🕯 April 11 is the International Day of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps.

The date was established to commemorate the uprising of the inmates of Buchenwald, one of the largest death camps in the Third Reich.

✊ On April 11, 1945, the inmates started a rebellion after learning that the Allied forces were close. They disarmed and captured 200 guards and kept control of the camp until the US troops arrived.

DYK that Majdanek, Poland, was the first Nazi camp to be liberated. The Red Army set its inmates free in July, 1944. After that, the soviet forces liberated Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, Ravensbruck and many other extermination camps.

☝️ Before and during WWII, the Nazis established a network of 14,000 death camps. Overall, 18 million people were sent to Nazi camps, 11 million of them were killed.

The system of concentration camps was destroyed after the routing of Nazism, condemned by the Nuremberg Trials as a crime against humanity.

🎙 #Opinion by Maria Zakharova:

💬 Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba has called on scholars throughout the world to investigate the causes that have led to the atrocities in Bucha: “For many years, Russian political elites and propaganda have been inciting hatred, dehumanising Ukrainians, nurturing Russian superiority, and laying ground for these atrocities. I encourage scholars around the globe to research what led to Bucha.”

Kuleba’s call has been echoed by Alexey Arestovich, an adviser to President Zelensky, who wrote: “So, these are the buttons we need to press. Incite concern with a statement and after that, evoke a feeling of guilt: ‘While the boys are out there in the trenches, you are having a good time in Kiev nightclubs, you bastards!’ Or say: ‘You are not giving money to the army.’ And then press the button of security needs. After that, make the persons in question ‘part of a significant group’ and reward them. The first set of buttons is to raise concern, and the second group is aimed at rewarding them and leading them to where we want them to be. In other words, first we scare them silly, and then we show them a way out, foster their expectations and tell them what they must do, and that after that everything will be great. We are nurturing their expectations and a feeling of being part of specific groups: ‘We are brothers,’ ‘We are Ukrainians,’ ‘We have repelled a terrible Russian onslaught, which means that there is nothing to fear,’ ‘Ukraine is respected throughout the world,’ ‘Ukrainians are the best soldiers, they will fight to the bitter end,’ ‘We won’t be deceived.’ Being part of a significant group, feeling that they are part of the significant group that is working to solve the problem. ‘Those who are on Maidan are the good guys.’ And this leads us to a feeling of pride and self-praise: ‘Ukrainians are the best soldiers in the world, we can defeat anyone.’ And then they are offered a reward, that is, they must be shown what will happen if they do this or that.”

This is how the Ukrainian fighters who staged the criminal provocation in Bucha were trained. Next time Kuleba should not appeal to “scholars around the globe” but to Alexey Arestovich, “a politician, intelligence officer, blogger, political and military columnist, actor, organiser of psychological seminars and trainings and a charity fund for psychological support to the military” who fought against people in Donbass in 2014-2017. This is how he is described on Wikipedia. Arestovich will tell Kuleba how cyborgs were created in Ukraine.

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❗️New false staged provocations to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly abusing the population of Ukraine are being prepared by the Kiev regime under the guidance of the British intelligence services in Sumy region.

❗️Representatives of the Ukrainian and Western media have been invited to Seredina Buda town in Sumy Region, which was formerly under the control of Russian troops, to conduct staged video footage. In order to conceal the provocation and prevent it from being exposed by real witnesses, a curfew has been imposed in the city and the local population has been forcibly evicted from the places where the filming took place.

▫️In Nizhnyaya Syrovatka near Sumy, bodies are being dragged into one of the basements of residential buildings to be presented as allegedly another victim of the Russian Army. As conceived by the "British filmmakers", units of Russian troops allegedly massacred and humiliated civilians as they withdrew. Another fake will be promoted by the Western media in the very near future. Its aim is to further increase Russophobia against the backdrop of Europe's rapidly developing economic crisis.

❗️Please note that Russian troops withdrew from this location three weeks ago - on March 20. Such events, if they really happened, could not have failed to become public in such a long period. Moreover, the Kiev regime is looking for any reasons to accuse Russia of genocide of the Ukrainians. A whole network of foreign information-psychological influences on the population is currently operating in Ukraine, producing "dirty tricks" on a professional basis. We will see the results of their anti-Russian activities more than once.

▫️The Ukrainian authorities also make extensive use of interested countries and non-profit organisations.

▫️For example, the French leadership has sent a group of French servicemen and the Gendarmerie to Ukraine to collect information on alleged crimes committed by Russian servicemen, together with representatives of the "International Commission on Missing Persons" (created at the initiative of the USA).

▫️On April 11, French special operations forces personnel, together with technical experts from the French Gendarmerie and the Interior Ministry, arrived in Ukraine via Germany and Poland through the so-called "diplomatic corridor".

Given the partisanship of these "experts", there is no hope of an impartial investigation. Apparently, their main areas of activity will be to cover up numerous war crimes against the population of Ukraine and the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics committed by the Ukrainian authorities over the last eight years, as well as fabricating accusations against the Russian Armed Forces.

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#FunFact

Only two 🌐 countries vote against the annual “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” resolution at the #UNGA

The 1st one is 🇺🇸. The US believes that hateful and racist ideologies are part of “freedom of speech” 🤷🏻‍♂️

Can you guess the 2nd country that votes ❌?

🇷🇺 President of Russia Vladimir Putin

💬I often hear questions about is it possible to be quicker? It is possible. It depends on the intensity of the hostilities, and the intensity of the hostilities, unfortunately, has to do with casualties in one way or another.

▫️Our objective is to achieve all our goals while minimizing these casualties. And we will act rhythmically, calmly, according to the plan that was originally proposed by the General Staff.

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"Was Russia supposed to turn a blind eye on the creation of "anti-Russia" on the territory of its neighbor country and wait until the NATO headed by the United States place its missiles on there so it would take only 4 to 5 minutes to reach the heart of Moscow from the eastern Ukrainian side?"

🇷🇺 Russian Ambassador's comments to the article "Separating the wheat from the chaff" by Mr. Olexander Nechytaylo, 🇺🇦 the non-resident Ambassador of Ukraine to the Philippines in the Manila Times.

https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/04/13/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/russian-envoy-presents-russian-vision-of-what-is-happening-in-ukraine/1839849

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya television network (April 11, 2022)

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💬 This is a major shift in the policy of the EU and the entire West under the leadership of the US (there is no doubt about that) that occurred after the start of our special military operation. Their current policy is rooted in bitterness and derangement (excuse the non-diplomatic word choice), though it’s not all about Ukraine but rather turning that country into a bridgehead from which Russia can finally be subjugated and subordinated to the global system built by the West even though the Cold War ended and the USSR and Warsaw Treaty disappeared.

The West was moving closer to our borders all the time despite its promises not to expand NATO, statements to the effect that we were no longer adversaries and many other things. Our special military operation is designed to put an end to NATO’s unlimited expansion and to keep the US and other NATO countries from achieving total world domination.

❗️ Maxim Grigoryev, the chairman of the International Public Tribunal for Ukraine, shares first-hand accounts of citizens of Ukraine regarding war crimes committed by the Ukrainian military and Neo-Nazis in his telegram channel.

💬 Natalya Kudinova from Mariupol on crimes of Azov battalions:

- There was a grandmother with two little girls. One was 22 months old, the second one was probably 4 years old. They had been sitting in the basement all this time. They tried to get out, at least to get some water. She said: "Azov battalion was standing there. They were shooting at our feet" ...

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💬 Irina Bykova from Mariupol on crimes of soldiers of Ukraine:

- When we were crossing the street, Ukraine began to shoot at us. They deliberately did it...

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💬 Elena Buntseva from Mariupol on Ukrainian tanks’ fire at the houses of civilians.

- We were hiding in the basement at my brother's place. And there were tanks driving and other machines like that. They were shooting all the time and hit his house too...

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💬 Vita from Mariupol on crimes of Ukrainian soldiers:

- <...> They occupied appartements, occupied basements, were throwing people out into the streets and then shoot, from these appartements, from these basements.

👉 More testimonies

🇺🇦STCU is headquartered in Kiev and has regional offices in Baku, Chisinau and Tbilisi, as well as in Kharkov and Lvov.

▫️However, the Russian Ministry of Defence's Chemical and Biological Threat Expertise Centre found that the STCU's main activity is to act as a distribution centre for grants for research of interest to the Pentagon, including biological weapons research.

▫️In recent years alone, Washington has spent more than $350 million on STCU projects.

▫️The U.S. customers and sponsors of STCU are the Department of State and the Department of Defense. Funding is also provided through the Environmental Protection Agency, the US Departments of Agriculture, Health and Energy.

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Names of the officials who were involved in the military-biological programmes

▫️The post of STCU executive director is held by Bjelajac Curtis Michael, a US citizen.

▫️Born August 27, 1968 in Huntington Beach, California, he studied at California's Anderson University of Management. He holds a master's degree in international finance and has worked in Ukraine since 1994.

▫️The European Union chairman of the STCU board is Maier Eddie Arthur; the US chairman is Phil Dolliff, who is the State Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Security and WMD Nonproliferation Programmes.

▫️The European Union chairman of the STCU board is Maier Eddie Arthur; the US chairman is Phil Dolliff, who is the State Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Security and WMD Nonproliferation Programmes.

▫️Documents received by the Russian Ministry of Defence confirm STCU's ties to the US military department.

▫️The slide shows a formal recommendation from the US State Department endorsing the STCU's cooperation with the Pentagon's main contractor, Black & Veach. The correspondence expresses the willingness of Matthew Webber, the company's vice president, to work with the STCU on ongoing military-biological research in Ukraine.

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❗️During the special operation in Ukraine, it was established that US scientists from a laboratory in Merefa (Kharkov Region) were testing potentially dangerous biological drugs on patients of the regional clinical psychiatric hospital No 3 in Kharkov between 2019 and 2021.

▫️Persons with mental disorders were selected for the experiments on the basis of their age, nationality and immune status. Special forms were used to record the results of 24-hour patient monitoring. The information was not entered into the hospital database and the staff of the medical institution signed a non-disclosure agreement.

▫️In January 2022, the laboratory in Merefa was shut down and all equipment and medication were moved to western Ukraine.

▫️There are a number of witnesses to these inhuman experiments, whose names we cannot disclose for the sake of their safety.

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