shoulders of those around you.
Development is not only a professional activity. A prestigious job says nothing about a person's moral qualities. Development is also a civic position, an awareness of being part of something bigger and more important.
I am grateful to those who understand, you are real, you give me strength, hope and faith. You are the foundation, the basis on which a healthy society will grow one day.
(c) Bessinka (from Telegram).
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And here's what a pro-Russian Ukrainian wrote (January 2022)
A short post about an outsider's view of Ukraine's patriots and traitors.
When the famous events in Ukraine happened in 2014 #Maidan, I was living in the very West of Europe at the time. Seeing what was happening, I had the most contradictory thoughts about what to do, what to do? First of all, it was necessary to understand what exactly is going on? What do people think about it? If they say on TV that everyone is rooting for Europe, but in fact people are rooting for Russia, it is understandable that people are in trouble and it is possible to do something to help. And if everyone is arguing for Europe, well, then I'm an old "vatnik" and I should understand their arguments and "it's time for the dustbin of history"....
March 2014. I took a vacation at work, jumped in the car and drove to Ukraine. I set myself a simple and straightforward task: to drive around the country for a few days and ask a variety of people, in different regions, about what and who they were for - Europe or Russia - and why.
I was not sure that people would talk to me or that they would answer honestly. But it was worth a try.
As a result, I traveled around more than half of Ukraine - its western, central and southern parts. I didn't go to the east - it's clear there. Everywhere I went, I tried to ask everyone - waiters and waitresses, cab drivers, mechanics at service stations, sales clerks - everyone I could ask and when a person had the opportunity to answer me without witnesses.
All in all, I got the following top of the hit parade:
To Europe:
- My children will be able to leave here safely and live and study in Europe.
(OK, i.e. he/she is not interested in the country itself and the goal to turn the country around is to get out of it).
- I can bring myself a nice car from Germany without high duty.
(OK, so he is not interested in the country itself and the idea of turning the country around is to change the car for a better one)
- I can go to work in Europe. Completely different salary, different living conditions.
(I.e. the country itself is not interested in principle. Again, the idea is to leave).
Guys! NO ONE. Absolutely NONE of those who were rooting for Europe did not tell me a single argument in favor of the fact that the choice of the country will make the country itself better! NONE!
And at the same time, those who were in favor of union with Russia (Customs Union, at that time):
- We have all major factories tied to Russia.
- Our entire economy is closely tied to the Russian economy and a rupture would destroy our economy
- We sell most of our products to Russia. Who needs our products in Europe? (these were guys from a village in the Zaporozhye region).
NONE of those who spoke in favor of Russia did not express a single argument for themselves and spoke only about the benefits of their country. I want to note that I did not hear arguments like "I want to speak Russian" - for some reason, the arguments were in favor of the national economy.
And the former, for 8 years now, have been considered Patriots who shout that they love their country.
The latter are traitors and traitors to the Motherland.
So what does all this mean? What's new? It's nothing. Just a statement of fact. And factual proof - who is who.
As it was in the famous play "Wolves and Sheep": "Who are the sheep and who are the wolves - that is the question".
P.S. Now, when European wages bypassed Ukraine, and half of the able-bodied population went to the West for work, and half of the country became single-parent families with undivorced but separated parents, and the country learned the other side of gastarbeiterism - the pseudo-patriots have a new iron reason why to drown for the West - "We have no other choice! Otherwise, Putin will attack us!". This I have already learned from my recent trip to Ukraine.....
The well-known paradox of Denning-Krugger: The dumber a person is, the more categorical he is in his beliefs and statements....
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My explanation: Only the Sovok (Soviet Union) has nothing to do with it, it's the mentality of western Ukrainians., there is an old Soviet-ukrainian definition of such people: "I don't know anything, my house is on the edge". This applies to the majority of Ukrainians both then and now, which is why two Maidans (2004, 2014 government coups) were able to take place here in Ukraine and all this led to war.
#^https://hub.hubzilla.de/channel/kuchinster?mid=b64.aHR0cHM6Ly9odWIuaHViemlsbGEuZGUvaXRlbS9lYWQwNTZlMy0zZThkLTRiMGQtOTdjNC0xYjNkMTM5ZmE0OGQ
#motherland #culture #ukraine #ukrainian #mentality #history #poverty in #consciousness
I am increasingly haunted by a strange sense of unreality of what is happening around me.
People pass me by, very close, a meter, half a meter, so close. People, lots of people, but at the same time there is often a feeling of oppressive loneliness... You look at faces, have a conversation, and regularly notice that one thought does not let go. That we are in the same place, but scattered in some parallel worlds that do not intersect in any way. We have nothing in common, and we speak different languages.
In one of these worlds, there is a brutal, bloody war for survival, and in the other... it has already ended. Or it hasn't started. Or it has just been shaken up a bit and everything is back to normal. And then there is the world of near victory, where the hard and terrible work has already been done and paid for. With the hands of others. With the blood of others. And the terrible world of people who are for "peace at any cost". And an indifferent world for those for whom nothing has changed.
A lot is often (and rightly) written about male princesses on peas. But this is only part of a huge problem, the tip of the iceberg...
Many of these "men" who happily hide behind other people's backs (both male and female) have one common quality. And, unfortunately, they are not the only ones.
Some people still have the scoop in their minds. The scoop is not about age, it's about mentality. "I do not participate in the life of the state, and the state should not touch me," "it is not my business" - this is it. It entails the passivity and infantilism of a large part of the population, unwillingness and inability to analyze and draw conclusions. And in principle, to think... And an aggressive defensive reaction when such people are poked in the nose with the truth, when it turns out that they are not as good as they used to think they were.
These people limit their area of responsibility exclusively to their family, and more general categories, such as nation, state, homeland, are some distant, pompous concepts that have nothing to do with their lives. For them, defending their country, their freedom, is completely incomprehensible, alien, wild... This does not respond in any way, it causes rejection. Will the war come to their loved ones? Take your loved ones under the arm and run. And do not touch me.
The trouble is that the priority of such people is exclusively themselves, and there is no integration with society as such.
A huge number of people have not grown to the level of civic responsibility when they realize they belong to something more than a narrow family circle, when a sense of belonging appears, an idea that motivates people to volunteer, to do everything in their power, to give their last, to sacrifice themselves
And do you know what is particularly scary? The fact that the government not only does not contribute to solving this problem, but on the contrary, acts with it in mind, encourages a similar type of thinking, gives the masses what they want.
And the masses do not need the truth, they are not interested in the real situation or facts, because it is pain, horror, death, destruction, and the realization that this will last. It's unpopular, it's scary, it breaks into their narrow little window and breaks it into small pieces.
Hence the popularity of easy solutions, 2-3 weeks, a vacation in the Crimea next summer, that it will be over in a little while... Very convenient thoughts, aren't they? It's very convenient when everything has already been thought of for you and you don't have to strain?
And these thoughts come in.
And it's scary.
Very scary.
Lately, I have been living in permanent shock and realizing that my idea of society is not in line with reality. Most often, my arguments for such people are like shouting into the void, they are shattered by immaturity of personality, selfishness and aggressive defensive reaction. And sometimes it's also about this fucking "little man" type who "can't change anything". It all goes through me, leaving a bitter emptiness behind.
Sometimes my psyche is saved only by the fact that there is a world of people who have gotten out of this quagmire and understand... They understand that it is not enough to build peace and happiness exclusively in one particular family.
Especially if it is paid for with the blood of others. That we need to develop, think and act. And finally stop shifting responsibility onto the shoulders of those around you.
Development is not only a professional activity. A prestigious job says nothing about a person's moral qualities. Development is also a civic position, an awareness of being part of something bigger and more important.
I am grateful to those who understand, you are real, you give me strength, hope and faith. You are the foundation, the basis on which a healthy society will grow one day.
(c) Bessinka (from Telegram).
------------------------------
And here's what a pro-Russian Ukrainian wrote (January 2022)
A short post about an outsider's view of Ukraine's patriots and traitors.
When the famous events in Ukraine happened in 2014 #Maidan, I was living in the very West of Europe at the time. Seeing what was happening, I had the most contradictory thoughts about what to do, what to do? First of all, it was necessary to understand what exactly is going on? What do people think about it? If they say on TV that everyone is rooting for Europe, but in fact people are rooting for Russia, it is understandable that people are in trouble and it is possible to do something to help. And if everyone is arguing for Europe, well, then I'm an old "vatnik" and I should understand their arguments and "it's time for the dustbin of history"....
March 2014. I took a vacation at work, jumped in the car and drove to Ukraine. I set myself a simple and straightforward task: to drive around the country for a few days and ask a variety of people, in different regions, about what and who they were for - Europe or Russia - and why.
I was not sure that people would talk to me or that they would answer honestly. But it was worth a try.
As a result, I traveled around more than half of Ukraine - its western, central and southern parts. I didn't go to the east - it's clear there. Everywhere I went, I tried to ask everyone - waiters and waitresses, cab drivers, mechanics at service stations, sales clerks - everyone I could ask and when a person had the opportunity to answer me without witnesses.
All in all, I got the following top of the hit parade:
To Europe:
- My children will be able to leave here safely and live and study in Europe.
(OK, i.e. he/she is not interested in the country itself and the goal to turn the country around is to get out of it).
- I can bring myself a nice car from Germany without high duty.
(OK, so he is not interested in the country itself and the idea of turning the country around is to change the car for a better one)
- I can go to work in Europe. Completely different salary, different living conditions.
(I.e. the country itself is not interested in principle. Again, the idea is to leave).
Guys! NO ONE. Absolutely NONE of those who were rooting for Europe did not tell me a single argument in favor of the fact that the choice of the country will make the country itself better! NONE!
And at the same time, those who were in favor of union with Russia (Customs Union, at that time):
- We have all major factories tied to Russia.
- Our entire economy is closely tied to the Russian economy and a rupture would destroy our economy
- We sell most of our products to Russia. Who needs our products in Europe? (these were guys from a village in the Zaporozhye region).
NONE of those who spoke in favor of Russia did not express a single argument for themselves and spoke only about the benefits of their country. I want to note that I did not hear arguments like "I want to speak Russian" - for some reason, the arguments were in favor of the national economy.
And the former, for 8 years now, have been considered Patriots who shout that they love their country.
The latter are traitors and traitors to the Motherland.
So what does all this mean? What's new? It's nothing. Just a statement of fact. And factual proof - who is who.
As it was in the famous play "Wolves and Sheep": "Who are the sheep and who are the wolves - that is the question".
P.S. Now, when European wages bypassed Ukraine, and half of the able-bodied population went to the West for work, and half of the country became single-parent families with undivorced but separated parents, and the country learned the other side of gastarbeiterism - the pseudo-patriots have a new iron reason why to drown for the West - "We have no other choice! Otherwise, Putin will attack us!". This I have already learned from my recent trip to Ukraine.....
The well-known paradox of Denning-Krugger: The dumber a person is, the more categorical he is in his beliefs and statements....
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My explanation: Only the Sovok (Soviet Union) has nothing to do with it, it's the mentality of western Ukrainians., there is an old Soviet-ukrainian definition of such people: "I don't know anything, my house is on the edge". This applies to the majority of Ukrainians both then and now, which is why two Maidans (2004, 2014 government coups) were able to take place here in Ukraine and all this led to war.
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Две такие разные Украины
О патриотах и предателях Украины »Когда в 2014 случились известные события на Украине, я жил в то время на самом Западе Европы. Видя, что происходит, у меня были...hub.hubzilla.de
Because of his willingness to play for segregated audiences, throughout much of his life, Louis Armstrong was called a sellout and an Uncle Tom by many Black Americans, But, in 1957, Satchmo blew up-—blasting Eisenhower to bits for not condemning treatment of Black American students in the South. His passionate words made world headlines, alienated many white fans, and divided Black America.
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Physicist Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry without her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.
Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://whyy.org/articles/lise-meitner-the-forgotten-woman-of-nuclear-physics-who-deserved-a-nobel-prize/ #science #history
Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://whyy.org/articles/lise-meitner-the-forgotten-woman-of-nuclear-physics-who-deserved-a-nobel-prize/ #science #history
Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize
Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific pantheon as the discoverer of nuclear fission.Thomas J. Jorgenson, The Conversation (WHYY)
Topic 12: The Rákóczi Revolution
My random topic was an important moment in Hungarian history, the Rákóczi revolution of 1703-1711.
I ended up reading a book by Magyar Zoltán (titled Rákóczi) that explored the mark the (unsuccessful) revolution left on Hungarian folklore and local legends. Despite it being relatively recent, it has seeped deep into Hungarian tradition, and gathered a lot of archaic, mythical tropes and motifs.
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My random topic was an important moment in Hungarian history, the Rákóczi revolution of 1703-1711.
I ended up reading a book by Magyar Zoltán (titled Rákóczi) that explored the mark the (unsuccessful) revolution left on Hungarian folklore and local legends. Despite it being relatively recent, it has seeped deep into Hungarian tradition, and gathered a lot of archaic, mythical tropes and motifs.
#Hungary #folklore #folktales #history