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The Unknown Cold War. Film 4. Secret battles. An RT documentary

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This episode explores how the Baltic region became one of the Cold War’s first testing grounds.


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Even during the Second World War, some Baltic nationalists collaborated with occupying German forces. After the war, an anti-Soviet armed underground movement known as the ‘Forest Brothers’ gained momentum in the region.

In 1947, the United States National Security Council adopted NSC 4-A, a secret document tasking the CIA with conducting covert subversive operations against the Soviet Union and its allies.

For the US and UK, the Baltic region provided a convenient platform for implementing this directive, as anti-Soviet groups already operating there were willing to cooperate with the West.

The Soviet Union responded swiftly. State security agencies launched large-scale counterintelligence operations that infiltrated Baltic underground networks, intercepted communication channels with the West, and exploited failed enemy operations to their advantage.

👉 Watch also “Film 1 — The Unthinkable Allies”.
👉 Watch also “Film 2 — The Truman Delay”.
👉 Watch also “Film 3 — The Abduction of Europe… and the world”.

Alfred Rosenberg — The Failed Coloniser of the East. A documentary by Aleksey Denisov, 2021

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Alfred Rosenberg is one of the most sinister figures of the Third Reich. It is believed that he is the author of the concepts of “racial theory” and “the final solution to the Jewish question.” Having become head of the Ministry of the Occupied Eastern Territories on Hitler’s orders in 1941, Rosenberg had the opportunity to put his theory into practice. The task of Rosenberg’s department was to colonise the entire European part of the Soviet Union.

No “independent states” were supposed to be established in these territories. The Nazis planned to partially exterminate and partially evict the indigenous population, and “Germanise” the remaining ones. After the final victory of the Reich, the ideologists of Nazism planned to make those inhabitants of the USSR whom they decided to leave alive slaves serving the German colonists and “Greater Germany.”

This film is another reminder of the future that was in store for the big and small nations of Europe in the event of the victory of Hitler and his satellites. The film uses rare footage of captured German newsreels, photographs from the personal archives of Nazi leaders captured during the storming of Berlin by soldiers of the Red Army. Many of them have never been shown on the air.


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Additional strokes to Rosenberg’s portrait

An uplifting caricature by Boris Yefimov from 1936, depicting the Ukrainian nationalists marching right from an important appointment with a mug of “Beer”.

Their banner, carrying the proud symbol of Ukraine — with a cherry on top — has the words in a mix of Ukrainian and German:

“Long live our father Rosenberg!”

The words are addressed to Rosenberg — whom Hitler called “the church Father of National Socialism” — standing on the drums of the German Nazi propaganda – the “Völkischer Beobachter”.

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‼️ Both Beobachter and Rosenberg made appearance on the pages of the Danish underground publication “2 Years”, where we can find many a pearl of the German propaganda.

Alfred Rosenberg (1893 – 1946). Top Nazi and the party’s leading racial ideologist, incarnate anti-communist and anti-Semite. Born in Estonia, sentenced to death and executed in Nuremberg for, among other, crimes against humanity.

In the early years, he exercised a decisive influence on the development of Hitler’s thinking and nurtured his visions of his own divine significance.

Rosenberg held powerful political posts in the party and state. He was an influential figure in the occult Thule Society of the nazi elites. He published anti-Semitic literature and was the holder of the Nazi “Blood Order”.

Völkischer Beobachter (“People’s Observer”) – the official newspaper of the Nazis, published by the Eher Verlag, owned by the Nazi Party NSDAP (Nationalsocialistische Deutche Arbeiterpartei), appeared as a weekly from late 1920 to 1923. From 8. February 1923 to the end of april 1945 the newspaper was published as a daily with Alfred Rosenberg as editor.

All Is in the Past — Adolf Rosenberg in His Domain

The caricature by Boris Yefimov appeared in the combined issue №11-12 of the Soviet satirical magazine “Krokodil” in April of 1944.
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USA, through its proxy – Ukraine, commits another atrocious war crime, bombing children in Russia’s Lugansk region #NatoTerrorAgainstStarobelsk #NoStatuteOfLimitations

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“NATO is culpable for EVERYTHING Ukraine does”
— Scott Ritter, former USMC intel officer on Ukrainian attack on college.

👉 The initial statements by Russian Foreign Ministry, Vasily Nebenzya at the UN, and the President Vladimir Putin are below the updates.

21 YOUNG students massacred by NATO (proxy: Ukraine) in Lugansk dorm attack

UPDATE 24.05.2026:

Тhe death toll from NATO’s terrorist attack on children in Russia has risen to 21. The total number of victims is 60 people

According to the statement from the Emergencies Ministry, the search operations have concluded.

Names of 21 students killed by NATO (proxy: Kiev) TERROR ATTACK on Lugansk college dorm released

❗️Hereby are the lists of the dead and injured students in #Starobelsk.

Deceased:

• Anna Pogrebnichenko, born on November 1, 2006
• Daria Serdyuk, born on April 18, 2007
• Yana Prudnikova, born on December 11, 2006
• Irina Zhivotikova, born on December 3, 2006
• Yelena Martimyanova, born on September 6, 2006
• Tatiana Berezhnaya, born on July 15, 2006
• Artyom Kovtun, born on February 2, 2006
• Maxim Bugakov, born on December 3, 2005
• Alexander Postovets, born on December 18, 2004
• Sofia Fen’, born on March 30, 2007
• Alina Chekrygina, born on April 27, 2007.
• Alexandra Kovpak, born on June 3, 2007.
• Taisia Gerasimenko, born on May 18, 2008
• Anastasia Kovalenko, born on May 8, 2007
• Alisa Bryukhovetskaya, born on January 16, 2007
• Alexandra Butkova, born on January 17, 2007
• Oksana Tereshchenko, born on September 14, 2003
• Alexandra Protasova born on November 11, 2007
• Anastasia Vasilenko, born on July 18, 2007
• Viktoria Zaratuichenko, born on September 21, 2007
• Veronika Dashenko, born on September 15, 2006

Injured:

• Larisa Bubylyova, born on May 6, 2010
• Alexey Sverdlov, born on April 18, 2007
• Elvira Pavlenko, born on April 16, 2008
• Sofia Ternovskaya, born on August 20, 2010
• Tatyana Kononova, born on October 13, 2007
• Olga Kovaleva, born on November 2, 2004
• Rostislav Zakharchenko, born on August 23, 2003
• Yekaterina Danko, born on September 28, 2008
• Alexandra Chupikhina, born on February 27, 2007
• Konstantin Dubovoy, born on January 2, 1975
• Maria Kravchenko, born on June 24, 2010
• Valeria Skripnichenko, born on July 7, 2010
• Yulia Garkusha, born on July 7, 2008
• Sofia Kulakova, born on December 15, 2009
• Alyona Zherebilo, born on August 9, 2007
• Yevgeniya Gnatenko, born on April 3, 2008
• Yelizaveta Bugaevskaya, born on August 2, 2005
• Artyom Shiyanov, born on December 31, 2006
• David Kolosov, born on September 4, 2007
• Yelizaveta Dontsova, born on July 15, 2007
• Daria Dorofeyeva, born on July 11, 2008
• Anastasia Dorofeyeva, born on December 26, 2005
• Diana Shovkun, born on December 12, 2006
• Margarita Nevedoma, born on February 11, 2008
• Anastasia Chalaya, born on December 9, 2009
• Nikolay Doroshev, born on July 4, 2005
• Maxim Teslya, born on May 31, 2010
• Violetta Tokaryuk, born on August 5, 2009
• Maria Mysnik, born on October 11, 2010
• Alexandra Semenkova, born on November 2, 2009
• Vlada Sklyar, born on June 2, 2006
• Maxim Bogach, born on July 3, 2008
• Yury Grishin, born on June 24, 1969
• Diana Myasnikova, born on February 27, 2008
• Irina Divenok, born on August 11, 2003
• Anastasia Tsarevskaya, born on December 18, 2005
• Maxim Kopylov, born on March 25, 2007
• Adelina Korobach, born on July 29, 2008
• Denis Abapolenko, born on April 25, 2006
• Kristina Kuptsova, born on April 21, 2009
• Marina Veduta, born on August 6, 1980.

UPDATE 23.05.2026:

‘We will not forgive the KILLERS and those who cover for them’ — Lugansk Republic Head Pasechnik

Source: @MTodayNews

According to the surviving students, the drones circled over them for a long time and hit them with precision.

⚡️ The administration of the Head of Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic has released preliminary lists of the deceased, injured and missing students in #Starobelsk, following the vicious terrorist attack of the Armed Formations of Ukraine at the dormitory of Lugansk State Pedagogical University college.

Source: Russian Ministry of foreign Affairs

Meanwhile, The Fourth Reich Nazis are being nazis

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski after Ukrainian strike killed 6 in Lugansk SCHOOL DORM

“We hope that Putin recalculates now that US-EU weapons are flowing”

“We were briefed by [Ukraine FM]. Things are looking up”

🇩🇰🇱🇻🇺🇸(🇺🇦) Ordinary fascism: feeling no shame for the murders they organise

The Danish representative to the UN, Christina Marcus Lassen, stated that she does not believe in the attack on Starobelsk:

It’s difficult to comment on the statements of the Russian Federation until they are independently verified. Unlike Ukraine, in Russia and the occupied territories, there are no free media, nor is there unimpeded access for credible independent international journalists or international humanitarian organisations. Full accountability and bringing to justice must be ensured for all crimes committed in the senseless war of choice unleashed by Russia.

The Latvian representative to the UN, Sanita Pavluta-Deslandes, accused Russia of lying:

Russia only operates on the basis of its own statements. Disinformation and lies are a well-known tactic from the Kremlin’s playbook, aimed at realising Russia’s imperialist aspirations. Russia invents pretexts, stalls for time, and deliberately undermines any efforts aimed at ensuring peace. Latvia, on the other hand, will only rely on facts, not on any assumptions.

Source: Pool №3

“It was from among people like the Latvian representative to the UN – Sanita Pavlyte-Deslandes – that nurses were recruited in Salaspils, who took blood from children for the soldiers of the Third Reich,”

Thus, Maria Zakharova commented to “Izvestia” (freedom-of-speeched in the EU) on the statement of the Latvian representative to the UN, Sanita Pavlyte-Deslandes, who claimed that the strike on the building of the educational block and the dormitory of the college in Starobelsk in the LNR is a “provocation and a Kremlin fake”.

“Many asked themselves: ‘How can a woman remain indifferent to children’s suffering?’. Now we see it with our own eyes,” – added the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

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Maria Zaharova, May 23, 2026, 09:14

IN CONNECTION WITH THE BLATANT LIES SPREAD YESTERDAY AT THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL BY WESTERNERS, PARTICULARLY THE DISGRACEFUL STATEMENT BY THE LATVIAN DELEGATION THAT THERE WERE NO ATTACKS BY THE UKRAINIAN ARMY ON A COLLEGE IN STAROBELSK, WE ARE ORGANISING A VISIT TO THE TRAGEDY SITE FOR ACCREDITED FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS IN MOSCOW.

I hope the BBC and CNN won’t take a vacation.

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Maria Zaharova, May 23, 2026, 11:12

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has officially refused to visit Starobelsk.

CNN is on vacation.

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🦇 BBC: Also known as the British Bullshit Corporation (https://t.me/BeornAndTheShieldmaiden/24857).

🇺🇸 Elon Musk is killing Russian children

The strike drones that attacked the Starobelsk College were controlled using Starlink, just like other long-range drones that have repeatedly attacked civilians and children in other parts of Russia.

Elon Musk cannot be unaware that Starlink is being used to kill civilians, including children.

Source: Unofficial Bazsonov

In the photo, fragments of the Starlink terminal at the site of the strike on a college dormitory in Starobilsk. The strike was carried out using Elon Musk’s American satellite network. We need more stories about Musk’s father in state media.

Source: Colonel Cassad

Starobelsk college before NATO’s bombing

The Armed Forces of Ukraine bombed the educational building and dormitory of the Starobilsk College.

– By historian Vladimir Medinsky

One of the oldest educational institutions in Donbass (first half of the 19th century). It trained kindergarten educators and primary school teachers.

After the drone attack — they hit it with precision, in three waves — everything was destroyed. 21 students were killed, and more than 40 were injured.

❗️Only the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War targeted schools, colleges, pioneer camps, and children with such precision. I can’t think of any other similar analogies. (🦇 We at BATS can think of another very recent parallell — USA’s bombing of schoolgirls in Minab, Iran)

PS. The reaction of these scumbags from Latvia and Denmark, sitting in the UN and “feeling no shame” is particularly shocking.

We are often kind-hearted, forgetful, and prone to forgiving. But just think about what these people could do to us, to our children, if they were to win.

Think about it…


Starobelsk professional college, bombed by AFU

⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry Statement on the AFU strike on the college of Lugansk State Pedagogical University in Starobelsk

On the night of May 22, the Kiev neo-Nazi regime used four fixed-wing UAVs to carry out a gruesome terrorist attack on the academic building and dormitory of the college of Lugansk State Pedagogical University in Starobelsk, LPR.
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“The World Was Saved By The Soviet Soldier” interactive project

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“The World Was Saved By The Soviet Soldier” is an interactive project that was launched back in 2021 by the “Immortal Regiment” portal.

“As of late, more and more publications, the authors of which reshape historical events of the Second World War, appear in foreign media. We must not forget our common history and must stand together against all attempts to rewrite it. One can only resist with reasoned truth.

Videos created for the project are meant to depict how Europe was liberated from fascism.”

All film-related materials translated by Putinger’s Cat. We present the 30 episodes in the rough chronological order of the events.

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CHINA

China was attacked by Japan even before the official beginning of WWII, with the war raging between July 7, 1937 and September 9, 1945.


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POLAND (Part 1)

World War II began on September 1st, 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland. After the Red Army liberated Poland in 1945, the Soviet Union took an active part in bringing Poland back from ruin.


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Systemic sabotage – Maria Zaharova’s response to Mark Rutte

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Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zaharova responded on the pages of newspaper “Izvestia” to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte’s statement on the refusal to recognise new territories within Russia. 11.08.2025

Demolition of ‘Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders’ in 2022.

Mark Rutte demanded in an interview with CBS to abandon the legal recognition of new territories within Russia and recalled a funny historical incident:

“We all remember that Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia had embassies in Washington from 1940 to 1991, which meant recognition of the actual control of the USSR over their territories, but never legally acceptance of this fact.”

The very case when misfortune helped: Rutte himself built the historical chain of the rebirth of Nazism into neo-Nazism…

Let’s begin.

In the 1920s and 1930s, as a result of anti-state coup, local fascist governments came to power in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia with the support of Germany and Italy. In 1940, they fled to the West and the democratic left forces came to power, which, having received a mandate from the people in the conditions of the outbreak of World War II, decided to join the USSR as national republics, that is, on equal terms with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and others.

Moscow responded favourably to the request of the people’s representatives of the Baltic countries who found themselves on the front line of the global confrontation. By the decisions of the VII session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (https://www.prlib.ru/item/716539) in August 1940, the Soviet Union took the Baltic peoples under its protection. When the Great Patriotic War began, many Soviet soldiers from all over the Union gave their lives for the freedom of the Baltic States from Nazism.

However, in Europe and the United States at that time, the democratic and free choice of the Balts was ignored. When the Nazis fled Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, they settled in the West.

The Estonian Nazis, with the support of the Hitlerites, formed their own pocket government in Oslo, and the Lithuanian and Latvian ones set up embassies in Washington, where they sat throughout the Cold War. They existed with the money of American taxpayers and with the support of the US Congress (Kersten Committee) and the State Department headed by First Deputy Secretary of State Sumner Welles.

For half a century, Americans supported these parasites while Soviet Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia developed (see also below), organised their lives, advanced their economies, enriched their culture, held festivals, competitions, and simply enjoyed life.

The Americans were not at all embarrassed that the heirs of the pro-fascist leftovers were being kept at their side and with their money, despite the fact that the USSR had repeatedly raised this issue with the United States. For Washington, this was an element of pressure on Moscow. A political construct with a rotten filling.

Rutte’s proposal is striking in its immorality, because he is nostalgic for the executioners of the Holocaust, who in the Baltic States did not lag behind the same elements as in Western Ukraine in their dehumanising work.

Demolition of ‘Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders’ in 2022.

And this is a systemic sabotage. The rehabilitation of anti-Soviet collaborators and other “forest brothers” guilty of crimes against civilians and complicity in the Holocaust has been conducted using (pseudo)legal basis. The Euro-Nazi leadership puts bloody executioners on a pedestal and approves the removal of monuments to those who liberated Europe from the brown plague. The rewritten Eurohistory casts doubt on the continued existence of memorials to the real victims of the “new heroes” — monuments at the site of the massacre in Ponary (Lithuania), the Klooga concentration camp (Estonia) and the Salaspils children’s concentration camp (Latvia).

The “United and impoverished Europe” has again relied on the creation of an aggressive belt of Russophobic regimes on the western borders of Russia. Rutte’s rhetoric is part of the ideological accompaniment of this fascization of the Western European part of the continent and the mobilisation of revanchist extremists who are already undergoing combat training in Ukraine.

Let me remind you that 20 years ago they tried to conduct the same experiment with the “Ichkerian emissaries”, for example in Britain, honouring terrorists as ambassadors or even presidents when their compatriots were bleeding in the Caucasus. It didn’t work out then, and it won’t work out now.

By the way, when is Rutte scheduled to receive the credentials of the ambassadors of Catalonia and Scotland?

How did Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia really fare as part of the Soviet Union?

🎙 Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
(from the weekly briefing on current foreign policy issues, July 24, 2025)

July 21 marked 85 years since the establishment of the Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian Soviet Socialist Republics.
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What transpired in the «Red Shore» concentration camp for children

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Before you is a short documentary about the Red Shore KZ-camp for children in Belorussia, from where children were transferred to Salaspils for further “processing”. Yes, that same Salaspils, which has now been erased from the KZ maps in the Fourth Reich!

So let us not forget that the Baltics had some of the most ardent Nazi collaborators that matched in brutality the Ukrainian Banderites. During the war, one of the most gruesome concentration camps was located in Latvia — Salaspils, where the very blood was sucked out of the children. Literally.

Georgy Zotov showed this map of the Nazi concentration camps from Dachau. And Salaspils was deliberately erased from it again, just like on the same map in Majdanek.

Well, according to the new history version, Salaspils is no longer a concentration camp, but an educational and labour institution. Almost a sanatorium.

What transpired in the «Red Shore» concentration camp for children


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Only the wind roams this classroom. It’s creepy here even during the Spring. The desks are forever silent about the 13 million children who died in World War II. Almost 2000 of them were taken away by the concentration camp “Red Shore”.

Children were stationed in these barracks, the boys being kept separately from the girls. They were washed either in a river or in a banja (sauna), and then they were led to this mansion house. A German hospital was situated here. Blood was taken from the kids. Initially the blood was taken for a clinical test – the Germans needed only the healthy kids.

The most in-demand was the first blood type (O) and the positive rhesus factor (note: should have been said Rh-), because this type, being universal, could later be used as donor blood.

They sat behind some curtain, and only their arm would be in the hands of those who collected blood.

In June of 1944 Germans brought here children in batches and then sent them either to the Latvian blood factory “Salaspils” or to the forced labour in Germany. A tag hanging around the neck served as a passport.

When it comes to Salaspils, up to 100,000 people perished behind the barbed wires. Children were the best suited for the experiments. New medicines that were previously never tested, were brought there – various vaccines – leading to deaths. They were smeared with poisonous salves.
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An Honest Deal. How Peter I Bought the Baltic Territories from Sweden. With a bonus about an earlier purchase of Kiev.

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Seeing how the Baltic states (and Ukraine) jumped on the anti-Russian bandwagon, it is worth taking a historical detour into the not so distant past and take a look at a certain fact that those states are trying to erase…

First is a translation of an article from a St.Petersburg edition of “Argumenty i Fakty”, followed by fragment of a related historical article, and concluding with an even deeper dive to the time of the purchase of Kiev from Poland. What is common for these two cases is the fact, that Russia chose to buy the territories at a fair price, despite it having a position of a war winner, enabling it to “just take” those lands. Another aspect of that history is, well, a historical parallel that no one among the Western leadership wants to learn from, maybe because they have not studied history at school.

A fair deal. How Peter I bought the Baltic States from Sweden

Weekly magazine “Arguments and Facts” No. 35. Arguments and facts – Petersburg 31/08/2022


Peter the Great announces the Peace of Nystad (Nishtadt) on Trinity Square in St. Petersburg

The destruction of the monuments to the Soviet soldiers in the Baltic states drew the attention of the Russian society, and at the same time reminded of how these territories came to be a part of the Russian state.

The Northern Russian-Swedish War was concluded on September 10, 1721 with the signing of the Peace of Nystad (Nishtadt), as a result of which Peter the Great actually bought Livonia and Estlandia (modern Latvia and Estonia) from the Swedish Kingdom. Why did the tsar still decide to pay for the territories that were by that time already under the control of the Russian army?

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“Fainting Piglet”, aka. “Unconscious Piggy” Satirical Cartoons Explain the Core of Ukraine and Why SMO Was Unavoidable (with future updates)

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In the August of 2022 the CGI animator Evgenia from Krasnodar Krai started creating something that grew into an in-depth satirical reviews of all what was failing Ukraine, and explaining the Special Military Operation’s goals.

The character personifying Ukraine became a little wayward, Nazi-tainted piglet. The Russian title of the series is “Свинка в обмороке” (Svinka v obmoroke), which is a play on the shortened name of the Special Military Operation (SMO) – SVO in Russian. In English the series have got several varying names, trying to convey the essence: “Unconscious Piggy”, “Fainting Piglet”, “Piglet in a Swoon”, “Swooning Pig”.

All episodes are released at the official Telegram channel of the Fainting Piglet. Evgenia writes in the description: “The Piglet is not the whole of Ukraine, but only her demented part!” I have additionally uploaded them to Yandex Disk for easy download.

Jump to the newly-added episode(s)

While the later episodes were released bilingually, earlier episodes require translation (and most of them also require some context for the Western audience, who have been subjected to the heavy Mains Stream Media censorship). This honourable task was undertaken by the admin of The Putinger’s Cat Telegram channel.

As more and more episodes get release and translated, they are becoming increasingly more difficult to trace. And, additionally, not everyone has Telegram. That is why I decided to upload them to Odysee and create this collated post that will get updates as new episodes see the light of day.

But first, a very short clip that cuts to the chase, and shows the very essence of the conflict and the role Ukraine plays in it!

The very first Unconscious Pig episode – “What is Russia Punishing Ukraine For?” or “Why do Russians support the SMO?” – is finally translated! (Translation at Putinger’s Cat)

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Finnish blogger: That’s why half the world owes Russia to the grave

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I am reposting an article under the same name from the English edition of NewsFront. This is probably the best – in its brevity – description of Russia’s role in state-building in the recent history! This is the kind of material that cannot be re-posted or re-told too few times.

In the list the author mentions the Napoleonic time, and in this regard I want to especially draw attention to Holland that exists as a state today solely thanks to the Russian effort in 1813: “Russians Are Coming!”: Restoration of the Dutch Kingdom. Year 1813.

The list also mentions Kazahstan, and the statement there is best understood in light of purveying of a certain map of the USSR from exactly 100 years ago – from 1922, something that I did a short time ago in A short look at the short history of Kazakhstan through the lens of a 1922 map.

Finnish blogger: That’s why half the world owes Russia to the grave

A blogger from the Finnish city of Oulu Veikko Korhonen, as most modern Finns periodically fell under the corrupting influence of pro-Western history textbooks.

Everything related to Russia there was usually poured with total mud, the joint Russian-Finnish history was presented as a nightmare, and the pernicious influence of the present was constantly supported by stories about the aggressiveness and hostility of the nearest neighbour.

Fortunately, Veikko Korhonen had a very wise and well-educated grandmother, and so he knew very well about the true course of our joint history.

And once, tired of constant disputes with anti-Russian compatriots, he wrote a small article on his Facebook page, and whenever he met another Russophobe, just gave him direct link.

Are you asking about the results of Russia’s “aggression”? They are as follows: half of Europe and part of Asia got their statehood from the hands of this particular state.

Let’s remember who:

– Finland in 1802 and 1918. (Until 1802, never had its own state).

– Latvia in 1918 (before 1918 it never had its own state).

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The conclusion to Navalny’s farce (for now). A stopped Western-sponsored coup d’etat in Russia

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The continuation of the farce that Navalny’s handlers started with his fake poisoning and the subsequent staged return Russia with the fake “palace” video in his arsenal (outlined in the previous article The Navalny’s Palace – Fake Documentary from Fake Opposition (with a list of past crimes)) has come to the logical conclusion with the much-welcome imprisonment of the fraudster.

Navalny got his remaining 2.8 years of suspended sentence for defrauding of two companies converted into a real term. This was the outcome which Russians hoped for. Should the court have caved in to the Western pressure and release Navalny, that would have given a clear signal that he is above the Law and that Law does not apply to fraudsters in the employ of the foreign secret services. The reactions that I read on the Russian internet could be summed up as: “Why so little?!” Well, this is just one past conviction for one of his crimes. (By the way, Navalny has already got away with too much – he’s the only Russian citizen who managed to have two suspended convictions for fraud!)

There is still the case of defamation of WWII veteran, and the case of defrauding donors to his organisation (with the donated money spent on luxury and vacations). These cases were open and, coupled with the suspended sentence, were grounds for not letting Navalny out of the country in the first place. It was actually President Putin’s request that allowed Navalny to be transported to Germany, where he spent almost 2 months after his recovery on skipping his parole and on creation of the film targeting to defame Putin.

And there are strong calls to open a new case – this time for high treason due to Navalnys NGO direct appeal to Biden to impose sanctions on Russia. Seeing as sanctions qualify as an act of war, these people were calling on a foreign power to start a war on the country that they are citizens of.

The pressure on the Court of Justice was immense, including from the foreign diplomats, who amassed there to intimidate the judges and influence the course of a civil court by their presence. The hall of shame includes the diplomats from the following countries:

USA, UK, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Canada, Finland, Japan, Austria, Czechia and Bulgaria.

EDIT: 05.02.2021 – Good to see Russia acting in accordance with the international norms and also showing backbone – Russia expels diplomats from Germany, Poland and Sweden for alleged participation in pro-Navalny protests. If only Yanukovich did the same with Biden and Nuland back in 2014, Ukraine would most probably not be a Nazi-infested impoverished and depopulated basket-case right now…

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Why does NATO scare Moscow with “paper tigers”?

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This is a speed translation of an analytical article by Rostislav Ishchenko from the 7th of July 2016, published at his channel on Kont.

The NATO summit will begin in Warsaw on Friday. For two days (8 and 9 July), senior officials and generals will discuss a lot of technical and political issues. We are, however, interested in only one item on the agenda of the event. In Poland, the Alliance is going to once again discuss relief measures to the “Russian threat”.

As is the custom in the recent years, the “threat” is felt particularly acutely by the Balts and Poles, who demand the deployment on their territories of additional contingents of Western European and American allies.

Washington and London pretend to be impressed by the fears of the limitrophes, and agitate for meeting requests for strengthening NATO forces on the Russian border. We are talking about dislocation of four battalions.

In terms of the real military strengthening of the block’s abilities on the north-western borders of Russia, this gain is negligible. The American military analysts argue that even a dislocation in the region of four additional full brigades will not allow NATO to hold out much longer in the case of a real military conflict.

In fact, we are only talking about whether it will take the Russian troops one or two weeks to reach the Oder line. Or more precisely, how many US troops will need to be hastily evacuated from Poland and the Baltic states, if suddenly something goes wrong and, contrary to common sense, a military conflict in this area happens.


A US soldier during the 2016 Saber Strike exercises in Estonia.

Protection Poles and the Baltic states as a diversionary tactics

So, the United States believes that the Russian group on the Baltic borders now has absolute superiority, which it is impossible to stop by unfolding of either four or sixteen battalions. At the same time, as a result of NATO’s war hysteria of NATO, Russia decided to deploy in the western direction three new high-grade divisions, and another army corps in Kaliningrad.

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