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The #RedArmy liberated #Latvia from the Nazi occupation - Latvian Legion Waffen-SS formed, 48 prisons, 23 concentration camps, 18 Jewish ghettos.
150'000 Soviet soldiers gave their lives to free Latvia.
Now, in 2022, in Latvia 🇱🇻 we witness:
restrictions and bans on the use of Russian language,
Nazi collaborators and accomplices glorified,
while monuments to Soviet liberators demolished.
Even celebrating May 9 and Victory Day - the liberation from Nazis - is prohibited.
#WeRemember #NeverForget
150'000 Soviet soldiers gave their lives to free Latvia.
Now, in 2022, in Latvia 🇱🇻 we witness:
restrictions and bans on the use of Russian language,
Nazi collaborators and accomplices glorified,
while monuments to Soviet liberators demolished.
Even celebrating May 9 and Victory Day - the liberation from Nazis - is prohibited.
#WeRemember #NeverForget
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☢️ #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
☝️ Dozens of Micronesians were exposed to high levels of radiation. To this day, many of the islands there remain uninhabitable.
#NeverForget
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▪️ In the early hours of March 10, 1945, 78 years ago, 325 American B-29 heavy bombers took off from air bases in the Marianas and headed for Tokyo.
• The US Air Force dropped 1,665 tonnes of bombs and napalm on the Japanese capital, killing 83,000 people and wounding another 41,000. According to other sources, the death toll exceeded 100,000 people. As a result, 16.5 square miles of the city, or more than 40 percent of the housing stock, were burned down, and 180,000 families were left homeless.
✍️The Soviet correspondent Nikolai Bogdanov was in Japan to cover the surrender of Japan on August 31, 1945. He had the following to say: “What does Tokyo look like after the war? It turned out that we had been driving through the city for several kilometres without seeing the city. Our car was running on asphalt and we could see rusty tram rails. There were no other signs that would tell us it was a city street. All we could see on both sides of the road was a brown wasteland strewn with ashes."
• Of the 206 Japanese cities, 98 were air bombed and shelled by naval artillery. As a result of the raids, 2,210,000 buildings, about a quarter of Japan's housing stock, were turned into rubble or burned. Civilian losses from aerial bombardments and artillery shelling vary among sources and stand at anywhere from 500,000 to 900,000 people.
☝️ As we know from history, the cold-blooded devastation caused by the carpet bombing and the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not make the Japanese government surrender. The decision to stop resistance was made only after the Red Army joined the war.
❗️ Just like in the case of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the current leadership of Japan is cautious not to hurt its ally’s feelings by mentioning the Tokyo bombing in March 1945. The official statement by the Cabinet of Ministers dated May 7, 2013, shyly stated that “although it did not comply with the principle of humanism, it did not contradict the norms of international law of that time, either.”
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• The US Air Force dropped 1,665 tonnes of bombs and napalm on the Japanese capital, killing 83,000 people and wounding another 41,000. According to other sources, the death toll exceeded 100,000 people. As a result, 16.5 square miles of the city, or more than 40 percent of the housing stock, were burned down, and 180,000 families were left homeless.
✍️The Soviet correspondent Nikolai Bogdanov was in Japan to cover the surrender of Japan on August 31, 1945. He had the following to say: “What does Tokyo look like after the war? It turned out that we had been driving through the city for several kilometres without seeing the city. Our car was running on asphalt and we could see rusty tram rails. There were no other signs that would tell us it was a city street. All we could see on both sides of the road was a brown wasteland strewn with ashes."
• Of the 206 Japanese cities, 98 were air bombed and shelled by naval artillery. As a result of the raids, 2,210,000 buildings, about a quarter of Japan's housing stock, were turned into rubble or burned. Civilian losses from aerial bombardments and artillery shelling vary among sources and stand at anywhere from 500,000 to 900,000 people.
☝️ As we know from history, the cold-blooded devastation caused by the carpet bombing and the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not make the Japanese government surrender. The decision to stop resistance was made only after the Red Army joined the war.
❗️ Just like in the case of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the current leadership of Japan is cautious not to hurt its ally’s feelings by mentioning the Tokyo bombing in March 1945. The official statement by the Cabinet of Ministers dated May 7, 2013, shyly stated that “although it did not comply with the principle of humanism, it did not contradict the norms of international law of that time, either.”
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5️⃣5️⃣ years ago, on March 16, 1968, US Army personnel annihilated the village of My Lai (Sơn Mỹ) in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam, and massacred its civilian population.
With exceptional cruelty, the American soldiers killed over 500 local residents, of whom 173 were children and 182 women, including 17 pregnant women.
After artillery bombardment, members of Charlie Company landed on the western outskirts of the village and immediately opened fire on the peasants who were working in the rice fields. The American killers threw grenades in huts, and brutally tortured and then shot people on the spot.
The truth about this inhuman crime came out only in November 1969 thanks to investigations by independent journalists, including Seymour Hersh, and the publication of a series of photographs by Ronald Haeberle, one of the soldiers of Charlie Company.
❗️ My Lai is a terrifying reminder of how the United States fights its wars. They believe mass killings of the enemy country’s civilians are acceptable.
#USCrimes
#NeverForget
With exceptional cruelty, the American soldiers killed over 500 local residents, of whom 173 were children and 182 women, including 17 pregnant women.
After artillery bombardment, members of Charlie Company landed on the western outskirts of the village and immediately opened fire on the peasants who were working in the rice fields. The American killers threw grenades in huts, and brutally tortured and then shot people on the spot.
The truth about this inhuman crime came out only in November 1969 thanks to investigations by independent journalists, including Seymour Hersh, and the publication of a series of photographs by Ronald Haeberle, one of the soldiers of Charlie Company.
❗️ My Lai is a terrifying reminder of how the United States fights its wars. They believe mass killings of the enemy country’s civilians are acceptable.
#USCrimes
#NeverForget