The atrocities of the Romanians shocked even the Germans: what was the Nazi occupation of Moldavia like

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Continuing the topic of Romania and Moldavia, we present a translation of an article by Maxim Kemerrer, which was published in RuBaltic on July 17, 2022.


The atrocities of the Romanians shocked even the Germans: what was the Nazi occupation of Moldavia like

81 years have passed since the entry of Romanian troops into the capital of the Moldavian SSR, Chisinau. Today’s leaders in Chisinau and Bucharest call the events of the initial stage of the Great Patriotic War for another reunification of Romania and Moldavia. In fact, it was another occupation of Moldavia by Romania, which resulted in the terror of the civilian population and the destruction of the peoples of the multinational Moldavian SSR by the Romanian occupiers.

The state of Romania arose largely due to the support of Britain and France, who sought to create their own vassal near the southern borders of the Russian Empire, which could be used against Russia. (BATS note: yet, as we saw from the publication How Russia created Romania, it was done at the expense of Russia, and with Russian arms.) From the very beginning of its existence, Romania began to fulfil precisely this task, making territorial claims to Bessarabia.

However, it never wanted to go to war with Russia, and therefore, at that time, limited itself to cultural and ideological expansion, declaring that one people lived on the two banks of the Prut.

At the same time, the fact that the population of Bessarabia has always been multinational, with a certain dominance of Moldavians, was completely ignored.

Besides them, Malorossians lived compactly in the north and east of this territory, a significant part of the south of Bessarabia was compactly populated by Gagauz and Bulgarians, and the introduction of the pale of settlement in the Russian Empire led to a large number of Jews coming to Bessarabia. Thus, according to the census results of the late 19th century, Jews made up up to a third of the population of Chisinau, and many county centers of the country were simply large Jewish townships.

Romania’s desire to seise Bessarabia came true only in 1918, when the Moldavian People’s Republic was established after the Great October Socialist Revolution. On December 7, 1917, under the pretext of purchasing food, two regiments of the Romanian army crossed the Prut River, occupied Leovo and several border villages. Soon, on March 27, 1918, the parliament, called the Sfatul Tserii (Council of the Country), surrounded by Romanian soldiers with machine guns, voted for the “annexation” of Bessarabia to Romania; representatives of the Romanian military command were also present in the voting hall. After that, the parliament was dispersed by the Romanian military.


A commentary

A commentary from Moldavian parliament deputy from Beltsy, Alexander Nesterovsky, published in Bloknot Moldova. The commentary was made in 2018 with regard to the initiative from the Moladvian “Party of National Unity” to organise the so-caleld “Day of unity” in Beltsy:

“In the very first days after the Romanian troops entered the territory of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, the punishers shot 45 peasant delegates of the 3rd Bessarabian Provincial Peasant Congress, held in Chisinau. Then 58 members of the Sfatul Tserii, who opposed the annexation of Bessarabia to Romania, were arrested. Some of them were shot. Their place in the hall was taken by supporters of the Romanian authorities. The decision of Sfatul Tserii to join Romania on April 9, 1918, was made at gunpoint, but even after that, almost half of the delegates – 47% – voted against joining.”


As a result, Bessarabia was under Romanian occupation until June 28, 1940; throughout this period, the territory between the Dniester and the Prut remained in fact in the status of a colony and was the region of Romania with the lowest standard of living.

During the 22 years of the Romanian occupation, Bessarabia took the first place in Europe in terms of population mortality, over 500,000 people left it, tens of thousands of local residents who opposed the occupation were shot, and about 200,000 died of starvation.

The Romanian occupation ended in 1940, when Soviet troops occupied Bessarabia. By this time, the Moldavian Autonomous Republic (MASSR) had already existed in the USSR for 16 years, established on the lands of the Ukrainian SSR and the Left Bank of the Dniester (modern Transnistria).

Unfortunately, the period after the liberation of Bessarabia was short — less than a year later, on June 22, 1941, the Great Patriotic War began, in which Romania became an ally of Hitler, and on July 16, Romanian occupation forces again entered the territory of Bessarabia.
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How Russia created Romania

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Now that the “correct” president was selected for the Romanian, while the point of “the last Ukrainian” is quickly approaching, the time has come to take a closer look at that country, as well as its neighbouring, far order Moldavia. Below is a translation of an historiographic article from New Izvestiya, taking a quick tour into the very short history of Roimania.

A certain historical parallel to Finland emerges, where in both cases Russia played the key role in creating the statehood of these states, yet, the states turned on their creator with a rabidly russophobic/racist hatred.

In the context of this article, read also our recent translation The text of Hitler’s statement on the extermination of Slavic peoples has been published in Russia for the first time.


How Russia created Romania

Once upon a time, during the early Middle Ages, Romanians, like Russians, became Christian – Orthodox Christians. However, at that time Romania, as a country bearing such name, did not exist: there were disparate principalities united only by faith.

Even then, our peoples were linked by a common past: Romanians had long used Church Slavonic in worship and Cyrillic for communication and writing texts.

The Prut Campaign of 1711. Peter I and Gospodar of Moldavia, Dmitry Cantemir in the battle for Moldavia against the Turks and Tatars, 1911. Painter: Victor Arseni.

So how did Romania appear on the world map?

The Gospodars (rulers) of Wallachia and Moldavia (on the territory of the present-day Romania) have long sought friendship and protection from the Russian monarchs. The rulers, Orthodox Christians, were burdened by the fate of the vassals of the Muslim Ottoman Empire. They also did not like the need to leave their children and loved ones hostage in Istanbul, where many of them, and sometimes the rulers themselves, were martyred at the hands of the sultans. The poll tax, which all non-Muslim subjects had to pay to the sultan, was also a heavy burden, and on top of that, there were numerous levies and tributes that had to be collected annually and sent to the Ottoman Turks. Already in the 18th century, the gospodars and boyars saw Russia as a patron and protector. Fleeing from the Turks, many found shelter and fame at the royal court. In 1711, Dmitry Cantemir, the exiled ruler of Moldavia, arrived at the court of Peter the Great with a thousand boyars. He became the most serene Knyaz of Russia, along with illustrious comrade of Peter’s, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov. His son, the first Russian satirical poet Antioh Dmitrievich Cantemir, was Russian ambassador to England and France.

The map depicts the borders of the Principality of Moldavia, Principality of Wallachia before the Union (orange lines).
After 1711, the part of the Principality of Moldavia residing between rivers Dniester and Prut came under Russian protection, while what remained under the Ottoman Empire, formed a Union of Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (light-green area with the black border).
Ater 1866 this union began to be called “Romania”.

The historical task of Russia

Russia considered it its historical task to get rid of the Turkish threat, and saw itself as a defender of the rights and freedoms of the Christian peoples who lived under Turkish rule. The power of the latter gradually weakened, and the Romanians sought to get out from under its influence. In the 19th century, the Russian Empire took a direct part in the liberation of Orthodox Romania. A significant part of the territory of the future Romania, at the insistence of Russia, was transferred by the Turks to Russian protection following the war of 1828-1829. The first constitutions of Moldavia and Wallachia were adopted, allowing the future Romanian lands to develop in the same way as other European countries of that time. Romanians were becoming really Romanians, and not just residents of villages and towns of different territories. Schools with native language teaching were opened. Historians have praised these laws: “The first Romanian constitutions that introduced fixed and stable laws that replaced momentary and arbitrary decisions.”

A series of wars and final independence

Even then, the Romanians’ dream of independence was being “crippled” by the Western European powers, who did not want Turkey to weaken as as counterweight to Russia. It all started with Napoleon, who encouraged the Romanians to “limit Russian expansion”. After the Crimean War, Romanians came under the influence of Western powers, which did not aim to liberate Romania from the Ottoman yoke: the principalities continued to pay exhausting tribute to the Ottoman Empire.

Romania appeared as a result of the Russian-Turkish wars, and became a sovereign country by the will of Russia in 1877-1878, after the final liberation of Romania from the Turkish–Ottoman rule, which had lasted from the 16th century. Russian losses in this war amounted to 16,000 killed and 7,000 dead from wounds (there are other estimates – up to 36,500 killed and 81,000 dead from wounds and diseases). These figures of losses are huge in themselves, but it is worth considering that, for example, 71 thousand people lived in Yaroslavl at the end of the 19th century, that is, either a quarter or half of the inhabitants of a large Russian city died in this war. Romanians, allied with the Russians, lost 1.5 thousand people. Yes, Romanian troops then took a direct part in the fighting – of course, on the side of Russia. Russian-Romanian troops participated together in the siege of Bulgarian Plevna, during the liberation of Bulgaria from the Turkish rule, and the first Romanian king even became marshal of the united Russian-Romanian troops.
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Lend-Lease: how much did the USSR pay for the help of the Allies in the Great Patriotic War

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We present in this article several materials about the WWII Lend-Lease program. The materials are comprised of publications from a friendly channel, our translation of a Russian article, Marshal Zhukov’s memoirs, and our closing thoughts on solidarity.

Lend-Lease

Today is a good opportunity to dispel another myth: the myth of the US Lend-Lease Act during World War II and the idea that it was precisely this aid that enabled the Soviet Union to defeat the German Reich.

In fact, this aid from the United States—which also went to Great Britain—accounted for only four to ten percent of the Red Army’s total materiel during World War II. The USSR produced 90 to 96 percent of its weapons, equipment, and supplies itself.

In addition, there was also a reverse lend-lease relationship: the USSR supplied raw materials such as manganese, platinum, chromium, asbestos, leather and even gold to the USA to support the production of those relief supplies that were later sent back to the Soviet front via the Arctic convoy.

The USSR – and later Russia – repaid $722 million to the US Treasury for this aid.


Lend-Lease: how much did the USSR pay for the help of the Allies in the Great Patriotic War

– translated from a Dzen article, 18.10.2018

Lend-lease is a program of “crediting” of the US allies during the Second World War. The supplies included military equipment, food, equipment and raw materials. How long have we been paying off our lend-lease debts?

How did they help?

Historian Lebedev writes that during the Great Patriotic War, the USSR received from the United States more than 18,000 aircraft (including fighter jets “Aerocobra”, “Kitty-hawk”, “Tomahawk”), 12,000 tanks. Communication equipment: 100,000 kilometers of telephone wires, 2 million telephones. Products: 15 million pairs of boots, more than 50 thousand tons of shoe leather; as well as more than a million tons of food and provisions; several thousand steam locomotives, tank cars on wheels, locomotives and self-loading wagons. They were used to deliver more than 300,000 tons of explosives and petroleum products to the front; and military-technical plants received copper and bronze, aluminium and special steel.

The total volume of American supplies amounted to about 11 billion US dollars. According to the lend-lease law, only what had survived the war had to be paid for. Coordination on the total amount of the payment began in 1948.

How much do we owe?

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WWII Memory Becomes a Propaganda Battleground: How Politicians Are Erasing the USSR’s Heroism and Sacrifice.

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In 2010, NATO troops joined Russia’s Victory Day Parade in Moscow to mark the 65th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat. The British, Americans, French, and Poles stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the Russians—the Welsh Guards, the U.S. 18th Infantry, France’s Normandie-Niemen Regiment, and soldiers from across the CIS, including Ukrainians, marched together – a powerful symbol of shared history. It was a rare moment of unity: gratitude outweighed geopolitics.

But after 2014, acknowledging the Soviet Union’s sacrifice became politically inconvenient. Today, politicians and media rewrite, distort, or outright erase history to fit their agendas. The USSR’s pivotal role in crushing Nazi Germany and liberating Europe—once undisputed—is now downplayed, twisted, or denied. Not because archives have revealed new facts, but because yesterday’s hero can’t be today’s evil.

Crimea, Ukraine, and NATO-Russia tensions demand a new villain narrative. Acknowledging Russia’s past heroism complicates today’s propaganda.

The Uncomfortable Truth They Now Ignore

• Winston Churchill (1945): “It was the Russian Army that tore the guts out of the Nazi war machine.”

• U.S. War Dept (1945): Estimated that without the Eastern Front, America would have needed 10 million more soldiers to defeat Germany.

• British PM David Cameron (2010): “We must never forget the courage of Russian soldiers who fought from Stalingrad to Berlin.”

• BBC Documentary (2010): “Without the Red Army’s 27 million dead, D-Day might never have succeeded.”

• Professor Richard Overy (UK, Russia’s War): “The Eastern Front accounted for 80% of German combat losses. Denying this isn’t just dishonest—it’s bad history.”

Rewriting History in Real Time

• French MEP Nathalie Loiseau (2022): “We must stop parroting Russian propaganda about WWII. Europe’s liberation began with D-Day, not Stalingrad.”
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«17 Moments of Spring» (1973) – Fragment about the future of the Third Reich

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In this fragment from episode 11 of the legendary Soviet film, «17 Moments of Spring», the truth is heard through the mouth of the brilliant Soviet actor Leonid Bronevoy, playing Gestapo chief, SS Gruppenfuhrer Heinrich Müller, in his monologue addressed to Stirlitz, played by Vyacheslav Tihonov.


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«17 Moments of Spring» is a novel by Julian Semyonov, the plot of which is based on the real events of the Second World War, when German representatives tried to negotiate a separate peace (BATS note: see our earlier publication The SVR has published new declassified documents on the Nazis’ ties with the West in 1945) with representatives of Western intelligence services (the so-called “Operation Sunrise”) in the spring of 1945. The novel was first published in the “Moscow” magazine in issues 11-12, 1969.

Prior books about the Soviet intelligence officer turned out to be so successful that even the chairman of the KGB, Yuri Andropov, liked them, and personally contacted Semyonov praising his work. The gratitude turned out to be not only verbal: Andropov gave the writer permission to visit the KGB archives, and also initiated the film adaptation of the novels.

The events described in the novel are based on the memoirs of Brigadefuhrer Walter Schellenberg. This man held the position of chief of intelligence of the Third Reich. According to the verdict of the Nuremberg trials, he received a rather short sentence, given his position. He later wrote a memoir, which was published in Europe after Schellenberg’s death. The book ended up in the Soviet Union and was kept in a closed KGB archive until Semyonov managed to read it. So the writer had a ready-made plot with real characters in his hands, which only needed to be finalised and add the sharpness of a political detective story.

Julian Semyonov did a tremendous job writing the book. In addition to working for hours with archives, he personally interviewed several SS leaders — among them, Paul Blum, an employee of the Bern residency of A. Dulles — and representatives of the Third Reich as a correspondent, and also participated in the search for Hitler’s henchmen.

In 1973, a 12-episode film adaptation of the novel directed by Tatiana Lioznova premiered.
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25.05.2014 – The last day of peace in Donetsk

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The remembrance post on Russell ‘Texas’ Bentley’s Telegram channel, written by his widow, Lyudmila Bentley.

May 25, 2014 was the last peaceful day for the residents of Donetsk. The last day when residents and guests of the city walked, strolled quietly along the streets and airplanes flew. On this day it was possible. And tomorrow…

Donetsk residents consider May 26, 2014 as the line behind which the former Ukraine, which we loved, does not exist any more for us. On this day 10 years ago, Ukrainian helicopters and bombers, formally subordinate to the SBU, raided Donetsk International Airport and the suburbs of Donetsk itself. As a result, 40 people were killed and 31 were wounded.

Our city was attacked by Ukrainian warplanes. Su-25s, MiG-29s and Mi-24s shelled Donetsk.

From the memoirs of Setlana Saf: “Passers-by on the streets were shot from helicopters. The way to and from the airport turned out to be the ‘road of death’. For more than a week it was strewn with people killed in their cars, people killed near their cars, people shot in ambulances, people fleeing in the direction of the tree line not far from them… Those who were vacationing with their children near the reservoir of the Avdeyevka coking plant also came under fire from the helicopters. On the square near the railway station – killed… And the airport… It’s gone. Who will be responsible for that?”

“It was HELL! “The ‘non-brothers’ started killing us!!! To this day, at the sound of any flying object, be it a helicopter or an airplane, there is a feeling of fear and a desire to hide, to take cover. And this is despite the fact that I now live in the so-called safe zone… And this state will haunt those who lived through those terrible days for a long time. When will this nightmare finally end…? And who will be responsible for all this?” – Natalia Trofimenko.

“I remember everything like yesterday. Everything in front of my eyes… Airplanes, heat traps, hum, helicopters, horror, tears, misunderstanding, rejection…” – Galina Abramova.

“I remember how the helicopters flew over the schools and kindergartens of Oktyabrsky settlement. I remember the frightened eyes of the children – and not a single Ukrainian news bulletin reported it…” – Irina Chinkina.

“To this day, when I remember that day, I am gripped with fear and shaking, and tears are streaming from my eyes… How I was screaming then! I frightened my granddaughter, she ran after me, and in search of a hiding place I threw myself from side to side, until we hid behind the sofa in the hall… She clung to me trembling body and begged me to protect her. And the helicopters were circling over our house… A neighbor who lived three houses away from us was looking for her son for a long time, and then she couldn’t get him murdered out of the car for a few days … It was pretty hot, and the killed ones were laying on the road, shelled by snipers from all sides, for several days…” – Irina Isayenko.

In those days, I was in my native Petrovsky district. Being quite far from politics, I remember my incomprehensible thoughts: “What is going on? Who are those people? Why are the airplanes bombing us?”

Russell told me, he was at home in the U.S. at the time, closely following what was going on the Internet, and his heart was bleeding because he had known since Maidan that his government was behind it all. He knew and was tormented that he had to do something about it, not just watch. He will make the final decision to go to Donbass to protect civilians on June 2, 2014 after the Ukrainian Air Force air strike on the peaceful administration of Lugansk.

– Lyudmila Bentley

Genocide: Justice Will Prevail – RT Documentary. Thoughts by Zotov on “Generalplan Ost”

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The Third Reich war against USSR was never just about territory or resources.


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It was a campaign to clear ‘living space’. Under the Hunger Plan, grain would be stripped from southern Soviet lands, condemning 30 million people to starvation.

Mass killings of civilians was a part of Nazi strategy. Under the guise of ‘anti-partisan operations’, the Nazis wiped entire villages off the map across Soviet lands. They set up brutal death camps for POWs. Over 380,000 people were murdered in Rostov Region, while in Pskov Region, more than 600,000 civilians were exterminated.

One of the most horrifying episodes in this genocide was the siege of Leningrad. For 872 days, citizens endured unimaginable hunger, cold, and suffering. Recent estimates place the death toll at over 1,093,000 people.

Our film brings together historians, search teams, prosecutors, and forensic experts to reveal the scale of Nazi atrocities across the country: mass executions at a brick factory in Salsk, the murder of 54 children in a sanatorium in Teberda… These are just a few chapters in one vast, systematic crime called ‘genocide’.

The word ‘genocide’ didn’t even enter international law until 1948, after the main Nuremberg trials had already ended. At Nuremberg, Nazi crimes against civilians were recognised as crimes against humanity, and the guilt of the accused was firmly established.

But today, 80 years later, there are efforts in the West to rewrite that history and deny the scale of suffering inflicted on the Soviet people. That’s why it’s become necessary to formally and legally establish the full extent of Nazi crimes.

Over the past 5 years, Russian courts have reviewed archival records, examined new evidence, conducted modern forensic investigations, and gathered testimony from witnesses. Based on the total body of evidence, the courts have concluded: the Nazis’ actions constituted genocide.

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‼️ Read also our newly-translated article The European Genocide of the Russian People


Following is a Telegram post by Georgy Zotov, translated by “Siberian Matrëshka”:

Once upon a time, Germany developed a master plan called “Ost” (“East”)

It was initiated in 1940 by Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler. At first, Jews and Poles were taken into account, but after June 22, 1941, the main focus became the fate of the Soviet Union and the Slavic nationalities inhabiting it.
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The Jubilation of the Victory – word to Georgy Zhukov

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From Georgy Zhukov’s memoirs “Reflections and Recollection”, volume 2, pages 400-402.

Berlin. Germany. Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signing the unconditional surrender of the German forces. (Photo ITAR-TASS)

After signing the act, Keitel rose and put on his right glove, making another attempt to show his military bearing. But nothing came of it and he went over slowly to his table.

At zero hours 43 minutes, May 9, 1945, the signing of the instrument of unconditional surrender was finished. I asked the German delegation to leave the hall.

Keitel, Friedeburg and Stumpff rose, bowed and left the hall, their heads bent. Their staff officers followed them.

On behalf of the Soviet Supreme Command, I cordially congratulated everybody present on the long-awaited victory. Incredible commotion broke out in the hall. Everybody was congratulating one another and shaking hands. Many had tears of joy in their eyes. I was surrounded by my comrades-in- arms: V. D. Sokolovsky, M. S. Malinin, K. F. Telegin, N. A. Antipenko, V. Ya. Kolpakchi, V. I. Kuznetsov, S. I. Bogdanov, N. E. Berzarin, F. Ye. Bokov, P. A. Belov, A. V. Gorbatov and others.

“Dear friends,” I said to my comrades-in-arms, “a great honour has been accorded us. In the final battle the people, the Party and Government entrusted us to lead the valiant Soviet troops in the storm of Berlin. The Soviet troops, and you, those who headed the troops in the battle of Berlin have justified this trust. It is sad that many of our comrades are no more among us. How happy they would have been to see this long-awaited victory for which they gave their lives without hesitation.”

Remembering their friends and comrades-in-arms who were not to live to see this happy day, these people who were used to looking death in the eye without fear, could not keep back the tears.

At zero hours 50 minutes, May 9, 1945, the meeting at which the unconditional surrender of the German troops was signed came to a close.

After that a big reception was given. It passed off in an atmosphere of great enthusiasm. Opening the banquet I toasted the victory of the anti-Hitler coalition over Nazi Germany. The next toast was given by Marshal Arthur Tedder; he was followed by de Lattre de Tassigny and General Spaatz. It was then the turn of the Soviet generals. Each spoke of what was in his heart after all these hard years. I remember people speaking sincerely and in the most heartfelt manner. A great desire was expressed to consolidate for ever friendly relations between the countries of the anti-fascist coalition. This was stressed by the Soviet generals, by the Americans, the French and the British, and all of us then wanted to believe it would be that way.

The banquet ended in the morning with singing and dancing. The Soviet generals were unrivalled as far as dancing went. Even I could not restrain myself and, remembering my youth, did the Russkaya dance. We left the banquet hall to the accompaniment of a cannonade from all types of weapons on the occasion of the victory. The shooting went on in all parts of Berlin and its suburbs. Although shots were fired into the air, fragments from mines and shells, and bullets fell on the ground and it was not quite so safe to walk in the open on the morning of May 9. But how different it was from the danger to which we had grown accustomed during the long years of the war!

On the morning of May 9, 1945, the Act of Unconditional Surrender was brought to the Supreme Command Headquarters.

The first clause of the Act read as follows:

“1. We, the undersigned, acting on behalf of the German High Command, agree to the unconditional surrender of all our armed forces on land, at sea and in the air and also all forces which are at present under the German Command, to the Supreme Command of the Red Army and simultaneously to the Supreme Command of the Allied Expeditionary Force.”


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Victory Parade. Moscow. 09.05.2010. Joint parade fragment

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One has to be invited to march across the Red Square, and not so long ago, on the 65th anniversary of the Victory, many military formations of the Soviet republics (including Ukraine), as well as American, British and French ones participated in the Victory parade.

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The European Genocide of the Russian People

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Preamble

April 19th – Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of the Soviet People. The crimes committed by the Nazi occupiers and their accomplices against the civilian population of besieged Leningrad were recognised in 2022 as “a war crime, a crime against humanity and genocide of national and ethnic groups that represented the population of the USSR, the peoples of the Soviet Union.”
This decision was made by the St. Petersburg City Court.

The northern capital was under blockade from September 8th 1941 to January 27th 1944. As a result of the analysis of archival documents, it was established that during the blockade, at least 1 million 93 thousand residents of the city died – more than a third of the population at the beginning of 1941 – and not 649 thousand, as was determined in Soviet times.

In addition, it was proven in court that representatives of 11 countries took part in the siege of Leningrad. Besides to the Germans, these are citizens of Finland, Belgium (Volunteer Legion “Flanders”), Spain (“Blue Division”), the Netherlands (Volunteer Legion “Netherlands”) and Norway (Norwegian Legion), as well as individual volunteers from among Austrians, Latvians, Poles, French and Czechs. The trial in St. Petersburg became the ninth trial in Russia to recognise the crimes of the Nazis and their accomplices committed in the country during the Great Patriotic War as genocide.

Previously, similar hearings were held in the Novgorod, Pskov, Rostov, Bryansk, Oryol regions, Krasnodar region, Crimea, and Leningrad region.

As the leading Russian researcher of the history of the Leningrad blockade, Doctor of Historical Sciences Nikita Lomagin, said, in addition to the fact that the court decision gives a precise legal definition of the events of the hard times of war, it “also has important international significance, being a reminder to the current generation of European politicians about the crimes committed by Nazi Germany and its accomplices during the war.”

“Europe in a United Front against Moscow”
Such was the title in the German Nazi mouthpiece “Völkische Beobachter” from June 23, 1941. Does this sound familiar?
The headline was followed by a secondary heading:
“The countries of the continent acknowledge Germany’s historic mission”.
After the ingress, the article starts with the mention of a publication in the Spanish Madrid-based newspaper “Informaciones” — “Europe united and aligned against the Soviet Union”.


Introduction

You are about to read a translation of an extensive article that tells in unadorned detail what The Third Reich was doing to the population of the Soviet Union, and what they were yet planning to do, had they not been stopped by the Soviet Union. World War II was indeed The Great Patriotic War for the survival of own kind, fought against all of the “united collective West”. Additional materials were included from the TopWar article “Hitler’s Palace in Ukraine”.

Those Ukrainians (and Bulgarians) who think that Hitler had as his intention to “liberate” Ukraine (as the brainwashing in Ukraine goes these days), they should read the article “The text of Hitler’s statement on the extermination of Slavic peoples has been published in Russia for the first time”.

One first-hand testimonial of how the German Nazi plan affected the Soviet population can be read in the article The Great Patriotic War in Ukraine. A historical retrospective by Rostislav Ischenko


The European Genocide of the Russian People

14.12.2020, by Konstantin Odessit

Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces

One remark first: by the Russian people I mean the Eastern Slavs, with the exception of the Galician Uniates (whose dialect and world-view are closer to that of Poles, a Western one).

The year of the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory is coming to an end. Looking at modern supporters of Hitler among the Russian/Ukrainian Nazis and the liberoids, like “Kolya from Urengoy” (BATS note: see the open letter by Andrey Medvedev in Commemorating the 9th of May – No One’s Forgotten, Nothing’s Forgotten! with a strong response to that boy Kolya) apologising for the “cruel treatment” of German prisoners of war (who were forced to work), the question arises: “Who are they?”

Are they idiots without roots, who renounced the memory of their Russian ancestors (who for more than a thousand years considered themselves Rus, Rusichs, Rusyns, Little Russians (Malorossy), Great Russians (Velikorossy), Belorussians, that is, the Russian people) and trying to join the Western “superhumans” in a lackadaisical way (“let us, the stupid ones, into Europe, rule over us!”), or are they not aware of Hitler’s plans for a “final solution” not only to the Jewish, but also to the Russian (Slavic) question, did they not listen to the Nazi project of “living space in the East for the higher race.”

A race, to which the “true Aryans” did not even remotely relate any of the Slavs.

And because of this kind of not-entirely-Russians/lost-Russians or “Ivans and Abrams, who don’t remember their kinship”, the history of the Second World War is for us by no means “the affairs of bygone days”. Moreover, since 2014, Ukraine has been occupied by modern Nazis, who continue the policy of “cleansing the living space” of Slavs and forced de-Russification.

The organisers of Euromaidan continue Hitler’s policy of genocide: the pace of the Maidan’s “de-population” of Ukraine does not differ much from the rate of extermination of the inhabitants of Ukraine in the early forties of the last century: then and now they amount to about 2 – 2.5 million civilian deaths per year. The modern Maidanomor of Ukrainians/Russians is a true genocide (like other real Western genocides of the past in Ireland, North America, India, Australia…), unlike the fake “Golodomor of Ukrainians” of the 30s of the last century. Moreover, this is a direct demonic link – Hitler planned a “cleansing” of Eastern Europe for the benefit of the “superhuman” using the example of “cleansing” of North America, and the Maidanists, following Hitler, are “cleansing” Ukraine.

But is it only following Hitler? He simply united the continental Europe, which zealously engaged in the genocide of Russians under his leadership, first of all, the inhabitants of Ukraine, whom the past Nazis did not separate from the Russians.

The Finnish poster “Road to Freedom” from the 22nd of June 1941, depicting the whole future EU baring its teeth on the USSR.

One of the main “prizes” of the European “drang nah Osten” in 1941 was the blessed Ukraine.

During the war, Hitler travelled across almost all of it: he visited Poltava, Uman, Mariupol, Zaporozhye, Zhytomyr, Berdichev. Here are his impressions:

“We are struggling to claim several meters of land from the sea, we are suffering, mastering the swamps, whereas in Ukraine the land is infinitely fertile. And this land is waiting for us. Ukraine can give us what Germany lacks. This task must be completed despite the losses.”

The Fuhrer noted that for the Germans, the Ukrainian lands are like India for the British, and one can manage it with the help of only a handful of people at first, and then colonise the eastern territories by the Germans, primarily Ukraine.


Generalplan Ost, a historical remark

“Generalplan Ost” (General Plan for the East) was a secret Nazi plan developed to implement their racial ideology in Eastern Europe. The plan involved the mass displacement, enslavement, and extermination of most Slavic peoples to make way for the “expansion of living space” (Lebensraum) for the German people. The primary goal was to create a new order based on the complete dominance of the “Aryan race.”

The plan included the following actions:

  1. Extermination and Displacement: It was anticipated that up to 50 million Slavs would either be exterminated or displaced to the East. This primarily concerned Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and other peoples.
  2. Germanisation: German settlers were to colonise the “cleansed” territories, especially in Poland and the western regions of the Soviet Union. This was planned to include both German citizens and ethnic Germans from other countries.
  3. Slave Labour: The surviving Slavs were to be turned into slaves and used for labour to benefit the Third Reich.
  4. Systematic Destruction of the Intelligentsia: From the beginning of the war, the Nazis started the extermination of the intelligentsia and cultural elite among the Slavic peoples to prevent any resistance.
  5. Changing the Demographic Structure: The plan envisaged changing the demographic structure of the occupied territories by exterminating most of the local population and replacing it with German settlers.

“Generalplan Ost” was never fully implemented due to the course of the war, but its elements were reflected in Nazi policies towards the occupied territories, including mass murders, deportations, the creation of ghettos and concentration camps, and forced labour. These actions led to immense human losses and suffering.


According to the “Generalplan Ost”, almost all Poles, 75% of Belarusians and 65% of Ukrainians, including residents of Galicia, were supposed to be resettled in Western Siberia. The higher proportion of Ukrainians left behind was due to the fact that the higher race then (without modern mechanisation) needed a lot of agricultural workers. And in general, according to the plans of 1940-1941, over 30 million local Slavic population were to be deported or exterminated from the European part of the Union. In April 1942, in the revised plan, this number increased to 50 million people.

Exactly one month after the start of the war with the USSR, on the evening of July 22, 1941, at the Werewolf headquarters, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann began to share his impressions of the trip to the Ukrainian villages:

I have not seen a single person with glasses, many of them have great teeth, they are well-fed and, obviously, maintain good health until old age.
Under the influence of the extraordinarily difficult conditions in which these people lived for many centuries, a natural and very careful selection took place.
Any of us, after drinking a glass of raw water, will immediately get sick.
And these people live in mud, among sewage, drink some kind of terrible water from their wells and rivers and do not get sick

The growth of the number of these Russians – or the so-called Ukrainians – in the not too distant future will pose a threat to us.
We are interested in ensuring that these Russians – or so-called Ukrainians – do not multiply too much: after all, we intend to ensure that one day all these lands that were previously considered Russian will be completely inhabited by Germans

Water only for the German soldiers. Russians taking water from here will be shot. Water for the Russians is on the other side.

Hitler noted in this regard:

It will only benefit us if their girls and women use contraceptives as much as possible. It is necessary not only to allow unlimited trade in them, but also to encourage it in every possible way, because we are not in the least interested in the growth of the local population…

As for the hygiene of the conquered population, we are not at all interested in spreading our knowledge among them and thereby creating a completely undesirable base for a colossal increase in population.

Therefore, it is necessary to prohibit any hygienic actions in these territories… There can be no question of vaccinating local residents and similar measures to improve their health. And to do everything possible to spread among them the superstitious idea that all these vaccinations and similar things are extremely dangerous…

Hitler repeatedly emphasised that Russians, including Ukrainians, would have to work for the Germans and everything should be done to ensure that these people were at the lowest possible level of cultural development.

Village communities need to be organised in such a way that nothing akin to a union would ever form between the neighbouring communities. In any case, the creation of unified churches on more or less extensive Russian lands should be avoided. It is in our interests that each village has its own sect with its own ideas about God. Even if in this way the inhabitants of individual villages become, like Negroes or Indians, adherents of magical cult, we can only welcome this, because thereby the dividing trends in the Russian space will become even more intense…

In no case should the local population be granted the right to receive higher education. If we make this mistake, we will raise those who will fight against our government.

Let them have schools, and if they want to go to them, then let them pay for the education. But the most they should be taught is to distinguish between road signs.

Geography lessons should be reduced to making them remember: the capital of the Reich is Berlin and each of them should visit it at least once in their lives.

When it comes to opening schools for the local population, we should never forget that in the eastern lands occupied by our troops, the same methods that the British used in their colonies should be applied.

It is much better to install a loudspeaker in each village and thus inform people of the news and entertain them than to give them the opportunity to independently assimilate political, scientific and other knowledge. Just so that no one would think of telling the conquered peoples about their history on the radio there should be music, music, and nothing but music. After all, cheerful music awakens people’s enthusiasm for work.

Does it remind you of anything now (taking into account technological progress)? But let’s forget Western and pro–Western propagandist blabbering, let’s operate with facts.

Let’s draw analogies to the modern times.

From the beginning of the European occupation of Ukraine until the autumn of 1944, 85% of the total supply of the Reich with products from the territory of the USSR came from Ukraine. Naturally, at that time, the inhabitants of Ukraine were starving en masse. Or is this not a real “Holodomor” staged in Ukraine by “enlightened” Europe? The real genocide of 1941-1944 was on a national basis, and not the propaganda one of 1932-1933.

Let’s compare the figures of Soviet and European (maybe not even Hitler’s, but Maidan) Ukraine.

Banner reads: “Heil Hitler! – Glory to Hitler! – Glory to Ukraine!” (Slava Gitleru – Slava Ukraini)

As a result of the “Soviet occupation”, the population of the Ukrainian SSR grew to 52 million people, but now, with the real Anglo-Zionist (through the local “Jew-Banderites” [a term, popularised by the Ukrainian Jewish oligarch Kolomoisky, who financed Zelensky’s ascent to power]) occupation, it has decreased to a maximum of 30 million. This figure comes from consumed food and other life-supporting resources, as the population census has not been consciously conducted by the “independent” Ukraine for almost 20 years (contrary to UN requirements). 22 million (more than 40%) people have died in 30 years, is this not a genocide? Including the pace of depopulation since 2014, this is a very real “Maidanomor”, in terms of percentage it can only be compared with the Holocaust of the Jews in the 40s of the last century. And “the best pals” of the territory that is being destroyed, are the “partners” – Warsaw and Istanbul, who for centuries sent “holops” (Ukrainian peasants) either to the western panhandle or to the southern slave market.

So, the enemies of Russia and the Russian people continue the war of annihilation against us, continue the genocide of all Russians (no matter how they call themselves now), including – waging an information war to erase historical memory and Russian pride for the exploits of Russian ancestors (the fact that some of their descendants became “Ukrainised” does not influence the nationality of the deceased).

Accordingly, our enemies do not need to be persuaded of anything, they need to be beaten with the truth, our Russian truth.

In the West and among the liberal geeks of Russia, the myth has been spreading for a long time – methodically and systematically – that Nazi Germany attacked the USSR in order to protect itself from a potential threat from the Soviet Union. In 1941, Nazi propaganda told Europeans about the “liberation undertaking of the Wehrmacht forces with their allies, which should destroy the communist dictatorship and return Russia to the ‘path of development of civilised countries’.” Moreover, “Stalin himself plotted to attack the peace-loving Germans.”

According to this Nazi version: “the hope for liberation of Russian people flared up with renewed vigour on June 22, 1941, when German troops, without declaring war, crossed the border of the Soviet Union, and brought freedom from ‘Jewish-Bolshevik enslavement’ to the Russian land.”

But Goebbels’ propaganda wasn’t completing the thought (the Jew-Banderite Borka Filatov with his “promise that scum anything, and we will hang them later” knew from whom to learn) that Russia would be “liberated” not only from the communist regime, but also from any other forms of government, independent of the Third Reich. And most importantly, from a significant part of the population, because Germany was in no need of 190 million slaves.

In Finland: “Relocation camp. Entering the camp and talking through the wire is prohibited under threat of execution by shooting.”

For the needs of the Reich, a tenth part of that would have sufficed – the “spare” ones were planned to be starved or killed, including literally (and not figuratively) “turned into soap, burned in furnaces to produce fertiliser.” In reality, it turned out that the Germans and their vassals, instead of the promised freedom, enthusiastically exterminated the Soviet (mostly Russian) people. Only corpses swinging on gallows, cities and villages destroyed to the ground, as well as moats littered with corpses were left on our land in the wake of the European “civilisers”.

In occupied Kiev, the SS are rummage through the belongings of those shot, ignoring the photographer (“he’s their own!”), in the Babi Yar tract, presumably in a sand quarry north of the modern Dorogozhichi metro station. The photo was taken 10 days after the fall of Kiev by a German military photographer Johannes Hele, who served in the 637th Propaganda Company, which was part of the 6th German Army, which captured the capital of the Ukrainian SSR.

A truly cannibalistic document of Nazi Germany was the “General Plan Ost”, a plan for the enslavement and extermination of the peoples of the USSR on the territories conquered by the Reich (that is, united by Hitler Europe).

According to fascist plans, after the defeat of the USSR, within 25-30 years it was envisaged to destroy and deport 80-85% of the population from Russia, 85% from Lithuania, 65% from Ukraine (a large number of agricultural labourers were supposed to be left there), 75% from Belarus and 50% of residents from Latvia and Estonia.

According to their calculations, 45 million people were supposed to live as slaves in the space subject to German colonisation. At least 31 million of them, who would remain alive, were supposed to be evicted to Siberia for further “disposal”. The “General Plan Ost” was a carefully planned plan for the genocide of races and peoples, primarily the Russian people (all Eastern Slavs) and Jews. In the European plan, it was talked about the widespread expulsion and killing of the local population and the settlement of the territories of the European part of the USSR by the German peasantry.

Riga meets the “liberators” in 1941.

Among those who were suitable for “germanisation” – or racial “renewal” – in accordance with the criteria of the “Nordic type”, were Lithuanians, Estonians and Latvians. Representatives of these peoples were needed in order to use them to manage vast territories in the East. The Balts were more suited for this role than anyone else, because they “were brought up in the European spirit and learned at least the basic concepts of European culture”. The Germans represented the character traits of the Balts as devoted and pedantic performers of the dirtiest work to destroy the “surplus” of the Russian population and perform “security functions” in the East.

In the pre-war years, pedantic Germans, intending to “liberate Russians from the power of the Jewish Bolsheviks,” prepared several genocide projects, unique in their nature, having no precedent in the history of mankind. Projects that provided particularly sophisticated ways to enslave and destroy tens of millions of inhabitants of the European part of the USSR.

If the “Generalplan Ost” defined the boundaries of specific areas of colonisation on the territory of the former Soviet Union, then the plan “der Backe-Plan” (named after Herbert Ernst Backe, State Secretary of the Imperial Ministry of Food and Agriculture of Germany, a native of the city of Batumi [present-day Georgia] of the Russian Empire) provided for the extermination of the Russian population by famine.

An important addition to the hunger plan is the minutes of the meeting of the Secretaries of State. This document, which reflects the intentions of a number of high-ranking officials and senior officers of the Wehrmacht, in particular states:

“The war can be continued only if the Wehrmacht is fully supplied with food from Russia in the third year of the war… At the same time, of course, tens of millions of people will starve to death if we take everything we need out of the country.”

From the twelve orders of State Secretary Herbert Backe on the conduct of the Germans in the East, dated June 1, 1941, it followed that “a wrong decision is better than no decision” on the part of the Wehrmacht soldiers in their actions in Russia. Backe designed a radical “strategy” of famine directed against the civilian population in the occupied Soviet territories.

This plan was lauded and approved by the political and military leadership of the Third Reich. According to it, a large mortality rate was assumed among the population of the Soviet Union, amounting to tens of millions of deaths already during the first year of the German occupation. The implementation of the Backe plan by the Germans led to the mass death of civilians and Soviet prisoners of war in the USSR, who received almost no food.

In total, 4.2 million Soviet citizens died of starvation as a result of the implementation of the genocidal plan in the occupied territory.

Europe never forgave the victory over Nazism…

Three quarters of a century ago, our country – called the Soviet Union – defeated a united fascist Europe, which brought “enlightened” death (in one way or another – genocide) to all the peoples of the “barbaric” USSR.

Earlier for some, later for the others, after they would have been used against first, and then they were also destroyed (like the staff of concentration camps were killed a little later after the prisoners). Hitler’s plans did not include any independent ukraines / baltic states or other national territories of “subhumans”. The selfsame Crimea, in the event of a victory of the Reich, would not have been given to any Tatars, regardless whether those “savages” would have destroyed the partisans or not – according to the German plans, Crimea would have been populated by the “superior race”.

But since our ancestors defeated the united in fascism Europe, back then the political consolidation of the results of the Great Victory in the form of the redistribution of Europe into Soviet and American spheres of influence came to the fore for the Kremlin. For this purpose, the version of personification of responsibility on Hitler’s Germany and Hitler turned out to be “convenient”, its European allies (not to mention the collaborationist territories of the USSR) were presented as “victims”, while France even became one of the winners (despite the fact that its northern part was included in the Reich, and was zealously supported by the “Vichy” part, while only some small military units in some colonies resisted the Nazis).

Almost exclusively Communists and escaped Soviet prisoners of war were actually participating in the resistance movement throughout the “occupied” Europe (and the Polish “resistance” idled for 5 years “with a rifle at its feet” – from autumn 1939 to autumn 1944).

That’s why Europe hates Communists, while in the Nazi countries (like Ukraine) their activities are banned. In the latter, the symbols of Victory over the previous Nazis (Victory Banners and St. George ribbons) are also banned. The inhabitants of the colonies must not remember the victories of their ancestors over the colonisers.

“The best defence is attack”. Therefore, Europe, guilty of the genocide of the Russian people in the 1940s of the 20th century, is busy rewriting history, shifting blame “from a sore head to a healthy one”, replicating various theories: “two totalitarian regimes guilty of World War II”, “Stalin wanted to attack Hitler, so he just defended himself”, “huge losses of peoples of the USSR is connected with the fact that Moscow, which does not know how to fight, flooded the enemy with the corpses of its soldiers”, “Hitler was defeated by the Western allies, the main battles of the Second World War: El Alamein in Africa and the air over England, the Eastern Front is secondary,” etc., etc.

The Portuguese map-caricature is from 1941, appeared shortly before the Nazi-German “Drang nach osten” commenced.
Take note of the dehumanisation of the USSR — projecting onto it their own fear-mongering desires, the same kind projection being at work today.

At the same time, the West is silent about the obvious fact: the whole of continental Europe was for 5 (!!!) years diligently making a significant contribution not to the defeat, but to the strengthening and replenishment of Hitler’s armada (including supposedly neutral Switzerland, which sent thousands of volunteers to “fight the Bolshevik hordes”, and Sweden, which supplied the Third Reich with almost all iron ore for the “war of motors”).

The insular Europe with America was for 3 (!!!) years holding back with the opening of the second front, waiting for the greatest number of casualties on both sides.

It was only when the Red Army reached the borders of the USSR that the Anglo-Saxons decided to enter into a real war so as not to lose the whole of continental Europe. These are all obvious, irrefutable facts. The rest is chatter and propaganda. Well, there were also minor (compared to the scale of the battles of the Eastern Front) skirmishes of small expeditionary corps on the outskirts of colonial empires (in Libya, Egypt, New Guinea, etc.)

The other countries “occupied” by Hitler (for the most part, his voluntary allies, including hundreds of thousands of Polish “SS men” and Bulgarian “brothers” who opposed Russia in every world War), present themselves as “victims”.

The “occupiers” in Belgium

Allegedly, when the “evil Nazis” came, the “normal” Europeans could not fight them (the Communists do not count), but the “Nazis” forced them to work for themselves on pain of death and forcibly mobilised into the Wehrmacht millions of “collaborators”, policemen, “SS men” (though exclusively volunteers), as well as millions from the countries, allied with Germany (though they also had dictators like Mussolini, Salazar, Franco, Horthy, etc., etc. – and Hitler is allegedly alone to blame for this).

If you study the European press, photographs, documents of those years, a completely different picture emerges, a picture in which continental Europe was not “raped” by the Third Reich, but literally enjoyed itself in his “bed”.

It as the “barbaric” Soviet troops, retreating with battles, that blew up industrial enterprises so that they would not fall to the enemy, and the partisans and residents of the occupied Soviet territories, despite the massive terrifying terror with executions of hostages and deportation to penal servitude in the Reich, staged sabotage, subversion, attacks on regular units of the Wehrmacht, police, rear formations of the occupiers.

Meanwhile the “civilised” Europeans worked diligently for Hitler and his allies, receiving salaries, drinking beer after work, visiting stadiums and brothels, a significant part of which pleased in high gear the “heroes of the Eastern Front” on vacation, Europeans from almost all European countries replenished Hitler’s troops in the fight against our country.

In order to fight the united by Germany Europe, the impoverished Soviet Union, which had just recovered from the consequences of a bloody “Civil” War, needed not only soldiers, but also weapons and food. For their production, men were also needed in the rear, who could not be replaced by women or teenagers.

Western Ukraine vs. Eastern Ukraine

Therefore, the USSR was forced to accept women to the front. The Germans did not have such a problem, since they were provided not only with weapons, raw materials, food, resources, finances, industrial power, but also with soldiers from the whole of continental Europe.

Europe fought against us not only on the labour front. Germany did not need to strain its strength, as we did, creating new industries, building factories and blast furnaces, opening hundreds of institutions.

The armament that Germany received in Europe was enough to form 200 divisions.

While we still remember the history and the price of the Great Victory, we will remind those who have already “forgotten”: the troops of Romania, Hungary, Italy, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia fought on the side of Germany in the war against the USSR. In addition, volunteer units fought for the Wehrmacht against the USSR: Spaniards, Belgians, Dutch, French, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Poles, Slovaks.

And what about the “proud lyakhs” – Poles? About half a million of them (!!!) fought for Germany.

Polish poster: “Saviour of Europe – In the struggle against Bolshevism, there’s only the German collar!”

Those were volunteers, of whom Himmler personally allowed even the formation of Polish SS units. Similar to Ukrainian, Baltic, French and all the others. What plans of Poland-Ukraine under the German rule were there in the “turnips of the untermensch”, how they “sorted it out” among themselves in Galicia-Volhynia, that was of little interest to Himmler and other German Nazis until the victory over the USSR was secured, but after the triumph of the Reich, the Germans would have “cleared” the “living space” from all this “biological waste” for themselves in a flash. And this is not an assumption, but the truth proven by thousands of documents and testimonies.

The text of the oath of the Polish SS men read: “I swear before God by this sacred oath that in the struggle for the future of Europe in the ranks of the German Wehrmacht I will be absolutely obedient to Supreme Commander Adolf Hitler, and as a brave soldier I am ready at any time to devote my strength to fulfil this oath…”.

Therefore, it can be assumed that 2-3 million people in Poland have a relative who served in the Wehrmacht. They still hate the Russians, who broke the plans of their direct and spiritual ancestors.

While throwing tantrums about the “Molotov-Ribbentrop pact”, the Poles completely “forget” about the earlier “Hitler-Pilsudski pact” concluded 5 years before that (BATS note: well, Hitler bought Pilsudsky, while 15 years before that still, “Pilsudsky bought Petlyura” – a logical movement of substances), and about the complicity of Poles in the Nazi partitioning of Czechoslovakia, and about their zealous complicity in the Holocaust (their only competitors here are Banderites and other Ukrainian “Galicians”), and about half-a-million Poles on the Eastern Front. While the “Home Army” from 1939 to 1944 was waiting “with a rifle at its feet” to see who would start winning, and the “Anders’ Army” (BATS note, see: Reparations to Poland from Russia? And how much does Poland itself in fact owe Russia?) was all this time running from the war all over the Middle East, these “psheks” were actually fighting. The question is only, on whose side – Warsaw is silent “like a fish on ice”.

In “occupied” Poland, 264 large, 9,000 medium-sized and 76,000 small enterprises worked for Germany (!!!). The “noble” and offended “Polish gentry” voluntarily assembled both planes and gathered grain for the Germans, supervised the Jews in concentration camps to produce, under pain of death, explosives for the murder of Soviet citizens.

In an effort to justify its rapid and shameful defeat in the war and its despicable behaviour in the pre-war and war years, the Polish Sejm adopted a resolution on countering the “manipulation of history”. The deputies said that Moscow and Berlin bear “equal responsibility” for unleashing a world war. In its inferiority, Poland decided to “ban Russia from rewriting history”.

Polish politicians do not care that the Soviet people, while the Polish Home Army was shooting them in their backs (after years of waiting “with the rifle at their feet”, being afraid to “sneeze” against the Germans) suffered huge losses (600,000 soldiers), liberating Poland from Hitler (did it want for this “liberation”?), presented the Poles with the German lands of Pomerania, Silesia and the southern part of East Prussia, and after the war invested (tearing away from itself, living in post-war poverty) in the restoration of that country. Moreover, the descendants of the arrogant “polish gentry” somehow “forgot” that in 1939-1944 the Germans killed 6 million Polish citizens, despite the fact that half a million Poles fought in the ranks of the Wehrmacht. Aren’t these the facts that the “lyakhs” want to forbid us to remember as well?

If Soviet Union had not defeated Hitler, not only Russians, but also Poles as a people would have disappeared after a few years.

In addition to the Wehrmacht, armies backed by the resources from all countries of continental Europe marched on our Fatherland, including legions and tens of thousands of SS volunteers from “occupied” France, while with Guderian, every second tank driver was our “Slavic brother” – Czech. Denmark and Spain sent their “liberators” even without declaring war on the Soviet Union, thousands of “activists” from “neutral” Switzerland marched with the Nazis to the East.

Although the share of Germans in the Wehrmacht was higher than the share of the French in the Napoleonic armada of previous “European integrators”, more than 1.8 million “superhumans” from all over Europe fought in Hitler’s army on the Eastern Front. Only the elite troops of Nazi Germany, the SS troops, accepted into their ranks over 400,000 volunteers from other countries.

The Germans formed 59 divisions, 23 brigades and several national regiments and legions from European volunteers. These are such divisions as “Valonia”, “Galicia”, “Bohemia and Moravia”, “Viking”, “Free Corps Denmark”, “Gembez” (?), “Langemark”, “Nordland”, “Netherlands”, “Charlemagne” (see with list). Europeans served as volunteers not only in their national, but also in German divisions.

Danish SS men are going to the Eastern Front

Denmark covered the needs of the German population of the Reich in butter by 10 percent, in meat by 20, in fresh fish by 90 (!!!) percent. (BATS note: see our footnote on page 7 of the Danish underground publication “2Years” concerning how the Germans extracted the supplies from Denmark.) And, of course, the Danish industry fulfilled all German orders. The Norwegians supplied the Nazis with seafood. Belgium and Holland supplied the Germans with coal, cast iron, iron, manganese, zinc and food, including the same fish.

Not only the German population in the rear, but also the German army on the Eastern Front, thanks to the diligent united Europe, did not deny themselves anything.

And another important thing is that all European countries did not require cash payment from the Reich for their products. It promised its allies to pay their costs after the victorious end of the war for the Germans. So the Europeans were waiting for the war’s end, their “vital interest” was vested ni that, and not in any “liberation from fascism”, especially the liberation by the Red Army.

Our victory over Nazism lead to a direct financial loss to the Europeans. (BATS note: Marshal Zhukov famously said: “We freed them, and they will never forgive us for this.”)

They believed in both the financial and territorial promises given by the Fuhrer (for example, for Romania in Novorossiya or for Finland in Karelia and Ingria). Some “hard-core Nazis” still believe in new “their” lands at the expense of Russia, and some of them – “Mai-downs” dream of Ukraine to the Volga and the Caucasus at the expense of NATO’s money and blood (the most ardent appetites extend to the Pacific Ocean). These “jumpers” really “think” that someone will fight for them, and even pay for their territorial “wishes” – a sad madhouse with a clown heading the Getmanate.

In general, the whole of continental Europe, almost all Europeans, went against the “bast-shod” Russia, which had just recovered from the “Civil” War.

Despite the obvious advantage of the European “civilisers – Euro-integrators” three quarters of a century ago, our ancestors “broke off all the buzz” to the West in Hitler’s “bed”. And they they don’t have there (as well as in the Western colonies, whose “heroes” are Bandera/Shukhevichi and other Hitlerite “sixes” – that is, lackeys) the Victory Day. Instead there is a day of mourning (for the Nazis destroyed by our ancestors) and reconciliation (with today’s Nazis).

The banks of “neutral” Switzerland held the finances of the Nazi government, as well as gold bars, which amounted to 3/4 of the gold captured by the Reich. Including gold, melted down from teeth torn from concentration camp victims and jewellery removed from them.

Swiss precision instruments, telephones, walkie-talkies, watches were regularly supplied to the Nazis, and gas for use in concentration camps came from the laboratories of the chemical company “Ciba”. One of the companies that used the slave labour of exported Soviet citizens is Nestle, which is now popular in Russia and Ukraine.

The second European “neutral” state – Sweden supplied Germany with iron ore and steel: a third (!!!) German ammunition and weapons were made from Swedish raw materials, it was the Swedes who supplied the Wehrmacht with the necessary bearings as needed components for German military equipment. In the period from 1941 to 1943 (while Swedish hopes for the Fuhrer’s victory were alive), “Tre kronor” (“The Three Crowns”) provided its territory for the transit of Nazi troops, weapons and cargo, and Swedish King Gustav V in a personal letter of October 1941 (when the fall of Moscow seemed imminent) hurried to thank Adolf for the defeat of Bolshevism.

Here’s Czechoslovakia. Now, head to the East!
The pre-war caricature on the Munich conspiracy by “Kukryniksy”.

Hitler received at his disposal weapons and equipment worth almost 14 billion (!!!) Reichsmarks, coming from 857 factories of the annexed Czechoslvachia. Skoda alone produced more weapons than the entire pre-war Britain. It was Czechoslvachia that created for the Germans the entire fleet of armoured personnel carriers, a huge number of tanks, aircraft, small arms, artillery and ammunition. Without the Czech military industry and Czech tanks, the Germans would not have had four tank divisions, which would have made a Nazi attack on the USSR impossible.

At the same time, the Germans never had to face any acts of sabotage or resistance from the “freedom-loving” Czechs. In addition, Nazi Germany also received the entire 80 tonnes of the Czech gold reserve. And all of that was gifted to Hitler by none other than the Western “democracies” with the Munich Conspiracy of 1938.

While now, the unknown, but very “freedom-loving Czech patriots” are desecrating the monument to the Red Army soldiers who liberated their country from Nazi Germany. And did such Czechs need this “liberation”? After all, they haven’t licked all the German boots yet!

Europe not only worked for Hitler for free under his “guarantees” to pay with Eastern trophies and slaves, but the Europeans also helped Germany by taking on the costs of maintaining the German occupation forces. France, for example, was since the summer of 1940 allocating for these purposes 20 million German marks daily (!!!), and 25 million since the autumn of 1942. In total, European countries donated more than 80 billion (!!!) Deutschmark to Germany for these purposes.

It is debatable how voluntary this “gift” was in each particular country’s case. In any case, before the outbreak of the war with the USSR, Hitler appealed to all Europeans for a “crusade against Bolshevism.” A number of Catholic bishops, following the Fuhrer, hastened to call the invasion of the USSR – a “European crusade”. It is with this period that most of the controversy surrounding Pope Pius XII is connected. Representatives of Jewish organisations consider him responsible for the fact that during the war, the Vatican did not directly and decisively speak out against the Holocaust and did not help persecuted Jews.

And how was the Vatican helping in the genocide of Russians and Orthodox? Why are we silent?

In our time, the destruction of Orthodoxy has been continued by the “tomosos” of Bartholomew – a NATO officer, a graduate of the Jesuit Pontifical Institute.

At Hitler’s call, the European nations stood up “to defend Western civilisation from Soviet barbarism, and any honest assistant in this struggle will be met as an ally…”.

The Fascists created a real anti-Soviet/anti-Russian international of Nazis in the Wehrmacht and the SS troops. The most important thing ut was VOLUNTARY!

France and its entrepreneurs also worked closely with the Germans, were their main suppliers for a whole group of goods. Not to mention agricultural products, by the beginning of the war with the USSR, 1.6 million people were employed in the French “defence industry”, which worked for the Wehrmacht. It was in France that the largest howitzer of the Wehrmacht was produced: its shells weighing more than one and a half tons crumbled the quarters of Leningrad. About 10,000 (!!!) tanks, self-propelled guns and basic vehicles for their creation did France supply Hitler with.

The French tanks of the Wehrmacht.

As Otto Reile, assistant to the head of German military intelligence, stated in Berlin: “The French, without any compulsion, produced in large quantities and without complaints products for our military industry.” In accordance to the plans sent from Berlin, armoured vehicles, howitzers, mortars, anti-tank guns, ammunition were regularly delivered to the Eastern Front from the factories of France – which, at the whim of the allies, was included into the victors of over Hitler, thanks to a small detachment of De Gaulle and 72 pilots of the Normandy-Neman squadron. We’ve heard a lot about these hero pilots. However, their number is “somewhat lost” against the background of the scale with which France provided assistance to Hitler.

And many of us know nothing about the 200,000 French volunteers who fought in the Wehrmacht and in the Legion of French Volunteers.

French volunteers leave for the Eastern Front

In November 1941, the Legion arrived on the Russian front and fought at Borodino, then was used against Russian partisans (a direct parallel with the “European integrators” of Napoleon). In 1944, the Legion became part of the 33rd SS Division “Charlemagne”. As a result, over 23,000 surviving French citizens of the “country-victor over Nazism” turned out to be in Soviet captivity.

The German “occupation” did not at all turn a time of hardships and deprivations for the inhabitants of Paris, and Parisian women humoured the fascists with doubly intensive “labour”. With the arrival of the Germans, the number of “employees” of French brothels increased by six (!!!) times. French women lined up to diligently serve the “Hans and Fritz” arriving from the Eastern Front. These “liberators of Europe from Bolshevism” felt very comfortable there, as French women created a homely atmosphere for German soldiers torn from their homeland. The whole social life in the French capital continued to boil during the Second World War.

And somewhere out there “in the eastern backyards of Europe” there were: besieged Leningrad with children dying of hunger, concentration camps with gas chambers, the Eastern Front bleeding with thousands of deaths every day. At that very same time, dried up from hunger and tears, Russian women ploughed the land, harnessing instead of cattle, or worked for 12-14 hours in production to bring the Great Victory closer, which the “frogs” attached themselves to in 1945.

Not content with their European allies, the Germans actively formed collaborationist units in the occupied lands of the Soviet Union.

There was the Vlasov “Russian Liberation Army”, there were the Nachtigall and Roland battalions, consisting of Ukrainian nationalists, and there were numerous police units. There were tens of thousands of Baltic volunteers who served in the German ground forces, the Luftwaffe, and the SS, but mainly in punitive units.

Lithuanian punishers alone took part in the extermination on the territory of Lithuania of 229,000 Soviet prisoners of war, 220,000 Jews; as well as many thousands of civilians, partisans and soldiers in other regions of the USSR, Poland and Yugoslavia. For Europe, they are “Lithuanian national heroes”, but for us they are bloodthirsty Nazis and accomplices of the Holocaust of Jews and the genocide of the Russian people.

The huge losses of Russians (Eastern Slavs) in the war with Hitler’s Europe are not only due to the fact that they, the “quilted jackets” – who actually fought alone against the whole of the European continent for three years – were opposed by a much more “developed civilisation”. Russians suffered huge losses, two thirds of which were among the civilian population of the Slavic/Russian republics occupied by the previous (in relation to Euromaidan) “Euro-civilisers”, mainly due to the policy of genocide of Russians.

The genocide carried out in the first half of the forties by Hitler’s Europe with the help of local “Galicians”, Bandera, Vlasov, and other collaborators and which is now continued in post-Maidan Ukraine. Only the main form of genocide has changed – now it is not a physical destruction, but the creation of unbearable living conditions, forcing millions of “zarobitchans” (guest workers = ostarbeiters) to leave their homeland and thereby “liberate living space”. (BATS Note: After NATO unleashed the hot phase of the Ukrainian conflict and Britain blocked any hopes for peace, the genocide of the Slavs has again taken a physical form, now roughly called “Europe stand with Ukraine till the last Ukrainian”)

While back then the Hitlerite Europeans pursued a “scorched earth” policy in the occupied Soviet regions, actively destroying “Russian subhumans”.

Not only prisoners of war, communists, commissars, but also the civilian population en masse. Including driving them to work in Germany. At that time, more than 5 million people were abducted from their Motherland (nowadays there are more Ukrainian migrant workers/ostarbeiters in Europe).

The ways Europe carried out the genocide of Russians in the first half of the 40s of the 20th century:

1) Military losses of the Soviet people (consisting of almost 80% of Eastern Slavs, that is, Russians according to the 1939 census) at the fronts and in captivity.

Executions, inhuman conditions of detention of Soviet prisoners of war, depriving them of food and excessive hard labour led to mass deaths.

While the majority of German prisoners of war returned to the “fatherland” (despite the apologies of modern “Kolya from Urengoy”), the vast majority of the Soviet ones were destroyed (and these “Kolyas” and other libertard geeks do not care about them). The Nazis massively tortured Soviet/Russian prisoners of war camps, which turned into real “death factories” for millions of people.

In 1941, Soviet prisoners of war were given a food allowance of about 900 kcal per day, which was almost half the norm necessary for survival. This led to irreversible dystrophy and death from starvation within a few months. Thus, the camps for Soviet prisoners of war on the territory of the Soviet Union in the first half of the war were the same kind of extermination camps as the camps for Jews.

In total, more than three million Soviet prisoners of war died in German camps, primarily from starvation.

And at the same time, well-fed Europe was churning out ammunition and military equipment for the war against the USSR for wages, so that there would be even more exterminated Soviet people (mostly Russians).

Contrary to the libertard myth about “stopping the Germans with own corpses”, the losses on the fronts of the peoples of the USSR and the Third Reich with its satellites are comparable: about 8.5 – 9 million each for the USSR and the Reich with its allies (the latter without taking into account the losses of policemen and collaborators of the occupied Soviet territories, the “people’s” German militia and other auxiliary Nazi formations Europe).

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One has to wonder, if the Red Army had acted on the principle of “an eye for an eye” and behaved in Europe in the same way as Europeans in the USSR, for example, executing 100 hostages for each killed soldier, would the “liberals” also have declared that the Germans “did not know how to fight and filled up the Soviet Union with their own corpses”? But our ancestors were not fascists, they could not match the Europeans…

Only during the liberation of Europe did the irretrievable losses of the Red Army amount to:

in Poland — 600,212 people;
in Hungary — 140,004 people;
in Czechoslovakia — 139,918 people;
in Germany — 101,961 people;
in Romania — 68,993 people;
in Austria — 26,006 people;
in Yugoslavia — 7,995 people;
in Norway — 3,436 people;
in Bulgaria — 977 people.

Thus, out of about 9 million irretrievable losses of the Red Army, about a million of the fallen are Soviet soldiers who died during the liberation of Europe from fascism. Liberation, which most Europeans did not need at that time, and so, respectively, now their descendants perceive it not as liberation, but as “occupation”.

In total, more than 5.7 million Great Russian, 1.4 million Ukrainian, 253 thousand Belarusian soldiers fell on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War, in total: more than 7.3 million Russian victims of the Soviet-German front.

In almost every settlement in Russia, Ukraine (except for the Bandera regions), Belarus, there is a memorial to fallen countrymen with dozens, hundreds, thousands of surnames of fathers-grandfathers-great-grandfathers who did not return from the war. That is why that war has forever become a Patriotic war for our people. (BATS note: and that is why Bandera Ukraine is systematically destroying all these memorials – to erase this memory)

2) Famine and mass murder of civilians in the occupied territories.

Of the almost 27 million Soviet casualties, civilian casualties amounted to about 18 million, that is, more than two thirds. Not only Jews, Communists and Komsomol members, the entire population of the Soviet territories occupied by the Nazis (mainly Slavic, that is, Russian republics) was subjected to mass terror and actual genocide by the Europeans.

And the “enlightened” Europe does not succeed in blaming just Hitler and just the Gestapo for the deaths of millions of civilians. The hands of many soldiers of the Reich and its allies, not to mention the appendages of the local policemen/Bandera and other collaborators, were elbow-deep in the blood of the civilian population.

The rules of “behaviour” of professional killers of civilians were instilled in every disciplined Wehrmacht soldier. For example, in one of the points of the “Memo of a German soldier” it was written:

“You don’t have a heart and nerves, you don’t need them in war. Destroy pity and compassion in yourself, kill every Russian, do not stop if you are facing an old man or a woman, a girl or a boy. Kill, thereby you will save yourself from death, secure the future of your family and become famous forever…”

And here is what the worthy son of the German people, Hans Heil, wrote home in July 1941, who also came to “liberate” us:

“Russians are real cattle. The order is not to take anyone prisoner. Any means to destroy the enemy is correct. Otherwise, it is impossible to deal with this rabble. We cut off the Russian prisoners’ chins, gouged out their eyes, and cut off their bottoms. There is one law here, merciless destruction. Everything should proceed without the so-called humanism. Shots are being fired in the city every minute. Each shot means that another humanoid Russian animal has been sent to the right place…”

Here is just one episode of that genocide of Russians.

On January 22, 1942, Soviet troops, having liberated the last settlement of the Moscow region, Uvarovka, were horrified by the traces of the atrocities of Western “civilisers”, including the fact that European fascists burned alive almost all residents of the village of Ragzino near Moscow.

The Hitlerites captured 37 districts of the Moscow region for only three months, but this short-term occupation turned out to be the most severe in terms of scale, the nature of destruction and casualties. Mass extermination of civilians was recorded in all 37 districts.

In the former Uvarovsky district (now these lands are part of the Mozhaisk district), 95 out of 212 settlements were completely destroyed by the Nazis, that is, almost half (most of them were never restored). And that all happened in just 3 months of occupation!

Question: so, in how many months would the Germans “finally solve the Russian question” in the Moscow region, if its “liberation from the Communists” lasted for longer?

If this is not a genocide of the peaceful Russian population, then what is it? And after all, this happened in most of the East Slavic lands occupied by the united Europe.

3) The export of the population for hard labour in Germany.

The theft of the most able-bodied part of the Soviet population for hard labour in Germany and the neighbouring industrialised satellite countries caused great damage to the Soviet population under occupation. In Germany, Soviet slaves were called “ostarbeiters”, they were fiercely hated, mocked and despised by local residents.

Female slaves from the East…

In total, more than 5.2 million people were forcibly taken to the Reich, of which only about 2 million returned home, about three million people died, and a small part remained in the West for one reason or another.

4) Losses of the urban population as a result of hostilities and blockades (which modern Nazis dream to implement for Crimea and Donbass).

The largest decrease in population was as a result of military operations and blockades in such cities: Leningrad, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Stalingrad, Sevastopol, Kerch, Novorossiysk.

The number of dead civilians in Leningrad alone exceeded the number of victims of World War II for the United States (420 thousand people) or Great Britain (with losses of 450 thousand colonies) and France (660 thousand, although some of them were on the Eastern Front as part of the Wehrmacht) – the allies of the USSR in the anti-Hitler coalition. Meanwhile, the “allied” Paris did not resist, but flourished under occupation. It’s just that according to Hitler’s plans, all residents of captured Moscow and Leningrad were to be destroyed along with the Russian capitals.

Before the start of the blockade, Leningrad was the second most populous city in the USSR, with 3.2 million people living in it. By September 1941, the population of Leningrad and its suburbs was about 2.9 million people. The siege of Leningrad, according to various estimates, claimed the lives of 600,000 to 1.5 million residents of the city. 3% of people died from Nazi bombing, and the remaining 97% died from starvation. According to one estimate, over 1,413,000 people became victims of the Nazis, which is 57.6 percent of all Leningraders.

In Stalingrad and Voronezh, which the Nazis never managed to completely capture, there were such losses of the urban population: in Stalingrad, at the time of the expulsion of the enemy, only 12.2% of the inhabitants remained, in Voronezh — 19.8% of the pre-war population.

The Nazis began the genocide of the civilian population of Rostov-on-Don from the first days of the occupation. Already on July 25, 1942, they shot the boys from house number 40 on Ulyanovsk Street – Vitya Protsenko, Kolya Zyatin, Igor Neygof and two of their friends for harbouring seriously wounded Soviet soldiers. On the next day, when Field Marshal List together with the Japanese ambassador and the commander of the 1st Panzer Army of the Wehrmacht, Baron Ewald von Kleist, entered the city captured by the enemy, the German guards put a row of our prisoners of war lying on the road and a German tank “ironed” the defenceless people.

In total, Hitler’s Europeans and their mutts destroyed the civilian population in the occupied territory of the USSR: more than 6.9 million Russians, 6.5 million Ukrainians, 1.7 million Belarusians and from 2 to 2.5 million Jews. For some reason, they talk about one Holocaust, but everyone “forgot” about the genocide of the Russian people by Europe, united by Hitler.

The (Galician) girls are seeing their boys off to war – under the SS banners.

An now, let’s “admire” the modern “miracles” of Western propaganda: the president of an East Slavic country that lost a quarter of its population in 1941-1945 calls it “not our war” (BATS note: that was stated by Belorussia’s Lukashenko on October 26, 2019 – at that time he was trying to sit on two chairs with one butt, and flirt with the West), while the president of another East Slavic country (Ukraine), which lost a fifth of its inhabitants during these years, glorifies and celebrates the anniversaries of obvious accomplices (in the ranks of all kinds of “Fuhrers”) those who zealously participated in the Holocaust not only of the blood relatives of this president (BATS note: here the author alludes to the Jewish lineage of Zelensky), but also in the genocide of the Slavic population of “his” country.

No matter what the modern “Ne-rus” (Russians who denounced their roots, the “mankruts”) broadcasts, most of the victims of the Nazi regime were representatives of the Russian world: these are Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians.

However, united now by the Anglo-Zionist (modern fascists) Europe does not repent, but on the contrary – it i sprecisely in the Russians that they are trying to instil a complex of guilt for the victory of their ancestors over fascist Europe and an inferiority complex for that supposedly “incorrect victory”.

This is facilitated by the fact that the Polish leaders, maddened by Russophobia, and with them American, German diplomats and Baltic mutts loudly declare to the whole world that the Russians and the Germans (Stalin and Hitler) started the Second World War and therefore, together with the Germans, the Russians must bear responsibility for it.

The most ridiculous thing in this theatre of absurdity is that Russia is accused by those, whose countries either fought for Hitler, or whose countries contributed to Hitler’s triumphant rise to power in 1933, signed various agreements with him since 1934, and already in 1938 surrendered to him, or even shared Czechoslovakia with him, by making precisely the Munich Agreement a necessary for hitler component of the Second World War (it provided the Fuhrer with weapons for it), after which they helped Hitler in every possible way in the genocide of the Russian people.

At the same time, the European leaders of the 1930s were well aware that any agreement or action in the field of foreign policy that strengthened the potential of the Reich, also increased Hitler’s ambitions, and therefore increased the risks of Nazi aggression. They only hoped to direct it to the East (they clearly read Mein Kampf), and did everything to destroy the Soviet Union and the Russian people they hated, by the hands of Nazi Germany. And for the sake of this, it was no pity to hand over to the Germans the stinking “hyena of Europe” represented by Poland, stupefied by its arrogance. No matter how puffed up the “honourable” Poles are, they have always been and are second-class people for the West: “Polish plumbers”.

After all this, questions arise: if Germany was not alone, why should only Germany have to pay for decades? The main thing is, why do they pay only to the Jews?

Why should Russia, as the legal successor of the Soviet Union, not bill Germany and all its former European accomplices for all the troubles they brought to the inhabitants of the USSR, for 27 million dead (which is more than four times the number of Jews exterminated by the Nazis) – 15% of the population of the pre-war USSR, for thousands cities and villages, wiped off the face of the earth, for a third of the destroyed pre-war assets of the Soviet Union, for the genocide of the Russian people?

Or are Soviet people (including the Jews) inferior to the Polish, Hungarian, German, Romanian, Italian, French, Dutch and other “European” Jews?

A myriad army of pseudoscientists, publicists, bloggers, Russophobic haters and other “opinion leaders” who have bred both in the West and in Russia use fictitious or falsified “documents”, outright lies and manipulation (example: mentioning the Brest Agreement and “forgetting” the earlier and numerous treaties of the West with Hitler, as well as the peculiarities of the “strange war” of 1939-1940 with him) in order to substantiate the propaganda thesis about the “criminality” of the Soviet Union.

It is obvious that in this way the West is trying to distract attention from the terrible crimes committed by the Nazis (not only German ones) and European collaborators in their service on the territory of the Soviet Union, trying to hide the undeniable fact that it was the West that gave birth to and nurtured Hitler, and it was the west that also tried to direct his aggression only to the East. At the same time, in modern Europe, there is an intensified rehabilitation of the Nazis responsible for the “Russian Holocaust”. Moreover, no one has brought Europe to account for past crimes against the Russian people, although such crimes do not have a statute of limitations.

The silencing of the genocide of the Russian people in the past may lead to its genocide in the future.

Now the wretched “Young Europeans” (Eastern Europe) and Russian liberals, inflated by Russophobia and their own impunity, have simply (and “simplicity is worse than theft”) “forgotten” who extinguished the furnaces of Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka and Buchenwald, who saved not only the Jews but also all the Slavs from destruction.

Seeing the “lack of response” (as a result of irresponsibility), everyone and their dog poked and continues to poke Russians in the face with their own sores and grievances?

“Galicians-politzais”, Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, Czechs and Slovaks, Finns and Balts in a mutual chorus continuously howl in one voice about the unthinkable losses “from these terrible and bloodthirsty Russians”. At the same time, with fading and intense salivation, they continuously calculate the moral and material damage, and do not get tired of reminding that “no one is forgotten and nothing is forgotten”. Even the Germans, whose cow certainly has no right to moo, they also bleat about the “millions of citizens of the Reich raped by wild barbarians”. (BATS note: see Millions of raped German women: where the legs grow from? Reblog of a detailed research article)

But the scariest thing is that our younger generation of “button-puhers”, with such an attitude to history, can start saying the same things in a few years.

At the same time, Western and pro-Western “truth-lovers” persistently urge only Russians to constantly repent and be more modest, not to remember, “not to comb and not to kindle”. This is how liberal Europe and “libertad” Russia perceive any attempts to remember the victims of the horror that the Germans and their European henchmen committed on the territory of the Soviet Union against the Soviet people.

Oh, how much would the modern Nazis and globalists like us to repent for our “quilted jacket-clad” great-grandfathers who dared to break the neck of the fascists, while Europe lay down under them, relaxed and enjoyed working it out not only in the factories of the Reich, but also with the massive replenishment of Hitler’s troops on the Eastern Front. And did she (Europe) need, satisfied, that liberation from the fascists?

The “correctly” trained by “Katz” grandchildren – great-grandchildren of these “stupid” soldiers, who did not provide their descendants with Bavarian beer and sausages (some of the untermensch could have been kept by “higher race” for harvesting grain and pine nuts, while the ancestors of the Zelensky-Gordons would have all been turned into the lampshades), are sent to Berlin to repent for the “quilted jackets” who did not allow Germans, Hungarians, Romanians, Finns, Dutch, Belgians, French, Norwegians, Danes, Czechoslovaks, Poles, Italians, Croats, Spaniards, Balts, Galician rogues and other “democratisers who did not want war” to reach Volga and further to oil-bearing Baku and Urengoy.

I wonder how many Europeans apologised for the genocide of Russians in the Stae Duma?

But we will not keep silent and forget, we will not betray our ancestors. The theme of the history of the Second World War will constantly lead all conscientious researchers to the history of cooperation between European countries and the Third Reich, the participation of their peoples in the Holocaust, and their armies in the genocide of the Eastern Slavs.

That is: Poles, Balts, Bandera of Ukraine and other heirs of Hitler’s accomplices, including those who for five (!) years from 1939 to 1944 did not fight with Hitler, but waited “with a rifle at their feet” (like the Polish Home Army) or ran from the war throughout the Middle East (like the Polish Anders’ army) – they will achieve that, wanting to get onto Russian money, they will receive the oppiste effect – they will launch the process of “restitution” against themselves. And they will, like Germany, pay for decades, and this time not only to the Jews, but Russians too.

As a lesson for the future, it is necessary to ask the European heirs of the Nazis and their accomplices for the genocide of the Russian people during the Second World War in full.

Because it has already been proven that as a result of the pan-European aggression, it was the Russian people who suffered the greatest losses in World War II. They basically broke the neck of European fascism: the Third Reich and its “mutts” suffered more than 4/5 of their losses on the Eastern Front. It was there that the most combat-ready, and not the rear units of the Nazis (or those who rushed into voluntary captivity to the Western Allies) fell.

Of course, our enemies want to steal our Victory, they dream that millions of “Kolyas from Urengoy” and native Nazis from various tribes of “untermensch” will grow up among us, who will fight among themselves, facilitating the “higher race” the final solution of the Russian question.

The Western propaganda has brought to us not only pop culture and the sex revolution (including all possible forms of perversion and degeneracy). It (9/10 of the world’s mass media) also brought its own vision of history. A history in which there is virtually NOTHING LEFT of the truth.

On the other hand, the vast majority of Americans and Europeans are confident that the main role in World War II was played by the United States (“Hollywood does not lie”), which, as many believe, was fought then not only with Germany, but also with the USSR. Why be surprised if a third (!!!) of the Japanese schoolchildren are convinced that it was the Soviet Union that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and many residents of Hamburg and Dresden think that it was the Soviet aircraft that levelled their cities along with hundreds of thousands of civilians.

A few more such films/cartoons/computer games on this topic – and our teenagers will be convinced of all this (if we keep our silence). “Those who do not remember their past will lose their future.” A nation that has forgotten its history is doomed to death and oblivion.

Whimpering and whining in the German parliament, “Kolyas from Urengoy” are multiplying in the Russian information space. Why remember now about Ukraine, whose official “heroes” were Abwehr Bandera and SS Shukhevych? But it is necessary to remember. It was Shukhevych who wrote that if only half of the population of Ukraine remains, then “it’s perfectly fine”. No, already now only half of it is left, and it is already scary for those whose brains are not covered by the propaganda “pot”.

But the most terrible thing is yet to come – the West is conducting a “final solution to the Russian question” (starting with the borderland part of the Russian people).

Let’s draw conclusions.

In the Great Patriotic War, the USSR, with an initial population of 190 million people, fought not with 80 million Germans of that time, but with the whole of continental Europe, whose number (without island England) was about 400 million.

Comparing the volumes of industrial (including “defence” complex) and agricultural production, the size of gold reserves and capital of the united Europe and the USSR in 1941 is generally ridiculous. In addition to the “cannon fodder” for the Eastern Front, the Europeans provided Hitler with a diligent “family” of 150 millions (!!!) of employees. In addition to voluntary workers on a salary, the Germans “employed” for free the “ostarbeiters” taken out of the USSR and Jews in ghettos/concentration camps.

How, under all these conditions, our ancestors were able to stand up and defeat Hitler’s united Europe is already a mystery to our current generation. And the next ones, I’m afraid, won’t believe it at all. Moreover, all Western and pro-Western propaganda has been working on this disbelief for a long time.

It is our sacred duty to protect the memory and history of the Great Victory of our ancestors.

In order to survive and ensure the future of our children, we all need to remember: it was our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers who laid their precious lives on the altar of the Great Victory against the fascist regimes of cannibalistic Europe. To protect their memory, the memory of their Great Victory over fascism, is our sacred cause.

So, with what can we oppose the false globalist propaganda? Our Russian truth. The truth about the Great War and the Great Victory, the truth about how Europe participated in the genocide of our people in the forties of the 20th century.

Since our word and deed are right, Victory will be ours again!


As an afterword

On May 6, 2025, on the 80th anniversary of the Geate Victory, “Russian Newspaper” (freedom-of-speeched in EU) wrote on their Telegram channel:

The genocide of the Soviet people must come to light

Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation:

“International recognition of the fact of the genocide of the Soviet people by the fascists during the Great Patriotic War is our duty to the memory of the millions of victims.”

Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, we pay tribute to the memory of the victims of these tragic events in world history. The consequences of the war were destroyed cities, wiped off the face of the earth along with the inhabitants of villages and settlements, destroyed monuments and plundered cultural and historical values, but above all a huge number of broken destinies.

“The fascists were supposed to exterminate through food deprivation from 20 to 30 million inhabitants of the USSR, including the population of Moscow and Leningrad.”

27 million lives is the price that the Soviet Union paid for its Victory over Nazi Germany. More than half of the victims are civilians.

These are women and children, the elderly and the sick, Slavs and Jews, and representatives of other nationalities who were shot, burned, starved, and tortured to death in concentration camps, forced labour, and deprived of their lives by the Nazis and their henchmen.

👉 Read Alexander Bastrykin’s exclusive interview on the RG website.

The unthinkable madness of the Anglo-Saxons. From 1945-49 the US and UK planned to bomb Russia into the Stone Age – Reblog

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Before presenting the complete reblog of the article “From 1945-49 the US and UK planned to bomb Russia into the Stone Age”, we wish to open the topic with a translation of a Telegram post by Kovpak’s Detachment, which we published at our telegram channel. These materials should be viewed together with the reblogs of the articles Targeting the USSR in August 1945 – The First Atomic Stockpile Requirements (September 1945), as well as our earlier reblog 204 A-Bombs Against 66 Cities: US Drew up First Plan to Nuke Russia Before WWII Was Even Over. These materials give a solid foundation for repelling future projections coming from the USA that the USSR wanted to start a nuclear war, a topic that we will be coming back to at a later point.

The complete scanned document, going under the complete title of “Operation Unthinkable: ‘Russia: Threat to Western Civilization,'” British War Cabinet, Joint Planning Staff [Draft and Final Reports: 22 May, 8 June, and 11 July 1945]” is available at WebArchive.


The unthinkable madness of the Anglo-Saxons

Along with the published documents on targeted destruction by the British of the German ships carrying Soviet prisoners of war in the last days of World War II, it is worth recalling another little-known episode of high “allied” relations on the part of the British ruling elite, led by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, towards the USSR.

Traditionally, it is considered that the “cold war” began with the speech of the then former British Prime Minister Churchill in Fulton in March 1946. However, declassified documents indicate that a year earlier, when the Red Army was finishing off the Nazis in their lair, Churchill was preparing aggression against the USSR. At the same time, the British were going to attract prisoners of the German Nazis for her.

In mid-May 1945, on the instructions of the British Prime Minister, the Joint Headquarters of the Ministry of War began preparations for Operation Unthinkable, which aimed to deliver a crushing blow to the Red Army in order to throw it back to the borders of the USSR and capture all of Germany and Poland, thereby negating the results of the Victory over the Nazis. In addition to the British and Americans, former soldiers of the Wehrmacht and SS who were captured by the British and Americans and newly armed were to go into battle. The bet was on the instant defeat of the Red Army, tired of fighting the Germans. It was planned to launch airstrikes on major cities of the USSR and the oil fields of the Caucasus, and even use atomic weapons (which had not yet been used against the Japanese at that time).

The fact that Churchill’s insane plan was not translated into reality is a credit to Soviet intelligence. Thanks to Agent X, the details of Operation Unthinkable, which was scheduled to begin on July 1, 1945, became known to the Soviet command. Diplomatic and military measures were urgently taken. So, the commander of the Soviet troops in Germany, Marshal G.K. Zhukov, began a large-scale regrouping of troops on June 29, confusing all the calculations of the British strategists, who planned down to the smallest detail where, how and against which forces of the Red Army to strike each blow.

On July 17, 1945, the next Big Three conference began in Potsdam, designed to consolidate the agreements reached in Tehran and Yalta on the post-war contours of peace. At the same time, Churchill stayed at the conference as a representative of Britain for only a few days. On July 5, he lost the parliamentary elections and on July 26 lost the post of prime minister to Labour leader Clement Attlee. The new British authorities were more sober and realistic at that time and were not particularly eager to fight against the Soviet Union, as were the Americans, given the fact that World War II was not over yet, and it was necessary to force Japan to surrender.

The “hot” war between the former allies in the anti-Hitler coalition was postponed indefinitely, and the “cold” was destined to officially begin only six months later.


From 1945-49 the US and UK planned to bomb Russia into the Stone Age

— By freelance journalist Ekaterina Blinova / October 9, 2016

Was the US Cold War military doctrine really ‘defensive’ and who actually started the nuclear arms race?

Just weeks after the Second World War was over and with Nazi Germany defeated, Soviet Russia’s allies, the United States and Great Britain, hastened to develop military plans aimed at dismantling the USSR and wiping out its cities with a massive nuclear strike.
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Let it not be in vain…

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A touching video tribute to all those young people, who did not return from the battlefield so that we would live today.


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From the first military draft in 1941, 97% of the generation of 18-year-olds died…

📽 Video is by the project “To Live”, taken from their YouTube channel. Yekaterina Vasilyeva, People’s Artist of the RSFSR, plays the role of the Teacher. The author of the idea and the director of photography is Oleg Golub.

The song heard in the film is called “Cranes”, written by Rasul Gamzatov, translation by David M. Bennett.

The translation initially published at our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”


“Not perished in the ground, but turned into cranes”, 2015. Painting by Eugene Shtyrov

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Cranes

Poem by Rasul Gamzatov
Translation: David M. Bennett

It seems to me sometimes that soldiers fallen,
Whom bloody battlefields have rendered dead,
Were buried not in soil to be forgotten,
But turned into white cranes in flight instead.

From that time, since their fate became a coffin
They’ve soared, and issued us a strident cry.
Is that not why we sadly, and so often,
Lift up our silent gaze when cranes go by?

Today, as evening yields to nightfall’s border,
I see the cranes in flight, their wings unfurled,
As over fields they fly in perfect order
Just as they marched, when people in the world.

They fly — their line extending to forever —
And call out names of someone to the cold.
Is that not why the song of cranes has never
Been far from Avar speech since times of old?

The weary wedge of birds on expedition —
It flies and flies through fog, towards the dawn,
And in the ranks I notice a position —
An empty space for me, for when I’m gone!

Some day in that formation I’ll be flying;
I’ll sail into the skies on my rebirth,
And from the heav’ns with crane trump I’ll be crying
To those of you I left upon the earth.

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Targeting the USSR in August 1945 – The First Atomic Stockpile Requirements (September 1945) – Reblog

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This is a complete reblog of two articles, written by Alex Wellerstein, published April 27 and May 9, 2012. The original article is now only available at the WebArchive. This article, together with the reblogs of “From 1945-49 the US and UK planned to bomb Russia into the Stone Age” and “204 A-Bombs Against 66 Cities: US Drew up First Plan to Nuke Russia Before WWII Was Even Over” give a solid foundation for repelling future projections coming from the USA that the USSR wanted to start a nuclear war, a topic that we will be coming back to at a later point.


Targeting the USSR in August 1945

– by Alex Wellerstein, published April 27th, 2012

If the World War II alliance between the United States and the United Kingdom was the special relationship, what was the alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union? The especially problematic relationship? The relationship that could really have used to go to counseling? A relationship forged out of extreme crisis that later seemed like a sketchy thing? (Easily abbreviated as the sketchy relationship, of course.) My wife suggests perhaps calling it the shotgun marriage.

Maybe special fits the bill there too, in the sense of it being odd. Case in point: by August 30, 1945 — before World War II was officially over — some part of the U.S. military force (I’m not sure what branch; the Army Air Corps are a likely suspect) had already taken the time to draw up a list of good targets for atomic bombs in the USSR… and even overlaid a map of the Soviet Union with the ranges of nuclear-capable bombers, along with “first” and “second” priority targets marked on it.1

How many other war alliances end with one side explicitly plotting to nuke the heck out of the other ally? Probably not too many.

This amazing map comes from General Groves’ files, and was sent to him in September 1945 as part of a list of estimates for how many atomic bombs Curtis LeMay thought the US ought to have. I’ll talk about that another time, but here’s a hint: it was so many that even General Groves thought it was too many. Whoa.

A few things: the majority of these “dark” plots are B-29s (the same bombers that carried Fat Man and Little Boy), and they are going out of all kinds of “allied” bases (some currently in their possession, others labeled as “possible springboards”) around the USSR (Stavanger, Bremen, Foggia, Crete, Dhahran, Lahore, Okinawa, Shimushiru, Adak, and Nome). Which is an interesting way to quickly conceptualize the Cold War world from a military standpoint.

The very large, empty plots are for B-36s, which didn’t exist yet. They wouldn’t get fielded until 1949, but were already in the planning stages during the war. The actual B-36s as delivered had somewhat longer ranges (6,000 miles or so, total, if Wikipedia is to believed) than the ones estimated on here.

The target cities are a bit hard to make out (the next time I’m at NARA, I’ll try to get them to bring me the original map), but the “first priority” cities include Moscow, Sverdlovsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Stalinsk, Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Kazan, Molotov, and Gorki. Leningrad appears to be listed as a “second priority” target, which surprises me, but it might just be the microfilm being hard to read. All in all, it’s not the most interesting list of cities: they have literally just taken a list of the top cities in the USSR (based on population, industry, war relevance) and made those their atomic targets.

NOTES

Citation 1: “A Strategic Chart of Certain Russian and Manchurian Urban Areas [Project No. 2532],” (30 August 1945), Correspondence (“Top Secret”) of the Manhattan Engineer District, 1942-1946, microfilm publication M1109 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1980), Roll 1, Target 4, Folder 3, “Stockpile, Storage, and Military Characteristics.” The microfilm image I had of this came in two frames, a top and a bottom, and I pasted them together in Photoshop. This took a little bit of warping of the bottom image in odd ways (using Photoshop’s crazy “Puppet Warp” tool) because it didn’t quite line up with the top one due to folds in the paper and things like that. So there is a tiny bit of manipulation here, though none of it affects the content.


The First Atomic Stockpile Requirements (September 1945)

– by Alex Wellerstein, published May 9th, 2012

The question of how large the American nuclear stockpile should be has long been a controversial one. Usually it is argued out as a question of how many nukes do we need to be safe?, where “safe” here means, “to make sure nobody wants to nuke us first,” i.e., deterrence.

It’s a fair enough question, although, as my readers all surely know, there are many sides to how one should pose it.

But for the Weekly Document, let’s go back to an earlier time. Today, I want to look closely at the very first attempt at coming up with a systematic estimate for how many nuclear weapons the United States should ideally have. This was completed in early September 1945 — well before nuclear deterrence was on the table, for at this point the United States still had a literal monopoly on nuclear arms.

The architect of this estimate appears to have been Major General Lauris Norstad of the US Army Air Forces (USAAF). Norstad would later go on to be one of the top Air Force planners, and later the Supreme Allied Commander Europe for NATO, but at this junction he was high-ranking staff at the USAAF headquarters in Washington, DC.

On September 15, 1945 — just under two weeks after the formal surrender of Japan and the end of World War II — Norstad sent a copy of the estimate to General Leslie Groves, still the head of the Manhattan Project, and the guy who, for the short term anyway, would be in charge of producing whatever bombs the USAAF might want. As you might guess, the classification on this document was high: “TOP SECRET LIMITED,” which was about as high as it went during World War II. (That the report came with an attached map showing projected US atomic capabilities in the USSR probably didn’t help with that.)1

Click the image to view the document as a PDF.

Let’s cut to the chase. How many bombs did the USAAF request of the atomic general, when there were maybe one, maybe two bombs worth of fissile material on hand? At a minimum they wanted 123. Ideally, they’d like 466. This is just a little over a month after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Of course, in true bureaucratic fashion, they provided a handy-dandy chart:

Click to enlarge (the image, not the stockpile). I wonder whether anybody would buy a mug with this on it.

Let’s cut to the chase. How many bombs did the USAAF request of the atomic general, when there were maybe one, maybe two bombs worth of fissile material on hand? At a minimum they wanted 123. Ideally, they’d like 466. This is just a little over a month after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Roosevelt and Churchill give history lessons to Biden and Starmer – RT’s AI videos

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RT is giving voice to REAL quotes the US and UK can’t silence! Kudos to our reader, JMF, for drawing our attention to these videos.

RT’s AI Roosevelt gives Biden a WW2 history lesson


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On the European front the most important development of the past year has been without question the crushing counteroffensive on the part of the great armies of Russia against the powerful German Army. These Russian forces have destroyed and are destroying more armed power of our enemies—troops, planes, tanks, and guns—than all the other United Nations put together.
Fireside Chat, 28 April 1942

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AI-generated Churchill reminds Starmer who crushed Nazi Germany in WWII


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An RT video uses a quote from the wartime prime minister praising the Red Army for ‘tearing the guts out of’ the Wehrmacht

RT has released an AI-generated video of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill speaking about the crucial role of the Soviet Union in the defeat of Nazi Germany and other Axis powers in World War II.

As the world prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied victory next week, the video responds to a tendency in the West to overlook or downplay the USSR’s contribution. The Soviet Union destroyed the bulk of the German forces and lost around 27 million people in what is known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War.

In the video, Churchill is shown reacting to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s remarks during a visit to the White House in February. “No two countries have done more together to keep people safe,” Starmer said. “And in a few weeks’ time we’ll mark… the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe. Britain and America fought side-by-side to make that happen.”

Churchill’s quote used in the video is authentic, taken from a letter to Joseph Stalin.

“I shall take the occasion to repeat tomorrow in the House of Commons what I have said before, that it is the Russian army that tore the guts out of the German military machine and is at the present moment holding by far the larger portion of the enemy on its front,” he wrote on September 27, 1944.

The letter was written as the Red Army was on the offensive, following its decisive victory over the Wehrmacht in the Battle of Kursk.


From our reader, JMF: a simple graph (originally from Wikipedia) makes it abundantly clear that the US and Great Britain did NOT win the war “all by themselves” — far from it! And Soviet casualties are even relatively understated.

SOURCE: “Fascism is sweeping across Europe” by Valeriy Krylko


Number of World War II casualties by country (From InfoDefenceEnglish)

The video was initially used in the article “Trump insults the memory of the Soviet sacrifice in WWII”
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Regarding the coming march of the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis in London on May 8

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Russia’s MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment at the Telegram channel of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

According to a report by Sky News, the neo-Nazis of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will participate in the VE Day procession in London on May 8.

The country has not seen anything like this for nearly 90 years since the infamous Cable Street march, when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists was granted official permission to march through London’s East End in October 1936 – an event widely regarded as a shameful chapter in British history.

At that time, many showed support for the British Fascists in London. There were still nearly two years left until the 1938 Munich Agreement – the example of Britain’s appeasing Hitler. England still demonstrated conscience and dignity as anti-fascist activists and some concerned police officers managed to disrupt the far-right and anti-Semite procession in the city.
But this time, London will actually see them march.

Surprisingly, the British authorities’ rationale behind the decision is the Kiev regime’s confrontation with Russia, which is cited directly by Sky News.

This evokes disturbing historical parallels of Great Britain’s notorious insidiousness.

For instance, Winston Churchill, who took part in the Yalta and Potsdam conferences along with the other Big Three leaders, publicly affirmed the alliance with the USSR while addressing Soviet people and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin, and praised the Red Army’s sacrifices. However – as we all know it now – behind closed doors, he authorised the drafting of Operation Unthinkable, a secret plan for a potential Allied invasion of the Soviet Union.

These plans (Operation ‘Unthinkable’) remained classified for half a century until they were finally released by the British General Staff in 1988. Apparently, MI5 and MI6 thought that the Soviet Union, which was on the verge of collapse at the time, would have its historical memory buried, and the publication of these materials would no longer compromise London.
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