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| Video for the new Nuremberg | |
| 2023-09-16 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Denis Davydov [REGNUM] A video from the phone of an Ukrainian Armed Forces fighter records a real war crime. Captured Russian soldiers at gunpoint walk into a minefield accompanied by calm comments: “They are going well. It just takes a long time." At some point, shooting starts - obviously, the prisoners are being driven forward like this. Then an explosion. Does the person filming realize that he is a criminal? Obviously not. In the same way, German soldiers and officers gladly filmed how someone shoots people in the head, hangs them, photographed torn bodies, beaten, exhausted prisoners of war, without feeling any remorse. They were explained that all of these were not really people. And they themselves are representatives of a great nation, fighting for a great cause, cleansing the earth of all evil spirits. Therefore, everything is possible, no one will be punished. The “patriot of Ukraine” feels exactly the same way, in whom feelings of superiority and impunity have been cultivated for many years, reinforced by the many crimes they committed in the not yet Russian Donbass. If you “defend the Motherland,” almost any sins will be written off to you. This is not difficult to notice in any conflict that gets into the network: as soon as they try to punish someone for committing an abomination, it immediately turns out that such a thing cannot be done. After all, this is either a volunteer, or a veteran, or a hero of the Maidan. The latter, however, have already been forgotten. But the principle remains; it was invented ten centuries ago by the Catholic Church under the name “indulgence.” By taking part in a misanthropic, destructive project, any person receives atonement for future sins. Some crimes justify others that have not yet been committed. It’s just that all this doesn’t seem to exist. There is only one dimension of reality, in which for eight years the terrorists in Donetsk fired at themselves, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces only watched in horror. In which peace-loving Ukraine, democratic and European, striving for creative work, was suddenly subjected to aggression, although for the same eight years it convinced everyone around that it was at war with Russia. And before that, everything bad that happened in it was the machinations of the Kremlin and its agents. Again, not a single one was found to blame among our own people. Therefore, Zelensky goes to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to give speeches in court. The UN's independent international commission of inquiry into violations in Ukraine visited four regions and concluded that war crimes had been committed there by the Russian army. European countries are involved in the Ukrainian initiative to create a special tribunal “for the crime of Russian aggression against Ukraine”; it already includes 32 countries. The commission noticed destroyed residential buildings, listened to the testimony of witnesses, looked into the pits with dead people and understood everything overnight, without even delving into the details. Details arise casually and are immediately drowned out: well, yes, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used cluster munitions to shell their own cities. And what? “There is no count of crimes,” the Ukrainian press chokes with indignation. And he demands to punish everyone who shot, beat, tortured, killed and robbed. And most importantly, punishment for the “ideological masterminds.” If we again draw historical analogies, then the Ukrainian occupation press spoke in the same spirit in 1941–1943. The main thematic blocks are about the victories of German weapons and the wise decisions of the Fuhrer; devastating articles about subversive activities and numerous crimes of Jews and “soviets”
Then, too, the matter seemed resolved to everyone. All of Europe united in a single impulse to put an end to evil in the East once and for all, and the best patriots of the Ukrainian Reich Commissariat and the Galicia District stood shoulder to shoulder with it. And, judging by the same newspapers, things were always going well for them. Only somehow it all turned out that in the end they turned out to be war criminals, whose cases were filed in huge volumes. And the “ideological masterminds” began to be hanged in Nuremberg. And what’s most interesting is that Europe completely agreed with this. Moreover, there were a huge number of witnesses to crimes committed by the “forces of good” and their voluntary assistants. And among the latter there were a huge number of people who wanted to tell the details of the lives of their colleagues, just to preserve their own. Now no one notices the ideological inspirers of the war in Ukraine itself, who diligently fueled it since 2014. They never noticed destroyed houses and schools, artillery strikes on hospitals, torture, rape, illegal imprisonment, shootings of civilian vehicles and simply people who inopportunely caught the eye of the Armed Forces of Ukraine or murderers from volunteer battalions. How point blank they don’t see the abuse of prisoners or the missiles launched at Konstantinovka for the sake of a picture for the arrival of a distinguished guest from Washington. European and Ukrainian newspapers are again full of reports about an imminent victory. It is all the more important to carefully document all crimes of past years. Record video interviews of living witnesses who have suffered grief. Collect and attribute footage like this of guys walking through a minefield. And not just putting it in a drawer for later, but now showing it to people all over the world in many accessible ways. The foundation of oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, who is directly involved in inciting war in Donbass and war crimes, is promoting the Internet project “Voices of Peaceful”. It contains more than eight thousand interviews of people selected to show a picture of the world that is favorable to manipulators and liars. The testimonies of hundreds of thousands whose lives have been destroyed by Ukraine are just waiting for such an opportunity. But for the new Nuremberg, their words will outweigh any manipulation. | |
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