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Kirill Strelnikov: “It’s a pity, but it’s necessary: The Kremlin has announced to Europe that we have no other choice.”

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This article was published on May 2, 2026 by RIA Novosti, freedom-of-speeched in the EU, and then republished in Radonezh on May 4. Below is our translation, also presented at “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”.

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Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev at the site of the marathon “Knowledge. The First” made a number of important statements that describe with crystal clarity how Russia will now build its policy towards Europe and what the man with the moustache has to do with it.

Medvedev said that “our conflict with the Western world today is of an existential nature, that is, it is a matter of existence”. According to him, the current development of events has refuted illusions about relations with the West, and now European states and structures are headed by “idiots who are raving about the war with the Russian Federation”.

These statements were made against the background of very specific military preparations on the part of Europe: for example, Britain, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Netherlands have agreed to create a special “anti-Russian fleet”. What’s the explanation? It’s very simple: according to the head of the British Navy, General Gwyn Jenkins, “Russia continues to pose the most serious threat to our security”.

The French edition of Le Monde also confirmed that Europe is preparing for war with Russia. According to him, in the upcoming Orion exercises with the participation of France and 20 other countries, “the conditional enemy will have all the combat characteristics of Russia”, and “the military leadership calls on the army to be ready for a clash with Russia in the coming years”.

It is very characteristic that the theme of the spherical Russian threat as an excuse for its own accelerated militarisation is sounding louder in Europe every day. Since February 2022, absolutely all heads of Western military and political structures have repeated dozens of times, and the media thousands of times, almost verbatim, the words of German Foreign Minister Baerbock at that time: “Russia will remain the greatest threat to our security and freedom in Europe for the foreseeable future”.

It may seem that the Europeans have really gone crazy.
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Karaganov: How Russia can win the new world war – RT reblog

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The article by Professor Sergey Karaganov, honorary chairman of Russia’s Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and academic supervisor at the School of International Economics and Foreign Affairs Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. It was first published by the magazine Profile and was translated and edited by the RT team on May 4, 2026.

Karaganov: How Russia can win the new world war

Moscow must sharpen nuclear deterrence, revise doctrine and defeat Kiev to avert a wider war with the West and NATO powers

The accelerating flow of events, each overlapping and contradicting the other, is bewildering and makes it difficult to grasp the essence of what is happening. I shall attempt to interpret the course of history, drawing on my own experience and knowledge, as well as on the fact that over the past 35 years I have never been significantly wrong in my assessments and forecasts. Sometimes I was a little behind, but more often I was several years, or even a couple of decades, ahead of the expert community.

A full-scale world war has already begun. Its roots go back to 1917, when Soviet Russia broke away from the capitalist system. First, the interventionists were set upon us; then Nazi Germany and almost all of Western Europe, but the latter lost. The second round began in the 1950s, when the peoples of the USSR, at the cost of enormous hardship and in their quest to secure sovereignty and security, created the nuclear bomb and subsequently achieved nuclear parity with the United States. By doing so, without realizing it at the time, we knocked the foundations out from under five centuries of Western dominance in the ideological sphere, which had allowed them to plunder the rest of the world and subjugate even the most advanced civilizations. That foundation was military superiority, upon which the system of exploitation of all humanity was built.

From the mid-1950s onwards, the West began to suffer one military defeat after another. A wave of national liberation swept across the globe, accompanied by the nationalization of resources that had been seized by Western countries and their corporations. The global balance of power began to shift in favor of the non-Western world.
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Russia’s stark warning to the Western handlers of the Ukraine: don’t interfere with the Victory Parade on May 9!

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Russian Defence Ministry published the following short by powerful warning to the USA and EU regarding any attempt to strike at the Victory parade in Moscow though the Ukraine proxy:

In accordance with the decision of Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, a ceasefire is declared on 8–9 May 2026 in honour of the celebration of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War.

We expect the Ukrainian side to follow this example.

At the same time, we have taken note of the statement made by the head of the Kiev regime in Yerevan at the European Political Community Summit, which contains threats to strike Moscow on 9 May.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will take all necessary measures to ensure the security of the festive events.

Should the Kiev regime attempt to carry out its criminal plans aimed at disrupting the celebration of the 81st anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will launch a retaliatory, massive missile strike on the centre of Kiev.

Despite the capabilities at its disposal, Russia has previously refrained from such actions for humanitarian reasons.

We warn the civilian population of Kiev and the staff of foreign diplomatic missions to leave the city in a timely manner.

This warning was followed by a statement from the Russian Foregin Ministry, voiced by Maria Zaharova on May 6, 2026:

💬 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation hereby announces that a Note Verbale has been sent to all diplomatic missions accredited to the Ministry, as well as to missions of international organisations. The note reads as follows:

“On May 4, 2026, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation released an official statement in response to threats by the Kiev regime to carry out a strike on Moscow during Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War which is a holiday that is sacred to all Russians. The Foreign Ministry urgently calls on the government of your country/the leadership of your organisation to treat this statement with the utmost seriousness and to ensure the timely evacuation from the city of Kiev of the personnel of diplomatic and other missions, as well as civilians, in view of the inevitable retaliatory strike by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on Kiev, including against decision-making centres, should the Kiev regime carry out its criminal terrorist plans during the Victory Day celebrations.”

Russian diplomatic missions abroad are also informing their host countries and international organisations of this.

Let us look back at how the events unfolded.

On May 4, during the European Political Community Summit in Yerevan, Kiev regime leader Zelensky went so far as to make aggressive and threatening statements about his intention to disrupt Moscow’s sacred Victory Day celebrations with terrorist attacks. He said this in the presence of representatives from a number of EU countries none of whom did anything to rein in the presumptuous Kiev regime leader.

On the same day, the Russian Defence Ministry issued a warning statement in response to Zelensky’s stated aggressive intentions. To reinforce my point, it was done in response to what Zelensky had said.

If EU countries believe they will be able to hush up those public threats and to sweep Zelensky’s aggressive statements under the carpet, they are gravely mistaken.

We are well aware of the collective Western minority’s attitude towards May 9. They are systematically destroying Soviet memorial legacy, exhuming the remains of Soviet soldiers, and rewriting and distorting history. As they continue to supply Ukraine with weapons, they are acting as accomplices in the criminal plans hatched by the Kiev regime.

However, the instinct for self-preservation should not fail them.

☝️ We are not acting from a position of aggression; we are acting from a position of an inevitable response to aggression.

This is how the statement issued by the Defence Ministry on May 4 and our subsequent steps should be interpreted. It must certainly not be hushed up. It must be taken very, very seriously.

Black tide from US-Israeli aggression on Iran chokes Persian Gulf turtle nesting sanctuary – PressTV Reblog

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USA and it’s Israeli proxy are not only committing genocide of the Palestinian, Lebanese and Iranian peoples, they are also committing an ecocide, by targeting civilian oil installations. USA is doing this both in the Persian Gulf, and – though their Ukrainian proxy – in the Black Sea, where Tuapse oil refinery and port facilities were newly hit several times.

The article below is a re-blog of the publication by PressTV, written by Mina Mosallanejadon on May 5, 2026 about the ecological disaster created by the USA and its Zionist proxy in the Persian Gulf.

Black crude now clings to the shoreline of Shidvar Island – an uninhabited island in the Persian Gulf known for picturesque beaches and blue waters – like a second skin.

Days after US-Israeli military aggression targeted Iran’s civilian oil infrastructure on Lavan Island last month, the pale coral beaches of this protected Persian Gulf sanctuary were swallowed by a continuous band of tar as petroleum pollutants spread across its waters.

What was once an undisturbed crescent of white sand has been transformed into an oily black seam, raising urgent questions about the fate of the hawksbill turtles, migratory seabirds, and coral formations that make Shidvar one of the most ecologically sensitive islands in Iranian waters.

On this tiny, uninhabited refuge – known locally as Maro – there is still no complete accounting of what has happened beneath that black sheen.

Whether nesting turtles managed to crawl ashore to lay their eggs, whether hatchlings suffocated beneath contaminated sand, whether breeding colonies of terns abandoned their nesting grounds, or how much of Iran’s only protected coral reef ecosystem has already absorbed irreversible toxic damage – nothing is clear yet.

What is visible, however, is enough to establish one fact with brutal clarity: the consequences of the US-Israeli war of aggression did not stop at burning fuel depots and damaged refinery channels. They moved outward with the tide.

The contamination traces back to the April 8 attack on the Lavan refinery complex, one of Iran’s major civilian petroleum facilities in the Persian Gulf. Iranian officials say the strike took place even after a ceasefire had been declared, rupturing sections of oil transfer infrastructure and allowing petroleum materials to escape into adjacent marine waters.
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The Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of the Soviet People – We shall never forget!

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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

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

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Following the trail of the missing January 19 order “On behaviour on the territory of Germany”, and presenting authentic documents on the topic

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Presumably, on January 19, 1945, the USSR People’s Commissar of Defence Iosif Stalin signed an order “On behaviour on the territory of Germany”. Many reputable historical sources recite the wording of the supposed order. Last year, we too, presented a translation of the text, only later coming to realise that the order as such does not exist.

For the reference, here is the text of the “order” and additional information that was provided by Historian Magazine back then:

On January 19, 1945, the USSR People’s Commissar of Defence Iosif Stalin signed an order “On behaviour on the territory of Germany”, which stated:

“Officers and Red Army soldiers!

We are going into the enemy’s country. Everyone must maintain self-control, everyone must be brave…

The remaining population in the conquered areas, regardless of whether they are German, Czech, or Polish, must not be subjected to violence. The guilty will be punished according to the laws of wartime.

Sexual relations with the female sex are not allowed in the conquered territory. Those guilty of violence and rape will be shot.”

Stalin’s order was followed by orders from the commanders of the 1st and 2nd Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts, Marshals of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov (January 29), Konstantin Rokossovsky (January 21, order No. 006) and Ivan Konev (January 27), who prohibited “oppressing the German population, robbing apartments and burning houses.”

The commanders called on the Red Army soldiers to direct their feelings of hatred “to the extermination of the enemy on the battlefield.”

Where do the legs grow from..?

Let us perform source research of the above text.
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The USSR – a Realm of Goodness and Reason!

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We present translation of an article from the German Telegram channel FKT – History of the Soviet Union, first published at our Telegram channel Beorn And The Shieldmaiden. The article debunks more of the black myths about Stalin and the USSR of the 1930s. Make sure to also read their other article that we have translated: The Myth of the “Stalinist Purges”.

Under Gorbachev, we were indoctrinated with the brazen slander about the “Stalin repressions”, which the orthodox anti-Sovietist Solzhenitsyn invented – supposedly, the “bloody tyrant” Stalin killed 100 million of the “best sons of the Fatherland”. And millions of people actually believed it, because the more brazen and unbelievable the lie, the easier it is for fools to believe it – as the fascist Goebbels noted, and the liar Solzhenitsyn took advantage of it.

Here’s the clarification of a few fundamental questions:

Why are the fights against the enemies called “repressions”?!

Because for many, the word “repressions” associates with the punishment of innocent people.

Where are the bodies of 100 million victims?

Without their demonstration, the criticism of Stalin by the liar Solzhenitsyn is obviously unscientific. With the same success, any terrorist from Guantánamo and indeed anyone could write a book titled “The Camps of Guantánamo” and, apart from the revelations of a dozen terrorists imprisoned there, claim the following without evidence:

“Every US President tortured 100,500 million Americans on a hydraulic press and drank their blood for breakfast, lunch and dinner”

And then you could award the Nobel Prize for Literature to the author of the book, and it would be the truth?
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The Third Reich’s genocidal strategy of famine, aimed at the Soviet population

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April 19 is Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People, committed by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

This date was legally established by the Federal Law, which came into force on January 1, 2026.

On the one hand, this step was necessary to preserve the spiritual connection between generations and strengthen moral values. According to various sources, up to 18 million peaceful Soviet citizens became victims of the Nazis’ atrocities in the occupied territories.

Their memory is sacred to us.

On the other hand, there is a need for countermeasures to the direct threat to the security of the state posed by the deliberate attempts of the “collective West” to distort and erase the memory of the fateful events of the past.

To counter this concept, a law was signed on April 9 by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the introduction of criminal liability for denying or approving the genocide of the Soviet people, for insulting the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Soviet people and for desecrating their graves on the territory of the Russian Federation or beyond its borders.

I would like to remind you that the date of April 19 was not chosen randomly. On this day in 1943, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued Decree No. 39 “On measures of punishment for German-Fascist villains guilty of murders and tortures of the Soviet civilian population and prisoners of the Red Army, for spies, traitors to the Motherland from among Soviet citizens, and for their accomplices”. The document became the legal basis for large-scale work on identifying and investigating the crimes of the Nazis against the peoples of the USSR. This work continues to this day by the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation.

◼️ According to the commission, there were fully or partially destroyed and burned:

🔻 1710 cities and urban-type settlements,
🔻 more than 70 thousand villages and hamlets,
🔻 over 6 million buildings,
🔻 deprived of shelter by about 25 million people.
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The Road to Space. A fragment of Yuri Gagarin’s book

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On the 65th anniversary of humanity’s first Space flight, we publish our translation of the first chapter of Yuri Gagarin’s book “The Road to Space”, where he tells about his younger years and the War time.

The original text of the book can be found here as an HTML or downloaded as a PDF from our blog. We also embedded the PDF at the bottom of this article.

Today, on April 19 – the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People – this fragment of Yuri Gagarin’s book serves as a sombre reminder of tragedy that befell the Soviet Union before it could lay the road to the Space.

SMOLENSK REGION IS MY NATIVE LAND

…The family in which I was born is the most ordinary one, it is no different from the millions of working families of our socialist Motherland. My parents are simple Russian people, for whom the Great October Socialist Revolution, like for all our people, opened a wide and direct path in life.

My father, Alexei Ivanovich Gagarin, is the son of a poor peasant from Smolensk. He had only two classes of parish school education. But he is an inquisitive man and has achieved a lot through self-education; in our village of Klushino, near Gzhatsk, he was known as a jack of all trades. He knew how to do everything in a peasant household, but most of all he did carpentry. I still remember the yellowish foam of the shavings, as if washing over his large working hands, and by the smells I can distinguish the types of wood — sweet maple, bitter oak, astringent taste of pine, from which my father made useful things for people.

In short, I have the same respect for wood as I do for metal. My mother, Anna Timofeevna, told me a lot about metal. Her father, and my grandfather, Timofey Matveyevich Matveyev, worked as a drill biter at the Putilov plant in Petrograd. According to my mother, he was a tough man, a master of his craft — a highly skilled worker, one of those who could, as they say, shoe a flea and forge a flower out of a piece of iron. I did not get to see Grandfather Timofey, but our family keeps the memory of him, of the revolutionary traditions of the Putilovites workers.

Our mother, like our father, was unable to get an education in her youth. But she’s read a lot and knows a lot. She could correctly answer any question the children asked. And there were four of us in the family: the elder brother Valentin, who was born in the year of Lenin’s death; sister Zoya, three years younger; and finally, me and our younger brother Boris.

Childhood years. Yuri Gagarin (sitting in the center), his older brother Valentin, younger brother Boris and sister Zoya.

I was born on March 9, 1934. My parents worked on a collective farm, my father was a carpenter, and my mother was a milkmaid. For her good work, she was appointed head of the dairy farm of the collective farm. She worked there from morning until late at night. She had a lot to do: either the cows were calving, then to worry about the young ones, then she was worried about the feed.

Our village was beautiful. Everything is green in summer, deep snowdrifts in winter. And the collective farm was good. People lived in prosperity. Our house was the second on the outskirts, by the road to Gzhatsk. There were apple and cherry trees, gooseberries, and currants in the small garden. There was a flowery meadow behind the house, where barefoot children were playing “Lapta” (traditional Russian folk team sport, similar to “baseball” and “cricket”) and “Gorelki” (an old Russian folk gane of Spring, similar to “Tag”). I still remember being a three-year-old boy. My sister Zoya took me to school on May Day. I was reading poetry from a chair there:

The cat sat on the window sill,
She purred in her sleep…

The schoolchildren applauded. And I was very proud: after all, the first applause in my life.
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Mama-Motherland – A song by Oleg Gazmanov and Alexander Marshal, with lament by Mihail Zhvanetsky

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Newly, we translated Soviet Union – a music video by Kersari, which resonated with a lot of people both of younger generation and those who were born in the USSR. That song was from a younger generation, feeling that something great was lost, yet not fully comprehending the magnitude of the loss.

The song are about to listen to and watch, premiered by Oleg Gazmanov and Alexander Marshal on June 10, 2022, is a song from the generation of us, who were born and lived in the USSR…


Backup at Rumble.

This is a brief emotional story of every Soviet child and the Soviet Union itself.

It is also a sincere declaration of love.

The footage of the clip shows a chronicle of those years and the ill-fated period when devastating events began to occur in the country, which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the last frames, the map of the USSR explodes into small pieces…💔

So, in this way, the lost children ask their Mother for forgiveness for the fact that many fell for the propaganda of perestroika, blasphemed the Motherland for nothing…

The song is inspired by the lament About Our Soviet Motherland, written in 2008 by Mihail Zhvanetsky, which we translated further down in this article.

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Lyrics

She wasn’t a glamorous diva,
And she couldn’t boast of her pedigree,
And she didn’t think about how to be happy herself —
She worked day and night.

She dealt with everything at once, and with us.
She raised us, young brats,
Fed and clothed us as best she could,
Giving her last to us.
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35 Years Without the Union – memories of the bygone time in Bulgaria

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As part of the project “35 Years without the USSR”, corresponded Georgy Zotov visited Germany, looking for the memories of the not so distant past. The article below appeared in “Argumenty i Fakty” on February 27, 2026.

“It was terrible.” What happened to Bulgarian products, beloved in the USSR?

Bulgarplodexport, Slynchev Bryag and ketchup were extremely popular in the Soviet Union.


I am looking for the famous Bulgarian ketchup in the Plovdiv supermarket, which was loved by all families of the USSR. Glass bottle, ribbed surface, red lid. No, it’s not to be found. They say it’s still there, in very small shops, produced in negligible quantities. But Heinz is offered everywhere — from America, also Austrian, German ketchups, and even French one.

A ketchup counter in a Bulgarian supermarket.

I manage to find Bulgarian as well, in a standard plastic package. “It’s not profitable to produce in glass,” the saleswoman tells me. — “Plastic is popular everywhere. And that ketchup had a different recipe — it had a more tomato flavour, much less sugar. Now the American standard is everywhere, chemicals instead of tomatoes, and it’s very sweet.”
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Where Journalism Must Draw the Line: A European Reacts to Collier’s “The War We Do Not Want”

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We re-blog a commentary from April 1952 that came as a European reaction to the Collier’s magazine publication, which we presented on our pages a few days ago.

Homer expressed the rather revolting notion that the wars and ills of mankind are the raw material of poetry and,…
– by Andre Prudhommeaux

When that sensational issue of Collier’s came out on October 27, 1951, in which articles by prominent writers described the course of World War III as if it had already taken place, there was a roar of outrage. Though the issue was titled “The War We Do Not Want,” it seemed to most observers that quite an opposite impression would be conveyed, especially to the peoples of Europe and Asia. There was a general feeling that the magazine had somehow committed an unpardonable offense, though few seemed inclined to judge it in terms other than Realpolitik: it would dishearten Europeans, frighten Asiatics, etc. Here, André Prudhommeaux gives one European’s reaction to the Collier’s episode, not as it affects the strategy of the cold war, but as it involves certain values intrinsic to Western civilization that contemporary journalism appears willing to dispense with. This article is translated from the French by Waldemar Hansen.

Homer expressed the rather revolting notion that the wars and ills of mankind are the raw material of poetry and, consequently, of that poetic pleasure which is the supreme delight of the gods. In this sentiment we detect the first symptoms of that professional deformation which makes journalists greet a juicy crime or an international crisis with joy, and which makes their readers eagerly look forward to blood on the front page.

Still, we must also take into account the cathartic function that art had for Homer, even if he is a little too self-conscious about being the one who, after the event, transmutes massacres into beauty, and human suffering into an enjoyment that, thanks to the poet, is not reserved for the gods. Moreover, there is an extenuating circumstance here, in that the poetic treatment of human misfortune is confined to events that have already happened—and constitutes the revenge taken, after the fact, by intelligence and sensibility on the blind and inscrutable Fate which is a closed book for the gods themselves. Homer does not at all invite men to enjoy the story of future wars; and it is by this token that he remains for us a citizen of our world, a civilized person. For one of the tacit and essential conventions of “civilization” is that the future belongs to nobody, that reality should not be staged in advance: for Nero to burn Rome simply to provide himself with a literary subject seems to us the very symbol of barbarity.
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Collier’s Preview of the War We Do Not Want: Russia’s Defeat and Occupation 1952-1960

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“Make the lie big, keep it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it”
– Dr Joseph Goebbels

On October 27, 1951, an American magazine “Collier’s” published a topic issue with a ominous title “Preview of the War We Do Not Want: Russia’s defeat and Occupation 1952-1960”. The issue was comprised of a series of “hypothetical” articles, turning into a parade of double-speak, projection, blame-shifting, and sugar-coating. The articles are written in the past tense, describing the war as a fait accompli, as a retrospective, where the USA is, naturally, victorious. On the cover, the title itself could have just as well dropped the “not” to become absolutely truthful.

The map on the cover made it absolutely clear which territories the USA (under the fig leaf of the UN) wanted to occupy: Ukraine, Baltics, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, creating the “sanitarrebiy cordon”. Moscow was also on the list, in order to paralyse and turn the USSR into a puppet state – no suprise there, as Hitler had had exactly the same goal just 10 years earlier. At one point, they mock Iosif Stalin with his loss of a son in the war against fascism-imperialism. Note how the whole conflict is presented as USSR against the UN, glossing over the fact that USSR is, in fact a founding member of that very UN, that the USA is using in the articles as a cover for their carnivorous desires, projected onto the USSR. We will meet many a propaganda device conceived by Goebbels, like the term “Red Army hordes”… The articles are also insistently calling their imaginary war for “The Great War” (with capital letters) so as to overshadow and push out of the focus the recent devastating World War II. Indeed, reading the “How the War Was Fought” section is like reading Hitler’s wet dreams put on paper! They went as fas as dragging through the mud the name of Ilya Ehrenburg, the journalist who only a decade ago had been rallying Soviet people to the fight against Nazism, giving spiritual strength to the Soviet Soldiers.

As time went by, it turned out that the title was not entirely hypothetical, or rather, not hypothetical at all. That we can see from the article that we re-blogged earlier: 204 A-Bombs Against 66 Cities: US Drew up First Plan to Nuke Russia Before WWII Was Even Over. In 1951, the USSR was still recovering from the loss of 27 million people, destruction of whole cities and agricultural land. In 1947, the USSR suffered a severe famine as result from the Nazi destruction, while it continued to help Poland and other countries of the Socialist block with food and equipment.

And against suffering, the USA was itching for a new war, a nuclear war – just like the Western politicians of today, when Britain and France, with the tacit approval of the USA, are planning to transfer nuclear weapons to the Nazi regime in Kiev. But what’s new – read an article by Dmitry Medvedev How the Anglo-Saxons Promoted Fascism in the 20th Century and Revived It in the 21st for a deeper understanding of the continuity of the Imperialist agenda from 1941 to 1951.

Below, we present the texts and pages of the Collier’s, extracted from the PDF, preserved by the WebArchive library. Read it and draw you own parallels to the russophobic media frenzy that we see today, when Russia is painted as an aggressor to prepare the population of the West for a new “drang nach osten”. Pay careful attention of how the narrative is woven. Goebbels’ quote above is taken to the extreme, so much so that Goebbels himself might have been overwhelmed and embarrassed. The point about repeating the same lie is taken very seriously – the sub-articles, even though they address different topics – will re-run certain narratives from various angles, hammering the lies and deceptive half-truths into the minds of the readers. We made several BATS-comments throughout, but it is virtually impossible to address every single lie, as we would be forced to leave comments in almost each paragaph. So we entrust our readers with this material as an exercise in critical thinking.

A few words about Collier’s

CHEAP MONEY…
that’s what the Reds would like to see in America.
Cheap money eats into savings; cuts down the value of insurance; wrecks plans for security.
Cheap money leads nations into chaos; collapse . . . and communism.
Moscow meddlers in positions of influence are promoting cheap money for America today.
Let’s throw them out!

This section is written with input from a local, who has first-hand experience with what “duck-and-cover” was.

Collier’s magazine was a popular periodical, which was viewed at the time as a serious publication. The magazine was very critical of Joseph McCarthy, the strident anti-communist politician in that period, but was focused on the EXTERNAL communist enemy and viewed McCarthy’s focus on INTERNAL enemies as abusive and anti-American. The page to the right was not a part of the extensive “imaginary war” topic, and serves as an illustration of Collier’s editorial political stance.

Time magazine wrote two days after the publication:

For “Eggnog,” Collier’s jumped its print order from 3,400,000 to 3,900,000, spent $40,000 extra on articles, almost doubled its usual sale of advertising.

As the same time, Collier’s was struggling financially, and it would eventually shut down in January of 1957. Interesting implications arise for this particular issue: financial difficulties, being on the outs with the McCarthy regime, increase in print, the exceptional quality of the material, he breadth of the myths, talking points and slander covered in one go, leave us with the impression that Collier’s were working on an order they could not refuse, with the outline of the materials provided by the US policy makers and think-tanks of the time.

When that sensational issue of Collier’s came out on October 27, 1951, in which articles by prominent writers described the course of World War III as if it had already taken place, there was a roar of outrage. Though the issue was titled “The War We Do Not Want,” it seemed to most observers that quite an opposite impression would be conveyed, especially to the peoples of Europe and Asia. There was a general feeling that the magazine had somehow committed an unpardonable offense, though few seemed inclined to judge it in terms other than Realpolitik: it would dishearten Europeans, frighten Asiatics, etc. Here, André Prudhommeaux gives one European’s reaction to the Collier’s episode, not as it affects the strategy of the cold war, but as it involves certain values intrinsic to Western civilization that contemporary journalism appears willing to dispense with.

Thus, Collier’s publication draw criticism in Europe, seen in the April 1952 commentary Where Journalism Must Draw the Line: A European Reacts to Collier’s “The War We Do Not Want”!

Note that in several articles references will be made to MVD as the scary oppressive “organ of totalitarianism”. Actually, MVD stand for “Ministry of Internal Affairs” – the American equivalent being the Department of Homeland Security, with some functions of the Interior Department. It appears this publication predates the time when KGB was promoted into the rank of the new boogeyman for the westerners.

And now, brew some calming tea, and embark on the most unnerving reading imaginable. You can click on each image to enlarge it.

Contents

  • Operation Eggnog – An article about how this issue was created, complete with rationalisations and an off-handed admission that the talking points for the narrative came from what we would now collectively call as a “think tank”.
  • Principal Events of World War III – The highlights of the desired war
  • The Unwanted War – an “editorial”, setting the tone for the rest of the fiction.
  • The Third World War – The whole monty, the complete main story, delivering a blow-by-blow account of how the USA – sorry, the UN – reluctantly ended up winning over the USSR.
  • A-Bomb Mission to Moscow – Never mind that this is a bombing, after a Soviet retaliation A-bombing, after a US “preemptive” A-Bombing…
  • Washington Under the Bomb
  • How the War Was Fought – Detailed maps of the campaign, incidentally corresponding to the later-revealed American plans to bomb the USSR.
  • I Saw Them Chute into the Urals – In invasion, launched from Tel-Aviv.
  • Freedom – At Long Last – Depiction of the USSR as one large concentration camp. It is on this well-manured foundation that Solzhenicin later deposited his slander.
  • We Worship GOD Again – A tearful story from Ukraine about new Russia, and how it is terrible and oppressive to live under Stalin…
  • Women of Russia – Poor women in Russia would not enjoy silk stocking under the evil Reds…
  • Russia’s Rebirth – A small smear campaign to paint the women of Russia as a fifth column that would have been happy for the defeat of the USSR in WWIII. With an offhanded implication of how happy the women of Japan had been to have an A-bomb to be dropped of them in the name of democracy.
  • Out of the Rubble – A New Russia – Takes up the economics, disparaging the Socialist system, and telling how much better it is for Russia to be under the thoughtful capitalist American guidance. We all know how it went in reality during the Wild ’90s.
  • Miracle of American Production – bragging time…
  • Free Men at Work
  • The Curtain Rises… – the “cultural” dribble about how there was not creativity in the USSR.
  • Walter Winchell in Moscow – a short “correspondent” piece about bad Stalin, how bad it is that the USSR was governed by a federal (Soviet) central government and how good it is that the USA is governed by a federal central government, with a poke at the UN.
  • Start the Presses! – The large ode to the freedom of expression, it eerily foreshadows the information garbage pile that the press and media turned into during the Wild ’90s under the watchful eye of the overseas handlers and local mankruts.
  • Free Thoughts, Free Words – this section take up the question of economics and re-education of the Russians to the “democratic” way of schooling.
  • Moscow Olympics – no, not the 1980, that the USA will subsequently boycott, but the hypothetical 1960 one in vanquished Russia. How can we forego politics in sports…
  • Philadelphia Phase – A lengthy story of the “American revival” and the Russians relocated to the USA to “rebuild and learn”. And a semi-romatic tale with a touch of tragedy and projection of an American man and a Russian woman.
  • Trouble at Tuaviti – “Far out in the South Pacific, one primitive islander, who knew how to distinguish strength from bluster, robbed the enemy of a base that might have been used in the destruction o f the United States”. This story is best followed by watching the 1966 American comedy “The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!” – after all, why let a good fiction plot go to waste?
  • The Present – If one is to peel away the narrative sugar-coating of this piece, what remains is a deep-seated desire that the USSR hadn’t won in World War II.
  • Moscow Sketchbook – Four character drawings that are not too bad, with short remarks, that are worse

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Decoys and camouflage in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War

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On May 24, 2021, TV Zvezda aired episode №64 of program “Hidden Threats”, which contained a fragment on the use of decoy mock-ups and camouflage during the the Great Patriotic War. Here we present our translation of this fragment. These days, Iran used decoys to fool the American-Zionist aggressors, just like the Soviet Union had been fooling the German-Nazi ones before.


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Presentation of the material at “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”.

The program was introduced in a dedicated article at TV Zvezda site:

During the Great Patriotic War, the victory of the USSR was forged not only in weapons factories, but also in special factories that massively “stamped” inflatable and plywood tanks and airplanes. They immediately went to the front on a par with real equipment — about a thousand real-sized models “fought” on the Kursk Bulge alone. So the ingenuity of the Soviet people helped in the fight against the Nazi invaders.

In 1942, the 23rd special squad was created, which consisted of more than a thousand artists. Their task was to recreate Soviet military installations, imitated as accurately as possible. Then the dummy armored vehicles were mounted on tractors. For reliability, they were equipped with a soundtrack that mimicked the hum of engines. And branches were attached to the bottom so that the same dust rose after the “tank” as behind real military equipment.

However, it wasn’t limited to technology alone: sometimes mock-ups of soldiers were used to mislead the enemy. For example, when enemy aircraft approached the actual location of the Soviet troops, “equipment” with “military personnel” sitting inside was pushed forward. So, the German pilot fired bullets at it and threw bombs without harming real people.

👉 Original video source at TV Zvezda, and a properly-deinterlaced copy at Odnoklassniki.

Following is a fragment from the memoirs of the head of the engineering troops of the Leningrad Front, Boris Vladimirovich Bychevsky, chapter 4, “The Assault Has Been Repelled”:

I put down the maps and began to show what had been done before the start of the breakthrough at Krasnoe Selo, Krasnogvardeisk and Kolpin, what we have now at the Pulkovo position, what is being done in the city, on the Neva, on the Karelian Isthmus, where miners and pontoons are working.
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Who you will become is determined by what your values are in youth

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Upbringing is the key, determining if the person will become the selfless defender of Motherland or killer in the invading Imperialist machinery of death, nowadays known as US-NATO. We contrasted it in two materials on our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”, drawing a parallel between the steadfast resilience of the Soviet and Iranian people on the one hand, and the invading bloodlust of the USA’s army on the other.

The battle against Fascism continues, new generations man the front

Can you even for a moment imagine that the USSR would have surrendered in the face of German Nazi aggression in 1941, to become slaves, corpses?

No? Of course, not!

Then why would anyone think that Iran would surrender in 2026 in the face of the same fascist imperialist aggression by the Fourth Reich?

☝️ And no, resilience is not magic. Not then, not now. It is built. Built in classrooms instead of clubs. Built in labs instead of algorithms. Built in minds that are collectively trained to create, not just consume.

So, if you’re still wondering why some nations endured, and endure, pressure that would collapse others, just look at what they were, and are, feeding their youth.

An Amendment to Darwin

An amendment to Darwin
— No, sir, you don’t descend from me, but from him!

In the photo, shown by the ape to the American imperialist, we see Himmler against the backdrop of Maidanek and Auschwitz. And with that, the noble ape is saying:

— No, sir, you don’t descend from me, but from him!

The caricature by Yuri Ganf appeared in “Krokodil” issue № 11 of 1952, and was accompanied by a SHORT STORY, looking into what is fed to the American youth, to turn them into such creatures of the night.

Johnny’s Upbringing

A story for American youth in five parts. With an epilogue.
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