Forgotten History – The Moscow Negotiations of 1939

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On September 30, we remembered the 1938 agreement between Britain, France, Italy and Germany to dismember and abandon Czechoslovakia, and we commented on this Munich Betrayal connecting it to the start of World War II. In August of 1939, the USSR had no other way, but to sign a non-aggression agreement with Germany.

However, in March-April of 1939, the USSR still tried to prevent the looming War, trying to talk sense into Britain, Poland and France, in order to jointly reign in German militarism.

The following material from FKT – Geschichte der Sowjetunion (History of the Soviet Union) is about that attempt (first translated at our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”).


Forgotten History – The Moscow Negotiations of 1939

❓ Was there a chance to prevent the outbreak of the Second World War?

Yes, and not just one. The last such chance was the trilateral negotiations between the Soviet Union, France, and Britain. They were initiated in April 1939 by the government of the USSR.

The Moscow negotiations, or rather their failure, marked a definitive end to the last possibility of preserving peace in Europe.

A brief summary before we go into details

🔽Background

Basically, the start of the Second World War was already preordained in 1935 when Hitler refused to comply with the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles. This event took place on March 16, 1935.

Germany embarked on a consistent course of militarisation. The European countries, victors of the First World War, were content with half-hearted “protests.” The peaceful and naive Western democracies sincerely believed, according to many liberals, that the reorganised and rearmed Reich army would only participate in battles “around the harvest.”

Then followed the transfer of the Saar and Rhine regions to Hitler—of course, the USSR was blamed—the Anschluss of Austria, and finally the signing of the Munich Agreement. As a result, Czechoslovakia ceased to exist.

🔽Start of the negotiations

By early 1939, even the indigenous people of the Tuamotu Islands knew that a major war in Europe was inevitable. This was also clear to the leadership of the USSR.

No state wants to wage war alone. A government’s foreign policy is always aimed at finding allies. The Soviet Union was no exception.

Under the conditions of the escalating Polish-German conflict, the USSR proposed to Poland’s allies, namely England and France, to conclude a joint treaty to protect the Polish state. This format is referred to in historical terminology as Stalin’s “system of collective security.”

On March 18, 1939, People’s Commissar Litvinov proposed through the British ambassador in Moscow to convene a conference of six countries: USSR, England, France, Romania, Poland, and Turkey. The goal of the conference was a joint agreement to prevent the expansion of German aggression. England refused, calling the proposal “premature” and suggested limiting it to a declaration.

❗️Against all odds, the Soviet government managed to organise trilateral negotiations. These began in April 1939. England proposed to the USSR to give Poland unilateral guarantees in case of German aggression. The Soviet Union insisted on signing an official treaty between the countries.

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Facts about the Munich Conspiracy of September 30, 1938

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The material is from Russian MFA Telegram channel, where one can also watch a short facta newsreel.

After a short fact-list from the Telegram post, we re-blog the in-depth version from the MFA’s Telegraph blog.


On September 30, 1938, the leaders of Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and France signed an agreement in Munich on the German annexation of the Sudetenland, an industrial region of Czechoslovakia where ethnic Germans made up 90 percent of the population. Czechoslovakia had not been invited to the talks; it was presented with the fact that its sovereign territory must be ceded to Nazi Germany as a fait accompli.

This disgraceful pact between the Western powers and Nazi Germany went down in history as the “Munich Conspiracy” or the “Munich Betrayal”.

FACTS:

▪️ Following the signing of the agreement between the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy in Munich, German troops crossed Czechoslovakia’s border on October 1 and occupied the entire area of the Sudetenland by October 10.

▪️ The Soviet Union was ready to defend Czechoslovakia, but the Soviet Army had to obtain permission to pass through Poland or Romania. Warsaw, which was interested in getting part of Czechoslovakia’s territory for itself, adamantly refused to support Prague against Germany and prohibited possible flights of Soviet aircraft to render aid to the Czechoslovak army. Romania made every effort to slow down the process as much as possible.

▪️ The Munich Betrayal crowned the Western powers’ policy of appeasing the aggressor. Hoping to avoid a conflict with the Third Reich, they tried to satisfy its growing territorial claims at the expense of Eastern and Central European countries.

▪️ As the world witnessed the collapse of the Versailles-Washington system of international relations that existed at the time, many countries began to cooperate with the Third Reich and fell into its sphere of influence.

▪️The Czechoslovakia crisis became a prologue to the bloodiest conflict in the history of humanity, demonstrating what underhanded plotting and reliance on countries’ selfish interests can lead to, i.e. paved the way to World War II.


The Munich Betrayal

On September 30, 1938, the leaders of the United Kingdom (Neville Chamberlain), France (Edouard Daladier), Germany (Adolf Hitler) and Italy (Benito Mussolini) signed an agreement in Munich sanctioning the beginning of annexation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany. This crowned the appeasement policy which made a big war inevitable.

The Treaty of Versailles of June 28, 1919, ended the First World War and put Germany in a very difficult position. Pursuant to the document, Germany lost part of its traditional lands, its army was substantially reduced, and its defence industry was in effect eradicated. The document also contained a separate requirement on the demilitarisation of the Rhineland. The terms of the Versailles peace treaty were extremely harsh, which had a catastrophic effect on the German economy. The direct consequences included the total collapse of Germany’s industry, overwhelming impoverishment of the population and disastrous hyperinflation.
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Facts about the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Treaty of August 23, 1939

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The material is from Russian MFA Telegram channel, where one can also watch a short facta newsreel.

Here we re-blog the in-depth version from the MFA’s Telegraph blog.

Read also our article The complete list of pacts concluded between Germany and other European countries before and during World War II.


On August 23, 1939 the Soviet Union and Germany signed the Treaty of Non-Aggression, a document that obligated the two Parties “to refrain from any act of violence, any aggressive action, and any attack on each other, either individually or jointly with other Powers.”

This Document was a key achievement of the Soviet diplomacy ahead of WWII: the USSR was able to buy time to better prepare to repel Hitler’s impending attack, which had been seen as inevitable due to the failed policy of “appeasement” by Western European states and their refusal to forge a collective security agreement with our nation against Nazism.

Signing the non-aggression treaty with Germany was a difficult but necessary decision by the Soviet leadership, dictated by national security considerations and the urgent need to deter Nazi aggression in the east.


In the 1930s, twenty years after the end of World War I, the threat of a new large-scale armed conflict in Europe started to grow. A key factor for this was the crisis of the Versailles system of international relations, designed by Britain and France, which paved the way for rising revanchist sentiments in the states it had humiliated Germany and Italy.

The League of Nations, established as a universal organisation for settling international disputes by diplomatic and political legal means, proved unable to fulfill its mandate, mired in the controversy and intrigues of European states that tried to use the body for their own selfish and opportunistic purposes.

Against this backdrop, the hydra of fascism began spreading rapidly across Europe. Political leaders confident of their own nations’ superiority came to power first in Italy (1922) and then in Germany (1933), where a Nazi dictatorship led by Hitler was established.

With the Nazis’ rise to power in Germany, the threat of a new war in Europe became real. Hitler’s misanthropic ideology was rooted in the notorious doctrine of “racial superiority.” The Nazis used this doctrine to justify Germany’s pursuit of world domination. In this way, an absolute evil emerged in the centre of Europe, endangering the peace and freedom of entire nations.


By the mid-1930s, Germany’s military preparations were becoming increasingly obvious and intense. The strength of the German armed forces reached almost half a million personnel. In 1935, the Nazi regime officially announced the creation of a German military air force (whose existence had been prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles). Hitler signed a decree reintroducing universal conscription and expanding the military, the so-called new peacetime Wehrmacht consisted of 36 divisions totalling 550’000 soldiers and officers. For the first time since its defeat in World War I, Germany again possessed a significant military power capable of launching full-scale offensive operations. Furthermore, the Reich initiated the construction of the Navy, a move that was, in effect, sanctioned by a bilateral agreement between Germany and Britain (signed in London in 1935) in direct contravention of the Versailles prohibitions.
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The complete list of pacts concluded between Germany and other European countries before and during World War II

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Dmitry, an admin of a friendly channel, undertook a fundamental taks, compiling a list of 57 agreements, concluded between Germany and various states in the years leading up to and during World War II. The chronological list covers the period 1934 – 1941

Of special note are the Anti-Comintern Pact and the Munich Agreement (Conspiracy). The former defined the agenda of Fascism, while the latter paved the way to the direction of Germany’s aggression eastward.

Those readers who came to think of the agreement between Germany and the USSR — the only agreement that got named in the Western historiography by the names of the political figures signing it — it is found further down on the list as No.16.


1. Polish-German Non-Aggression Pact – January 26, 1934

– A ten-year Non-Aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Second Polish Republic.

2. Anglo-German Naval Agreement – June 18, 1935

– An agreement between the United Kingdom and Germany regulating the size of the Kriegsmarine in relation to the Royal Navy.

3. Italian-German Axis declaration – October 25, 1936

– The first step towards the formation of the Axis Powers, consisting of Italy and Germany.

4. Anti-Comintern Pact – November 25, 1936

– The anti-communist pact between Germany and Japan, which Italy and several other countries later joined. Directed against the Communist Internationale, the international revolutionary political-practical organisation to which the communist parties of most of the world belonged, and with them strong workers’ unions factions.

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

5. Munich Agreement – September 29, 1938

– Britain and France permitted Germany to take over part of Czechoslovakia (the Sudetenland). The “Munich Conspiracy”, as it is also known, freed Hitler’s hands and is considered to be the final trigger for World War II.

6. First Vienna Award – November 2, 1938

– Germany and Italy mediated the allocation of disputed territories from Czechoslovakia to Hungary.

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World War II. Lies of the West — an RT documentary in 2 parts

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In part 1


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‘World War II: Lies of the West’ is a project by the Immortal Regiment of Russia. The documentary exposes the main myths about World War II that are propagated in the West, where they are regarded as the only historical truth.

Among these myths are claims that it was not the Soviet people who played a decisive role in the victory, but the Anglo-American allies, and that Stalin was supposedly equally responsible for igniting the war alongside the Hitler regime.

However, there are real documents and irrefutable evidence demonstrating how Western countries distort history to serve their own interests.

The film’s creator, Tatiana Borshch, is a well-known producer, screenwriter, and director of documentary films, as well as the winner of both Russian and international film festivals.

In part 2


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Military experts and historians continue to debunk Western myths about World War II – the claim that the USSR was just as responsible as Germany for starting the war, for example.

In reality, the situation was quite different. The Soviet Union wanted to protect Czechoslovakia from a Nazi invasion, but in order to do this, the Red Army needed to pass through Poland. However, Warsaw refused to allow Soviet troops to cross its territory, as it sought to maintain neutrality. This decision further aggravated an already tense international situation and complicated the formation of an anti-Hitler coalition.

Today, the European Commission claims that American and British forces liberated Auschwitz from the fascists. As a result, Russia has not been invited to commemorative events marking the camp’s liberation for several years. In reality, it was Soviet soldiers who freed the surviving prisoners.

Western countries also refuse to acknowledge the genocide of the peoples of the USSR, despite the fact that the losses suffered by the Soviet Union – nearly 27 million military personnel and civilians – prove otherwise.

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👉 At our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”, We have re-encoded both videos to a mobile-friendly format.

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.

From our telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”.

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.

Eurofascism, like 80 years ago, is a common enemy of Moscow and Washington

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The Press Bureau of the External Intelligence Service (SVR) of Russia published an insightful analytical article, drawing on many historical parallels. One thing that they have not explicitly stated, though, is that the USA is once again, just like in 1944, inserting itself as a solution to the problem they contributed to create in the first place – we shall not forget Nuland’s cookies of 2014!

The article is opened by a caricature, which is a modern variation of the well-known War-time “TASS Window” (see our article The “TASS Windows” – the windows to our struggle in the Great Patriotic War), which appeared after the… allies deigned to open the second front.

The Hour Draws Near
The merciless, fearsome punishment
Shall not escape the German squid
The monster can expect the blows
Coming from here and there.

Artist: M. Cheremnych, verse by Demyan Bedny.

UPDATE 20.04.2025: We have replaced our translated text with the official translation that appeared at the Telegram channel of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The original text in Russian is at the site of the SVR.


Eurofascism is Moscow’s and Washington’s common enemy, just like 80 years ago

– The Press Bureau of the SVR of Russia, April 16, 2025

A hind-sight study of Western states’ policies attests to Europe’s “traditional propensity” for various forms of totalitarianism which regularly produces cataclysmic global conflicts. Specialists believe that the current rift in relations between the United States and the EU countries who blame Donald Trump for totalitarianism in the context of the upcoming 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War is becoming a factor that contributes to an alliance of convenience between Moscow and Washington the way it used to occur in the past.

This is confirmed, in particular, by a scandal involving French European Parliament member Raphael Glucksmann who demanded that the Americans “who have chosen to side with the tyrants,” return the statue of Liberty, Paris’s gift to the United States. Raphael Glucksmann, one of the globalists and a dedicated supporter of the Kiev regime, criticises the Oval Office master for slacking support for Ukraine and firing civil servants who stick to liberal views. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed the “daring Gaul” having reminded that “unnamed low-level French politician” that it’s only because of the United States of America that he is speaking French and not German now.

It was pointed out that the multiple dictatorial regimes that were in power in France “distinguished” themselves by unparalleled cruelty and atrocities. Among those mentioned are the Jacobin dictatorship that killed thousands of French citizens in 1793-1794 and imprisoned 300,000 on suspicion of “counterrevolution,” as well as Napoleon’s bloody acts. It was stressed that America is free thanks to their ancestors’ readiness to counter such dictatorships as the British monarchy or the Jacobin revolution.

Experts believe that the notion of Eurofascism was introduced by French author and columnist Pierre Drieu La Rochelle who collaborated with German occupational authorities during WWII, and justified it as an ideology inherent not only in Germans but also other “societies” in Europe. In this context we can recall the French volunteer SS-Division Charlemagne which was named after Emperor of the Carolingian Empire, “Europe’s unifier.” The division’s soldiers were defending the Reichstag from the assaulting Red Army till the last hours of the German Nazi regime. Twelve of those fanatics were captured by the Americans and handed over to French General Phillipe Leclerc. As early as May 8, 1945, he ordered to shoot those war criminals without unnecessary judicial procrastination.
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A posthumous sentence. How the French legalised Petlyura’s murder

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The extrajudicial execution of the Ukrainian Nazi Demyan Ganul yesterday bears a certain resemblance to the extrajudicial execution of the Ukrainian ultra-nationalist and mass-murderer, Simon Petlyura, 99 years ago. Demyan Ganul was, among other, one of the people behind the Odessa massacre of May 2, 2014, for which a few days ago, the European Court of Human Rights has found Ukraine to be responsible.

Read on and compare. The article is from “Argumenty i Fakty”, published on October 26, 2014.


A posthumous sentence. How the French legalised Petliura’s murder

A bust of Simon Petlyura in Rovno, Ukraine.

Three shots fired at a Paris shop window

On May 25, 1926, a stranger approached a man who was looking at a street window at the corner of Paris Boulevard Saint-Michel and Rue Racine. After asking the man a question in Ukrainian and receiving an answer that satisfied him, the stranger took out a revolver and shot the man three times.

The shooter did not try to escape, but remained at the scene until the police arrived. After handing over the weapon to the police, he stated that he had shot a murderer.

The victim of the attack was taken to a nearby hospital on Jacob Street, where the man died fifteen minutes later.

The killer’s name was Samuel Yakovlevich Schwarzburd. His victim was Simon Petlyura, the former head of the Directory of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, one of the most well-known figures of the time of the Civil War.

Both the killer and his victim were, as they say, “products of the era”.
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Macron’s belligerent talk, Russian MFA’s sharp reply, and the lesson of the “civil” war from 1918

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Macron recently decided to play the role of one of the riders of Apocalypse and delivered a very belligerent speech, which drew a shap response from the Russian Foreign Ministry, which we reblog in full below.

But first, to the events of 1918, when another, similar crusade against Russia was started by the West. The same fratricidal “civil war” as we see now in Ukraine, where Russians are killing Russians.

The material is from our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”.


On March 6, 1918, an English landing force landed in the port of Murmansk from the cruiser “Glory”. The open military intervention by the Entente of Russia began.

On March 14, the British cruiser “Cochrane” arrived in Murmansk with a new detachment of interventionists.

March 18 – French cruiser “Admiral Ob”.

The Americans joined later: on May 27, the American cruiser “Olympia” entered the Murmansk port, from which a detachment of American infantry soon disembarked.

The topic of foreign intervention against Soviet Russia in 1918-21 has been completely cast out of sight, completely “blurred”, and sometimes even disputed. There is practically no mention of it in the modern media.

This intentionally or unintentionally creates the myth of the Civil War as a war exclusively between “Whites” and “Reds.” Which is obviously a manipulation.

So, shall we remember who supported the “Whites” against the “Reds” with their manpower and equipment?

1. 🇬🇧 England. 28,000 soldiers – Arkhangelsk (1918), Murmansk (1918), the Baltic (1918), Revel (1919), Narva (1919), the Black Sea (1920), Sevastopol (1920), the Caspian Sea (1920), Transcaucasia (1918), Vladivostok (1918).
2. 🇺🇸 USA. 15,000 soldiers. – Arkhangelsk (1918), Murmansk (1918), Trans-Siberian Railway
3. 🇫🇷 France – Arkhangelsk (1918), Murmansk (1918), Odessa (1918), Kherson (1918), Sevastopol (1918), Siberia.
4. 🇦🇺 Australia – 4,000 soldiers. Arkhangelsk (1918), Murmansk (1918).
5. 🇨🇦 Canada – Arkhangelsk (1918). Murmansk (1918).
6. 🇮🇹 Italy – Murmansk, Far East.
7. 🇬🇷 Greece – 2,000 soldiers. Odessa, the Black Sea.
8. 🇷🇴 Romania – Bessarabia.
9. 🇵🇱 Poland – The North of Russia, the South, Siberia.
10. 🇯🇵 Japan. 28,000 soldiers – Far East (Vladivostok, Sakhalin)
11. 🇨🇳 China – Arkhangelsk (1918), Murmansk (1918).
12. 🇷🇸 Serbia – “Serbian Battalion”. The North of Russia.
13. 🇫🇮 Finland – Karelia. The Karelian and Murmansk legions, created by the 🇬🇧 British.
14. 🇩🇪 Germany. Ukraine, the Baltic States, part of European Russia
15. 🇦🇹🇭🇺 Austria-Hungary. (Germany’s ally)
16. 🇹🇷 Turkey (the Ottoman Empire). Transcaucasia.

🇨🇿 We can also recall the Czechoslovak Corps, which became the trigger of the Civil War.

In total, more than 20 countries took up arms directly or indirectly against the young Soviet Republic. Do not forget that the “Whites” were also fully funded by the Entente.

It was no accident that Stalin was saying, “The so-called Civil War”.

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👉 Read also Occupation of Russia by the USA in 1918-1920. The “international intervention” during the post-revolutionary unrest.


What do English, French, coming with war against us, want?

— A “Civil war” flyer by the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, 1918.

THEY SEIZED the road to Murmansk, the entire coast of the White Sea, Onega Lake, Arkhangelsk.
THERE WERE TRAITORS who helped them.
The peaceful population was shelled with GUNS from the cruisers — for what, what have we done to them?
ASK THE WORKERS OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE: WORKERS-BROTHERS, WHAT DO YOU WANT?
They will say WE WANT PEACE, WE hate WAR, but we still don’t have the strength to overthrow those who send us to the slaughter!
And what do you want, king, president, lords and dukes, merchants, bankers, landowners of America, England, France, Japan?
— Ha ha ha! What do we want? WE WANT TO DEVOUR YOU, we want to take over your forests in the north, as well as harbours, your roads.
WE WANT flax and hemp, forest and bread, everything your country is rich in, copper and iron, lead, silver, platinum, gold — WE WANT to capture IT ALL.
WHAT DO WE WANT? — these gentlemen will say, we want to capture both the North, the Volga, the Urals, and Caucases. We need your oil sources, your mines, your fishing grounds, we’ll take everything!
WHAT DO WE WANT? — they will say WE WANT TO PUT ON YOUR NECK THE TSAR, because in our country, King George is a relative of Romanov, because our bourgeoisie is relatives of yours, and our landlords are relatives of yours.
You have overthrown the NOBILITY, and WE WILL AGAIN PUT THEM ON YOUR NECK.
You overthrew the landowner, and we’ll put him on your neck again.
Do you want to live a free independent life? And we’re thrusting you back into slavery.
— That’s what these people want.
— CHASE THEM AWAY!


Foreign Ministry Statement regarding French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech

In the run-up to the EU summit dedicated to Ukraine crisis and confrontation with Russia, and clearly trying to set the tone for the upcoming gathering, French President Macron made an extremely aggressive anti-Russia speech calling our country, as he did on multiple previous occasions, a “threat to France and Europe.” Without providing any evidence, as he usually does, he accused our country of all the deadly sins from cyber attacks and interference in elections to our alleged plans to attack other countries in Europe.

We have heard him come up with similar fabrications and provocative claims before as well. Perhaps, this was the first time he laid them out in such an intense and irreconcilable manner which made them sound like a catechism for the Russophobic action programme.

Notably, the French leader has repeatedly made public his plans to call President Putin on the telephone to discuss ways to achieve peaceful settlement in Ukraine and to ensure security in Europe. The Russian side has always been open to discuss these matters. However, Macron, this time again, confined himself to clamorous public rhetoric.

The French President is trying hard to convince the French citizens of an “existential threat” coming from Russia. In fact, Russia has never threatened France, but, instead, helped it defend its independence and sovereignty in two world wars. However, Macron’s statements, in fact, pose a threat to Russia.
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The project of a unified European army is impossible for several reasons.

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This is an article, written by Andrey Medvedev, which we translated at our channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”, and illustrated with a fitting caricature from the past. The description of the illustration follows after the article in question.

Most European armies are simply not combat ready. Some don’t have enough equipment. Some have problems with manning.

There are not many warring armies in Europe. The French, Poles (in Ukraine), British PMCs, Portuguese mercenaries (yes, they are considered very cool in Africa). Well, that’s about it.

To one degree or another, European armies participated in operations in Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The Europeans still gained combat experience, the British and the French first of all. The French paratroopers have their own “sixth company” – the story of the heroic battle near the village of Uzbin.

But, in all joint operations, the Europeans were commanded by the Americans. Even if the group was formally headed by an English general. Everything was supervised from Washington. And when creating a European army, the problem of combat control and the question of “who’s in charge here” will come to the fore. How do you imagine that Poles will obey the Germans? Or the French obeying the Poles? Everyone’s got sky-high ambitions there. “Every gopher in the field is an agronomist.”

Therefore, it is more likely to assume that some kind of joint military structures will appear in Europe. For example, Poland implements the format of the Polish-Baltic unified military leadership. And that’s not a fact, considering that Poles see Vilnius as their own. Here, even the common Russophobia will not help to create a unified army. It is impossible to imagine that the Poles would create a single military structure with the Czechs and Slovaks, and the Hungarians with the Croats. The historical case is very complicated everywhere, full of grievances and unrealised ambitions.

The united European armed forces can only be created by someone else, an outside force. The Warsaw Pact, or NATO, is an example of this.

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The caricature demonstrates just what Andrey Medvedev wrote!

It appeared in the 1952 issue № 09 of the Soviet satirical magazine “Krokodil”, drawn by Yuri Ganf. The grumpy American is sitting at a desk with the American flag holding the text “The Command of the European Army”, which makes it absolutely clear who is in charge.

The American is ticking off the “Applications” list, scrutinising the German and the French armies.

The French sheep sternly requests of the USA, while pointing at the Bundeswehr swastika-bearing wolf:

To the question of guarantees

— I will not object against our common service in the European army, as long as you give me a certificate that he became a vegetarian.

The illustration followed the news item, quoted in fine print:

“During the negotiating about the inclusion of the army of Western Germany into the so-called “European army”, the representatives of France demanded guarantees for the security of the Franco-German border.”

The pre-War sabotage of the Soviet peace efforts by Britain and France, seen through the memoirs of Georgy Zhukov and the modern British press

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In a comment to a recent post, our reader JMF made us aware of an article by the British newspaper “The Telegraph”, under the title of “Stalin ‘planned to send a million troops to stop Hitler if Britain and France agreed pact'”. We shell re-blog that article in full at the end of this publication, but first….

Reading the very first paragraphs caused raised eyebrows with The Shieldmaiden, who has studied the memoirs of Marshal Georgy Zhukov in great detail.

Papers which were kept secret for almost 70 years show that the Soviet Union proposed sending a powerful military force in an effort to entice Britain and France into an anti-Nazi alliance.

Such an agreement could have changed the course of 20th century history, preventing Hitler’s pact with Stalin which gave him free rein to go to war with Germany’s other neighbours.

The offer of a military force to help contain Hitler was made by a senior Soviet military delegation at a Kremlin meeting with senior British and French officers, two weeks before war broke out in 1939.

Secret?!!

It often happens, by the way, that most important documents are ignored by our historical researchers. Sometimes the thoughts and judgements on prewar years obtained from indirect sources and through supplementary research sound as a revelation, while the same thoughts and even facts are contained in books easily available in libraries.

Historians and writers of memoirs are fond of asking: “What would have happened if…?” Indeed, if the governments of Britain and France had agreed to join hands with the Soviet Union against the aggressor in 1939, as we suggested, the destiny of Europe would have been different.

— Georgy Zhukov, 1962

In his memoirs published in 1962, Zhukov talks about those negotiations and the British/French unwillingness to commit. This is not at all surprising – as we wrote earlier, at approximately that time Britain and France were themselves preparing to pounce on the USSR: England and France were preparing an attack on the USSR in the summer of 1940: Operation Pike.

We are going to reproduce the relevant passages from Zhukov’s memoirs, using the English translation of his “Recollections and Reflection”, volume 1, found at WebArchive. Volume 2 is also available there.


But first, there is another paragraph in “The Telegraph” that raised our hackles.

But the British and French side – briefed by their governments to talk, but not authorised to commit to binding deals – did not respond to the Soviet offer, made on August 15, 1939. Instead, Stalin turned to Germany, signing the notorious non-aggression treaty with Hitler barely a week later.

Notorious treaty?!!

Shouldn’t the British press rather call the Munich conspiracy of 1938 for “notorious”. While the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty was the last such treaty to be concluded. From our Telegram post “All European countries signed pacts with Hitler!”

  • Declaration on the Non-Use of Force between Germany and Poland, signed in 1934;
  • The Anglo-German Naval Agreement of 1935, which gave Hitler the opportunity to have a navy, which was prohibited as a result of the First World War;
  • The Anglo-German Declaration of Chamberlain and Hitler, signed on September 30, 1938;
  • The Franco-German Declaration of December 6, 1938, signed in Paris by the French and German Foreign Ministers Bonn and Ribbentrop;
  • The Treaty between the Republic of Lithuania and the German Reich of March 22, 1939, signed in Berlin, which dealt with the reunification of the Klaipeda Region with the German Reich;
  • The Non-Aggression Pact between the German Reich and Latvia of June 7, 1939;
  • These are only a part of the treaties concluded in pre-war Europe with Nazi Germany.

We also wrote in the post “Failed Union Against Fascism”

In 1934, the USSR invited European countries to jointly resist fascist aggression.
Their refusal made a new world war inevitable.

Doctor of Historical Sciences Mikhail Meltyukhov reflected on this in an interview with the magazine “Historian”:

The main reason for the failure of the “collective security” policy is that Great Britain and France were more inclined to agree with Germany and Italy rather than with the Soviet Union.

Thus, during contacts with the German leadership on November 19, 1937, the Lord Chairman of the Royal Privy Council of Great Britain Edward Halifax, and a little later, on December 2, the British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden notified Berlin that London was not against the revision of borders in Eastern Europe, but considered an indispensable condition is the prevention of war.

France supported this position during the Anglo-French negotiations, which took place in the British capital on November 28–30, 1937.

The parties agreed on further non-interference in international disputes [read: no support for the anti-fascist struggle against Franco in Spain] and clashes in Eastern Europe.


And now, to memoirs by Marshal of the Soviet Union, Georgy Zhukov, first published in 1962, English translation from 1985.

From chapter 8, “In Command of Kiev Special Military District”, pages 211 – 216 of volume 1

In reporting to the Party’s 18th Congress about the work of the Central Committee, J. V. Stalin commented on the threat of the new imperialist war. He said that our country, which constantly followed a policy of peace, was doing its utmost to enhance the fighting capacity of the Red Army and Navy. That was really so.

It often happens, by the way, that most important documents are ignored by our historical researchers. Sometimes the thoughts and judgements on prewar years obtained from indirect sources and through supplementary research sound as a revelation, while the same thoughts and even facts are contained in books easily available in libraries.
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England and France were preparing an attack on the USSR in the summer of 1940: Operation Pike. Reblog of a detailed research article

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Before we proceed to the article by Olga from the Telegram channel “Siberian Matrëshka”, let us read what Russian Foreign minister Lavrov had to say at the UN:

Lavrov on the West’s attempts to dismember Russia

We are witnessing a clear desire to cancel our country. Entirely. As it was in 1945, when World War II had not yet ended, when the summits in Yalta and Potsdam were held, when the Allies were celebrating victory – now documents have been published that show that the West was preparing plans to attack the Soviet Union even before the end of the war in the Pacific. To dismember it. And now those plans have come to life.

There was another historical epoch – 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, the West thought that the new authorities, the then Russian authorities, would be in its pocket – it didn’t work out. And now again some marginal people, clearly at the behest of the West, non-governmental organizers, Russian former citizens who fled to Europe and the United States, have begun to create structures for the decolonization of Russia. They mention 7 or 8 parts into which our country should be divided.

So this mentality of cancelling everything that you don’t like and that competes with you is present. Speaking of competition, fair competition has long been cancelled by our Western colleagues, including through the imposition of sanctions. Now the Mexicans, the Panamanians, the Danes, I think a number of other countries, will be able to experience what the abolition of competition is like. Chinese friends have responded harshly. And no other language is understood by people who want to dominate.

As it will become apparent from the article, the USSR was always on the menu of the West. On June 24, 1941, just 2 days after Hitler attacked the USSR, the future president of the USA wrote in The New York Times: “If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible…”. This quote is confirmed in the archived
article at The New York Times from 1972

Whereas Roosevelt tended to be flexible in coping with the Russians, Truman held sterner views. “If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible.. . ” he said as a Senator in 1941. This basic attitude prepared him to adopt, from the start of his Presidency, a firm policy.

And even before that, in 1940, UK and France were itching to attack the USSR. This is the topic of today’s article.


England and France were preparing an attack on the USSR in the summer of 1940: Operation Pike.

Olga🪆August 24, 2024

The consequences of the destruction of the Baku oil fields could have been very serious for the USSR, if not deadly. There is no doubt that England and France would have carried out their intentions, implementing their Operation “Pike”, which went in unison with Hitler’s plans to attack the USSR. A blow from the combined forces of Europe: Germany, England and France could have been deadly for the USSR. But these intentions violated the business interests of the USA.Operation Pike: England and France planned to attack the USSR in the spring of 1940. This would have radically changed the course of World War II and the entire history of the 20th century. The question arises: who prevented a scenario that would be disastrous for the USSR and why?
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How Ushakov and Suvorov liberated Italy in 1799 during the reign of the Russian emperor Paul I

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The article was translated from Russian and condensed by a friend.

See also Russian Help to Italy – The Selfless Deed Now, Just As 111 Years Ago for a story from a later era.


Once, Russian troops took Rome, under Admiral Ushakov

There is an opinion that Rome was founded by the Slavs, but that’s another story.

This story will focus instead on October 1799, when a small Russian landing force liberated the “eternal city” from the French invaders.

Admiral Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov

This page in the history of Europe is carefully hushed up by Western scientists and politicians.

In 1796, French troops led by Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) invaded Northern Italy. They brought European “democracy” there on their bayonets:

  • Genoa became the Ligurian Republic (June 1797);
  • Milan became the center of the Cisalpine Republic (July 1797);
  • The further advance of the French army to the south led to the emergence of the Roman Republic (February 1798);
  • Finally, the Parthenopean Republic was formed in Naples (January 1799).

This “republican” experiment, however, proved short-lived: in 1798, Russia entered into an anti-French coalition with Great Britain, Austria, Turkey, and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

In April 1799, the combined Austro-Russian army under the command of General A.V. Suvorov defeated the French troops in Northern Italy.

Southern Italy

However, the French continued to hold positions in the south. Napoleon’s capture of Malta, the Ionian Islands and Egypt followed.


Thick line – main fleet of Ushakov; thin line – Ushakov’s divisions; steepled area – zone of patrol of the Russian fleet

Historic note and map from Crimea News:

On August 24, 1798, a squadron of the Black Sea Fleet under the command of Vice Admiral F.F. Ushakov sailed from Sevastopol to the Mediterranean Sea to operate against France.

The Black Sea Fleet squadron consisted of 6 battleships, 7 frigates, and 3 dispatch vessels. A landing force of 1,700 naval grenadiers of the Black Sea Naval battalions was received on the ship. The squadron also had 35 midshipmen from the Black Sea Fleet School.

During the two and a half years of the campaign, the Black Sea Fleet squadron did not lose a single ship, the total losses amounted to about 400 people. As a result of the expedition, Russia gained a base on the Mediterranean Sea, strengthening its presence in the region.


Then the Russian fleet under the command of F.F. Ushakov entered the Mediterranean Sea through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, and then into the Adriatic Sea, where the Ionian Islands were liberated from French troops.

F.F. Ushakov stormed the fortress on the island of Corfu, the main base of the French: soon after, Ushakov, at the urgent request of King Ferdinand, had to go with his remaining ships to Naples, where the “democracy” of the rabble was raging too, which, having gone wild, attacked not only the “Jacobins”, but everyone from whom it was possible to profit.

Here is what the Russian representative at the Neapolitan court, Italinsky A.V. Suvorov, reported on September 12, 1799:
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Exhibition of Samples of Trophy Weapons (1943-1948). An article and a documentary.

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The article you are about to read is dedicated to the exhibition of the weaponry from Germany and their accomplices, trophied after their invasion of the USSR on the 22nd of June 1941.

On the 22nd of June 1943, exactly two years after the Nazi Germany invaded the USSR, the central park of Moscow, bearing the name of Maxim Gorky, opened its gates to an extensive exhibition over the trophied armaments of Nazi-Germany and its accomplices. The exhibition lasted until 1948.

The article consists of three parts: first comes the cinematographic essay, filmed in 1943 to give an overview of the exhibition, then a short note with the documents from Moscow City Archive, and finally, a portion of a historiographic work, dedicated to the exhibition.

Only one thought to add – the tradition that started during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 has now seen a rebirth during the present-day Patriotic War, with the exhibition of the weaponry of the Nazi Germany’s successor being displayed on the Poklonnaya Mountain in Moscow from the 1st of May 2024.

We publish about the trophy exhibition, past and present, at our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”, for example in this and this post.

Let’s go!


Trophies of the Great Battles

A short cinematographic essay, filmed in colour, presented the visible testimony over the ongoing victories on the battlefield over the invading horde.

The essay is full of jabs and snide remarks, mixed with facts and figures – just the way we like to watch the parallel present-day events unfold now, 80 years later.


Backup at Rumble.


Visible evidence of our victories: The Moscow Main Archive tells about the exhibition of captured German weapons

23.04.2020

The Main Archive of the capital contains documents documenting the creation of an exhibition of samples of weapons and military equipment trophied by the Red Army in battles with Nazi troops and their allies. The exposition was opened on June 22, 1943 and operated until 1948.

The decision to create an exhibition pavilion “Trophies of War” on the territory of Gorky Park was made back in December 1941, when the successful counteroffensive of Soviet troops near Moscow provided residents of the capital with exhibits of the most diverse kind. In 1942, the exhibition pavilion began to operate. However, it was located deep inside the territory of the park, near the border with the Neskuchny Garden, and did not attract mass attention. A more impressive demonstration of our combat achievements was needed.
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