Forwarded from Embassy of Russia in Singapore
💬 President #Putin: According to US experts themselves, the wars started by the US after 2001 resulted in nearly 900,000 deaths, 38 million people became refugees.
They now simply want to erase this from the humanity's memory.
But no one has forgotten and will #neverforget.
They now simply want to erase this from the humanity's memory.
But no one has forgotten and will #neverforget.
Forwarded from Embassy of Russia in Singapore
☢️ #OTD in 1954, the US tested its largest nuclear weapon, a 15 megatonne bomb codenamed Castle Bravo, at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
☝️ Dozens of Micronesians were exposed to high levels of radiation. To this day, many of the islands there remain uninhabitable.
#NeverForget #US #NuclearTest #Pacific
☝️ Dozens of Micronesians were exposed to high levels of radiation. To this day, many of the islands there remain uninhabitable.
#NeverForget #US #NuclearTest #Pacific
Forwarded from Russian Mission Geneva
🕯 Today marks 80 years since the horrific “Khatyn Massacre”, when almost 150 civilians, including 75 children, were burned alive by the Nazis along with Ukrainian 118 Shutzmannshaft Battalion in a small village of Khatyn in Soviet Belarus.
▪️ 56 y.o. Joseph Kaminsky, the only adult survivor of the massacre, lived to tell the story. “The Unconquered Man” monument in Minsk (a tribute to almost 3 million Belarusians who died in the Great Patriotic War) depicts Joseph holding the body of his 15 y.o. son Adam.
▪️ According to declassified archives, savagery of the Ukrainian nationalists who willingly sided with Hitler during WWII horrified even the Germans. Grigory Vasyura, a Ukrainian nationalist who led the 118 Shutzmannshaft Battalion, was responsible for many punitive operations and tens of villages decimated in Belarus.
❗️ The crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices during WWII have no expiration date.
#NeverForget
▪️ 56 y.o. Joseph Kaminsky, the only adult survivor of the massacre, lived to tell the story. “The Unconquered Man” monument in Minsk (a tribute to almost 3 million Belarusians who died in the Great Patriotic War) depicts Joseph holding the body of his 15 y.o. son Adam.
▪️ According to declassified archives, savagery of the Ukrainian nationalists who willingly sided with Hitler during WWII horrified even the Germans. Grigory Vasyura, a Ukrainian nationalist who led the 118 Shutzmannshaft Battalion, was responsible for many punitive operations and tens of villages decimated in Belarus.
❗️ The crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices during WWII have no expiration date.
#NeverForget
7️⃣0️⃣ ago, on March 1, 1954, the United States conducted its most powerful nuclear test, code-named Castle Bravo.
The American military detonated a 15-tonne hydrogen bomb (the yield was 2.5 times bigger than the initial estimate) on Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands). It was 1,000 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
The explosion caused severe contamination of the environment. The wind quickly spread radioactive fallout over hundreds of kilometres. The total area of radioactive contamination was approximately 18,000 square kilometres (7,000 square miles). The atoll’s relief changed considerably. The detonation created a giant crater almost 2 kilometres in diameter.
Dozens of people in Micronesia received a huge dose of radiation. The Americans didn’t even think of warning them about this test in advance. Experts estimate this hydrogen bomb explosion was the dirtiest in the entire history of US nuclear activity.
The incident with the Japanese fishing boat Daigo Fukuryū Maru was one of the sad consequences of the Castle Bravo explosion. The boat was 170 kilometres away from the epicentre of the explosion, but radioactive dust caused severe radiation sickness among the crew; one crew member died from it within six months.
☝️ To this day, many islands in the Bikini Atoll are unfit for life due to radioactive contamination.
#NeverForget
The American military detonated a 15-tonne hydrogen bomb (the yield was 2.5 times bigger than the initial estimate) on Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands). It was 1,000 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
The explosion caused severe contamination of the environment. The wind quickly spread radioactive fallout over hundreds of kilometres. The total area of radioactive contamination was approximately 18,000 square kilometres (7,000 square miles). The atoll’s relief changed considerably. The detonation created a giant crater almost 2 kilometres in diameter.
Dozens of people in Micronesia received a huge dose of radiation. The Americans didn’t even think of warning them about this test in advance. Experts estimate this hydrogen bomb explosion was the dirtiest in the entire history of US nuclear activity.
The incident with the Japanese fishing boat Daigo Fukuryū Maru was one of the sad consequences of the Castle Bravo explosion. The boat was 170 kilometres away from the epicentre of the explosion, but radioactive dust caused severe radiation sickness among the crew; one crew member died from it within six months.
☝️ To this day, many islands in the Bikini Atoll are unfit for life due to radioactive contamination.
#NeverForget