Zelensky’s Bloody ‘Library’ – NTV Documentary, 03.04.2022 (English subtitles)

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On the 3rd of April 2022 NTV aired a special documentary in the series “New Russian Sensations”. The title of the documentary is “Zelensky’s Bloody ‘Library'” and tells about the atrocities committed by the neo-Nazi “Azov” militants and SBU in the secret prison called “The Library” under the Mariupol airport. The majority of the documentary is dedicated to the witness accounts of the former inmates and to the testimony of an under-cover former SBU officer. A number of the testimonials of the locals residents of Mariupol and the flashback to the events of the 9th of May 2014 are also included.

After watching the documentary, I decided to record and translate it to English. This was a hard process, given the emotionally draining content. Still I took every care to make the translation as accurate as possible. The subtitles of the documentary film can be downloaded separately, and the complete transcript is presented below the video frame of the film, hosted on Odysee and Rumble, and can be viewed in either of the embedded players below.

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On the 15th of April the censored SputnikNews had a short note about “The Library” as part of Donbass. Genocide. 2014-2022 — articles from SputnikNews:

Torture of Donbass Civilians in Secret Mariupol Prison

The republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (DPR, LPR) announced their independence from Ukraine following a coup in Kiev in February 2014. In response, Ukraine launched a military operation against the fledgling states, which escalated into a genocidal war against the Donbass population.

A secret prison, dubbed ‘The Library’, in which Ukrainian forces and nationalists like the Dnipro Battalion tortured Donbass militia fighters and civilians, used to operate at the Mariupol airport in 2014-2015. The prison had a special torture room in a separate building, where people suspected of sympathising with the separatist republics were subject to inhumane treatment.

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The All-Union Parade of Athletes on August 12, 1945

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It is the victorious year of 1945.

Our Cause is Just – We Have Won!

For the first time since the end of the Great Patriotic War, a parade of athletes is taking place on the Red Square. The leaders of the country are standing on the podium of the Mausoleum. There are representatives of foreign countries in the guest stands. The delegations of all the republics in national costumes are marching in columns. This parade was supposed to symbolise the revival of the pre-war tradition, which was not so much a sporting event as an ideological one.
While this was parade of the Victors.


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Stalin Prize for 1945 in the field of chronicle and documentary cinematography went to cameramen Semenov S.A., Makaseev B.K., Shchekutyev A.G., Monglovsky Yu.V. for the colour film “Athlete Parade of 1945”

At the conclusion of the parade, all the participants sing the Anthem of the Soviet Union.

One of the testimonies found on the Internet:

To prepare for this show, my uncle was recalled from the front back in March 1945. He said it was then that he realised that the war was about to end. The daily schedule, training and good nutrition for six months made them real athletes. Everything took place in secrecy. He was even forbidden to tell anything about his residence in the sports camp and what he was doing to his relatives. He wrote that he was beating Germans in Austria, in Germany. In short, whatever Levitan would be saying.

👉 Watch also the pre-War “Blooming Youth” Athlete Parades from 1937, 1938 and 1939.

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Stalin: “From now on we shall know what kind of allies we are dealing with.”

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A full year passed after the telegram exchange between Winston Churchill and Stafford Cripps, where Churchill cynically laid the blame on the USSR for the start of WWII, and where Britain adopted a wait-and-see position. No second front was still forthcoming.

Iosif Stalin was fully aware of what kind of allies Britain and the USA were, as becomes apparent from the following two telegrams, sent by him to the USSR ambassador to Great Britain, I.M. Maisky on October 19 and 28, 1942.

Telegram from the Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR, I.V. Stalin, to the USSR ambassador to Great Britain, I.M. Maisky, on the intentions of the head of the British government, W. Churchill

From the Electronic Library of Historical Documents.

October 19, 1942
We all have the impression in Moscow that Churchill is pursuing a course aimed at the defeat of the USSR, in order to then conspire with Hitler’s Germany or Breuning at the expense of our country. Without such an assumption, it is difficult to explain Churchill’s behaviour on the issue of the second front in Europe, on the issue of arms supplies to the USSR, which are progressively declining despite the growth of production in Britain, on the issue of Hess, whom Churchill apparently keeps in reserve, and finally on the issue of the systematic bombing of Berlin by the British during September, which Churchill proclaimed in Moscow and which he did not fulfill one iota, despite the fact that he certainly could have done it.
I. Stalin

Soviet-British relations during the Great Patriotic War 1941 – 1945: Documents and materials: In 2 volumes. Vol. 1. 1941 – 1943. Moscow, 1983. p. 294.

It is noteworthy that as early as August 30, 1941 — a whole month before the Churchill-Stafford communication — I.V. Stalin wrote to I.M. Maisky:

“In fact, the British government is helping the Nazis with its passive wait-and-see policy. The Nazis want to beat their opponents one by one — the Russians today, the British tomorrow. The fact that England applauds us and scolds the Germans with the last words does not change the matter at all. Do the British understand this? I think they do. What do they want? They seem to want to weaken us. If this assumption is correct, we need to be careful about the British.”

(Soviet-British relations… Vol. 1. p. 109)

A follow-up telegram from I.V. Stalin to I.M. Maisky with arguments in favour of his point of view that W. Churchill is aiming for the defeat of the USSR

From the Electronic Library of Historical Documents.

London. Sov.Embassy. For Maisky.
October 28, 1942

I have received your suggestions. I found a lot of interesting and instructive things in them. A number of your suggestions coincide with the events we have planned.

I still think that, being a proponent of an easy war, Churchill will easily succumb to the influence of those who are pursuing a course aimed at the defeat of the Soviet Union, because the defeat of our country and compromise with Germany at the expense of the Soviet Union is the easiest form of war between Britain and Germany.

Of course, the British will later realise that without the Russian front on the continent of Europe, if France fails, they, i.e. the British, are doomed to perish. But when will they realise this?

We shall see in due course.

I doubt that the British would support the Northern operation. They’re just talking about it for show.

Churchill told us in Moscow that by the beginning of the spring of ’43, about a million Anglo-American troops would open a second front in Europe. But Churchill seems to be one of those figures who easily make a promise, in order to just as easily forget about it or even blatantly break it.

He also solemnly promised in Moscow to bomb Berlin intensively during September-October. However, he did not fulfil his promise and did not even try to inform Moscow about the motives for non-fulfilment.

Well, from now on, we shall know what kind of allies we are dealing with.

I have little faith in Operation Torch. If, contrary to expectations, this operation ends successfully, we can come to terms with the fact that they took away our planes for this operation.

I spoke to Wilkie and informed Roosevelt that in the next 12 months we will need to receive 2 million tons of wheat from the United States. Wilkie said that the United States doesn’t know what to do with its bread and that our request is quite feasible. Roosevelt responded positively, but did not offer anything concrete. Your proposal to involve Canada in this matter is absolutely correct, as Canada also doesn’t know what to do with its bread.
STALIN

“Stalin and Churchill. Meetings. Talks. Discussions: Documents, comments. 1941 – 1945.” 2004. Page 378.

Georgy Zhukov: “Not one step back – this is the Motherland’s combat order to us, the defenders of Moscow…”

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November 1, 1941 – Commander of the Western Front General Georgy Zhukov and member of the Front’s Military Council Nikolai Bulganin gave the order: “Not one step back – this is the Motherland’s combat order to us, the defenders of Moscow. This is what Comrade Stalin ordered… Deal mercilessly with cowards and deserters.”

At the command post of the Western Front in the fall of 1941. In the photo: G.K. Zhukov, N.A. Bulganin, V.D. Sokolovsky

A month after the start of Operation Typhoon, the situation at the front was becoming critical: the Nazi invaders managed to encircle a large group of Soviet armies near Vyazma, take Kalinin and other cities on the outskirts of Moscow. The capital was under siege, and enterprises and institutions were being evacuated.

Despite the difficult situation, there was no intention of surrendering the capital – Stalin and the top leadership of the state remained in the city, all city services continued to function, and on November 1, 1941, the troops of the Western Front were given order number 051, signed by the commander of the Western Front Zhukov and member of the Front’s Military Council Bulganin:

«FIGHTING FRIENDS, RED ARMY SOLDIERS, COMMANDERS AND POLITICAL WORKERS!

In these harsh days, the Motherland, our people and our Great STALIN have entrusted us with the protection of our native and beloved MOSCOW. The Motherland has entrusted us with a responsible and honourable task: to become an indestructible wall and block the path of the German hordes to our capital.

Not one step back — this is the Motherland’s combat order to us, the defenders of Moscow.
This is what Comrade Stalin ordered… Deal mercilessly with cowards and deserters.»

This order was important for maintaining discipline in the troops and raising the morale of soldiers and officers. The slogan “Not one step back!” had a strong psychological impact and emphasised that there was no land beyond Moscow, that it was necessary to fight to the death.
With the help of tough wording and measures, Commander Zhukov managed to stop the enemy’s advance, and already on December 5, the troops of the Western Front launched a counteroffensive, during which the enemy was thrown back hundreds of kilometers from Moscow — Operation Barbarossa failed.
Source: CPRF

The order of the Commander of the Western Front troops on the further mobilisation of all forces to repel the enemy

The complete text of the order as presented at the Electronic Library of Historical Documents, with the text sourced from “G.K.Zhukov in the Battle of Moscow. A Collection of Documents”, 1994, pages 33-34.

“That’s how it was… and that’s how it will be!” Poster by Nikolai Dolgorukov, 1941. Source: digital exhibition of the Nekrasov library, “The Artists of Victory”.

November 1, 1941

Active army

A month has passed since the Nazi invaders launched their offensive. The Hitlerite hordes are straining every effort and are madly rushing towards Moscow. The troops of the Western Front, who have the historic task of defending Moscow, are putting up heroic resistance to the enemy onslaught.
In heavy bloody battles, defending every inch of their native land, their families, their children, fathers and mothers, defending their freedom and independence, our troops repel this onslaught of the enemy. Every step forward is taken by the Germans at the cost of enormous losses.
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Churchill’s cynicism towards war-torn Russia

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The following material is based on a post from the channel “WWII Day by Day”. We did some additional research, locating the texts of the mentioned telegrams. Kudos to ЭТО Я for the lead and inspiration, plus DeepSeek AI for the detective work assistance.

October 28, 1941: The entire double game of England is revealed in the telegram exchange of the British ambassador to Moscow, Sir Stafford Cripps, and the British PM, Winston Churchill.

On October 26, the British Ambassador to Moscow, Stafford Cripps, sent a telegram to the Foreign Office in London, explicitly stating what the Prime Minister needed to understand:

  1. The Russians do not trust England; they know that London is waiting for them to do everything for the English.
  2. The English (the delegation that participated in the Moscow Conference at the end of September) did not bother to explain anything at the military level. And there were people who could have done so.

Harold Lionel Ismay, a British general from 1940 to 1945, was the chief military advisor to Churchill. He was in Moscow and participated in the Moscow Conference of the three powers from September 29 to October 1. Cripps explains to Churchill that the lack of proper staff-level negotiations leads to a fatal misunderstanding by the Russians of the motives of the British. In a report on the conference, prepared by Ismay himself, it was written:

“No negotiations on military matters were held with the Russian General Staff…”

Ismay only exchanged a few words with Stalin informally during a reception at the Kremlin. Stalin already told the British generals that Great Britain must have a strong and large land army:

“The entire situation in Europe has changed. England will never be able to rely solely on its fleet…”

Cripps, in general, understands everything and feels a certain moral wrongness. He writes frankly: “…We have never honestly explained our own position to them…” In other words, England was never honest with the USSR during the war, says the ambassador in Moscow!

Winston Churchill discussed this telegram with members of the British government on the night of October 27-28. And on October 28, he sent a fantastically cynical response telegram to Cripps. This is a set of instructions to him as a diplomat — the official British position. Moreover, Churchill, knowing Cripps’s character and understanding that he belonged to a different faction of the British elite, stated that he did not really want to talk about what he was writing publicly, but he was willing to do so if Cripps “gave him out”.

The telegram is also interesting because it contains the exact words that are now repeated by some of our “historians”… well, those who tirelessly call for repentance for all “Stalin’s mistakes in World War II” and in general “for its outbreak”… Read it, it’s just a manual of talking points.
Keep in mind that this is the same Churchill who, on June 22, 1941, publicly said something completely different on the radio! The one who promised to help in every way possible, but so far has not helped at all… because the Germans are at the gates of Moscow, and it seems like this is the end for the Russians… they are to blame for it themselves…

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A partial text of Stafford Cripps’ telegram to Winston Churchill, October 26, 1941

The complete text of the telegram is not available in English on the Internet. We found the Russian translation containing five paragraphs of the telegram at the Electronic Library of Historical Documents. It is sourced from the 2015 book “The Road to Great Victory. USSR through the eyes of the Western contemporaries: Documents and Materials”, which in turn source archive number “TNA, PREM 3/395/6”. Below we present a reverse translation of the text to English.
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Call for a monument in memory of Alexis Castillo, Russell Bentley and all Warriors-Internationalists defending Donbass

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Alexis Castillo, Colombian communist, internationalist fighter died on October 28, 2022, in battle near the village of Peski in the Yasinovatsky district.

Alexis heeded the call of Donbass and took his place in the armed struggle against Ukrainian nazism after the Odessa massacre on May 2, 2014. He chose the call sign “Alfonso,” in honour of the legendary Colombian partisan leader, FARC guerilla commander Alfonso Cano, whom he admired.

As he explained in an interview with Radio France Internationale, while living in Spain, he joined an anti-fascist coordinating group. It was there, among communist militants, that he studied what was happening in Ukraine:

“Some of us set up structures to send humanitarian aid, and others of us organised ourselves to travel to Ukraine and help in any way possible, whether in hospitals or even helping to defend ourselves with weapons. This happened after the Donetsk and Lugansk republics were bombed after holding an independence referendum to separate from Ukraine.”

Alexis’ heroic deed lasted for 8 years, having come to Donbass neither for medals nor for glory, but to fight against the resurgence of fascism. He was wounded, but returned to the front. Donetsk became Alexis Castillo’s home, he found love, married and farthered a son.

Alexis Castillo was a member of the Central Committee of the Lenin Komsomol of the Donetsk People’s Republic.

When the sad news of Alexis’ death became known, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the DPR published the words of tribute:

An internationalist warrior from Colombia, a member of the Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic (KPDPR), a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth of the DPR, Alexis Castillo (callsign Alfonso), died under shelling from shrapnel wounds. He fought off the offensive of the Ukrainian Nazis on the village of Peski.
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Alexis Castillo was born in Colombia and lived in Spain for a long time. Eight years ago, he came to defend the inhabitants of Donbass from Ukrainian Nazism.

Our deceased comrade was a convinced communist, a decent and modest man. Until the end of his life, he remained faithful to his duty as an internationalist warrior.

In Donetsk, Alexis is survived by his wife and son. We extend our condolences to his family and friends.

Everlasting memory!

Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic
October 28, 2022

Source, translated by Struggle – La Lucha

On October 28, 2022, having received the sad news of Alexis’ death, his friend, Portuguese journalist Bruno Amaral de Carvalho, who lives in Donetsk, wrote:

“We could talk on the phone for hours about everything and nothing. About military operations, about how we would like to see the future, about international politics, about punk bands in Madrid and the Basque Country, and about our favourite foods.

We always said goodbye with the words: “Take care of yourself, brother,” as if each conversation could be our last. As if I could no longer confess to him how much I miss cod, as if he could no longer recount his arguments about the superiority of rum over vodka. This time it turned out to be true… he fell,during a battle near the village of Peski in the Yasinovatsky district. convinced of the rightness of his fight against fascism.

Many mothers on both sides mourn their sons, and there is nothing more terrible in war than this line of bodies floating before our eyes… one day we will look from the distance of the wrinkles of time at all these young guys who never grew old and never knew their grandchildren.

Today is the night of tears for Alexis’s mother, his wife and, together with them, so many others in Colombia and the Donbass. His convictions forced him to give his life for someone else’s land, which had just become his. Goodbye forever, brother.”
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Bright and eternal memory!

🔥 Commemoration of Alexis in Donbass in 2023.

Tribute from Makeevka CPRF

– translated by Lyudmila Bentley

Four years ago, on October 28, 2022, a brave warrior and internationalist, senior reconnaissance officer of the 3rd Guards Separate Special Purpose Battalion of the Guard, Corporal Castillo González, Christian Alexis, fell in battle. During the Special Military Operation, Castillo carried out combat missions in Mariupol, Volnovakha, Peski, Kamenka, Novobakhmutovka, and Vodianoye. Between October 12 and 27, Castillo, as part of an assault group, participated in offensive operations near the settlement of Vodianoye. During defensive operations at the occupied lines, the unit led by Guard Corporal Castillo repelled 14 enemy counterattacks, during which the enemy lost 9 units of armored vehicles and at least 70 Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters. On October 28, 2022, Guard Corporal Castillo sustained injuries incompatible with life. For heroism, bravery, and self‑sacrifice demonstrated while carrying out tasks in combat conditions, by Decree No. 132 of the Head of the DPR dated April 28, 2023, Guard Corporal Castillo was posthumously awarded the “St. George’s Cross” of the 4th Class.

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A message from Lyudmila Bentley

– translated by Putinger’s Cat.

As many of you know, Russell Bentley was fluent in Spanish. Owing to his knowledge of Spanish and his good-naturedness, “Texas” had many comrades among the internationalist soldiers in the DPR, as well as among those people from other countries who had long lived in the land of Donbass and those locals who had studied Spanish and English, and practiced communicating in those languages. During the war years, many joint meetings and events took place, and plenty of good things were done for the society, especially, for the children. ❤️‍🔥

Today I am publishing a call to all the good people, by Russell’s great friend, chairman of the regional public organization for the preservation of the Romanesque (Latin) culture, languages, and traditions, “The Latin Society” of the DPR, Luis Hernando Munoz Castaneda, and comrades from the Communist Party of the DPR. Please respond to this call, participate, and share it with those who would also like to participate! Together, we make this world a better place! 🤠✊🏻

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Brands of the Soviet Era: “The Baikal-Amur Mainline”

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On October 27, 1984, the official opening of through train service along the entire Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) took place.


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In 1924, at the Council of Labour and Defence of the USSR, there was talk about the need to build a railway mainline parallel to the Trans-Siberian Railway, located further from the border, in the interior of the country. Two years later, topographic reconnaissance of the area began. The name “Baikal-Amur Mainline” was first mentioned in a 1930 project. Two years later, the Sovnarkom of the USSR made a final decision on its construction. At that time, the first meters of rails were laid. Even before the start of the Great Patriotic War, a second track was laid on the BAM.

However, in 1941, the already laid tracks were dismantled and used for the construction of a railway mainline along the Volga. In the post-war years, the construction of the BAM continued.

By the early 60s, more than 1,150 out of 4,000 kilometers of the BAM route were put into operation. In 1973, the Vostochny port was opened, which became the sea gate of the mainline.

1974 was the year of the second birth of the BAM. On April 24 of that year, the 17th Congress of the VLKSM opened in the Kremlin, and the Komsomol took over the supervision of the construction of the BAM. Subsequently, the BAM became known as named after Lenin Komsomol. The country’s leadership understood that it was impossible to build a railway on enthusiasm alone, in tents, without modern technology. The Komsomol members received decent salaries. For 2-3 years of work on the BAM, they could save up for a car and a cooperative apartment. But in interviews, former BAM workers, one and all, repeat that what attracted them most was the romance and the opportunity to become a participant in a large-scale project.
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1998 Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski on Afghanistan in Le Nouvel Observateur

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The interview is published on the site of University of Arizona, sourced from Zbigniew Brzezinski and Vincent Jauvert, “Les Révélations d’un Ancien Conseiller de Carter: ‘Oui, la CIA est Entrée en Afghanistan avant les Russes…’” Le Nouvel Observateur [Paris], January 15-21,1998.

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Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs that the American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahiddin in Afghanistan six months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a key role in this affair. Is this correct?

Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahiddin began during 1980,that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan on December 24, 1979. But the reality, closely guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was Ju ly 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention [emphasis added throughout].

Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked for a way to provoke it?

B: It wasn’t quite like that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

Q : When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against secret US involvement in Afghanistan, nobody believed them. However, there was an element of truth in this. You don’t regret any of this today? 

B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter, essentially: “We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.” Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war that was unsustainable for the regime, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Q: And neither do you regret having supported Islamic fundamentalism, which has given arms and advice to future terrorists?

B : What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some agitated Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Q : “Some agitated Moslems”? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today…

B: Nonsense! It is said that the West has a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid: There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner, without demagoguery or emotionalism. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among fundamentalist Saudi Arabia, moderate Morocco, militarist Pakistan, pro-Western Egypt, or secularist Central Asia? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries…

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🦇 As an afterword

The final paragraph from Scott.net article Grand architect of modern terrorism: The true horror of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s policies serves as a poignant afterword to the above historical text:

Brzezinski died safely in a hospital bed, unlike the millions of displaced and murdered civilians who were pawns in Brzezinski’s twisted, geopolitical chess games of blood and lunacy. His legacy is one of militant jihadism, the formation of al-Qaeda, the most devastating attack on U.S. soil by a foreign entity in our recent history, and the complete denigration of Russia as an everlasting adversary with which peace cannot — and should not — ever be attained.

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Postscriptum from the same article

Brzezinski himself advocated taking over Ukraine in his 1998 book, “The Grand Chessboard”, stating Ukraine was “a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard…a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country (means) Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.” Brzezinski warned against allowing Russia to control Ukraine because “Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.”

The CIA first tested the Maidan technology 70 years ago in Hungary

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Channel FKT – Geschichte der Sowjetunion — History of the Soviet Union — details the run-up to the attempted fascist coup in Hungary in October of 1956. The publication translated by us at “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”.

👉 Read also our prior multi-part article The Hungarian “Revolt” of 1956 – a detailed historical look at the events!

On July 18, 1956, the country’s leadership resigned due to street protests. Three months later, a bloody coup took place there. The American intelligence service had been preparing this special operation for eight years.

Declassified archival documents reveal the intentions of the secret operations of the USA, reports the writer and intelligence historian Gennadi Sokolov.

THE COLD WAR

♦️The experience with organising subversive activities against the USSR is still well utilised by US intelligence agencies today. In modern history, again against Russia with the Ukrainian Maidan.

❓ How did the Maidan protests begin back then?

In Washington, it was not immediately realised that they were necessary. Initially, the goal was set to directly destroy the former ally in World War II. For this purpose, US President Harry Truman already in September 1945, the year of victory, ordered the Pentagon to develop Operation “Totality”. It was planned to drop 196 atomic bombs on the 20 largest cities and industrial centers of the USSR.

However, the enthusiasm of the American generals was dampened by the possible heavy losses of the famous “Flying Fortresses” – B-29 bombers with atomic bombs – in attacks on Soviet cities. According to Pentagon estimates, up to 55 percent!

Military experts also warned that in the event of a conflict, the Soviet tank armies stationed in Eastern Europe would reach the Atlantic coast within one to two weeks! This was also a restraining factor. However, the development of similar secret plans for a nuclear war against the USSR continued (“Chariot,” “Fleetwood,” “Trojal,” “Dropshot,” etc.).

The appearance of the atomic bomb in the USSR in 1949 forced the American “hawks” to retreat to avoid a nuclear counterstrike from Moscow. The plans for a “hot” war were replaced by a “cold” war.

Overseas, a whole complex of measures was developed in various areas:

  1. Geopolitics – founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation NATO under the aegis of the USA in 1949.
  2. Economy and finance – introduction of the Bretton Woods system after the war, based on the dollar instead of gold, as well as the Marshall Plan in 1948.
  3. Propaganda – broadcasting of the radio stations “Radio Free Europe” and “Radio Liberty” in the countries of the Socialist Bloc since 1953.
  4. Secret subversive activities – founding of the CIA’s Special Operations division in 1948.

Essentially, it was already a multi-layered or, as we say today, hybrid war. Its goal was to undermine the power of the USSR and the Eastern European countries, which according to the agreements of Yalta between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill in 1945 on the division of spheres of influence after the war had fallen into the Kremlin’s sphere of influence. Thus, “Directive 10/2” was created.

What kind of directive is this?

June 10, 1948

Top secret

National Security Council of the United States

Directive NSC 10/2

… The National Security Council has decided that in the interest of world peace, the measures of the US government must be supplemented by covert operations…

This mission is assigned to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) …

The head of the new “covert” operational area of the CIA was the veteran of the American intelligence service Frank George Wisner. He is the father of secret sabotage operations, including Maidan movements, uprisings, and coups far beyond America’s borders. In countries that Washington did not approve of. However, he made a name for himself not only through the first Maidan movements in Hungary, Poland, and East Germany.
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Katyn – a lie that has become history. Why do some Russian politicians continue to repent for everything that our ancestors did not do?

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The article, the translation of which we are presenting here, was written by Yuri Krinitsky and Philip Sorokin, and first published by Military Industrial Courier (WebArchived version) on June 8, 2021 (Issue No. 21 (884)). It was later re-blogged by historian Nikolai Starikov.

“Today Katyn is a propaganda weapon of the Polish establishment in the struggle for political dividends. It uses various methods, including falsifications, lies, and double standards.”

Mikhail Gorbachev’s transfer of the “Special Folder No. 1” to the President of the Republic of Poland, Wojciech Jaruzelski

On August 25, 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin said: “Forgive us,” he laid a wreath at the monument to the victims of Katyn in Warsaw. After that, the governments of Russia and Poland agreed on the construction of memorials in Katyn and Mednoye. It would seem that a a mutual rapprochement step has been taken… But over the years, the inaccuracies and falsifications in the “official” (Goebbel-Polish-Gorbachev-Yeltsin) version of the shooting of Poles have become more and more obvious. Especially if both Katyn and Mednoye themes are viewed as a whole.

There are two burials on the territory of Russia, the history of which is deliberately muddled and used for information warfare purposes. One is in the Smolensk region (Katyn forest, Kozye Gory tract), the second is in the Tver (former Kalinin) region, near the village of Mednoye. Polish prisoners of war were shot and laid to rest here in the early 40s of the twentieth century. But there are two fundamentally different opinions about the number of people killed, the date and the perpetrators of the crime.

According to the version of the Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels – which is also the version of the current Polish leadership and the liberal elite of modern Russia – Poles were executed by NKVD officers a year before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. According to the Soviet version, the prisoners did not have time to evacuate during the retreat of the Red Army. They ended up on the territory occupied by German troops, and in the fall of 1941 they were shot by the Nazis.
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The Katyn Schism. Gorbachev and his followers became confounded in repentance

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The article by Yuri Krinitsky and Andrey Romanchenko was published in Military Industrial Courier (WebArchived version ) on May 22, 2018 (Issue No. 19 (732)).

Representatives of the NKVD-NKGB commission and the special commission at the ChGK in Katyn. Photo: 2w.su

The West’s desire to weaken the authority of our country is dragging up to the surface even old disagreements that arose decades ago. In the Katyn tragedy, which any enlightened person knows about today, there are proven and controversial facts. The mass execution of captured Polish officers is generally recognised. But there is uncertainty about the date of the shooting, the number of people killed, and the perpetrators of the crime.

The discussion around these “minor details” has long acquired the character of an information struggle, in which history has become a weapon of politics. But what if, without taking a priori anyone’s position in this dispute, we conduct an uncompromising and independent assessment to what degree the knowledge that exists about the events in the Kozye Gory tract of the Smolensk region is sufficient to identify the true perpetrators of the crime committed there?
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“I’m the tsar, if I want to, I’ll give it away!”: Yeltsin was going to give the Kuril Islands to Japan

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The Russian Federation was not yet a year old, when Yeltsin was planning to give away the land, required with the blood of the Soviet soldiers in 1945. This is the story of how Yeltsin’s grand giveaway of the Kuril Islands was thwarted. It is told over 3 articles, each bringing additional details and food for thought.

“I’m the tsar, if I want to, I’ll give it away!”

Boris Konstantinovich Ratnikov

Boris Konstantinovich Ratnikov, 71, Retired Major General of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. In 1969 he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, in 1974 he graduated from the Higher Courses of the KGB of the USSR. He spent 3.5 years on a mission in the Republic of Afghanistan through the KGB. He participated in combat operations, was awarded orders and medals. 1991-1994 – First Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of Security of the Russian Federation. He was engaged in ensuring the security of the country’s top officials, including through the use of psi technologies. Then he became the chief consultant in the Security Service of the President of Russia, adviser to the head of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. Currently, he is the head of the Information and Analytical Center of the National Association of Bodyguards of Russia.

Below is an interview of B.K.Ratnikov conducted by the correspondent of Komzomolskaya Pravda, Evegeny Chernyh on October 19, 2017.

Ratnikov: On August 21, 1992, the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1553-r “On the preparation of the visit of the President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin to Japan” was signed by Gaidar, General Ratnikov recalls. – A working group was created headed by S. Glazyev, the then First Deputy Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of Russia. The historic visit was scheduled for September. I learned that in Tokyo Yeltsin was preparing to transfer 2-3 islands of the Kuril Ridge to Japan to demonstrate his new political course. Boris Nikolaevich wanted to show himself as a peacemaker. Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev did not give up the islands, I could! He was encouraged to take this step by a number of figures from his inner circle.

Chernyh: Who exactly?

– Kozyrev, for example, who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Japanese had already happily promised us the first loan of $100 million. But the Kuril Islands are a very sensitive issue. This is both the integrity of Russia and the fate of our citizens living there. Where would they go? There was no relocation or employment program. All this would have caused outrage in the country. General Georgy Rogozin and I decided to test the situation and see possible scenarios.

Rogozin was a strong “psychic operator” (BATS note: that is, an able analyst). We were literally stunned by the information we received. As soon as Yeltsin hands over the islands to Japan, China will immediately lay claim to its disputed territories to Russia. At that time, hundreds of kilometers of the border with China were not demarcated. An armed conflict could have started.

– As on Damansky Island in the spring of 1969. Then we lost 58 border guards, the Chinese lost about three hundred.

– This time, the conflict could become more widespread and even escalate into a major war that would weaken Russia and China, two competitors of the United States. That’s what the calculation was for overseas. Through agents of influence in the CPC Central Committee, Washington would have pushed the Chinese leadership to take decisive action. The Russians gave the disputed Kuril Islands to Japan, and what about us? If they don’t give up the territory, we’ll take it ourselves! After all, the Yankees had their hands not only on Kozyrev, who now lives in the United States, but also on responsible Chinese comrades. The international community would declare China an aggressor. The United Nations and a number of countries would apply economic and political sanctions against an aggressor who encroached on the sovereign territory of another state. Or perhaps they would have divided the Celestial Empire into ethnic regions. Beijing was in Washington’s way in establishing a unipolar world after the collapse of the USSR and the Eastern Bloc. Moscow was also in the way, but having lost the Soviet republics, it was in the background.

It was this catastrophic scenario that a seemingly innocent, peacemaking transfer of the disputed Kuril Islands to Japan led to, to which Yeltsin was pushed by Kozyrev.

I decided to check through the intelligence and counterintelligence agencies whether this information has a basis, can events develop according to the predicted scenario? A thorough check has shown that the alleged situation and its consequences are quite real. The islands could not be given away.
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Nuremberg Trials through the eyes of the Soviet caricaturists

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Several of the episodes described in the article Nuremberg at 80: How do you put a death machine on trial? An article reblog were immortalised in the caricatures, drawn by the Soviet caricaturists observing the trials.

The last line of the German-Fascist defence. The defenders at work

A 1945 caricature from the Nuremberg trials by “Kukryniksy”.

In Krokodil issue №6 of 1982, there was a large publication, celebrating the famous Soviet art collective “Kukryniksy” — Mihail Kupriyanov, Porfiry Krylov, Nikolai Sokolov. The publication went under the title “My Veterans”, and featured, among other, excerpts from their book “The Three of Us Together”. Below is one such fragment:
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Nuremberg at 80: How do you put a death machine on trial? An article reblog

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— An article by Evgeny Norin, Russian journalist and historian focused on war and conflict in the former Soviet Union, published at RT.

A courtroom gave the defeated Reich’s leaders a chance to defend themselves – and the world a record of crimes they could no longer conceal

RT composite. © Getty Images

On the night of October 16, 1946, 10 individuals were hanged in the Nuremberg prison. These were the main Nazi criminals who had been captured and brought to trial.

Despite the horrifying scale and brutality of the crimes, the Nuremberg Trials remain one of the most controversial proceedings in world history.

Justice instead of revenge

The idea of an international tribunal to address Nazi atrocities had been considered for some time. In 1942, the Soviet Union established a special Extraordinary Commission that gathered information about these crimes. Tragically, it had a lot of work to do. The USSR became the primary battleground for the bloodiest and most brutal war in Europe.

The range and nature of the crimes committed on Soviet soil were staggering: genocide against multiple peoples, mass killings on various grounds, all sorts of war crimes, deliberate attacks on medical facilities and civilian infrastructure, arbitrary executions, economic exploitation, and sexual violence. Essentially, every town liberated from the Nazis had enough evidence to warrant its own tribunal. When the concentration camps were liberated, it became clear that Allied propaganda had not exaggerated but rather understated the extent of Nazi atrocities.

In addition to the Soviet government, the exiled governments of occupied countries – Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway, France, and Yugoslavia – also wanted to hold the Nazis legally accountable for their crimes.

On October 19, 1943, the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union, the USA, and Great Britain began, with Vyacheslav Molotov, Cordell Hull, and Anthony Eden.
On October 30, they and the Chinese Ambassador to the USSR, Fu Bingchang, adopted the Declaration of the Four Governments on General Security, proclaiming the determination of the governments of the USA, Great Britain, the USSR, and China “in accordance with the Declaration of the United Nations of January 1, 1942, and subsequent declarations, to continue military actions against those Axis powers with which they are respectively at war until those powers lay down their arms on the basis of unconditional surrender.”
At the initiative of the USSR, on October 30, the Moscow Declaration on the Responsibility of the Hitlerites for Atrocities Committed was adopted.
It contained a warning that “German soldiers and officers and members of the Nazi Party <…> will be sent to the countries where their heinous crimes were committed so that they can be tried and punished according to the laws of these liberated countries.”
The declaration stated that “the Allied powers will surely find them even at the ends of the earth and hand them over to their accusers so that justice may be done.”
The leaders of the Third Reich and other officials, “whose crimes are not connected with a specific geographic location,” were to be handed over to an international tribunal.
Source: Historian Magazine, translated by Beorn And The Shieldmaiden

The outlines of the future tribunal began to take shape in the fall of 1943 during a conference in Moscow attended by the foreign ministers of the ‘Big Three’ – the USSR, the UK, and the US. The three powers agreed that Nazi leaders who committed crimes across multiple nations should be tried by an international court.

At that time, even the idea of lynching Nazi leaders seemed valid. Benito Mussolini was executed along with his mistress by Italian partisans on April 28, 1945, without any trial. Their mutilated bodies were publicly displayed. No one mourned Mussolini; similarly, no one would have objected if a Red Army soldier had shot Hitler.

Mussolini’s corpse hanged at Piazzale Loretto after his execution in Milan in 1945. © Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images

Sporadic acts of vigilante justice also occurred as the war neared its end. A well-known incident involved American soldiers executing the staff of the Dachau concentration camp. Polish troops beat to death Oscar Dirlewanger, the commander of a punitive brigade responsible for countless deaths in Belarus and Poland.

Yet vigilante justice was not what the Allied leaders envisioned.
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Japanese Yasukuni Shrine and what kind of demons worship there

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On October 17, 2026, TASS News Agency reported that Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has sent an offering to the Yasukuni Shinto shrine, which is considered a symbol of militarism in China and several other Asian countries, according to Kyodo news agency.

Takaichi refrained from making a personal visit to the shrine not to create diplomatic problems with South Korea and China, which react sharply to such pilgrimages. The offering was made on the occasion of the traditional autumn festival celebrated at the shrine.

On September 8, 2024, it was the ambassador of Ukranazistan who was worshipping at the Yasukuni Shrine

In a slightly sarcastic post at LiveJournal we could read a bemused description of somewhat of an unreal event, should we have lived in a normal world:

The Ukrainian Embassy in Japan dropped by to the Yasukuni Shrine to worship the “ghosts of fallen soldiers.” (allies of the hitlerites)

There is a memorial in the Yasukuni Shrine to all those who fought for the Third Reich, and occupied China on top of that.

Well, it’s understandable – where else would the Hohols go if there’s no SS march nearby (this is not the Baltics, after all), but for their relations with China this is a veritable control shot in the head. Flowers were laid at the memorial of “employees of detachment 731”, and all that jazz.

And the Chinese went all out with the topic of the visit of the Ukrainian ambassador to Japan – on the date of the end of World War II and the date of remembrance of those killed in China – to the Japanese Yasukuni Shrine, worshipping the Nazi criminals.

Back then, the Ukro-Nazi ambassador to Japan visited the temple just a week after Russian FSB , on August 31, 2024, had declassified certain documents pertaining Detachment 731.

❗The FSB has released a declassified archival document about Japan’s use of bacteriological weapons against Soviet troops during the battles at the Khalkhin-Gol River in late August 1939.

This atrocity was committed by Detachment No. 731 of the Kwantung Army, infamous for its monstrous experiments in infecting people with deadly infections.

By the way, we call it the “Battles of Khalkhin Gol,” Mongolia – the “Khalkhin Gol War”, and Japan called just the “Nomon Khan Incident”.

The atrocities that Detachment 731 committed are too numerous to describe in one publication. Below is an article from “Arumenty i Fakty” about the declassified documents.

The experiment of the killer doctors. Japan used biological weapons against the USSR

The FSB published declassified archival documents stating that at the end of August 1939, Japan used bacteriological weapons against the USSR. The documents contain the protocol of the interrogation of a non-commissioned officer of the Japanese army, who served under the command of Japanese microbiologist Ishii Shiro (photo) near Harbin.

Shiro is a famous Japanese war criminal who conducted experiments on living people while commanding the infamous secret unit “Detachment 731”. Under his command, Japanese doctors infected prisoners with bacteria of deadly diseases, extracted organs from living victims and conducted many other savage experiments. At the same time, most of the fanatical doctors managed to evade responsibility – they were given asylum by Americans who were very interested in the results of their work.

What do the declassified documents say?

The interrogation of senior non-commissioned officer of the Japanese army Hayashi Kazuo was conducted in Morshansk on January 15, 1947. According to his testimony, from October 1938 to February 1941, he served as a treasurer in the Ishii Shiro unit located in the village of Heibo, 30 km south of Harbin. By the unit of “Ishii Shiro”, one obviously means “Detachment 731”, whose direct leader at the time was Shiro.
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The Turkish Missile Crisis. How Khrushev twisted Fidel Castro’s words.

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On October 16, 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy was informed that Soviet nuclear missiles had been discovered in Cuba. 45 of them. Moscow had deployed them on the island in response to the appearance of American “Jupiters” in Turkey, from where a missile could reach Moscow in ten minutes. From our telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”.

The Cuban Missile Crisis began — 13 days when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war.

U.S. declared a naval blockade of Cuba, raised strategic aviation and fleet to alert. Readiness level was raised to DEFCON-2 — first time in the country’s history. This meant one thing: everything was ready, only the order remained.

However, commander of U.S. strategic aviation announced on radio his readiness to bomb the “Reds” without the sanction of U.S. Secretary of Defense and the President. The Soviet command intercepted these messages but considered them a bluff. But they could have given the order for a preemptive strike.
An American U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Cuba, and the military urged Kennedy to strike “before it was too late”. Kennedy delayed — and, as it turned out later, acted correctly.

The generals did not know that 12 missile complexes were already on minute readiness to launch. CIA was also mistaken, believing there were no more than 5,000 Soviet troops in Cuba — there were about 40,000.

Fidel Castro urged Khrushchev not to hesitate to use the missiles in case USA invades Cuba. When Khrushchev later pulled the missiles without consulting with Castro, it caused a cooling of relations between Moscow and Havana (more on it below). At the same time, Khrushchev granted commander of Soviet forces in Cuba, General Isa Pliev, authority to independently decide on the use of nuclear weapons in case of an attack or invasion.

Meanwhile, back-channel diplomacy was saving the world. KGB resident in Washington Alexander Fomin (operational pseudonym Alexander Feklisov) conducted difficult unofficial negotiations with the White House. He conveyed Khrushchev’s proposals, clarified the positions of the parties, and effectively became a live communication channel in the absence of a direct line. It was through him that the USSR and U.S. were able to reach an agreement. Later, Fomin would be called the first person to save the world from nuclear war.

The crisis was unfolding not only in offices. On October 7, the Soviet submarine B-59 was blocked by U.S. destroyers off Cuba’s coast. The U.S. dropped training depth charges, trying to force the submarine to surface. Inside, temperature exceeded forty degrees, communication with Moscow was lost, and air supplies were running out.

The commander, deciding that war had already begun, ordered the nuclear torpedo to be prepared for launch. Launching required the consent of three senior officers. Two were “for.” Senior assistant, Captain Second Rank Vasily Arkhipov, said “no.” The torpedo did not launch.
The same night, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, on Okinawa Island, four American bases received radio orders to launch MGM-13 Mace nuclear cruise missiles with Mark 28 warheads. The codes matched, the signal was genuine. Targets were Beijing, Hanoi, Pyongyang, and Vladivostok.
However, the readiness level remained DEFCON-2: the state of war (DEFCON-1) was not officially declared. Air Force Captain William Bassett realised something was wrong and postponed the launch. One officer accused him of treason and demanded to “immediately start frying the communists”. Bassett then ordered “to send two armed pilots to shoot anyone at the controls if they attempted to launch”. He contacted command — and the order was horrifiedly canceled.

As a result of negotiations, USSR agreed to withdraw missiles from Cuba, and the U.S. to remove theirs from Turkey and lift the blockade.
After these events, a direct “hotline” was established between Moscow and Washington — a teletype connection for transmitting text messages to avoid misunderstandings and translation errors.

It remains in operation to this day.

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What Fidel Castro really told Khrushev amidst the Cuban Missile Crisis

A fake quote of what Fidel Castro presumably wrote to Khrushev appeared in the source of the text above, which we edited with a comment.

It went like this: “Cuba is ready to die, but communism must win.”

The quote did not seem authentic, painting Castro as someone indifferent to the fate of the people of Cuba. So we did some reasearch, and it turned out we were not the only ones curious about that quote.

The complete research can be read here.

In short, the legs, so to speak, grow from Khrushev’s publications. The following two fragments are of interest.
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