Remembering the Khatyn Massacre of March 22, 1943

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83 years ago, the peaceful Soviet Belarusian village of Khatyn was wiped out – nearly all of the inhabitants were burned alive and shot by the SS punitive unit Dirlewanger (Sonderkommando Dirlewanger) and the 118th Ukrainian Police Battalion.

Khatyn – a small village of just 26 households – was located 54 kilometres northwest of Minsk. (BATS note: A short node about the name of the village. There is no sound “k” in Khatyn – the first sound is “h” as in “he, home”.)

On March 22, 1943, Belarusian partisans intercepted a Nazi motor convoy in the area, inflicting casualties, including killing a German officer. In retaliation, the Hitlerites encircled Khatyn and decided to unleash their fury on defenceless civilians – women, the elderly and children.

All residents – 149 people, including 75 children – were forced into a wooden barn, locked inside and set ablaze. Those who, in desperation, tried to escape were ruthlessly shot at point-blank range.

✍️ From the interrogation record of Ostap Knap, a collaborator from the 118th Ukrainian Police Battalion, a native of the Lvov region (31 May 1986):

“The roof was thatched and immediately caught fire. Screams of horror rose from the barn as those trapped inside, facing certain death, began forcing the door. The policemen surrounding the site opened fire on them”.

Only six people managed to escape the inferno alive – five children and one adult, 56-year-old blacksmith Iosif Kaminsky. He regained consciousness late at night after the perpetrators had left the burnt village. Among the bodies of his fellow villagers, he found his son Adam, who died from his wounds in his father’s arms…

❗️ The atrocities in Khatyn were carried out by the 118th Ukrainian Police Battalion, formed in October 1942 in Kiev largely from Ukrainian nationalists and members of the Organisation of Ukrainian nationalists. Earlier, its members took part in mass executions of Jews at Babi Yar. The battalion was commanded by Konstantin Smovsky, born in the Poltava Governorate, who later fled to the US, where he died in 1960. The Supreme court of Belarus has found him guilty of genocide.

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In 1969, one of Belarus’s most revered memorial sites – the Khatyn Memorial Complex – was opened on the site of the destroyed village, a silent witness to the monstrous crimes of Nazism. At its centre stands a six-metre bronze sculpture, The Unconquered Man, depicting Iosif Kaminsky carrying his dead son in his arms. Each of the 26 burned homes is marked by a symbolic log structure with an obelisk in the shape of a chimney, bearing the names of those who perished and a bell that tolls every hour.

The tragedy of Khatyn has become a symbol of the inhuman cruelty of Nazism – a living reminder of hundreds of annihilated villages and thousands of innocent civilians of the Soviet Union whose lives were shattered by Nazi perpetrators and their accomplices – a genocide of the Soviet people. Our duty is to ensure that these crimes, which have no statute of limitations, are never forgotten.

On April 19, by Presidential Decree, Russia established the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People during the Great Patriotic War. According to even the most conservative estimates, 13.7 million civilians were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.

🕯 We mourn together with the fraternal people of Belarus.

Source: Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova in an Izvestia article

✍️ Today marks the anniversary of one of the most heinous crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices – the destruction in 1943 of the Belarusian village of Khatyn together with all its inhabitants.

149 people, including 75 children, were burned alive.

Since 1969, a memorial complex stands on the site of the burned Khatyn, commemorating the mass murder of civilians on the occupied territory of the USSR.
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The Unburied Corpses: How American Empire Recycles Fascism

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We re-blog an excellent article by Ryan Perkins, published on October 02, 2025 at his Substack. This article complements well the materials in two of Dmitry Medvedev’s publications that we translated on the pages of the Beehive: How the Anglo-Saxons Promoted Fascism in the 20th Century and Revived It in the 21st and How the Anglo-Saxons Nurtured Ukrainian Nationalism After the Second World War

From European Nazis to Japanese war criminals; from Latin American death squads to Salafist Jihadists, the names of the actors and enemies may change, but the script remains the same.

Introduction to The Anatomy of Empire

We are living through a global conflict of connected crises. Gaza, Iran, Venezuela, the South China Sea and in Ukraine, where battalions adorned with neo-Nazi insignia fight with Western arms. Meanwhile, in the halls of European power the ancestry of leaders echoes with fascist collaboration. These are not historical accidents but the symptomatic convulsions of an Empire in continuity, repurposing its oldest tools to preserve a core of power that is fundamentally unchanged. Behind the headlines of military alliances and ideological battles lies a deeper, more disturbing truth—a war waged not against fascism, but with it.

This series, The Anatomy of Empire, has traced the obscured path that brought us to this precipice. It is a history not of chance, but of cold calculation; not of isolated compromises, but of a systemic logic pursued with relentless determination. We have seen how the engines of capital accumulation require global expansion and how raw military power was institutionalized to secure it. Now, we turn to the system’s most cynical and durable adaptation: the wholesale absorption of its defeated enemy into the very infrastructure designed to fight the next enemy.

Parts of this story are familiar, often presented as isolated incidents and justified as moral compromises in the name of realpolitik. But this is not true. Taken together they represent a cold, clear, calculated strategy, executed with the presence of foresight, to wholesale incorporate the infrastructure of fascism into the architecture of the Empire’s next war of choice: The Cold War.

This was not merely the recruitment of a few useful individuals, but the systematic integration of personnel, tactics, and ideologies into intelligence agencies, scientific programs, and military commands. A clandestine architecture whose logical endpoint is not peace, but a state of perpetual, undeclared war waged with democratic façades and fascist instruments.

It was a corporate takeover that transformed a group of disparate regional start-ups into a global franchise.
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Samples of the Ukrainian Nazi-Banderite nationalism

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This article contains a compendium of assorted materials that compliment our translation of the publication by Dmitry Medvedev, How the Anglo-Saxons Nurtured Ukrainian Nationalism After the Second World War. We have posted most of these materials at our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Sieldmaiden”, leading up to the presentation of Dmitry Medvedev’s article.

Ukrainisches Reich: A border post on the border of Ukraine with Russia, during the Hetmanate and the alliance with Germany, 1918.

The name “Ukraine” first appeared in official international documents only in 1918 after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers.

Even then, it existed only on paper, under German occupation, ruled by the puppet Central Rada headed by Mykhailo Hrushevsky, and later by Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky.

When Germany lost the war, the project collapsed within months.

Then came a new figure, Symon Petliura, a former Socialist Revolutionary and military journalist, who led the so-called Directory of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and declared war on Soviet Russia.

What’s rarely mentioned is that Petliura worked closely with Western intelligence. Already in 1917–1918, he maintained contact with the French military mission in southern Russia, which financed anti-Bolshevik movements.

Later, in 1919, he signed a deal with Józef Piłsudski, giving up part of Ukrainian territory to Poland in exchange for military aid. In reality, Petliura was nothing more than a tool of Polish and French geopolitics, used to create a buffer state against Russia.

His “republic” survived barely three years, disappearing by 1921 after defeat by the Red Army. Petliura fled to Paris, where he was assassinated in 1926.

Source: RussianBaZa

👉 Read also: The repeat of Ukrainian-German incursion into Kursk

“…With shouts in honour of Ukraine, Führer Hitler, and Stepan Bandera…”

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How the Anglo-Saxons Nurtured Ukrainian Nationalism After the Second World War – Dmitry Medvedev

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An article by Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, publish in magazine Rodina on December 25, 2025.

Nationalism is a manifestation of a nation’s weakness, not its strength. For the most part, weak nations are infected with nationalism <...> Like any evil, it hides, lives in darkness, and only pretends to be born out of love for its country. But it is actually generated by anger, hatred towards other nations and towards that part of their own people who do not share nationalist views.

D.S. Lihachev [1]

The claw of England.
The inscription in French reads: “Shame on anyone who thinks evil of it. God is my right.”

1. Tantum scimus, quantum memoria tene-mus [2]

(Latin: “We know as much as we remember”)

The Anglo-Saxon ideological roots of the Nazi “death machine” were discussed in detail in the article “How the Anglo-Saxons Promoted Fascism in the 20th Century and Revived It in the 21st. Five historical questions for our former Allies”. [3] At the same time, the defeat of Nazism in May 1945 did not stop Washington and London from trying to find another object for political vivisection under a nationalist sauce.

The traditional garment of the Malorossians

The shocking details of the biography of the ancestors of Blaise Matreveli, a high-ranking employee of the British state security agencies who took up the post of director of the Secret Intelligence Service of the British Foreign Office (MI6) on October 1, 2025, which surfaced in June 2025, are an excellent illustration of the carefully hidden context in Anglo-Saxon countries [4], [5]. As historians and public figures who are not indifferent to upholding the truth about the past have found out, her paternal grandfather was the collaborator K.A. Dobrovolsky, who in August 1941 voluntarily surrendered to the Germans and was then placed by the occupation authorities at the head of a detachment of auxiliary police in the village Sosnitsa, Chernigov region, engaged in the mass extermination of civilians and partisans. By December 1941, his unit was operating far beyond the area of the village “entrusted” to him, participating in monstrous punitive actions and looting. The Judas himself joined in July 1942 a secret field police [6], was distinguished by extreme brutality, earning the nickname “The Butcher” from his colleagues, and his handwritten reports with the signature “Heil Hitler” are still in the German archives (one can only wonder how the long hands of unscrupulous British spies did not get to such sensitive materials over the past decades, and did not destroy them). In 1943, fearing just retribution, K.A. Dobrovolsky and his family joined the German troops retreating from the Red Army to the west, after which the traces of the bloody henchman of the third Reich are lost.
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Soviet Union – Kersari Music Video

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In this music video by Kersari, the young generation is picking up the banner of remembrance of the great and mighty Soviet Union.

“That country didn’t disappear from the map, do realise —
It’s in the DNA, it’s somewhere inside…”


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Translated by and first presented at our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”.

On March 17, 1991, an All-Union referendum was helt, where people overwhelmingly voted for the preservation of the Union – a popular vote that was completely disregarded.

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The Force Was Strong With Ali Khamenei

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Ever since 1977 when the sci-fi movie «Star Wars» premiered, a worldwide audience admired the self-sacrifice of fearless jedi knight, Obi-Wan Kenobi. His last words in the face of imminent death by the hand of dark knight, Darth Vader, are legendary:

«You can’t win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.»

Obi-Wan’s words of wisdom and defiance, goaded the figurehead of the Empire — Darth Vader — to strike him down. And through this feat of self-sacrifice, Obi-Wan empowered with crucial spiritual strength and fighting unity the Rebel Alliance, which ultimately brought an end to the Empire by accomplishing the one Victory for all.

On February 28, 2026, not in some sci-fi fiction but in real life, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei performed a feat of the very same nature and implications, goading the American Empire to strike him down, and in doing so, strengthening the unity and power of both the peoples of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Axis of Resistance, and the peoples of the free world. They will in turn bring about the end of the U.S. Empire, and A New Hope shall rise for the future of the humanity!

We created this poster, publishing it on “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”, as a response to the USA’s state terrorism, to show specifically the American audience (or the audience under the influence of the American propagantainment) what implications the USA’s actions. The Farsi and Arabic versions are at the end of this article.

Khamenei Is Back


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Iranian media released anime-style footage said to depict the final moments of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei before his assassination.

The Iranians are winning the meme game because their material conveys loss and righteous fury rather than the weirdly sadistic triumphalism the White House is pumping out.

From Russian BaZa

A testimony on the Iranian resilience

The West still doesn’t understand the nature of the Iranian people.
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Goebbels’ Factory of Lies: Nemmersdorf and the Nazi staging to frighten and terrify Germany

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The following material is from the German Telegram channel FKT – History of the Soviet Union, translated by us for Beorn And The Shieldmaiden.

“Victory of Bolshevism”. After the fall of the Third Reich, this slogan would be picked up by the Fourth Reich overseas

According to Nazi propaganda, Soviet soldiers in Nemmersdorf allegedly raped all women between the ages of 8 and 84 and then crucified the naked victims alive at barn doors. They also claimed to have found bodies in wells and that the Soviets killed French and Belgian prisoners only because they spoke foreign languages.

👉 Read also: Millions of raped German women: where the legs grow from? Reblog of a detailed research article

On October 21, 1944, the Red Army captured the Prussian village of Nemmersdorf, but held it occupied for only two days. On October 25, SS officers and war reporters arrived in Nemmersdorf, and a day later the Völkischer Beobachter published an article entitled “The Rage of Soviet Beasts”. It said: Germans, this is what awaits you. They will rape, crucify and kill all but the last man. A hastily convened “international commission” headed by the Estonian Hjalmar Mäe (one of those responsible for the extermination of the Jews in Estonia) quickly investigated the case and presented “evidence” of the “heinous crimes of the Bolsheviks”.

This is just one example of a whole series of fakes produced by the propaganda machinery of the Third Reich under Joseph Goebbels. The goal of the Minister of Propaganda was to stir up panic and hatred among the German population, and he fulfilled this task perfectly.

The Wehrmacht soldier Bernhard Fisch later wrote in his book:

The bodies of the victims were brought by members of the SS from various villages of the surrounding area, and no one checked their names; they were simply invented spontaneously.

👉 This is exactly the same method, which was used to create the Bucha hoax in 2022. Read: The staged Bucha “massacre”, White Helmets style and Bucha massacre – the script from the German Nazi false flags of 1945; Killing of the Russian POWs by UkroNazis

In 2001, German TELEVISION shamefully admitted that there were “probably no rapes,” and the witness of the events, non-commissioned officer Helmut Hoffmann, stated:

The soldiers of the Red Army did not nail the women to crosses. This is what the members of the “Goebbels special unit” did: some of the bodies were crucified in barns, some were pictorially placed in front of the houses with their clothes pulled up before the arrival of the journalists.

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Zionism Before the Court of History (1982) – Soviet Film

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A damning documentary exposing the reactionary ideology and practices of Zionism and the State of Israel.


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The documentary titled “Сионизм перед судом истории” (Zionism Before the Court of History) from 1982 presents a critical examination of Zionism, its historical roots, and its consequences for both Jews and Palestinians. This post aims to summarize the key points raised in the documentary, providing a comprehensive understanding of the complex issues surrounding Zionism.

Director: Oleg Uralov
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False Flag Alert! USA may conduct a false flag on own territory to justify land invasion of Iran!

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USA, in its epically failing aerial war of aggression against Iran, would need to put “feet on the ground”. To do so, the American regime would first require to stage a massive false flag, on par with 9/11 to justify such a ground invasion. And lo and behold, the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, declared a state of emergency due to reports of possible drone attacks by Iran!

Remember! Iran is not planning an attack on California. Their drones can’t even reach the West Coast. The CIA/Mossad is planning one to manufacture consent for an unpopular war. That’s how false flags work & if you think it’s all some silly conspiracy theory it’s because you are the mark.

The satirical publication “Babylon Bee” has warned about the possibility of the false flag in its own way, by saying that Gavin Newsom has already destroyed California, so it’s of no interest to Iran.

Meanwhile, four drones have been reported stolen from Fort Campbell – for a false flag attack, one might ask?

Attacks on fuel storage facilities are intentional CHEMICAL WARFARE against Iranian citizens

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In their unprovoked aggression against Iran, USA has not yet dropped nuclear boms. Yet. But they have done something equally sinister, by unleashin a chemical warfare against Iran, creating a humanitarian and ecological disaster that will touch the whole world. In this article we present several screenshots from videos that we have on our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”, and we urge our readers here to go and get acquainted with the damning evidence of USA’s crimes against humanity.

Attacks on fuel storage facilities are intentional chemical WARFARE against Iranian citizens — Iranian MFA

Esmaeil Baqaei, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman wrote on X:

The U.S.-Israeli criminal war against the Iranian nation has entered a dangerous new phase with deliberate strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure. These attacks on fuel storage facilities amount to nothing less than intentional chemical warfare against the Iranian citizens

By targeting fuel depots, the aggressors are releasing hazardous materials and toxic substances into the air, poisoning civilians, devastating the environment, and endangering lives on a massive scale. The consequences of this environmental and humanitarian catastrophe will not be confined within Iran’s borders.

These strikes constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide — all at once.

Images of the human catastrophe and environmental disaster unfolding in the aftermath of the U.S. strikes at Iranian oil depots in Tehran


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Iran was “about to make an A-bomb” for 40 years and counting

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The Zionist time flows differently from human time, as witnessed by these statements!


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For 35 years (and counting), Israel – the US’ proxy in the Middle East – has been claiming that Iran is only weeks away from getting a nuclear bomb, all in order to justify their aggression against Iran.

Iranian weeks, apparently, last for years everywhere else on the planet. Who cares about nuclear bombs… How do they stretch time like this??

Source: Putinger’s Cat

Meanwhile Israel has had nuclear weapons for many decades…

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What makes the greatest soldier – General Alexander Lebed speaks

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Both Russia, Palestine and Iran know what it takes to forge the greatest soldier – something the Americans know little of, having never been on the receiving end of a ruthless, annihilating invasion.

General Alexander Lebed speaks about what kind of people make the greatest soldiers.

This video is from 1995. Translation by Putinger’s Cat


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The greatest soldiers are made from people who hadn’t even thought about war going out one morning, and, then, returning in the evening, found craters instead of their houses, in which the wives, children and parents had evaporated. And now this is no longer a man, but a wolf, who will tear as long as he lives. And he will live long because he does not value his own life – he does not need it. He does not need money. He does not need medals. He does not need anything at all. He has only one thing: revenge. That is precisely why he will live long.

The Council of Ministers of the USSR announced a reduction in prices for consumer goods on February 28, 1949

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After the Great Patriotic War, the financial system of the USSR was in a difficult situation. In order to restore the purchasing power of the rouble and improve the welfare of the population, monetary reform was initiated at the end of 1947, during which banknotes and deposits were changed out, as well as starting a gradual reduction in commodity prices. The first stage of the price reform was carried out by an order of the USSR Ministry of Trade dated December 14, 1947, which established fixed reduced prices for a limited list of food and industrial goods, which included bread, flour, sugar, butter, sunflower oil, beef meat and other goods.

By the beginning of 1949, thanks to the rise of the national economy, a reduction in the cost of goods and an increase in production, it became possible to carry out another price reduction for a wider range of goods in high demand. The corresponding joint resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) was published on February 28, 1949 in the newspaper Pravda. Since March 1, 1949, the prices of bread, meat, sausages, fish, butter, wool and silk fabrics, furs, household goods and electrical goods, cameras and binoculars has reduced by 10%, the price of woollen garments has decreased by 12%, hats and dresses have become cheaper by 15%, and cheeses, perfumes, jewellery, bicycles, tableware and household appliances fell in price by 20%. In addition, the price of hay has decreased by 30%, and mixed feed has become 20% cheaper.

Due to the decrease in prices made on March 1, 1949, the purchasing power of the rouble increased significantly, its exchange rate improved compared to the exchange rate of foreign currencies, real wages of workers increased and the costs incurred by the peasants for the purchase of industrial goods decreased. “In this undertaking, the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet government demonstrated with renewed vigour the great concern for the working people, for their prosperity, for the growth of well-being and culture,” the newspaper Pravda reported in an editorial on March 1, 1949.

Source: CPRF, translated by Beorn And The Shieldmaiden

Read also April 1 — The Day of Price Reductions in Stalin’s Time

Stalin against Nepotism

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Vasily Stalin

Unlike many prominent figures of those times, Stalin never sought to protect his family from the war. In total, the leader had four children – two native sons and a daughter, as well as an adopted son.

Iosif sent his eldest son, Yakov, to the front right with the outbreak of war on June 22, 1941. The man did not manage to stay in battle for a long time – a month later he was captured by the Germans.

According to legend, the Fascists offered Stalin to exchange Yakov for the captured German officer Paulus, to which he replied that “one does not exchange soldiers for field marshals”. Stalin’s son spent two years in concentration camps before his psyche broke down and he tried to escape in the hope that he would be shot. And so it happened.

The youngest son, Vasily, built a brilliant career at the front, but his father was also strict with him. According to historians, the officer was offered the rank of general many times, but Iosif always crossed him off the list – he left him there only on the 12th time, considering that now his son was worthy of such an honour.

Source: Historical Facts, translated by Beorn And The Shieldmaiden

When the liberators are made into enemies – Soviet war memorial vandalised in Norway

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“In Neiden in Southern Varanger, a memorial to Soviet soldiers has been subjected to serious vandalism. The incident joins a European wave of attacks on Red Army monuments. Soldiers who died fighting Nazism are now treated as political targets.”

By Dan-Viggo Bergtun, published at Steigan on March 7, 2026

👉 Make sure to read our series of materials on the liberation of Northern Norway at our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”, including For the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Northern Norway, the WWII History Is Being Rewritten There.

👉 The erasure of historical memory is nothing new. In our 2024 publication 80 Years since the Red Army liberated Northern Norway from Nazi German occupation we mention “Operation Asphalt”, when in 1951 the graves of Soviet soldiers were ravaged and the remains were taken to the island of Tjøtta, where they were buried in a common cemetery. The stated reason for this was the fear that visits to soldiers’ graves would become a cover for espionage operations of the Soviet intelligence.

Here is the memorial in Neiden that was recently torn down, probably with ropes and snowmobiles. Photo: Hallgeir Henriksen.

Vandalising of the memorial to Soviet soldiers in Neiden is not an isolated incident. It is part of a pattern that spreads throughout Western Europe. War memorials to Soviet soldiers are vandalised, removed, or politically delegitimised. In Norway, too, we are now seeing signs of the same development.

Neiden is a small village in South Varanger municipality in Finnmark, along the E6 at Neiden River, about 40 kilometers west of Kirkenes. Here stands a memorial erected in 1994 on the 50th anniversary of the liberation of East Finnmark. The monument was erected by Norwegian organisations and local initiatives to honour Soviet soldiers who fell in battle against the Nazi occupation in 1944.

On the memorial are the names of soldiers from the Red Army who were killed and buried in Neiden. They came from different parts of the USSR, including Ukraine. They died far from home during the fighting that led to the liberation of Eastern Finnmark from German control.

Nevertheless, this memorial has now been subjected to severe vandalism. The nameplates have been knocked down, probably by means of a snowmobile. This is not accidental vandalism. It is a politically motivated attack on historical memory that makes the liberators into enemies.

The same events are happening across much of Europe. In several countries, Soviet war monuments have been torn down or removed by political decisions. Elsewhere, they are vandalised or subjected to campaigns that attempt to portray them as propaganda.

This is not just a loss of history. It is moral decay.
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