Russian President Vladimir Putin attempted to use an interview with American media personality Tucker Carlson published on February 8 to present to a wider Western audience a long-standing Kremlin information operation that falsely asserts that Russia is interested in a negotiated end to its war in Ukraine. Putin illustrated throughout the interview that Russia has no interest in meaningful or legitimate negotiations, however, and that Putin still seeks to destroy Ukraine as a state. Putin also displayed his overarching hostility towards the West and falsely accused the West of forcing Russia to attack Ukraine. Putin repeatedly stressed that Russia is open to negotiations in order to falsely frame Russia as a reasonable actor and "Western ruling elites" as the main obstruction to a negotiation. Putin also repeatedly reiterated a Russian information operation alleging that Western officials coerced Ukraine to reject an agreement favorable to Russia during negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul in March 2022.
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7 hours after the interview was posted at this Tucker's YouTube channel, there are 2,350,693 views, and 51,874 comments from Russia, Ukraine, the US, Germany, Australia, and many other countries around the world.
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It was not as bad as Geraldo opening Al Capone's vault, but it was underwhelming.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/09/2024 6:45 Comments ||
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When I saw this western spin on Putin,"falsely asserts that Russia is interested in a negotiated end to its war in Ukraine." I watched the interview and it went very well. The falsely asserts jab was low brow. Putin's grasp of history was amazing. Tucker is also well schooled in history. Putin took the time to school him on Russian history and the world. Biden would have never made it. Russian will restore Ukraine minus the Nazi's, NATO and the West.
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Putin did present certain portions of Russia (Muscovy, in olden days) and the surrounding area's history, but he ignored (or selectively forgot) many others.
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02/09/2024 10:50 Comments ||
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It was TLDW - too long (most people) didn't watch. It guaranteed anyone could shade it any way they wished in the summarizing process.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/09/2024 10:54 Comments ||
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Putin managed to sound more like a history professor than the ruthless dictator that he is. Even if I'm sympathetic to his aims for Ukraine, I cannot be taken in by his charisma. He is certainly a cold, hard dude who doesn't mind if a few heads have to role. That doesn't mean we have to provoke a war with him. I would keep him at arm's length but he is a very interesting character. He might well be the best man for his job. It's not our place to decide that. It should be clear to everyone that all the talk we heard after the invasion of Ukraine about him dying of cancer and being an alcoholic were lies. It would be stupid to underestimate him.
For sure, Biden could not have spoken so coherently for so long. Not many American presidents, if any, could. Yes, he did omit certain aspects of Russia's relationship with Ukraine, most notably Stalin's collectivization. I also found his remarks on China disingenuous at best. When he claimed that China's foreign policy is not aggressive I nearly gagged. Tell it to the Taiwanese, Vlad. Tell it to the Vietnamese, the Filipinos, the Japanese, the Tibetans and the Uighurs. Oh well, maybe that's our fault for driving him into the arms of Xi Jinping.
But, as a former student of Russian history, I found it fascinating. I think the vast majority of Americans, even our most astute leaders, know very little of Russian history and it seemed that Vlad was attempting to remedy that. I believe he is correct in thinking we cannot understand what is happening in Ukraine now without some historical perspective. But, realistically, I'm not sure how many people have the patience to sit through it all. I can just imagine Joe Biden falling asleep after the first few minutes. Baraq Obama probably wouldn't make it either. In all of their arrogance, I think most of our elites will not give this interview the attention it deserves.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/09/2024 12:45 Comments ||
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^ Watching that interview clearly affected your ability to "keep it brief."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/09/2024 12:52 Comments ||
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Everyone in the interview wore an earphone. Repeating what is said into your ear smoothly and naturally is a rare talent. Is that what happened here? IDK.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/09/2024 12:54 Comments ||
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^I don't think Vlad's translator is a diversity hire.
Sorry. Tucker is just another victim of "Internet time." The content, as laid out in the transcript, is not worth two hours. If it had been paywalled some people would realistically want their money back.
Gummint approved media breathing a big sigh of relief today.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/09/2024 12:59 Comments ||
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Sorry if I wrote a lot of words there. It was interesting to me. But then, I'm a nerd.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/09/2024 13:51 Comments ||
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The interview was warmed over gruel. Anyone who got excited about it should seek help.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/09/2024 14:01 Comments ||
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Utterly hilarious the fanbois screech about how good it was but can't say exactly why.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/09/2024 16:18 Comments ||
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^Because
(a) It was "in your face" to western elites - who thought they can cancel Russia the way they cancel domestic dissidents.
(b) It always pleasent to see a world leader who knows some history - most of the category are monkeys.
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"We always did it like this before" is routinely derided after a company collapses.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/09/2024 16:46 Comments ||
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Let it be said. Tucker Carlson is not Tom Snyder.
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02/09/2024 17:34 Comments ||
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"As the Poles had not given the Danzig corridor to Germany, and went too far, pushing Hitler to start World War 2 by attacking them. Why was it Poland against whom the war started, on 1st September 1939? Poland turned out to be uncompromising, and Hitler had nothing to do but start implementing his plans with Poland."
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This under the well known Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, a part of the territory including western Ukraine was to be given to Russia, thus Russia, which was then named the USSR regained its historical lands. After the victory in the Great Patriotic War, as we call World War 2, and all those territories were ultimately enshrined as belonging to Russia, to the USSR."
History, Putin style.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Yuri Borodin
[RedStar] The whole truth about the Nazi genocide against civilians during the Battle of Stalingrad will soon be made public.
In the Volgograd region, preparations are underway for the publication of a historical trial with evidence of mass violence by the Nazi invaders against the local population.
During the extended meeting of the bureau of the Volgograd regional organization of the All-Russian public organization of veterans (pensioners) of war, labor, the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies, an invitation was made to the veteran community to take part in work important for the restoration of historical justice: the creation of a series of books and television films about the course of the unique historical process recognition of the genocide of civilians by the Nazis and their collaborators in the period 1942–1943. in Stalingrad.
Not long before this, a trial was held in the Volgograd Regional Court, recognizing the actions of the Nazi invaders during the Battle of Stalingrad as genocide of the peoples of the Soviet Union.
In order to continue the large-scale work to preserve the historical truth and preserve historical memory, it was decided to present the materials of this unique trial in information materials in the format of a series of books and television programs, making them as accessible as possible not only to residents of the region, but also to the entire country.
The administration of the Volgograd region and personally the governor Andrei Bocharov supported the statement of the prosecutor of the Volgograd region to recognize as genocide the established and newly discovered crimes committed during the Great Patriotic War on the territory of the Stalingrad region by the Nazi invaders and their accomplices against civilians. The charge was brought on behalf of the Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Krasnov in order to protect the national interests of the country, the legitimate rights and interests of an indefinite circle of people (relatives of the victims), as well as subsequently bringing to the attention of the world community information about the victims of the invaders and punitive forces during that war period, restoring historical justice.
The meeting participants referred to the UN Convention of December 8, 1948, which decided to consider as genocide actions whose purpose is to destroy any national, ethnic or racial group, in particular the forcible transfer of children from one human group to another.
The regional prosecutor's office cited claims by Adolf Hitler and his supporters that the East Slavic peoples were not capable of creating their own statehood. “The Russians were declared the most inferior of all Slavic peoples within the framework of this worldview,” noted the supervisory agency.
From the first days of the Battle of Stalingrad, German troops destroyed populated areas, killed the local population and prisoners of war, and plundered farms. There was talk of widespread labor conscription, the deportation of the population for forced labor, and the use of people as human shields.
As an example, the court cited the looting of an orphanage for children with disabilities and the extermination of the guests. At the meeting, they also studied eyewitness accounts of the events in the prisoner of war camp located in the village of Alekseevka, Gorodishchensky district, Stalingrad region. The latter claimed that for two months the prisoners were fed exclusively with rotten horse meat and given tainted water to drink.
“The distribution of “lunches” took place in combination with beatings and executions. When prisoners of war fell, their bodies were torn by dogs, with which the fascist barbarians came to restore “order.” Having deprived the prisoners of even such a diet over time, the Nazis forced them to eat their dead and murdered fellow citizens,” the prosecutor told the court.
The case consists of 14 volumes. Among the evidence collected with the help of the Russian FSB and the prosecutor's office are archival certificates, eyewitness accounts, interrogation reports of prisoners of war, official documents and data from search teams. Documents and research presented by employees of the “Battle of Stalingrad” panorama museum were attached to the case. Only those documents that have legal force are collected. While working with the archive, new evidence of the barbarity of the occupiers was discovered.
During the hearings, witnesses, historians and social activists spoke. More than 200 pieces of evidence of the genocide of the Soviet people were presented by the Russian FSB. The consideration of a number of materials took place behind closed doors - only persons authorized to work with secret documents had the right to examine the facts provided.
The Volgograd Regional Court made the final decision on the 81st anniversary of the barbaric bombing of Stalingrad. This is one of the most tragic dates in the history of the Volga stronghold, the country and the world. As a result of the air attack, 40,000 civilians were killed and another 150,000 were injured. The entire infrastructure of the city was completely destroyed.
The fact of genocide was recognized against at least 350,000 people during the Battle of Stalingrad. Of these - 131,000 civilians and at least 95,000 prisoners of war, at least 73,000 people forcibly removed, at least 1,980 people subjected to violence and torture
It is very important that the historical decision was made when direct witnesses of those events are still alive - our veterans, people who experienced the atrocities of the Nazis, Germans and their allies, accomplices and traitors.
One of the witnesses of those terrible events is Volgograd resident Tamara Kolbasina. Her father went to the front, and her mother and four children lived in trenches and makeshift bomb shelters, trying to survive in inhumane conditions under continuous bombing.
"I was 10 years old. But I remember everything from beginning to end, how I had to live here, in Stalingrad. Hundreds of thousands of bombs fell on our land. August 23, 1942 is the darkest day in our lives. The city was destroyed. There is nowhere to live, nothing to eat or drink... How many people died, how many were mutilated... We are glad about the court decision, we must somehow, at least morally, punish the barbarians for their atrocities, - said Tamara Vasilyevna, recalling the sorrows and horrors that bring the actions of modern fascists and Nazis.
Valentina Drobkova met the war in her native Stalingrad at the age of six. The Nazis took away her childhood and her father. Now Valentina Petrovna is 88 years old. Only the memories of the August 1942 raid are still as clear.
“From morning until evening, until seven o’clock, the planes flew and flew. At seven o'clock the bombing seemed to stop a little - we crawled out of the trenches. There was a continuous glow over the city - you couldn’t see the sky, everything was in fire and smoke,” says Valentina Drobkova, a child of Stalingrad.
Together with her mother, three-year-old brother and ten-year-old sister, Valya lived in a cellar not far from the Red October plant. Every day I saw burning spots of oil on the Volga. The river was frightening, but at the same time it remained the only hope for salvation.
“On the Volga there was a sunken barge with salt and wheat. This is what we ate. Water, of course, there was not water there, but blood. I wanted to cross to the left bank. We never succeeded,” recalls Valentina Drobkova.
The father was a sailor. He went to the front in July 1941 and went missing. Each raid threatened to be the last - and the mother always hugged the children tightly to her. Miraculously, all four managed to survive. Many trials befell this family even after the end of the Battle of Stalingrad.
“And how I wanted some bread. It used to be that you would come to school and they would give you a piece of bread, you would pinch it, but you would want to bring it to your mother, so that your mother would eat it too. We did not eat this bread to our fill. There was no childhood. I wanted the doll so badly: you wrapped the sweatshirt, found a flap, covered it - and it was like the doll was being nursed. And my brother turns over the stool, it’s like he’s driving a car,” the woman shares her memories.
During one of the air raids on the city of Goering's vultures, Albert Mashkov, who was only six years old at the time, was wounded in the shoulder. Now he has taken part in the genocide hearings to tell the truth about those events.
And Tamara Chebanenko told the court how the Germans took personal belongings from civilians. Anything that was of any value had to be hidden and buried in the ground. Tamara's older sister was killed by a German sniper when, together with other townspeople, she tried to get warm clothes from a cache before the arrival of cold weather.
The war took away the childhood of millions of children. And the attention of our contemporaries to these terrible pages of history gives us hope that future generations will remember at what cost the Victory was achieved.
As a result of the shelling, the Stalingrad factories were destroyed: tractor, "Barricades", "Red October", as well as the city water supply and almost the entire housing stock. The prosecutor of the Volgograd region Denis Kostenko stated that the amount of material damage caused to the Stalingrad region by the Nazi invaders exceeds 17 trillion rubles. Moreover, this amount is incomplete.
Crimes against humanity have no statute of limitations. The fact of genocide in Stalingrad has been recognized against at least 350,000 people. Of these - 131,000 civilians and at least 95,000 prisoners of war, at least 73,000 people forcibly removed, at least 1980 people subjected to violence and torture.
Evidence of the genocide of the Soviet people during the war was presented at an exhibition organized in Volgograd, the stands of which were installed in front of the building of the Battle of Stalingrad panorama museum and in Victory Park at the foot of Mamayev Kurgan. The exhibition is called “The Science of Hate: Evidence of the Atrocities of the Nazi Occupiers” and is intended to tell about how representatives of enlightened Europe behaved on our soil.
The stands display photographs, newspaper articles of those years, and documents. The exhibition is divided into themes. In addition, museum exhibitions operate in regional cultural institutions. There you can see archival photos, letters and other evidence from local residents, newspaper clippings, reports of established atrocities, atrocities and destruction of cultural and economic values during the enemy occupation.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Dmitry Taratorin
In which the writer wildly works his razzle-dazzle in the hope that the reader won’t notice his nonsense. I addressed a few points...
[REGNUM] If even in the West they are beginning to argue about the beneficialness and effectiveness of democracy as a system, they still avoid touching its basic foundations. Modern humanity has three sacred cows. Their names are: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Encroaching on them is considered almost a moral crime.
Meanwhile, it is difficult to invent slogans more abstract and fraught with disaster than these. In recent decades, the destructive potential inherent in them has become especially clearly realized. Simply because humanity previously lived by inertia on the basis of Christian morality, from which Christ himself was removed, called “secular ethics” and they decided that with its help they were humanized.
But the way this “humanization” proceeds, the further it goes, the more it causes such insoluble contradictions that it provokes an increasingly fierce confrontation between its apologists and those who begin to guess that something is going wrong. Moreover, it has already gone so far that it is not entirely clear how to stop.
SLOGAN THINKING
These “beautiful” slogans of the French Revolution literally from the moment of their proclamation led to bloodshed. Please note that people began to be killed not for something tangible, as in previous centuries, but for abstract words.
In the Middle Ages, people fought for absolutely understandable things - for dominance and rights. The struggle for the first was manifested most clearly in the conflicts of kings, but, however, seedy knights kept finding out who was cooler. And for the second - in expanding the rights of the barons in relation to the king, expanding the rights of townspeople in relation to the feudal lord.
Issues were resolved as they arose: the king thought too much of himself - it was necessary to limit him. The Duke demands a disproportionate payment from a certain city for some benefits - we need to fight with him. But only until he gives up unnecessary claims. After each stage, the new conditions were recorded as an agreement signed by both parties. And then there was a struggle to comply with it. Everything is specific and everything is clear.
And to prevent this struggle from turning into genocide, Christian preachers actively worked with the opposing sides, exhorting them not to go beyond the limits. But there was no goal to build a fair society that would satisfy everyone equally. For they knew: man, due to original sin, is depraved and unfit for heaven on earth. This means that the main thing is not to let hell happen to it. And abstract “good intentions” lead precisely to it. Everything is simple and purely realistic.
But in the 18th century, “enlightened” people came who declared that it was possible to proclaim certain principles that were supposedly self-evident for any rational and educated person. And that on their basis it is possible to build a system of general welfare.
For the first time, the motto “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” (Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité) is heard in Maximilien Robespierre’s speech “On the organization of the National Guard.” He also proposes to correlate these principles with the three colors of the republican flag.
What about the American Revolution, which happened 13 years earlier? That had a different motto, and a very different outcome.
These concepts were deciphered a little earlier in the revolutionary Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. So, “Freedom consists in the ability to do everything that does not harm another.” Does it seem clear and self-evident? Not really. What does harm mean? If we are talking about physical harm, then it is more or less clear. How to assess moral harm? Or is he completely denied?
But we will return to freedom a little later, since this word is too overloaded with various meanings, but for now we move on - equality. It means that everyone is equal before the law. “All citizens are equal before him and therefore have equal access to all offices, public offices and occupations according to their abilities and without any other differences than those due to their virtues and abilities.”
Well, is everything really self-evident here? No way! After all, based on this idea, “positive discrimination” is now being implemented quite often in the United States. That is, representatives of races, peoples, minorities, who either themselves, or more often their distant ancestors, were somehow limited in their rights, are now endowed with advantages.
Positive discrimination being completely contrary to the values of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which talk about individual equality under the law and what the federal government may not do.
But what about the criterion of personal “virtues and abilities”? It's very simple. They, it turns out, were acquired by some “white cisgender man” simply by birthright, which means that it is necessary to limit it, and to single out someone who does not have similar abilities, but can present oppressed ancestors. Isn't this absurd?
BROTHERHOOD DE SADA
The third word of the motto - brotherhood - is defined as follows: “Do not do to others what you would not like to receive yourself; do the same good deeds towards others that you would like to do towards yourself.”
There is also nothing to object to, at first glance. A contemporary and supporter of the French Revolution, the Marquis De Sade did not object. He fully supported and drew the following conclusion from this principle: “I dare say that incest should be legalized by any government based on the idea of fraternity. (...) Isn’t it true, I ask you, that an opinion that considers a person’s natural attraction to a close being as a crime is disgusting? It may just as well be said that we are forbidden to love too much the people whom Nature has ordained to love most, and that the more strongly she gives us a desire for an object, the more she commands us to avoid it. All these are absurd paradoxes, and only people wild with prejudice can believe in and approve of them.”
This is an excerpt from his article “French, one more effort if you want to become republicans.” In it, he strictly logically argued that true republicans cannot believe in God and follow His commandments. This means they must follow Nature (he only wrote this word with a capital letter). And he made the inevitable conclusion: “Let only your inclinations be your rein, your desires only your laws, Nature itself your morality. We cannot blame a person for his perversions, just as we cannot blame him for the deformities given to him by Nature."
This idea did not immediately prevail among “progressive minds.” But now they have gone even further, denying such a concept as “perversion” altogether.
However, here is another thought of his, which was only recently reached by representatives of one of the most advanced areas of philosophy - Object-oriented ontology.
“What is a person, and how does he differ from the plants and animals that inhabit the world? Nothing, of course. By chance, like them, having landed on the globe, he is born, like them, multiplies, blossoms and fades, like them, he reaches old age and plunges into oblivion at the end of his life path, which Nature intends for each animal depending on its organic structure."
And what conclusion does the marquis draw? The only logical one: “Killing a person or an animal is the same thing”.
Wait, they will tell me, but it is not slogans themselves that are destructive. And their broad “perverted” interpretation. And I agree. But the question is: what, or rather who, can narrow their interpretation, what authority? Kant's “moral law is within us”? But here he was inside Kant, a contemporary of de Sade. But he was not inside the marquis himself...
So, maybe it’s worth correcting the old Immanuel: we see (and have been convinced more than once over the centuries that have passed since his death) that if this “law within” does not have a higher divine sanction that affirms and strengthens it, it gradually ceases to be a law. Or rather, there are no longer any logical grounds for observing it.
Wait, but there is one indisputable thought that follows from this triad of slogans: “Freedom is better than lack of freedom.” Yes, let's go back to freedom. After all, so many beautiful words and slogans directly dedicated to her are associated with her alone. For example, the well-known “Freedom or Death!” However, if we think about it for a minute, he turns out to be an absolute dummy. After all, if the majority of humanity followed it, then slavery as a phenomenon simply would not exist.
“AND IN PRISON THERE IS PASTA!”
But the problem is that even Biblical history teaches us that freedom is not a priority for the majority. Remember how Moses led the Jews out of Egyptian slavery? The Lord, so that they would not starve in the desert, sent them heavenly super food - manna. But how did the Jews react? “We remember the fish that we ate for nothing in Egypt, cucumbers and melons, and onions, and onions and garlic; and now our soul languishes; there is nothing but manna in our eyes,” they cried.
And that, my dear Mr. Taratorin, is why God and Moses kept the Children of Israel wandering through the desert for another forty years, until the generation that had been slaves died out. Those who finally entered Canaan had grown up in freedom. Normally that distance is a week-long hike, possibly a month for the unaccustomed learning to wrangle flocks and tents. The rabbis make much of this lesson.
Remember in “Gentlemen of Fortune”: “And in prison now dinner is pasta!” That is, what kind of death for freedom is there? They are ready to exchange freedom for “onions” and “pasta.” Not all, of course. Not Moses. And many more. But they have never been and will never be in the majority. And the slogan is universal...
And what happens next, by the way, in the Old Testament? The Jews have come to the Promised Land - live and rejoice. They have the Ten Commandments, which if observed, then there will be no basis for interpersonal conflicts at all. But that's if...
The Ten Commandments, the 613 [Mandatory] Mitzvot, a scattering of other rules here and there... and a whole book of Judges pulled from the 12 Tribes of Israel, who sat in judgement for generations when there were disagreements between them.
No, they do not want to live in a free community regulated by commandments, they want to relieve themselves of responsibility - they come to the prophet Samuel and say: “Behold, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways; So, place a king over us, so that he judges us like other nations.” But no matter how dissolute the sons of the prophet were, they did not have any such power that could be compared with the almost limitless powers of a typical eastern ruler. That is, in this story we see a constant flight from freedom, and not at all a desire for it.
And when Christ comes, what do they want from Him? “Jesus, having learned that they wanted to come and accidentally take Him and make Him king, again withdrew to the mountain alone.” Jesus said: “If you continue in My word, then you are truly My disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” And she made genuine disciples. And the majority begged the governor of Rome, Caesar, to execute the One who categorically refused to be their earthly king.
This is what “liberty, equality and fraternity” look like upon closer examination. This is the greatest scam in human history. And the clashes that are now spreading throughout the world were ultimately caused by it. Precisely because it is too obvious that, under the cover of beautiful slogans, completely different goals are being pursued. But it is important to understand that these “great” words themselves are vicious and false.
Humanity (more precisely, for starters, those who understand the essence of deception and its mechanisms) will have to learn again to think concretely, and not in slogans. Return to the space of commandments and interests, and not meaningless but deadly abstractions. And make decisions without hiding behind their pseudo-authority, but with full awareness of what, why, why and with what possible consequences we are doing.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Kursk Regional Court, during a meeting on February 8, recognized the crimes of the Nazi invaders and their accomplices in the region in the period from 1941 to 1943 as genocide of the peoples of the USSR. This was reported by the joint press service of the region's judicial system.
The court found that during the Great Patriotic War, the Nazis committed crimes in the region against at least 237,667 Soviet civilians and captured Red Army soldiers. The court considered the case from December 4, 2023, examining historical materials and questioning witnesses, including eyewitnesses to crimes during the occupation years and representatives of the scientific community.
The regional governor Roman Starovoyt also participated in the meeting. He said that his grandmother Ekaterina Fedorovna Konovalova was taken to forced labor in Germany.
“After numerous attempts to escape, she was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. There she met her grandfather Alexander Nikolaevich Starovoyt, who at that time was also there as a concentration camp prisoner,” said the head of the region.
As Regnum reported, in September 2023, the Kaluga Regional Court recognized the crimes of the Nazi invaders in the region during the Great Patriotic War as genocide. The investigation showed that at least 326 thousand civilians and prisoners of war suffered from the Nazis in the region.
On January 27, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the complete lifting of the siege of Leningrad, called the siege of the city during the war genocide. He emphasized that the invaders acted cynically and cold-bloodedly, dooming Leningraders to starvation. The President also noted that Nazism was defeated in 1945, but not eliminated, and has now become a tool in a number of European countries.
The FSB has published archival documents telling about the brutal execution by the Nazis of members of the Soviet underground anti-fascist organization “Young Guard” in the winter of 1943.
The FSB declassified archives about the Nazi execution of members of the Young Guard in Krasnodon
On the website, the service published, among other things, copies of interrogation protocols of participants in the execution of Oleg Koshevoy, Lyubov Shevtsova and other “Young Guards”.
Thus, the former head of the German district gendarmerie, Captain Ernst Emil Renatus, confirmed to the investigation his involvement in the massacre of members of the Young Guard. He stated that members of the Komsomol organization were arrested, tortured, and then shot on his orders.
During interrogation, German gendarmes Otto Drewitz and Erich Schröder also admitted to participating in the execution of members of the Young Guard.
“In February 1943, two days before fleeing Rovenka to the west, I took part in the execution of eight Soviet patriots, including Lyubov Shevtsova,” Schroeder said.
The Red Army liberated Krasnodon from the Nazi invaders on February 14, 1943. Immediately after the liberation, the Soviet state security authorities began searching for Nazi criminals and their accomplices involved in committing crimes against civilians.
In August 1943, a closed trial was held in the city of a group of Nazi collaborators who took part in the murders of civilians, including the massacre of members of the Young Guard. In the dock were the traitors and executioners of members of the organization: local police investigator Mikhail Kuleshov, secret informant Vasily Gromov and his stepson Gennady Pocheptsov.
The military tribunal of the NKVD troops of the Voroshilovgrad region sentenced all three to capital punishment - execution. The sentence was publicly carried out on August 19 of the same year.
On April 7, 1947, in the city of Bautzen, the head of the Rovenkovo district gendarmerie, Ernst Emil Renatus, was detained and transferred to Moscow. By the end of the summer of 1947, three more of his former subordinates were found - Jacob Schultz, Otto Drewitz and Erich Schröder. The investigation was conducted by employees of the investigative unit for particularly important cases of the USSR Ministry of State Security.
On October 29, 1949, by resolution of a special meeting at the USSR Ministry of State Security, Drewitz, Renatus, Schroeder and Schultz were given 25-year sentences in the camp for atrocities and violence against the civilian population committed on the territory of the USSR.
As Regnum reported, on January 19, the Russian FSB directorate for the Arkhangelsk region declassified the archival file against a participant in Nazi punitive operations, a native of the Kherson region, Edgard Zeel. He and his accomplices spent them during the Great Patriotic War in the Kamenets-Podolsk region of Ukraine. According to documents, in January 1944, policeman Seel, together with an SS detachment, took part in a punitive operation against Soviet partisans and civilians in the village of Konevka.
On October 4, the FSB declassified an archive about the collaboration of the Poles with the Germans in the Stalag-1A concentration camp. According to the documents, the Poles in the Nazi concentration camp earned the right from the Germans to occupy the best places. They were appointed to manage areas - the dining room, bathhouse, warehouse. By currying favor, the Poles received good positions.
[DM] It's official. America's top law enforcement department thinks Biden's brains have turned to mashed potatoes.
And America agrees.
A gutting new NBC News poll shows Biden trails Donald Trump by 23 points on the question: Does the candidate have 'the necessary mental and physical health to be president.'
That poll was taken before this DOJ report and before Joe's back-to-back-to-back verbal blunders this week proving his cognitive function is shot.
One of the most consequential elections in living memory and a smattering of bloody global conflicts teetering on World World III require the leader of the free world to speak contemporaneously.
Now, instead of his oral faceplants occurring in every third speech, his normal-to-gaffe ratio has inverted.
Say what you want about his predecessor but 45 could hold hours-long rallies peppering MAGA faithful with bad advice and then spar with bloodthirsty reporters for 90 minutes – all before lunchtime.
Joe The Medium can't deliver a scripted speech, let alone handle a single question, without breaking into an unsanctioned séance.
Posted by: Skidmark ||
02/09/2024 04:38 ||
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#1
Haven't checked the NYTimes but the WaPo had three separate articles on Biden's problems in the past 18 hours or so.
They tried to be as gentle as possible but did have this delightful quote,
"We also expect many jurors to be struck by the place where the Afghanistan documents were ultimately found in Mr. Biden’s Delaware home: in a badly damaged box in the garage, near a collapsed dog crate, a dog bed, a Zappos box, an empty bucket, a broken lamp wrapped with duct tape, potting soil, and synthetic firewood,”
Posted by: lord garth ||
02/09/2024 7:41 Comments ||
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#2
^Places where nobody will ever look for secret documents - there is a name for that method of concealment.
#8
They are greasing the skids now. His meds will be jiggered to insure an ugly public blow-up. It being Joe, he'll probably even screw that up.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/09/2024 10:31 Comments ||
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James Kunstler posted this am:
If Mr. Biden is truly mentally incompetent, as established more-or-less legally by Special Counsel Hur, then there is the obvious remedy of the 25th amendment — removal of a president for reason of disability. A debate over this would seem unavoidable now. The question also implies that Mr. Biden’s charade of running for reelection must come to an end. What will the Democratic party do about that?
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/09/2024 11:34 Comments ||
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#15
Gridlock is the Founders' loving gift to all of us.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/09/2024 11:35 Comments ||
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Those documents were not hiding in plain sight. They were being kept in a convenient location so Hunter could sell them to the Chinese and whatever other bad actors he could find who might have been interested.
The only question now is, who will the Democrats nominate? Big Mike? Gavin Newsom? Hillary Clinton? (Oh, I bet she'd love to give it another go.) But then, as ridiculous as it might seem, there is also Kamala Harris.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/09/2024 11:41 Comments ||
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[Washington Examiner] President Joe Biden is too mentally deficient to do the job. It would be malpractice for the country to allow him to continue as president or as a candidate for reelection.
In his decision not to charge Biden with mishandling classified documents, special counsel Robert Hur said that Biden was simply an "elderly man with a poor memory" who no jury could reasonably conclude he had the "mental state of willfulness" required to convict him of a felony. The details are far worse: Biden could not remember if he was vice president in 2009, when he started the job, or in 2013, right in the middle of his eight-year tenure.
#8
He will pull a near Rosevelt event at the primary. He will win and then give his delegates to Mike obama. The shock and wave will be hard to beat. I hope the RNC is ready to show the hate those two have for America and the middle class.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
02/09/2024 13:54 Comments ||
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