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‼️ As a reminder to the assorted Fascist and Zionist media, the Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of the Soviet People had been observed in Russia on April 19 for quite some time, since 2020, but unofficially. We first marked it on “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden” in 2024. What changed in 2026, is that the Day is now officially written into the Laws of Russian Federation!

✍️ Let’s recall — the choice of April 19 as a memorial date is due to the fact that it was on this day in 1943 that Decree No. 39 of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR was issued “On punishments for Nazi villains guilty of murdering and torturing Soviet civilians and captured Red Army soldiers, for spies, traitors to the Motherland from among Soviet citizens and for their accomplices”. It was the first act to record evidence of a systematic and purposeful Nazi policy of exterminating civilians in the Soviet Union.

👉 Read also: The European Genocide of the Russian People and The text of Hitler’s statement on the extermination of Slavic peoples has been published in Russia for the first time

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Unveiling the forgotten history: German soldiers’ brutal eradication of Slavs – raped, looted, and burned their way through Soviet villages

— By Rina Lu on X

Stop ignoring how the Wehrmacht acted against the Slavs. Increasingly, we hear claims like “maybe Hitler wasn’t a bad guy.” Perhaps this is because all you’ve heard is the story of the six million.

But here’s the real story🧵👇

During WWII, Nazi Germany carried out a full-blown “war of annihilation” in the USSR killing, torturing, raping, and looting millions of civilians. Most people in the West barely know about it. Nazi leaders had branded Slavs “sub-humans” and even issued orders saying soldiers weren’t accountable for violence against civilians. As one German corporal casually wrote in 1942, “The Russians are animals. We can do whatever we want to them.”

Rape as a Weapon

From the onset of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi forces targeted local women with brutal assaults. By 1943, alarmed SS commanders discovered that half their troops in the East were engaged in “undesirable” acts with “alien” women. Instead of imposing penalties, the Barbarossa Decree (May 13, 1941) ensured soldiers faced no repercussions for crimes against civilians. Consequently, mass rapes, gang assaults, and forced brothels were woven into the Wehrmacht’s terror tactics. Astonishingly, much of the Western world still turns a blind eye to these atrocities.

Firsthand Atrocities

The Nazis wielded rape like a weapon of war. Soldiers’ own letters laid bare their horrific boasts: dragging women onto trucks, assaulting them, then tossing them aside. In one camp, officers brutalised “suspected spies” with rifle butts and bayonets, raped them, and collected torn-off buttons as grotesque “trophies,” even hurling grenades to savour their screams. Picture eight German officers gathered around, laughing at their cruelty.

These were crimes sanctioned, ignored, and hidden.

Institutionalised Brothels

The Wehrmacht transformed Hotel Central in Smolensk into a grim 250-bed brothel, forcing women, from farm workers to schoolgirls, into harrowing “sessions” with officers. Resistance meant death. In Leviki, soldiers corralled fifty women and girls in a barn, subjecting them to relentless abuse. This was terror by design. By weaving rape into daily existence, the Nazis shattered community spirit, paving the way for their next horror: mass killings and public executions.

Mass Executions and Public Killings

As the front lines advanced, German troops unleashed terror, orchestrating arbitrary arrests, creating food shortages, and conducting public executions to instill fear. In Krasnaya Polyana, they imprisoned all the men in the town hall without food for eight harrowing days, confined elderly women to guarded cellars, and ransacked homes, leaving families devastated. Two 14-year-olds, Nyura and Tonya, were assaulted in the open and fell gravely ill. A haunting discovery: a fallen Finnish officer with 37 women’s buttons in his pocket, each a grim token of a victim.

Then came Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya: aged 18, fearless, and on a sabotage mission near Moscow in late 1941. Captured, tortured, and publicly executed, she never uttered a word of betrayal. Her indomitable spirit became legendary, with memorials still standing in those woods as a testament to her bravery.

As the Germans retreated, every village on their path became a staged act of terror. In one hamlet, women were assaulted in front of their families and onlookers, then summarily shot when loved ones tried to help. In another, entire town squares filled with old men, women, and children who were lined up and executed, sometimes after prisoners were publicly humiliated and kept as “trophies.” Elsewhere, soldiers locked two dozen villagers (including eight children) into a single house, abused the women, and set it ablaze.

At the abandoned Tikhvin Monastery, Gestapo agents turned sacred cells into torture chambers, leaving behind half‐dead prisoners and the body of a tortured 15-year-old girl. Every street, home, and holy site became a backdrop for rape, murder, and destruction, an intentional campaign to show that under Vernichtungskrieg (annihilation war), no ounce of community life was spared.

Looting and Destruction

German troops swept through like a storm, plundering everything in their path. In Smagleevka, they raided farm warehouses, whisking away livestock and seizing 250 centners of grain, before rigging schools with explosives and turning the library to ash.

In Bely Rast, they laid waste to homes, slaughtered cows in their stalls, and stripped the area of food. A 12-year-old boy, Vladimir Tkachev, was brutally gunned down with 21 bullets, while Irina Mosolova, a mother of four, was senselessly murdered, leaving her children orphaned.

In Sukhodol, they corralled 24 villagers, including eight children, into a single house, assaulted the women, and then set the place ablaze, leaving no survivors.

German forces transformed rear areas into brutal torture zones. In Krasnaya Polyana, wounded Red Army soldiers and a medic endured four days without water and seven without food, before being forced to drink tainted saltwater. Witnesses recount a dying nurse raped in full view of other captives.

The Gestapo repurposed Tikhvin Monastery into a house of horrors: prisoners were stripped, dragged through town on sleds, and then left to freeze and starve in unheated cells. When liberators arrived, they discovered four barely alive men and the body of a 15-year-old girl, tortured and murdered.

Throughout occupied villages, captives faced savage brutality: beaten, bayoneted, or grenaded. In Pechnevo, underage girls were assaulted in front of their parents, and prisoners trapped in a burning house were shot while trying to flee. Captivity offered no chance of mercy.

Aftermath & Remembering

Postwar tribunals and Soviet commissions first exposed the full extent of these atrocities, providing vital records for Nuremberg and Soviet trials. While Russia has honoured the past with monuments and local studies, Western historians often overlook this crucial evidence. To prevent history from repeating itself, these testimonies must integrate into the global World War II narrative, ensuring the victims are never forgotten.

The “Virtuous Wehrmacht” Myth

Despite the brutality on the front lines, wartime propaganda and postwar memoirs depicted the average German soldier as honorable, placing the blame for excesses solely on the SS. Front-line papers highlighted rare acts of mercy to overshadow reports of widespread violence. After 1945, veteran groups insisted they were merely “doing their duty,” without expressing genuine remorse. As David A. Harrisville notes, this myth facilitated veterans’ reintegration into society and postponed an honest reckoning with the Wehrmacht’s crimes.

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Zionists are against remembrance of the genocide of the soviet people

The Israeli Holocaust Museum was outraged that in Russia, in addition to Jews, other victims of the Second World War can be honored. The ideological war to portray Israel as the main victim of the war continues. Students from all over Europe, the USA, and Canada are now actively being brought to Auschwitz, but they try not to mention the liberation of the camp by Soviet soldiers, and the Russian part of the exhibition has been closed since 2022. Poland insisted that the interpretation of history needed to be adjusted so that Soviet troops would appear as occupiers.

The recognition of 26 million victims of anti-Soviet genocide is now being attempted to be portrayed as anti-Semitism.

The news is from January 26, 2026, but thanks that “Bankista” paid attention to it now.

Actually, nothing unexpected, but another detail in the portrait of what Israel actually is. And these guys, who make profits on the bones of victims must not forget, that a lot of Jews killed in Holocaust were also secular Soviet citizens.

As to Israel, it’s a genocidal state itself and they must not have any rights to speak in this regard anymore. What they do to Gaza is no better.

Speaking about Russia – they should have introduced this memorial day much earlier, but good that finally we have the 19th of April.

Source: EastCalling

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🇩🇪⚔️🇷🇺 A HISTORICAL REMINDER: THE EASTERN FRONT

Hitler had planned to do to the Soviet Union what Germany was already doing in Poland and Israel has been doing to the Palestinians since 1948 and that was to exterminate the indigenous population and colonise their land for German settlement.

27 million Soviets, including 18 million civilians, were killed in what the Nazis explicitly declared to be a war of annihilation and many were killed in the very same camps in which the Germans carried out the Holocaust. The Soviet Union suffered the greatest in World War II, in what John F. Kennedy described as the equivalent of the entire US east of Chicago being wiped out.

And yet despite that, the Red Army gave their all for their people, for their families, and for their homeland. Millions of troops crossed Eastern Europe beginning all the way from Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad and triumphantly raising the red flag of proletarian internationalism over a conquered Berlin. The Soviet Union was instrumental to the destruction of Nazi Germany’s war machine and they did so almost entirely on their own.

Launching a war of extermination against the Soviet Union was the primary ideological goal of the Hitler and the Nazis, and it was what drove German foreign policy and the concept of Lebensbraum during World War II.

However, the West’s historical revisionism attempts to downplay the suffering of the USSR and the role of the Red Army in the war because they never forgave the Russian people for following in the footsteps of the Bolsheviks who overthrew the regime of finance capital and countered imperialism more effectively than any country in history.

The fact that the New York Post believes acknowledging history is “distortion” really just shows how far the corporate media has fallen.

Source: Active Measures

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❗️«We will continue to insistently demand that the Federal Republic of Germany show responsibility and acknowledge the obvious historical truth»

– Maria Zaharova

🕯On April 19, Russia observed the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People, committed by Nazi Germany and its accomplices during the Great Patriotic War.

This date is a symbol of preserving historical truth and memory of the tragedy of the civilian population:
27 million people died, of whom half (we’ll never be able to count them all accurately and completely) were civilians.

This was a deliberate, documented and analysed program, prepared before the start of hostilities, for the “cleansing” of our country’s territory of our own people.

◾️ More than 8 million Soviet citizens are recognised as victims of genocide on the territory of modern Russia.

◾️ 1.25 million out of 4.7 million Soviet citizens, who were subjected to forced labour, died in Nazi captivity, in concentration camps.

◼️ More than half of the total number of victims became victims of the policy of GENOCIDE, carried out by the Nazis and their accomplices.

We during our briefings, in the relevant section on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website and in numerous publications on social media (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), talked about what events in memory of the victims of the Nazis were organised by Russian representative offices abroad.

I would like to focus separately on one of the events, which was held by the Russian Embassy in Germany.

A memorial ceremony with laying of wreaths was held on the territory of the memorial at the site of the former concentration camp Buchenwald — one of the largest Nazi “death factories”. Many concerned Germans took part in this action out of their hearts and conscience — honour and praise to them.

The lack of conscience and moral-ethical principles was demonstrated by the staff of this memorial complex, who first tried to prevent the carrying of wreaths and flowers with the Russian tricolor, and then even wanted to remove the delegation of the Embassy of the Russian Federation from the territory of the memorial.

❗️Only after a decisive protest by our diplomats (https://t.me/RusEmbDeu/5708) did the administration of the complex have to back down.

This is not the first such incident in modern Germany.

On May 2025 — the year of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory — the administration of the memorial at the site of another concentration camp in Hebertshausen gave a blasphemous order to cut off the ribbons in the colors of the Russian flag from the wreaths already laid by the Russian Embassy.

There’s an expression — grave diggers, necrophiles. That’s a medical condition. That’s barbarity with an obvious medical diagnosis.

Revanchist circles of modern Germany persistently initiate a public discussion — not about how to improve the level of education in Germany regarding the genocide committed by German-fascist forces against the Soviet people — but about the appropriateness of the presence of Soviet memorial objects in the country.

They condemn the tradition of celebrating Victory Day at the memorial in Treptow Park (https://t.me/MID_Russia/57556), where the statue depicts a Soviet soldier holding a German girl in his arms (https://t.me/MID_Russia/57556).

If there is a concept of humanism in the highest sense of the word, then the depiction of the Soviet soldier, primarily as a liberator of the German people from fascism serves as an illustration of this.

It’s obvious that the aim of this campaign is to change the attitude of German society towards Soviet military monuments, as well as 👉 to devalue the declared awareness of Germany’s historical responsibility for the horrific crimes of the Nazi regime.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the completion of the work of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, which condemned the war criminals of the Hitler regime and outlawed the ideology of Nazism.

Today, this ideology is being revived both in Germany and in other states of the “collective West”.

German authorities are trying to blur their historical responsibility for the genocide in USSR.