#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
Medvedchuk’s spouse Oksana Marchenko appealed to the British government and people: “I appeal to the relatives and friends of Aiden Eslin and Shaun Pinner: Angela Eslin, Nathan and Shannon Wood, Derby and Evan Pinner. It's in your power to ask the Prime Minister of your country, Boris Johnson, to influence the Ukrainian leadership and achieve the release of Aiden and Sean by exchanging them for the Ukrainian opposition politician detained by the Kiev authorities, my husband Viktor Medvedchuk.”
💬 Maria Zakharova: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who recently went to Kiev, must be aware of the developments with Her Majesty’s subjects. He is sure to reply, isn’t he?
Meanwhile, Liz Truss might take the opportunity to reveal what exactly the British nationals were doing there [in Mariupol, with Neo-Nazis] anyway.
Medvedchuk’s spouse Oksana Marchenko appealed to the British government and people: “I appeal to the relatives and friends of Aiden Eslin and Shaun Pinner: Angela Eslin, Nathan and Shannon Wood, Derby and Evan Pinner. It's in your power to ask the Prime Minister of your country, Boris Johnson, to influence the Ukrainian leadership and achieve the release of Aiden and Sean by exchanging them for the Ukrainian opposition politician detained by the Kiev authorities, my husband Viktor Medvedchuk.”
💬 Maria Zakharova: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who recently went to Kiev, must be aware of the developments with Her Majesty’s subjects. He is sure to reply, isn’t he?
Meanwhile, Liz Truss might take the opportunity to reveal what exactly the British nationals were doing there [in Mariupol, with Neo-Nazis] anyway.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Regarding a special Bible. For the slaves.
Today, Western liberal dictatorships have replaced the religious dogmas their societies relied on with words like freedom, democracy and human rights. These concepts are given the meanings that momentarily benefit NATO-centric regimes and are convenient for making the case they need.
It would seem that democracy – as a phenomenon – cannot be manipulated so easily, not with so many works written on the subject since antiquity. Historical experience cannot be ignored. Or can it? There was a time when even the Bible was subjected to manipulation, let alone some non-canonical concepts of modern political science.
You might say that's impossible. But you would be wrong.
Reverend Beilby Porteus, the Bishop of London published A Letter to the Governors, Legislatures, and Proprietors of Plantations in the British West-India Islands, in which he discussed the religious education of the slaves in the sugar colonies in the Caribbean. “Prepare a short form of public prayers for them <...> together with select portions of Scripture <...> particularly those which relate to the duties of slaves towards their masters,” he wrote.
But the colonizers didn't stop there. Custom prayers were just an appetizer.
Few people remember now, but I can remind you – that a special Bible was published at the turn of the 19th century (NOT joking) specifically for the British colonies, Select Parts of the Holy Bible for the use of the Slaves from Africa in the British West-India Islands.
In global biblical studies, it is referred to as the Slave Bible.
That Bible left out 90 percent of the Old Testament and 50 percent of the New Testament, and included only 232 chapters of the 1,189 in the standard Protestant Bible. For the sake of enslaving the souls of millions of slaves, the clergy heavily redacted the Holy Scriptures, omitting the parts such as Exodus, the Book of Psalms and the Revelation of John the Theologian, which could make slaves think about everyone being equal before God, which was a dangerous idea for slave owners.
The Slave Bibles have been printed in London by Law and Gilbert since the early 19th century, and enjoyed demand, given that there were several reissues.
Two copies of the first edition are kept in universities in Britain, and one in the Fisk University in Tennessee, US.
But liberal dictatorships continue to apply this method wherever they can – they use facts truncated beyond recognition, manipulated to the point where they become ‘anti-facts,’ and they spread them under the holy banners of ‘freedom and democracy’ through controlled media and websites. And those who cannot be controlled are simply destroyed.
The Western versions of freedom and democracy have become symbols that cover up enslavement and sanctify the dictatorship of liberalism.
💬 Regarding a special Bible. For the slaves.
Today, Western liberal dictatorships have replaced the religious dogmas their societies relied on with words like freedom, democracy and human rights. These concepts are given the meanings that momentarily benefit NATO-centric regimes and are convenient for making the case they need.
It would seem that democracy – as a phenomenon – cannot be manipulated so easily, not with so many works written on the subject since antiquity. Historical experience cannot be ignored. Or can it? There was a time when even the Bible was subjected to manipulation, let alone some non-canonical concepts of modern political science.
You might say that's impossible. But you would be wrong.
Reverend Beilby Porteus, the Bishop of London published A Letter to the Governors, Legislatures, and Proprietors of Plantations in the British West-India Islands, in which he discussed the religious education of the slaves in the sugar colonies in the Caribbean. “Prepare a short form of public prayers for them <...> together with select portions of Scripture <...> particularly those which relate to the duties of slaves towards their masters,” he wrote.
But the colonizers didn't stop there. Custom prayers were just an appetizer.
Few people remember now, but I can remind you – that a special Bible was published at the turn of the 19th century (NOT joking) specifically for the British colonies, Select Parts of the Holy Bible for the use of the Slaves from Africa in the British West-India Islands.
In global biblical studies, it is referred to as the Slave Bible.
That Bible left out 90 percent of the Old Testament and 50 percent of the New Testament, and included only 232 chapters of the 1,189 in the standard Protestant Bible. For the sake of enslaving the souls of millions of slaves, the clergy heavily redacted the Holy Scriptures, omitting the parts such as Exodus, the Book of Psalms and the Revelation of John the Theologian, which could make slaves think about everyone being equal before God, which was a dangerous idea for slave owners.
The Slave Bibles have been printed in London by Law and Gilbert since the early 19th century, and enjoyed demand, given that there were several reissues.
Two copies of the first edition are kept in universities in Britain, and one in the Fisk University in Tennessee, US.
But liberal dictatorships continue to apply this method wherever they can – they use facts truncated beyond recognition, manipulated to the point where they become ‘anti-facts,’ and they spread them under the holy banners of ‘freedom and democracy’ through controlled media and websites. And those who cannot be controlled are simply destroyed.
The Western versions of freedom and democracy have become symbols that cover up enslavement and sanctify the dictatorship of liberalism.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 At the briefing on September 29, we spoke at length about the 81st anniversary of the #BabiYar massacre, when the Nazis and their henchmen started the execution of Kiev civilians, mainly Jews, Roma, Soviet civil servants, underground resistance fighters and prisoners of war. We said that, decades later, in 2014, as a result of an armed anti-constitutional coup, the power in Ukraine was taken over by forces openly promoting the ideas of national exclusivity and glorifying the Nazis’ accomplices who were involved in the execution of hundreds of thousands of people.
We could not ignore the statement made on the same day by the “envoys for Holocaust issues” on behalf of the governments of the UK, Germany, Greece, Canada, the Netherlands, Romania, the United States, Croatia and the Czech Republic. Clearly, they used the Babi Yar event to attack the Soviet Union and Russia once again.
Quote: “For 45 years after the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union censored documentation of the Holocaust, including accurate research and records of the massacre of Jews at Babyn Yar.” This is a fake and blatant lie.
Three months after the incident, On January 7, 1942, the Pravda newspaper published a note by USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov to all governments and missions of the countries that were not at war with the Soviet Union. The note described in great detail the atrocities committed by the Germans on the occupied Soviet territories: “A horrific massacre and pogroms were committed by Nazi occupiers in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Over several days, Nazi thugs killed and tormented 52,000 men, women, seniors and children, ruthlessly getting rid of all Ukrainians, Russians, Jews who somehow showed their loyalty to the Soviet Union. The Soviet citizens who made it out of Kiev described a striking scene at one of the mass execution sites: a great number of Jews were brought to a Jewish cemetery in Kiev, including women and children of all ages. Before the execution, everybody was forced to take off their clothes and subjected to beating. The first group selected for execution was forced to lie on the bottom of a pit face down. They were shot dead from machine guns and covered with soil. Then the next group of people were forced to lie on top and shot dead from machine guns. The Nazi occupiers committed many mass murders in other Ukrainian cities, largely targeting unarmed and helpless Jewish workers in their bloodthirsty executions.”
The “envoys” went beyond fakes by making a cynical accusation against our country of “distorting and misappropriating Holocaust history.” Meanwhile, they could not find a word of judgement for the Kiev regime that has openly and consistently built a halo of national heroes around all Nazi henchmen since 2014.
And what kind of judgment could we expect if the major trio of the signatories, the UK, Canada and the United States, sheltered the majority of Bandera followers and other Holocaust accomplices from Eastern Europe after World War II?
The Anglo-Saxons and their satellites are covering up the war against memorials to Soviet soldiers – the soldiers who actually stopped the Holocaust – started by Poland, Baltic states and the Kiev regime.
Sadly, the truth about those times is of no concern in the West even to those whose job it is to actually focus on the problems of genocides. They want to smear the heroism of our soldiers during the Great Patriotic War and now, when Russia had to protect the Russian-speaking population against the ideological successors of Nazi collaborators.
💬 At the briefing on September 29, we spoke at length about the 81st anniversary of the #BabiYar massacre, when the Nazis and their henchmen started the execution of Kiev civilians, mainly Jews, Roma, Soviet civil servants, underground resistance fighters and prisoners of war. We said that, decades later, in 2014, as a result of an armed anti-constitutional coup, the power in Ukraine was taken over by forces openly promoting the ideas of national exclusivity and glorifying the Nazis’ accomplices who were involved in the execution of hundreds of thousands of people.
We could not ignore the statement made on the same day by the “envoys for Holocaust issues” on behalf of the governments of the UK, Germany, Greece, Canada, the Netherlands, Romania, the United States, Croatia and the Czech Republic. Clearly, they used the Babi Yar event to attack the Soviet Union and Russia once again.
Quote: “For 45 years after the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union censored documentation of the Holocaust, including accurate research and records of the massacre of Jews at Babyn Yar.” This is a fake and blatant lie.
Three months after the incident, On January 7, 1942, the Pravda newspaper published a note by USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov to all governments and missions of the countries that were not at war with the Soviet Union. The note described in great detail the atrocities committed by the Germans on the occupied Soviet territories: “A horrific massacre and pogroms were committed by Nazi occupiers in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Over several days, Nazi thugs killed and tormented 52,000 men, women, seniors and children, ruthlessly getting rid of all Ukrainians, Russians, Jews who somehow showed their loyalty to the Soviet Union. The Soviet citizens who made it out of Kiev described a striking scene at one of the mass execution sites: a great number of Jews were brought to a Jewish cemetery in Kiev, including women and children of all ages. Before the execution, everybody was forced to take off their clothes and subjected to beating. The first group selected for execution was forced to lie on the bottom of a pit face down. They were shot dead from machine guns and covered with soil. Then the next group of people were forced to lie on top and shot dead from machine guns. The Nazi occupiers committed many mass murders in other Ukrainian cities, largely targeting unarmed and helpless Jewish workers in their bloodthirsty executions.”
The “envoys” went beyond fakes by making a cynical accusation against our country of “distorting and misappropriating Holocaust history.” Meanwhile, they could not find a word of judgement for the Kiev regime that has openly and consistently built a halo of national heroes around all Nazi henchmen since 2014.
And what kind of judgment could we expect if the major trio of the signatories, the UK, Canada and the United States, sheltered the majority of Bandera followers and other Holocaust accomplices from Eastern Europe after World War II?
The Anglo-Saxons and their satellites are covering up the war against memorials to Soviet soldiers – the soldiers who actually stopped the Holocaust – started by Poland, Baltic states and the Kiev regime.
Sadly, the truth about those times is of no concern in the West even to those whose job it is to actually focus on the problems of genocides. They want to smear the heroism of our soldiers during the Great Patriotic War and now, when Russia had to protect the Russian-speaking population against the ideological successors of Nazi collaborators.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 American Big Tech monopolists continue to mop up the information landscape, clearing it of any facts or arguments undesirable in the West. Twitter is actually bending over backwards. Today, the platform again blocked the Russian Foreign Ministry’s English-language account for a period of seven days.
The reason was a ten-minute video in English (screenshot), containing assorted evidence about the provocations organised by the Kiev regime in Bucha, Izyum and Kupyansk. It is substantiated by photo and video footage, including eyewitness interviews collected by the Foundation for the Study of Democracy. That evidence sheds light on the numerous inconsistencies and manipulations by Kiev fake-makers.
Our overseas counterparts could not bear this kind of freedom of speech and thought. Bottom line: access to the video is restricted, and the account is temporarily blocked.
I would like this online platform’s administration to clarify whether they have taken any action to punish even a single call for violence against Russians and reprisals against Russian citizens. Have they banned at least one quick and dirty anti-Russian fake story posted there? These are rhetorical questions. #ThisIsDifferent
The video that American social media and their handlers find undesirable is available on our other platforms: 👉 here, on Telegram.
It is technically possible to block a video, but never the truth.
💬 American Big Tech monopolists continue to mop up the information landscape, clearing it of any facts or arguments undesirable in the West. Twitter is actually bending over backwards. Today, the platform again blocked the Russian Foreign Ministry’s English-language account for a period of seven days.
The reason was a ten-minute video in English (screenshot), containing assorted evidence about the provocations organised by the Kiev regime in Bucha, Izyum and Kupyansk. It is substantiated by photo and video footage, including eyewitness interviews collected by the Foundation for the Study of Democracy. That evidence sheds light on the numerous inconsistencies and manipulations by Kiev fake-makers.
Our overseas counterparts could not bear this kind of freedom of speech and thought. Bottom line: access to the video is restricted, and the account is temporarily blocked.
I would like this online platform’s administration to clarify whether they have taken any action to punish even a single call for violence against Russians and reprisals against Russian citizens. Have they banned at least one quick and dirty anti-Russian fake story posted there? These are rhetorical questions. #ThisIsDifferent
The video that American social media and their handlers find undesirable is available on our other platforms: 👉 here, on Telegram.
It is technically possible to block a video, but never the truth.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton told entrepreneur Elon Musk that Twitter will be operating in the European Union in accordance with the local rules: “In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules.”
I would like to point out that the European Commissioner wrote this in his Twitter account.
They are all collectively confused, if not mad, about their “rules” whose dominance has driven the law and jurisprudence to the point of absurdity.
If you cite the “rules”, you should demonstrate them.
If, for many years, you tried to convince everyone that freedom of speech must never be violated, you should stay true to your words.
If the first and the second are a dogma, then it should remain as such for its creators in the first place.
https://yangx.top/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/4039
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⚠️ To the attention of European Commissioner Thierry Breton, who recently told new Twitter CEO Elon Musk how the social network will be working in the EU.
This is how Twitter operates in this blessed garden now: it segregates, discriminates and censors. Everything as per Brussels’ latest “digital rules.”
Here is a screenshot showing how the RT account is displayed in the EU area.
https://yangx.top/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/4040
💬 European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton told entrepreneur Elon Musk that Twitter will be operating in the European Union in accordance with the local rules: “In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules.”
I would like to point out that the European Commissioner wrote this in his Twitter account.
They are all collectively confused, if not mad, about their “rules” whose dominance has driven the law and jurisprudence to the point of absurdity.
If you cite the “rules”, you should demonstrate them.
If, for many years, you tried to convince everyone that freedom of speech must never be violated, you should stay true to your words.
If the first and the second are a dogma, then it should remain as such for its creators in the first place.
https://yangx.top/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/4039
👇
⚠️ To the attention of European Commissioner Thierry Breton, who recently told new Twitter CEO Elon Musk how the social network will be working in the EU.
This is how Twitter operates in this blessed garden now: it segregates, discriminates and censors. Everything as per Brussels’ latest “digital rules.”
Here is a screenshot showing how the RT account is displayed in the EU area.
https://yangx.top/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/4040
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Dmitry Kuleba wrote the following in his Twitter-account: “Russia has launched a new publicity stunt focused on hunger. Moscow has promised to send 500,000 tonnes of free grain, which has most probably been stolen in Ukraine, to other countries within the next four months. However, by blocking the grain corridor Russia has stopped the delivery of 2 million (!) tonnes of grain to Algeria, Yemen, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and other countries RIGHT NOW.”
And now the truth:
1. Russia has long been offering to deliver ITS OWN fertilisers to the countries that need them. The offer has been made by the President (1, 2) and the Foreign Minister.
2. Russia is also ready to send up to 500,000 tonnes of ITS OWN grain to the poorest countries free of charge.
3. The Kiev regime, due to its own greed, is unwilling to give anything to anybody even when others are ready to help others for free.
4. The grain deal has been killed by Zelensky and his terrorists, controlled by British special forces, so as to complement nuclear blackmail with a grain ransom. The money and weapons they receive are no longer enough for them. They want more deaths. Money, weapons, and death are the devilish force behind the Kiev regime.
💬 Dmitry Kuleba wrote the following in his Twitter-account: “Russia has launched a new publicity stunt focused on hunger. Moscow has promised to send 500,000 tonnes of free grain, which has most probably been stolen in Ukraine, to other countries within the next four months. However, by blocking the grain corridor Russia has stopped the delivery of 2 million (!) tonnes of grain to Algeria, Yemen, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and other countries RIGHT NOW.”
And now the truth:
1. Russia has long been offering to deliver ITS OWN fertilisers to the countries that need them. The offer has been made by the President (1, 2) and the Foreign Minister.
2. Russia is also ready to send up to 500,000 tonnes of ITS OWN grain to the poorest countries free of charge.
3. The Kiev regime, due to its own greed, is unwilling to give anything to anybody even when others are ready to help others for free.
4. The grain deal has been killed by Zelensky and his terrorists, controlled by British special forces, so as to complement nuclear blackmail with a grain ransom. The money and weapons they receive are no longer enough for them. They want more deaths. Money, weapons, and death are the devilish force behind the Kiev regime.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Several days ago, the discussion about the use of the words "glory" and "hero" was revived.
I have already talked about this, both in a dry and official manner, as well as with emotion, and… in different ways.
Let me once again remind those who use these code words either because of their illiteracy or their immorality.
In August 1939, the second congress of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) was held in fascist Italy. One of the decisions of the congress was to adopt the unified greeting of the Ukrainian fascists at that time: “Glory to Ukraine!” and the response cry “Glory to the Leader!” (Vozhdevy Slava).
Later, in 1941, after the OUN split into two factions (the OUN(m) and OUN(b)), Bandera’s supporters held their own second congress of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, this time in Krakow, where they also approved the slogan “Glory to Ukraine!” / "Glory to the heroes!". Both phrases – the greeting and the response – were agreed upon and approved as a symbolic greeting, a kind of call sign, a code in the “friend or foe” sense of recognition. At the same time, in order to emphasise their isolation, the Melnikovites adhered to the response phrase “Glory to the Leader.”
Another “spicy” moment is that, according to the documents approved at the 1941 congress, the greeting was accompanied by the following gesture: “the greeting is made in the form of raising the straightened right arm at an angle to the right just above the head.”
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
This is how collaborators saluted the Wehrmacht and SS units back in those years, not just for their internal use, but for their identification in front of the Nazi SS.
The excuses of those who use the slogans today “jokingly” will not work. Every time someone uses these passcodes, they salute Nazism and fascism.
💬 Several days ago, the discussion about the use of the words "glory" and "hero" was revived.
I have already talked about this, both in a dry and official manner, as well as with emotion, and… in different ways.
Let me once again remind those who use these code words either because of their illiteracy or their immorality.
In August 1939, the second congress of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) was held in fascist Italy. One of the decisions of the congress was to adopt the unified greeting of the Ukrainian fascists at that time: “Glory to Ukraine!” and the response cry “Glory to the Leader!” (Vozhdevy Slava).
Later, in 1941, after the OUN split into two factions (the OUN(m) and OUN(b)), Bandera’s supporters held their own second congress of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, this time in Krakow, where they also approved the slogan “Glory to Ukraine!” / "Glory to the heroes!". Both phrases – the greeting and the response – were agreed upon and approved as a symbolic greeting, a kind of call sign, a code in the “friend or foe” sense of recognition. At the same time, in order to emphasise their isolation, the Melnikovites adhered to the response phrase “Glory to the Leader.”
Another “spicy” moment is that, according to the documents approved at the 1941 congress, the greeting was accompanied by the following gesture: “the greeting is made in the form of raising the straightened right arm at an angle to the right just above the head.”
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
This is how collaborators saluted the Wehrmacht and SS units back in those years, not just for their internal use, but for their identification in front of the Nazi SS.
The excuses of those who use the slogans today “jokingly” will not work. Every time someone uses these passcodes, they salute Nazism and fascism.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 The Latvian Ministry of “Culture” has decided to transfer 300,000 euros to the State Cultural Capital Fund for financing a film called, “Invisible Fortress” about a Latvian SS legion, where Ernests Laumanis, a war criminal and ideological Nazi, will be the main character.
Recently, European politicians have developed an obvious problem with their memory and conscience. Well, let’s help freshen up some unseemly facts from the biography of this “hero” and his accomplices.👇
In 1941, Laumanis voluntarily joined the Nazis. Later he commanded the 21st Liepaja police battalion on the approaches to Leningrad. Then, his battalion became part of this SS legion – the 19th SS volunteer division.
For his “heroism” in fighting Soviet civilians, Jews and guerrillas, Laumanis was awarded the Iron Crosses First and Second Class and the honourable belt buckle for the SS Army and troops.
The Latvian SS legion took a direct part in punitive operations. From December 18, 1943 to April 2, 1944 alone, the soldiers in this unit destroyed 23 villages and shot over 1,300 people. They subjected Soviet POWs, both soldiers and officers, to insulting mockery. They were particularly cruel in torturing and executing women.
The Latvian authorities are planning to glorify and whitewash these criminals in a film made with taxpayer’s money.
Here’s my question: When is it possible to expect statements denouncing this initiative from the capitals of those countries, politicians and NGOs who only recently were searching for the alleged disrespect of the memory of Holocaust victims, in Sergey Lavrov’s words? Meanwhile, this is not just disrespect but a humiliation of the memory of all victims of World War II, including Holocaust victims. This is what the Latvian Ministry of Culture is promoting now.
💬 The Latvian Ministry of “Culture” has decided to transfer 300,000 euros to the State Cultural Capital Fund for financing a film called, “Invisible Fortress” about a Latvian SS legion, where Ernests Laumanis, a war criminal and ideological Nazi, will be the main character.
Recently, European politicians have developed an obvious problem with their memory and conscience. Well, let’s help freshen up some unseemly facts from the biography of this “hero” and his accomplices.👇
In 1941, Laumanis voluntarily joined the Nazis. Later he commanded the 21st Liepaja police battalion on the approaches to Leningrad. Then, his battalion became part of this SS legion – the 19th SS volunteer division.
For his “heroism” in fighting Soviet civilians, Jews and guerrillas, Laumanis was awarded the Iron Crosses First and Second Class and the honourable belt buckle for the SS Army and troops.
The Latvian SS legion took a direct part in punitive operations. From December 18, 1943 to April 2, 1944 alone, the soldiers in this unit destroyed 23 villages and shot over 1,300 people. They subjected Soviet POWs, both soldiers and officers, to insulting mockery. They were particularly cruel in torturing and executing women.
The Latvian authorities are planning to glorify and whitewash these criminals in a film made with taxpayer’s money.
Here’s my question: When is it possible to expect statements denouncing this initiative from the capitals of those countries, politicians and NGOs who only recently were searching for the alleged disrespect of the memory of Holocaust victims, in Sergey Lavrov’s words? Meanwhile, this is not just disrespect but a humiliation of the memory of all victims of World War II, including Holocaust victims. This is what the Latvian Ministry of Culture is promoting now.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Moscow paid final tribute to military blogger Maxim Fomin, also known as Vladlen Tatarsky.
Vladlen proved to us that today the frontline is everywhere: in the war zone, in the rear and in the cities, in our hearts and minds. He looked death in the face so many times on the battlefield but he died in the centre of the peaceful St Petersburg, at the hands of a terrorist who, according to reports, acted upon instructions from the Ukrainian special services.
Over the six days that have passed since the explosion in the St Petersburg cafe, none of the Western defenders of freedom of speech and safety of journalists has found even a word of condemnation of this inhuman cruelty. They never ever expressed compassion for the victims. But the degenerate suspect arouses much deeper sympathy. In the West, they try to make her out to be a victim. Initially, this attack had the obvious characteristics of a false flag operation: yet another staging, a technique so beloved by the West. FM Sergey Lavrov spoke about this in-depth last year. We've also given a rather brief overview of several episodes from the rich history of fabrications and false flag ops by the Anglo-Saxons and Europeans.
These days, there are also those who rub their hands in glee and make statements that in legal terms can be unequivocally qualified as a public justification of terrorism.
Pathological hypocrisy has long since become a political tradition of Western liberalism, its unconditional reflex. The thoroughly fake concern for the rights of journalists and the media is a good illustration of this.
The Brussels “gardener” Josep Borrell is also concerned about the fate of the arrested Wall Street Journal correspondent and part-time spy Evan Gershkovich, who was caught in the act in Yekaterinburg: “The EU condemns the detention of Evan Gershkovich, a journalist and US citizen, in Russia. Journalists must be allowed to exercise their profession freely and deserve protection.”
What?! I can’t believe that it is the same person who is demanding freedom for journalists, and yet has never said a word about Marat Kasem, who has been held in a Latvian prison since January solely for his beliefs, or even about Julian Assange, who has been persecuted for many years. Borrell and his comrades keep silent about all this.
Over the past year alone, the European Union has eliminated RT, Sputnik, and several Russian channels; German-language RT DE and French-language RT France have gone bankrupt in a number of EU countries, including in the Baltic states; the local Russian-language media have been almost wiped out, even our compatriots’ publications have come under attack, and sanctions have been imposed on dozens of media professionals. But at the same time, EU officials ramble on about protecting the rights of the media and try to preach to others.
Liberal hypocrisy has turned the Western policy into a conveyor belt of misanthropy. First, deliberate silence about the murders of Vladlen Tatarsky, Darya Dugina and Oleg Klokov, followed by the justification of violence against the “wrong” journalists.
And it doesn’t seem like they will stop there.
💬 Moscow paid final tribute to military blogger Maxim Fomin, also known as Vladlen Tatarsky.
Vladlen proved to us that today the frontline is everywhere: in the war zone, in the rear and in the cities, in our hearts and minds. He looked death in the face so many times on the battlefield but he died in the centre of the peaceful St Petersburg, at the hands of a terrorist who, according to reports, acted upon instructions from the Ukrainian special services.
Over the six days that have passed since the explosion in the St Petersburg cafe, none of the Western defenders of freedom of speech and safety of journalists has found even a word of condemnation of this inhuman cruelty. They never ever expressed compassion for the victims. But the degenerate suspect arouses much deeper sympathy. In the West, they try to make her out to be a victim. Initially, this attack had the obvious characteristics of a false flag operation: yet another staging, a technique so beloved by the West. FM Sergey Lavrov spoke about this in-depth last year. We've also given a rather brief overview of several episodes from the rich history of fabrications and false flag ops by the Anglo-Saxons and Europeans.
These days, there are also those who rub their hands in glee and make statements that in legal terms can be unequivocally qualified as a public justification of terrorism.
Pathological hypocrisy has long since become a political tradition of Western liberalism, its unconditional reflex. The thoroughly fake concern for the rights of journalists and the media is a good illustration of this.
The Brussels “gardener” Josep Borrell is also concerned about the fate of the arrested Wall Street Journal correspondent and part-time spy Evan Gershkovich, who was caught in the act in Yekaterinburg: “The EU condemns the detention of Evan Gershkovich, a journalist and US citizen, in Russia. Journalists must be allowed to exercise their profession freely and deserve protection.”
What?! I can’t believe that it is the same person who is demanding freedom for journalists, and yet has never said a word about Marat Kasem, who has been held in a Latvian prison since January solely for his beliefs, or even about Julian Assange, who has been persecuted for many years. Borrell and his comrades keep silent about all this.
Over the past year alone, the European Union has eliminated RT, Sputnik, and several Russian channels; German-language RT DE and French-language RT France have gone bankrupt in a number of EU countries, including in the Baltic states; the local Russian-language media have been almost wiped out, even our compatriots’ publications have come under attack, and sanctions have been imposed on dozens of media professionals. But at the same time, EU officials ramble on about protecting the rights of the media and try to preach to others.
Liberal hypocrisy has turned the Western policy into a conveyor belt of misanthropy. First, deliberate silence about the murders of Vladlen Tatarsky, Darya Dugina and Oleg Klokov, followed by the justification of violence against the “wrong” journalists.
And it doesn’t seem like they will stop there.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 Regarding the non-issuance of visas for the journalists of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s press pool for a visit to the UN Headquarters in New York, US National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby labelled the Russian government media as propaganda bodies.
He said: “We feel like it is important to speak up and stand up for freedom of the press, a free press, an independent press that is able to do its job freely.”
This isn’t even funny anymore.
First, one of the journalists that applied for a visa was from Interfax. Is this also a government news outlet?
Second, the US Embassy issued visas for the government media employees but only after their plane left. How do dirty tricks like this help the US authorities uphold freedom of the press?”
John, you are confused. You have lied too often, you have reached an ideological dead-end.
💬 Regarding the non-issuance of visas for the journalists of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s press pool for a visit to the UN Headquarters in New York, US National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby labelled the Russian government media as propaganda bodies.
He said: “We feel like it is important to speak up and stand up for freedom of the press, a free press, an independent press that is able to do its job freely.”
This isn’t even funny anymore.
First, one of the journalists that applied for a visa was from Interfax. Is this also a government news outlet?
Second, the US Embassy issued visas for the government media employees but only after their plane left. How do dirty tricks like this help the US authorities uphold freedom of the press?”
John, you are confused. You have lied too often, you have reached an ideological dead-end.
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#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
MSM quotes Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, from an interview with Yahoo News when asked about about Kiev's possible involvement in the murder of Darya Dugina:
“All I will comment on is that we’ve been killing Russians and we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world until the complete victory of Ukraine.”
💬 Maria Zakharova: This is a direct blow to the White House. The Kiev regime has basically announced that the Biden administration is sponsoring terrorism.
MSM quotes Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, from an interview with Yahoo News when asked about about Kiev's possible involvement in the murder of Darya Dugina:
“All I will comment on is that we’ve been killing Russians and we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world until the complete victory of Ukraine.”
💬 Maria Zakharova: This is a direct blow to the White House. The Kiev regime has basically announced that the Biden administration is sponsoring terrorism.
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💬 Do you believe that US Senator Graham is alone in his Nazi rhetoric? That he is a freakish exception? That the US system cannot give a birth to such monster?
How wrong you are... Let me remind you that George W. Bush (the youngest of the dynasty of US Presidents) said the same thing during his conversation with prankers Vovan and Lexus, believing he was speaking with the Kiev regime:
“Your mission is to destroy as many Russian troops as you can”.
After we mentioned this at a briefing, the US propaganda started retreating, emphasising that Bush is not in power. You bet both Bush and Graham are. And they are still not telling us everything that is written in the US doctrinal documents.
A reminder:
https://rutube.ru/video/b84622c8bf1a574dae03078763a9f253
https://yangx.top/MFARussia/16028
https://mid.ru/en/press_service/articles_and_rebuttals/rebuttals/nedostovernie-publikacii/1834103
💬 Do you believe that US Senator Graham is alone in his Nazi rhetoric? That he is a freakish exception? That the US system cannot give a birth to such monster?
How wrong you are... Let me remind you that George W. Bush (the youngest of the dynasty of US Presidents) said the same thing during his conversation with prankers Vovan and Lexus, believing he was speaking with the Kiev regime:
“Your mission is to destroy as many Russian troops as you can”.
After we mentioned this at a briefing, the US propaganda started retreating, emphasising that Bush is not in power. You bet both Bush and Graham are. And they are still not telling us everything that is written in the US doctrinal documents.
A reminder:
https://rutube.ru/video/b84622c8bf1a574dae03078763a9f253
https://yangx.top/MFARussia/16028
https://mid.ru/en/press_service/articles_and_rebuttals/rebuttals/nedostovernie-publikacii/1834103
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
💬 Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Brodsky, who is by the way a native of Leningrad, the city which survived a siege during the Great Patriotic War, told ITON-TV, an Israeli website, in pure Russian:
“The way we view people like Bandera, Shukhevich, Melnik and the like is different compared to the way most Ukrainians view them. In fact, these people supported Nazi ideology. While fighting for Ukraine’s independence, they wanted Ukraine without Jews, or Poles, or communists, and probably many others. <…> And Ukraine, of course, is searching for its identity and its heroes. Of course, we do not like these heroes, but most Ukrainians view them as independence fighters. <…> However, in all objectivity, there is no stopping this process today. <…> It would be wrong to demand that Ukraine stop renaming streets or calling Bandera or Melnik heroes as a condition for our support for Ukraine or our assistance to Ukraine because, if you look at things the way they do, this is not going to happen.”
Not a single organisation for protecting the memory of Holocaust survivors raised an eyebrow. Hey! You receive billions in funding to keep this topic in the public space! Haven’t you missed something? The Holocaust must be remembered not only because it happened in the past, but also to make sure that it never happens again, and not just against a single ethnic group or religion, but against any of them.
Since there is no one else to defend the victims of the Holocaust but us, let me remind Mr Brodsky about the ethnic policy of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, with Stepan Bandera at its helm. Here is a quote from the second resolution of OUN B’s General Assembly in April 1941: “The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists combats Jews as supporters of the Russian Bolshevik regime.” And here is a quote by Yaroslav Stetsko, a Bandera and Melnik accomplice: “I therefore support the destruction of the Jews and the expedience of bringing German methods of exterminating Jewry to Ukraine, barring their assimilation and the like.”
In fact, there was a massive effort to exterminate, burn and bury, without any burials or markers, Jews in Nazi-occupied Ukraine, and these inhumanheroes were proactive in assisting this effort. About 1.4 million people perished this way.
What kind of heroes was Mikhail Brodsky referring to?
German society of the late 1920s and early 1930s was also searching for its identity and heroes. Instead of humanism, a great tradition in German culture, it chose two words: blood and soil (Blut und Boden). And the heroes lived up to this slogan by initiating the Holocaust, creating concentration camps, and killing women, infants and the elderly. For the next 90 years, Germany tried to wash itself clean of this identity. But this is something that leaves a permanent stain.
If Mikhail Brodsky believes that Kiev has the right to these heroes and identity, this is the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s business.
No one has the right to have such heroes. These were not heroes, but demons, and this was not an identity, but a disgrace for the people of Ukraine. This is an act of glorifying Nazism.
As for the idea that there is nothing anyone can do about it, how blasphemous of him to say that! This was the logic of those who sponsored Hitler in the 1930s. Most of them were Anglo-Saxons, by the way.
If this was the logic of Soviet soldiers, Brodsky would not have existed today, and there would be no memory of the Holocaust to preserve either.
In one of his songs, Vladimir Vysotsky wrote: “But our squadron commander corrected its course, as his boots sent the Urals spinning.” This meant the Soviet soldiers changed the course of history and enabled humankind to recover its true face. But this did not last, as it turns out. Here we go, all over again.
💬 Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Brodsky, who is by the way a native of Leningrad, the city which survived a siege during the Great Patriotic War, told ITON-TV, an Israeli website, in pure Russian:
“The way we view people like Bandera, Shukhevich, Melnik and the like is different compared to the way most Ukrainians view them. In fact, these people supported Nazi ideology. While fighting for Ukraine’s independence, they wanted Ukraine without Jews, or Poles, or communists, and probably many others. <…> And Ukraine, of course, is searching for its identity and its heroes. Of course, we do not like these heroes, but most Ukrainians view them as independence fighters. <…> However, in all objectivity, there is no stopping this process today. <…> It would be wrong to demand that Ukraine stop renaming streets or calling Bandera or Melnik heroes as a condition for our support for Ukraine or our assistance to Ukraine because, if you look at things the way they do, this is not going to happen.”
Not a single organisation for protecting the memory of Holocaust survivors raised an eyebrow. Hey! You receive billions in funding to keep this topic in the public space! Haven’t you missed something? The Holocaust must be remembered not only because it happened in the past, but also to make sure that it never happens again, and not just against a single ethnic group or religion, but against any of them.
Since there is no one else to defend the victims of the Holocaust but us, let me remind Mr Brodsky about the ethnic policy of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, with Stepan Bandera at its helm. Here is a quote from the second resolution of OUN B’s General Assembly in April 1941: “The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists combats Jews as supporters of the Russian Bolshevik regime.” And here is a quote by Yaroslav Stetsko, a Bandera and Melnik accomplice: “I therefore support the destruction of the Jews and the expedience of bringing German methods of exterminating Jewry to Ukraine, barring their assimilation and the like.”
In fact, there was a massive effort to exterminate, burn and bury, without any burials or markers, Jews in Nazi-occupied Ukraine, and these inhuman
What kind of heroes was Mikhail Brodsky referring to?
German society of the late 1920s and early 1930s was also searching for its identity and heroes. Instead of humanism, a great tradition in German culture, it chose two words: blood and soil (Blut und Boden). And the heroes lived up to this slogan by initiating the Holocaust, creating concentration camps, and killing women, infants and the elderly. For the next 90 years, Germany tried to wash itself clean of this identity. But this is something that leaves a permanent stain.
If Mikhail Brodsky believes that Kiev has the right to these heroes and identity, this is the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s business.
No one has the right to have such heroes. These were not heroes, but demons, and this was not an identity, but a disgrace for the people of Ukraine. This is an act of glorifying Nazism.
As for the idea that there is nothing anyone can do about it, how blasphemous of him to say that! This was the logic of those who sponsored Hitler in the 1930s. Most of them were Anglo-Saxons, by the way.
If this was the logic of Soviet soldiers, Brodsky would not have existed today, and there would be no memory of the Holocaust to preserve either.
In one of his songs, Vladimir Vysotsky wrote: “But our squadron commander corrected its course, as his boots sent the Urals spinning.” This meant the Soviet soldiers changed the course of history and enabled humankind to recover its true face. But this did not last, as it turns out. Here we go, all over again.
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#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
💬 During the briefing today I spoke about the absence of an appropriate response from the relevant international organisations to the Kiev regime’s crimes and its tactic of terror against Russian journalists and other media representatives.
We saw a perfect example of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis’ reaction even to feeble criticism after UNESCO Secretary-General Audrey Azoulay posted an absolutely toothless comment on the murder of Russian military reporter Rostislav Zhuravlev by the Banderites and the wounding of his colleagues in an attack launched with the use of US-supplied cluster munitions. She said that she “deplored” the death of the Russian journalist, as if it was just another obituary, whereas she was supposed to provide an appropriate assessment of a crime.
The Ukrainian delegation reacted to her comment immediately and in its traditional extremist manner. They circulated a note on behalf of the “Ukrainian media community,” which not simply justified the murder of Rostislav Zhuravlev but also included a new package (!) of open threats to our correspondents and media outlets. It said that Russian media organisations and their personnel must receive the punishment they deserve for their actions.
❗️ Responsibility for the birth of that satanic monster called the Kiev regime lies with those who have disregarded its crimes over the years, even though it is their primary duty to call such culprits to account. Crafty non-committal replies won’t be accepted any more. You are responsible, through your action or inaction, for creating a terrorist monster.
💬 During the briefing today I spoke about the absence of an appropriate response from the relevant international organisations to the Kiev regime’s crimes and its tactic of terror against Russian journalists and other media representatives.
We saw a perfect example of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis’ reaction even to feeble criticism after UNESCO Secretary-General Audrey Azoulay posted an absolutely toothless comment on the murder of Russian military reporter Rostislav Zhuravlev by the Banderites and the wounding of his colleagues in an attack launched with the use of US-supplied cluster munitions. She said that she “deplored” the death of the Russian journalist, as if it was just another obituary, whereas she was supposed to provide an appropriate assessment of a crime.
The Ukrainian delegation reacted to her comment immediately and in its traditional extremist manner. They circulated a note on behalf of the “Ukrainian media community,” which not simply justified the murder of Rostislav Zhuravlev but also included a new package (!) of open threats to our correspondents and media outlets. It said that Russian media organisations and their personnel must receive the punishment they deserve for their actions.
❗️ Responsibility for the birth of that satanic monster called the Kiev regime lies with those who have disregarded its crimes over the years, even though it is their primary duty to call such culprits to account. Crafty non-committal replies won’t be accepted any more. You are responsible, through your action or inaction, for creating a terrorist monster.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 We understood right away that international animal rights activists could not care less about the fate of Norwegian deer. After all, we remember their mealy-mouthed reaction to the bloody spectacle that was made of the murder of the young giraffe Marius in Copenhagen.
But this time we are talking about something very serious – the dumping of almost 1.5 million tonnes of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean. This seawater is poisoned with tritium, carbon-14, potassium-40, strontium-90, iodine-129, and isotopes of caesium and plutonium.
And what happened next? Here are screenshots from the websites of environmental organisations. They are as silent as fish that have been swimming in the tritium water of the Pacific for several days now.
When the biggest oil spill in a decade occurred in the United States, Greenpeace and the WWF kept their mouth shut. They are silent now, too. Even the omnipresent Greta Thunberg just made a trivial reference to this news without a single word of condemnation. Meanwhile, this is how reservoirs with water released from Fukushima look. Note the man in the radiation and chemical protection suit.
I wonder – what is the price for the silence of the world’s leading environmental organisations? Or are they simply responding to pressure?
💬 We understood right away that international animal rights activists could not care less about the fate of Norwegian deer. After all, we remember their mealy-mouthed reaction to the bloody spectacle that was made of the murder of the young giraffe Marius in Copenhagen.
But this time we are talking about something very serious – the dumping of almost 1.5 million tonnes of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean. This seawater is poisoned with tritium, carbon-14, potassium-40, strontium-90, iodine-129, and isotopes of caesium and plutonium.
And what happened next? Here are screenshots from the websites of environmental organisations. They are as silent as fish that have been swimming in the tritium water of the Pacific for several days now.
When the biggest oil spill in a decade occurred in the United States, Greenpeace and the WWF kept their mouth shut. They are silent now, too. Even the omnipresent Greta Thunberg just made a trivial reference to this news without a single word of condemnation. Meanwhile, this is how reservoirs with water released from Fukushima look. Note the man in the radiation and chemical protection suit.
I wonder – what is the price for the silence of the world’s leading environmental organisations? Or are they simply responding to pressure?
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Last Friday, Pope Francis addressed Catholic youth in St Petersburg via videoconference. He blessed young Russian Catholics before the new academic year, offered some words of guidance and concluded his address with the words: “Do not forget your heritage. You are heirs of a great Russia. The great Russia of saints, of kings. The great Russia of Peter the Great, Catherine II, that great and enlightened Russian Empire of great culture and much humanity. Never deny this heritage, you are the heirs of the great Mother Russia, carry on with it. And thank you. Thank you for your way of being, for your way of being Russians.”
Kiev neo-Nazis reacted the Pontiff's speech in their own way. “Official Foreign Ministry spokesman” of the Kiev regime Oleg Nikolenko described the Pontiff’s words as “imperialist propaganda” and “unfortunate Russian great-power ideas.” And, for good measure, he went on to lecture the head of the Roman Catholic Church, which includes more than a billion believers around the world, on what he should say to his flock.
But there was more to come. That is, a new low to be reached. Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of Zelensky's office, called Pope Francis a “Russian propaganda tool” in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, where he also referred to what the Pope said about Russia as “a destructive discourse for modern humanism.”
First off… humanism? Do Podolyak and the rest of the microbes in the Kiev regime even know what the word means?
Humanism is about wanting to do greater good for humanity. It is about cultural evolution and the highest level of moral capabilities based on humane thinking. The Encyclopaedists – French thinkers in the 18th century – saw humanism as philanthropy, or love for humanity, “a gentle, patient and selfless virtue, which endures evil without approving it.” It would seem that Bandera-style torch processions are a far cry from gentle and patient humanism. The irrational hatred of everything Russian is a far cry from the tolerance of humanism. Rampant corruption is a far cry from the selflessness of humanism. The Kiev regime is an anti-human and anti-humanistic neoplasm by definition.
And secondly, whose heirs are now in power in Kiev? The heirs of the Great Ukrs? In better times, those who claimed that the Ukrs were descended from ancient Aryans were locked up in Pavlovka – the main psychiatric asylum in Ukraine – next door to Napoleons and agents of distant galaxies.
These days, the Kiev regime is trying hard to emphasise that the unfortunate population of Ukraine are the heirs of Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich, who were nurtured by Hitler and visited immeasurable evil on Ukraine and other nations. There is no doubt that this bubble will burst in time, too.
Doesn’t this suggest that those ancient Ukrs and Nazi collaborators are the best the Kiev regime can muster as its heritage? Because Gogol, Khmelnitsky, and anyone else they still allow people to be proud of were directly linked to Russia. But the Kiev regime has erased Russia from its ancestors.
And if anyone in Kiev wants to see whose heritage is being squandered by the criminal and his gangs that seized power on Bankovaya Street, they should visit Ukraine’s National Art Museum in Kiev to look at Forever with Moscow, Forever with the Russian People by Ukrainian painter Mikhail Khmelko.
Or has it been sold already?
💬 Last Friday, Pope Francis addressed Catholic youth in St Petersburg via videoconference. He blessed young Russian Catholics before the new academic year, offered some words of guidance and concluded his address with the words: “Do not forget your heritage. You are heirs of a great Russia. The great Russia of saints, of kings. The great Russia of Peter the Great, Catherine II, that great and enlightened Russian Empire of great culture and much humanity. Never deny this heritage, you are the heirs of the great Mother Russia, carry on with it. And thank you. Thank you for your way of being, for your way of being Russians.”
Kiev neo-Nazis reacted the Pontiff's speech in their own way. “Official Foreign Ministry spokesman” of the Kiev regime Oleg Nikolenko described the Pontiff’s words as “imperialist propaganda” and “unfortunate Russian great-power ideas.” And, for good measure, he went on to lecture the head of the Roman Catholic Church, which includes more than a billion believers around the world, on what he should say to his flock.
But there was more to come. That is, a new low to be reached. Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of Zelensky's office, called Pope Francis a “Russian propaganda tool” in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, where he also referred to what the Pope said about Russia as “a destructive discourse for modern humanism.”
First off… humanism? Do Podolyak and the rest of the microbes in the Kiev regime even know what the word means?
Humanism is about wanting to do greater good for humanity. It is about cultural evolution and the highest level of moral capabilities based on humane thinking. The Encyclopaedists – French thinkers in the 18th century – saw humanism as philanthropy, or love for humanity, “a gentle, patient and selfless virtue, which endures evil without approving it.” It would seem that Bandera-style torch processions are a far cry from gentle and patient humanism. The irrational hatred of everything Russian is a far cry from the tolerance of humanism. Rampant corruption is a far cry from the selflessness of humanism. The Kiev regime is an anti-human and anti-humanistic neoplasm by definition.
And secondly, whose heirs are now in power in Kiev? The heirs of the Great Ukrs? In better times, those who claimed that the Ukrs were descended from ancient Aryans were locked up in Pavlovka – the main psychiatric asylum in Ukraine – next door to Napoleons and agents of distant galaxies.
These days, the Kiev regime is trying hard to emphasise that the unfortunate population of Ukraine are the heirs of Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich, who were nurtured by Hitler and visited immeasurable evil on Ukraine and other nations. There is no doubt that this bubble will burst in time, too.
Doesn’t this suggest that those ancient Ukrs and Nazi collaborators are the best the Kiev regime can muster as its heritage? Because Gogol, Khmelnitsky, and anyone else they still allow people to be proud of were directly linked to Russia. But the Kiev regime has erased Russia from its ancestors.
And if anyone in Kiev wants to see whose heritage is being squandered by the criminal and his gangs that seized power on Bankovaya Street, they should visit Ukraine’s National Art Museum in Kiev to look at Forever with Moscow, Forever with the Russian People by Ukrainian painter Mikhail Khmelko.
Or has it been sold already?
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✍️ Eduard Popov, Director of the Independent Non-Profit Organisation "Center for Public and Information Cooperation "Europe"
Ukrainian Nazism today: origin and ideological and political typology
Key points:
💬 The current-day Ukrainian nationalism / Nazism partly dates back to the early 1990s. Its rise can be traced to the Nazi proponents and social engineering technologies being "exported" to Ukraine [from the West], which became an independent state following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
• The world does not understand the nature of modern Ukrainian (neo)Nazism. The West prefers not to notice it and to stigmatize any considerations concerning this problem as a "Russian propaganda".
☝️ After the coup d'état on February 21, 2014, carried out by the US, UK and a number of EU countries, the state OF Ukraine as such does not exist. It is more correct to speak about the state IN Ukraine. Ukraine as a state has been abolished and is under external administration.
State institutions responsible for ideology and education have adopted the slogans and ideologemes of the Ukrainian Nazis. For example, the Nazi slogan "Glory to Ukraine!" adopted by the so-called Ukrainian Insurgent Army – Nazi cronies and war criminals, who later sponsored by the West waged terrorist attacks against civilians in Soviet Ukraine – is now officially used in the Ukrainian armed forces. Nazi collaborators Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych are officially included in the list of heroes. The state authorities in Ukraine are pursuing a policy of Nazification, many provisions of which are borrowed from the programs of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
❗️ The rise of Nazism in Ukraine and the already accomplished transformation of this country into the epicenter of world Nazism/neo-Nazism is no longer a factor of internal Ukrainian politics or even Russian-Ukrainian relations. This is an important aspect of pan-European, and perhaps even world, politics.
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✍️ Eduard Popov, Director of the Independent Non-Profit Organisation "Center for Public and Information Cooperation "Europe"
Ukrainian Nazism today: origin and ideological and political typology
Key points:
💬 The current-day Ukrainian nationalism / Nazism partly dates back to the early 1990s. Its rise can be traced to the Nazi proponents and social engineering technologies being "exported" to Ukraine [from the West], which became an independent state following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
• The world does not understand the nature of modern Ukrainian (neo)Nazism. The West prefers not to notice it and to stigmatize any considerations concerning this problem as a "Russian propaganda".
☝️ After the coup d'état on February 21, 2014, carried out by the US, UK and a number of EU countries, the state OF Ukraine as such does not exist. It is more correct to speak about the state IN Ukraine. Ukraine as a state has been abolished and is under external administration.
State institutions responsible for ideology and education have adopted the slogans and ideologemes of the Ukrainian Nazis. For example, the Nazi slogan "Glory to Ukraine!" adopted by the so-called Ukrainian Insurgent Army – Nazi cronies and war criminals, who later sponsored by the West waged terrorist attacks against civilians in Soviet Ukraine – is now officially used in the Ukrainian armed forces. Nazi collaborators Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych are officially included in the list of heroes. The state authorities in Ukraine are pursuing a policy of Nazification, many provisions of which are borrowed from the programs of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
❗️ The rise of Nazism in Ukraine and the already accomplished transformation of this country into the epicenter of world Nazism/neo-Nazism is no longer a factor of internal Ukrainian politics or even Russian-Ukrainian relations. This is an important aspect of pan-European, and perhaps even world, politics.
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Regarding Emmanuel Macron’s statements on the possibility of sending NATO troops to Ukraine, I would like to remind everyone that a month ago the Foreign Minister of France denied the involvement of Paris in the recruitment of mercenaries for the Kiev regime and denounced the direct evidence of this fact as “gross Russian propaganda.”
One tends to think that the President of France is unaware of what his subordinates are saying, or of what he himself is saying.
I would like to remind Mr Macron of France’s history, which has seen widely different periods.
In April 1945, SS Division Charlemagne (Charles the Great) and several other units defended Berlin, including the Fuehrerbunker (Hitler’s bunker). These units were among the last to be awarded the order of the Knight’s Cross of Nazi Germany. The French soldiers from SS Charlemagne were the last defenders of the Reichstag and the Reich Chancellery.
Emmanuel, are you planning to form Charlemagne Deux for the defence of Zelensky’s bunker?
💬 Regarding Emmanuel Macron’s statements on the possibility of sending NATO troops to Ukraine, I would like to remind everyone that a month ago the Foreign Minister of France denied the involvement of Paris in the recruitment of mercenaries for the Kiev regime and denounced the direct evidence of this fact as “gross Russian propaganda.”
One tends to think that the President of France is unaware of what his subordinates are saying, or of what he himself is saying.
I would like to remind Mr Macron of France’s history, which has seen widely different periods.
In April 1945, SS Division Charlemagne (Charles the Great) and several other units defended Berlin, including the Fuehrerbunker (Hitler’s bunker). These units were among the last to be awarded the order of the Knight’s Cross of Nazi Germany. The French soldiers from SS Charlemagne were the last defenders of the Reichstag and the Reich Chancellery.
Emmanuel, are you planning to form Charlemagne Deux for the defence of Zelensky’s bunker?
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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 The main issue is that the American authorities must not forget how their information and political sources linked the terrorists who carried out the shooting at the Crocus City Hall with ISIS, a banned terrorist organisation.
Now we know which country these vicious monsters planned to hide from persecution in: Ukraine.
The same country that, with the assistance of liberal Western regimes, has over the past decade turned into a hub of terrorism in Europe, surpassing even Kosovo in its extremist frenzy.
💬 The main issue is that the American authorities must not forget how their information and political sources linked the terrorists who carried out the shooting at the Crocus City Hall with ISIS, a banned terrorist organisation.
Now we know which country these vicious monsters planned to hide from persecution in: Ukraine.
The same country that, with the assistance of liberal Western regimes, has over the past decade turned into a hub of terrorism in Europe, surpassing even Kosovo in its extremist frenzy.