Sigh. I think I'll have to repeat myself from the following post: That non-aggression pact was a brilliant tactical feat that postponed an imminent attack of Germany on the Soviet Union at a time when USSR was fighting with Germany's ally - Japan - in Mongolia. At that time USSR could ill afford fighting on two fronts, and would have surely lost. If not for that pact, Europe and Russia would be speaking German now, and China and the rest of Asia - Japanese. Always look at a a bigger picture. To add to that, once you mention Poland, why not also remember that during the Yalta conference, Stalin insisted that Poland gets a much longer coastal line than what Churchill and Roosevelt proposed, and so it happened. But this is probably not that convenient to remember now, according to the new American party line. About the inconvenient facts that you mention. Interestingly, in 1992, in Russia there was published a book "Fascist sword was wrought in USSR". You can read it in Russian here: http://vk.com/doc8157_289122059?hash=d6b0e1a402ea26a0f2&dl=28e20800fab4e65463Again, look at the bigger picture. Germany under economic and military blockade, USSR is too. The enemy of my enemy is my friend... until all hell breaks lose. Germany had a very strong spy network in USSR, and in many occasions Soviet innovations, that were not meant for Germany, ended up there anyway.
I like Lada Ray's articles but in this case I'm afraid she seriously overlooked something. Apart from the Serbians and the jews, nobody really seen the soviet army as liberators. They were seen as yet another occupying army and as they didn't went home after the war but stayed almost everywhere across Central Europe to support puppet governments and suppress rebellions, they were actually an occupying army indeed. You see, I can understand when Russian people expecting positive feedback for their efforts and sacrifices, but Stalin and his successors, together with their puppets screwed that up badly. They replaced one kind of tyranny with an other similarly bad one. The memory of the soup kitchens usually fading away pretty quickly when some NKVD trained and supervised state security officer tearing away your fingernails or beating your kids before your eyes to extract a confession about your anticommunist deeds. Snail2, I don't entirely disagree with you here, but I'd say that you are also overlooking several things. 1. To be fair, neither did USA pull out of Western Europe after WWII, but stayed there. And is staying still, long after USSR both pulled out and got itself dissolved. Not only USA continue stay, they also expanded their presence eastwards. USA used different methods for domination of Europe, but you will find a fair share of US puppet government's in Europe now, and a fair share of mind control through MSM. Let's say that the tools USA uses are less crude than that of USSR. 2. A large portion of Russians would themselves have liked to see the end of the Soviet system and Stalin and NKVD and fear of imprisonment and of loony bins (during Brezhnev). There should be a differentiation between the WWII and how its end came about and the subsequent events. The memory/memorial of the first should not become a beating stock for the second. 3. It's not just "soup kitchens". When it comes to Hungary and Romania, USSR didn't demand any reparations, though it was fully within its rights to do so. Moreover, Eastern European countries, including Romania and Hugary, were rebuilt in record short time span at the cost of rebuilding of USSR itself. This alone should be remembered. But, as Zotov noted, the negative aspects are remembered, but everything that was positive is eradicated with prejudice.
On the note of bullet-point 1 in my reply to Snail2... The American ambassador to Czechia made a statement on the state Czech TV, condemning the Czech President for going to attend the 70th anniversary Victory parade in Moscow. I really liked the Czech President's firm response. He said that he can't imagine a Czech ambassador telling the American president how to conduct his foreign affairs, and that he will not tolerate any ambassador telling him what to do. He further said that the American ambassador is no longer welcome at Prague City government complex. |
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In other news, Russia gave Ukraine a discount on gas supplies. The price is set to $285.
There is some confusion regarding this. According to Reuters, it is $248 per thousand cubic meters as opposed to $329 per thousand cubic meters which Ukraine was paying earlier. I have confused numbers. Reuters is correct.
European values Ukrainian way: Poroshenko Bans Russian Films, TV Series in Ukraine - Officialhttp://sputniknews.com/europe/20150402/1020355171.htmland Ukraine Bans Russian War Films Over Propaganda Fearshttp://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/ukraine-bans-russian-war-films-over-propaganda-fears/518553.htmlNote the following quote: While the law banning films celebrating "occupiers" does not refer to any one country, the legislation's introductory text specifically targets Russia, which annexed Ukraine's Crimea region last year.
"Ukraine has suffered for years from the Russian Federation's crushing aggression in the information sphere," the text says.
"With time this has meant that a sizable part of Ukraine's citizens have stopped considering themselves as members of Ukrainian society and relate negatively to everything tied to Ukraine, her culture, and her society." Talk about putting everything upside-down. Over the last 25 years Russia was almost completely absent from the information front in Ukraine, thus allowing the Soros-funded media to completely take over and unfurl a rabid anti-Russian propaganda, the results of which we see today. And the "sizable part of Ukraine's citizens" are actually the Russian-speaking population of the East, who never in the first place considered themselves to be Ukrainian and didn't succumb to the artificial Ukrainisation. So, in fact they didn't start to consider themselves Ukrainian. See (from http://stanislavs.org/two-ukraines/):  The proportion of users, who stated their mother tongue as Russian (blue) or as Ukrainian (red) in the popular social media VKontakte [“Russian Facebook”]. |
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DNR authorities have distributed some $30 million as pensions in March. Some of the locals are not happy, as the amounts were lower than what they had expected. But the majority are happy to have at least some money, which would cover the most basic needs.
It is worth mentioning that a large portions of these payouts is in Russian roubles, and as roubles don't come out of thin air, it is safe to assume that Russia, in addition to sending materials for rebuilding, is now also financing the region's daily life. Don't forget that Kiev still holds Donbass under full economical siege (thus signalling that they don't want to have anything to do with the region and, especially, people living there), people didn't get pensions or salary there for the last 6 months. In other news, Russia gave Ukraine a discount on gas supplies. The price is set to $285. Heads of DNR and LNR appealed to Merkel and Hollande so that they influence Kiev to observe Misnk-2 agreements. Poroshenko made a couple of announcements: 1. The first wave of conscripts from this year will be sent to (die in) Donbass. [Mobilisation is called for "mogilisation" in Ukraine, from Russian "mogila" - "gave". The closes English pun is "corpsescription".] 2. Ukraine will undergo full "deoligachisation". Hmm... Will Poroshenko begin from himself. And meanwhile, the heads of the Foreign Ministries of Normandy Four are discussing the possibility of sending peace keepers to Donbass. Finally, some laughs: President Poroshenko fails history test in speech to university studentshttp://newcoldwar.org/president-poroshenko-fails-history-test-in-speech-to-university-students/Speaking to the students at the Chernihiv National Pedagogical University in northern Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko decided to show off his knowledge of history and once again attempted to demonstrate the superiority of the Ukrainian nation to other nations, Ukrainian media reported.
“I think there are only a few universities in Europe who can trace their history back to 1700. When in Chernigov [Chernihiv] there were century-old churches, in Moscow there was only a swamp,” the president announced from his podium, accompanied by the students’ applause.
But Ukrainian media reported,“By this statement, Poroshenko put himself in a rather embarrassing position, as Moscow was founded in 1147. In the second half of the XIII century, Moscow became the center of an independent principality, and at the beginning of the XIV century, the residence of the metropolitans [archbishops of the Russian Orthodox Church of a city or region] was moved to Moscow making the city a religious center. Therefore, it remains a mystery how the city, which was founded in 1147, and by the beginning of the XV century became a major trade and crafts center, was only a swamp.”
Journalists also pointed out that back then, Chernihiv was a part of the Russian state.
“All this proves once again that Poroshenko has problems not just with history, but with math as well,” a Ukrainian news agency reported.  |
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Two more Russian planes evacuated 350 people today. 70 are Russian citizens, the rest are from Egypt, Cuba, Syria and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
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Looks like the stage is being set... Estonia's president in an interview to "The Times" urged NATO to attack Russia with military force in case there is a cyberattack against Estonia or other Baltic states coming from Russia. It is not a secret that Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are USA's Trojan horses - the Manchurian Candidates - within Europe. Now, as Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky Labs recently showed, NSA's Equation group is pretty strong and resourceful, and it'll be pretty easy to stage a plausible false-flag cyberattack coming as-if from Russia. And, hey presto, USA has the pretext to start WWIII. http://lenta.ru/news/2015/04/03/estoniattack/And, quite conveniently, the British Minister of Defence on the 19th of February already ensured everyone that Russia will (in defiance of its own interests!) soon start destabilising the Baltic states. |
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Some progress seems to be made near Mariupol. OCSE mediated talks between Russian-speaking commanders of DNR and Russian-speaking commanders of Ukraine, resulting in that the tanks may be pulled fromt he contact zone: Militia and Kiev forces establish dialogue in eastern Ukraine — coordination centerhttp://tass.ru/en/world/787112
Citizens of self-proclaimed Luhansk republic to get passportshttp://tass.ru/en/world/787127The passport will contain all the information in the Russian language, in particular on the place of birth, marital status, children, and military duty. The document will be issued only for those who have an official resident registration.
Now the Luhansk republic has all the official state symbols: a national flag (since November 2014), an emblem (since October 2014), an anthem and a constitution (since September 2014).
The Luhansk People’s Republic declared its sovereignty in April 2014 in response to Kiev’s attempts to suppress the opposition in south-eastern Ukraine. The Donetsk People’s Republic, also located on the territory of the coal-rich Donbas region, was proclaimed the same month.
After the May 2014 referendum, both regions signed an agreement on the creation of the Union of People’s Republics, Novorossiya.
Finally it's dawning for the West... Le Monde: Kiev peace accord violation starts to trouble the Westhttp://tass.ru/en/world/787079
Poroshenko submits bill on martial law to Ukraine’s parliamenthttp://tass.ru/en/world/787162KIEV, April 3. /TASS/. Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has submitted a draft law on legal procedures for introducing a martial law to the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament said on its website on Friday.
The document stipulates rules for introducing and lifting martial law in the country.
"A martial law is a special legal regimen that can be introduced in Ukraine or in parts of its territory in case of a military aggression or a threat of attack, a danger for Ukraine’s state independence and territorial integrity," the draft law says.
And a (in)sanity check... Right Sector paramilitaries to be contracted by Ukraine’s armyhttp://tass.ru/en/world/787166KIEV, April 3. /TASS/. Paramilitaries of Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist Right Sector will be enrolled in Ukraine’s army as contract soldiers, Yuri Biryukov, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, wrote in his Facebook account on Friday.
"Right Sector soldiers will be contracted by the 79th air mobile brigade," he wrote. |
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Crimea is now self-sufficient with water. 8 aqueducts have been laid from deep-water wells to supply the canal with water. Also, a new desalination plant is to be launched this summer. Here is the report from 28th of March about the planned works: http://ria.ru/defense_safety/20150328/1055132169.htmlSaw the news on TV today that the works are now complete.
Sneaky buggers... http://tass.ru/en/russia/787107MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. The work of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Ukraine cannot spread to the territory of Crimea, Russia’s OSCE envoy Andrey Kelin said on Friday.
"When the mandate of the mission was adopted and then extended, we made a very clear statement that Crimea does not fall under the mission’s mandate. It is the territory of Russia," Kelin said during a Moscow-Vienna video link-up. |
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Russia is also evacuating - at least the wives and children of the embassy workers. The planae evacuated not only Russian, but also Polish, Ukrainian, and Tadjik citizens. Foreign countries thank Russia for evacuating their citizens from Yemenhttp://tass.ru/en/world/787122Noticeably, the evacuation could happen only on the third attempt. The first two time the civilian planes were intercepted by Saudi fighters and headed off. |
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Two worrying reports: American armored vehicles are shooting at the suburbs of Mariupol. It looks like the American proxy army is starting yet another assault on the Russians of Novorossia. And the Americans are field-testing a new tank of their own. Shooting was done against Shirokino, near Mariupol. The American heavy tank showed several times on the Ukrainian news as well, where they call it "Black Panther" or "Black Death". The tank uses large calibre shells and heat sensor, allowing the aggressors to see the groups of the Novorossian Armed forces. The tanks has a non-standard form with an elongated turret and the bow being far to the front of the motor section. It also shoots with projectiles of a new type - the houses that it hits are simply obliterated. It's reaction time is less than a minute. http://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201504021023-chms.htmAlso, when NAF destroys Nazi sabotage/recon groups, they find American-made ammunition and bandage packets, with instructions in English and Polish.
On the 27th of March OCSE registered a massive mortar shelling of Shirokino - 225 artillery strikes in all. Shelling happened from the direction of Berdjansk, near Mariupol: http://lenta.ru/news/2015/03/29/osce/ |
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A few years ago news articles that talked about Russia started being spammed with comments of support for Putin and Russian army. They were written in a somewhat clumsy way, which suggested that they were made by foreigners. People immediately started calling them Russian trolls and the article proves that its exactly what they were. There's not much love for the Russians in Western Europe, that's all I can say.
This is why Western Europe is hell bent on demonising Russia and discrediting any voices that may come to its defence. Just business as usual. Do go on running the Ad Hominem attacks and ignore the actual message that these so-called "trolls" try to tell you. Can you answer one question: why is it that when a Russian leader works towards destruction of Russia he is praised in the West (Yeltsin - 270 factories demolished during the 90's, thousands of people dead as a result of liberal economical collapse and the ensuing social chaos - the "Wild 90s", or Nikolai II), while a leader who works on rebuilding Russia, making it a better place is immediately gets a shitfront from the West? PS: Interestingly, this "not love" is not symmetrical. There is no avert anti-Western indoctrination in Russia, and Russians are prepared to be friends with the West (in the 90's they opened up to the West in the typical Russian naïve friendliness, but got the sharp end of the Western love), but only if this friendship is based on mutual respect, not as a Western master/Russian slave relationship. |
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How Long Would the US Navy Survive in a Shooting War?
US Navy is a huge force but largely based around aircraft carrier groups that modern weaponry may have made obsolete
Regarding hardware superiority. Russian "Ural Carriage Factory" started serial production of the next generation of a Main Battle Tank - T-14 "Armata". The tank is characterised as the first Russian military innovation since the collapse of USSR and the destruction of Russian industry by the US proxy government of Yeltsin. All tanks - American, German, Russian - so far are built on a 35-yea-old technology. T-14 will have a crew of 2 or 3, placed in a protected capsule in the body of the tank - no crew will be located in the most dangerous place, the turret. Also, the tank is equipped with cameras and sensors and can be operated in fully remote mode, without any on-board crew. http://rus.tvnet.lv/hi_tech/oruzhije/286797-uralvagonzavod_filial_kotorogo_stroitsja_v_jelgavje_nachal_vipusk_supjertankov_t14_armata |
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The Georgians learnt their mistake and kicked the US puppet out of their country. But I have no hope for Ukraine. These people are brainwashed beyond any redemption.
I think they need a little more time. Typically it takes more than year for Uncle Sam to render its vassal states total basket cases. But it´s getting there. The situation in Ukraine is entirely different from what took place else where. Something like a massive hysteria is going on. People organizing choirs, churning out profanities such as "Putin Khuilo" and burning Russian flags, when the Russians largely ignore them. Anyone who opposes this is branded as an anti-nationalist, and sent to prison. Right now the hysteria is getting converted to schizophrenia. You are not wrong there, but people start to question, especially now, when monthly payments for water and gas exceed the size of pensions and are close to the size of average salaries. There is no money left for food. Still, from latest news, SBU opened a criminal case against two teachers, who were on practice at a school in Russia and took a picture with their Russian colleague, bearing St.George band. They are charged with espionage. Another case on the same grounds opened against the head of the Ukrainian Communist Party, who visited Russian Communist Party assembly. Meanwhile in DNR, social services started paying out pensions after a 6-month long pause. Payments are now done in Russian roubles or Ukrainian hrivna, with people preferring roubles. Postmen deliver pensions even to those pensioners, who live in the regions that come under Ukro-bombardment. And "Minsk-2"... Over the last 24 hours Ukrainian forces violated it 31 times. One shooting happened from artillery, 20 from mortars, the rest were armed provocations. The shooting happens largely around Shirokino and Donetsk. There are reports of more heavy weapons being pulled by Ukrainian Nazional guard. Even Merkel, after her today's meeting with Yats (who came to Berlin begging for moar €-coins) had the grace to say that she does not see Kiev making progress on Minsk-2 agreements. |
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Pepe Escobar reporting from Donetsk: http://atimes.com/2015/03/pepe-escobar-in-eastern-ukraine-howling-in-donetsk/Asia Times’ roving correspondent Pepe Escobar just returned from a reporting trip to the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the pro-Russian enclave in the Donetsk Oblast province of eastern Ukraine. The area has been the scene of heavy fighting between pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian military. Go to the original weblink to see the photos which accompany the article.
I’ve just been to the struggling Donetsk People’s Republic. Now I’m back in the splendid arrogance and insolence of NATOstan.
Quite a few people – in Donbass, in Moscow, and now in Europe – have asked me what struck me most about this visit.
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I could start by paraphrasing Allen Ginsberg in Howl – “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”.
But these were the Cold War mid-1950s. Now we’re in early 21st century Cold War 2.0 .
Thus what I saw were the ghastly side effects of the worst minds of my – and a subsequent – generation corroded by (war) madness.
I saw refugees on the Russian side of the border, mostly your average middle-class European family whose kids, when they first came to the shelter, would duck under tables when they heard a plane in the sky.
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I saw checkpoints like I was back in Baghdad during the Petraeus surge.
I saw the main trauma doctor at the key Donetsk hospital confirm there has been no Red Cross and no international humanitarian help to the people of Donetsk.
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I did not see the totally destroyed Donetsk airport because the DPR’s military were too concerned about our safety and would not grant us a permit while the airport was being hit – in defiance of Minsk 2; but I saw the destruction and the pile of Ukrainian army bodies on the mobile phone of a Serbian DPR resistance fighter.
I did not see, as Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe international observers also didn’t, the rows and rows of Russian tanks and soldiers that the current Dr. Strangelove in charge of NATO, General Breedhate, sees everyday in his exalted dreams invading Ukraine over and over again.
And I did not see the arrogance, the ignorance, the shamelessness and the lies distorting those manicured faces in Kiev, Washington and Brussels while they insist, over and over again, that the entire population of Donbass, traumatized babushkas and children of all ages included, are nothing but “terra-rists”.
After all, they are Western “civilization”-enabled cowards who would never dare to show their manicured faces to the people of Donbass.
So this is my gift to them. Just a howl of anger and unbounded contempt. The list is long. It is a very sombering read indeed! |
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Ukraine’s Right Sector Leader Wants Donbas Residents DeportedDmitri Yarosh, Rada MP and leader of Ukraine’s Right Sector, has declared that the unruly residents of eastern Ukraine must be deported and deprived of their civil rights before a program of ‘affectionate Ukrainianization’ can begin. In an interview for Ukrainian newspaper Obosrevatel published on Sunday, Ukrainian Right Sector leader and Rada deputy Dmitri Yarosh stated that the unruly residents of eastern Ukraine should be deported and deprived of their civil rights. Yarosh noted that much of Donbas is populated by ‘Sovoks’, an insulting slang term in Ukrainian and Russian derived from the word ‘Soviet’. Yarosh stated that the region “is populated by Sovoks –real Sovoks. And they should be deported. We have to deal with those who do not want to live by the rules and the laws of the state in a very harsh manner. This includes deportation, the deprivation of civil rights, and so on. Without force, it will not be possible to do anything with the region, to turn the tide so to speak.” .... http://thesaker.is/ukraines-right-sector-leader-wants-donbas-residents-deported/ Hmm. They softened up a bit. Last year they talked about killing off the millions that do not agree with their rule. Now it's "only" deporting (where to?) and depriving of civil rights. It also implies that the land that those people tilled for generation will also be expropriated in favour of the jewish oligarchs. No European values violated. Move along... Looks like he already got his answer from those people. If he wants to deport them, they'll gladly do so taking their land and livelihood with them, and fend off any usurper who tries to say otherwise.
DNR government plans to send children for summer vacation to Crimea and other Russian cities: http://ria.ru/world/20150331/1055715166.htmlMinistry of Defence of Donetsk People's Republic tells about another provocation: a disinformation published on BBC, saying that Russian army is fighting in DNR, presented as if coming from a commander of DNR army: http://www.gazeta.ru/social/news/2015/03/31/n_7065849.shtml |
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No. That non-aggression pact was a brilliant tactical feat that postponed an imminent attack of Germany on the Soviet Union at a time when USSR was fighting with Germany's ally - Japan - in Mongolia. At that time USSR could ill afford fighting on two fronts, and would have surely lost. If not for that pact, Europe and Russia would be speaking German now, and China and the rest of Asia - Japanese. Always look at a a bigger picture. One of the worst things Stalin did before the war, was basically decapitating the Soviet Army - most of the command and middle layer was killed off during the purges and repressions of the 30s.
Well, the victor seems to write history, and as such, Hitler will forever embody evil to western observers. Stalin fought with "the good guys" and as such his brutality was excused at the time.
To put the question at the other end of the scale, suppose you looked at two serial killers, one of whom killed entire families and the other killed random strangers. They're certainly different. But is it meaningful to say that the former is 'worse' than the latter?
And does it really matter?
Each of them caused the deaths of millions either directly or indirectly.
They were both monsters.
EDIT: and Mao probably beats them both combined.
I agree with you there. Both Stalin and Hitler did some terrible things, but they are in different categories and are not comparable.
almost as many lies told about stalin as hitler, on the one hand evil racist gas chamber hoax on the other gulag and man made famine, folks believe the lies depending on what sort of politics they like, white nationalist anticommunist buys the jewish lies about ussr and churchill worshipper westerner buys the jewish lies about germany
Yes there are a lot of lies and half-truths. With regards to Stalin, I can say based on the tragic experience of my own family, that neither Gulag, nor the famine are hoaxes. And virtually every family in the former USSR has been touched by that. Regarding famine. The hoax that was propagated over the last 20 years is that it was created specifically to target Ukraine. Famine covered large part of Russia and Ukraine, and the death toll was largest in Central Russia. My great-great-grandmother died of hunger in those years - and that branch of my family is from Southern Siberia. Famine was triggered by mismanagement of resources, by the need to industrialise and by USSR's dependence on imports - at that time Western countries refused to sell industrial items for Russian gold, but accepted grain. Gulag. My great-grandmother, grandmother, her sister and her brother suffered through that system of forced-labour camps, put there on false accusations, and rehabilitated only after Stalin's death. Only my grandmother survived. |
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Damning Evidence: “No Feelings.” How US Advisors Teach Ukrainians to Be Killing Machines!https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/damning-evidence-no-feeelings-how-us-advisors-teach-ukrainians-to-be-killing-machines/The damning video below shows a training session in Kiev, Ukraine, for the Ukraine army/national guard soldiers. This American, who explains that he used to work in the US, rehabilitating the worst drug addicts and axe murderers, says he ‘believes’ in people. “No feelings in war,” he repeats like a mantra. This is brainwashing at its best, as many of us have suspected all along. It has been suspected for the longest time that Americans are using all kinds of open brainwashing and MK ultra techniques on Ukrainians, and no doubt, on other Eastern Europeans. Finally, the evidence is coming out!
“Your senses have to be fully alert, but no feelings and emotions” (yes, god forbid you feel sorry or remorseful for the children you’ve killed in Donbass). This is a nazi killing machine preparation protocol in action!
The whole thing is in English, plus the translator is providing Russian translation. In the background, you can see the poster reading: “Believing in yourself, believing in Ukraine.” A very American poster, I must say, as no one talks like that in Ukraine!
The poster is also in Russian, not Ukrainian, which proves another thing a lot of Russian analysts have been pointing out: US is bent on creating ANTI-RUSSIA in Ukraine, using Russians and Russian-speakers living in Ukraine. The Gallup Poll of 2007 indirectly confirmed that over 80% of Ukrainians consider Russian their native language, not Ukrainian, despite many years of brainwashing. If they couldn’t do it through schools and media, they decided to create the anti-Russia, using Russians.
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When I showed this video to a friend, he made a remark I found very poignant: “When he was rehabilitating killers and addicts in the US, was he also recruiting them for the US army?”
Very possibly. They take people, whose self-esteem is super-low, who are screwed up by drugs and life, who have extremely low calibration…
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how they train killing machines!
Video title: “Украинцев учат, что умереть за интересы США – это их предназначение” – “Ukrainians are taught that dying for the US interests is their purpose”
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_GT-DSaGJI
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Whatever the motivation for the American armour now rolling though Czechia - a sign of unity or intimidation - the very fact of tanks entering Czechia brings unwanted memories to people there - that of Soviet tanks rolling in half a century ago. The American column entered Czechia in three parts over three different border crossings, and consists of 118 armoured vehicles. The Czech army is accompanying convoys of the American tanks, presumably to protect them from the public, but my suspicion is that they are also there so that the Americans don do anything funny, seeing as the Cech leadership had been quite independent of Washington in its decision making. Armadny Noviny reports that the Czech authorities officially prohibit citizens to throw eggs and tomatoes at the passing American convoy. http://www.gazeta.ru/social/news/2015/03/29/n_7060977.shtmlhttp://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/03/27/uspr-m27.htmlThe political and military establishment in most Eastern European states have largely greeted the show of aggression by US forces. At the same time they have undertaken measures to repress any opposition. According to a statement aired on Czech TV, Czech civilians have been warned against throwing tomatoes and eggs at the US military convoy. Anyone disobeying the legislation is liable to imprisonment for up to 3 years. And, the American convoy has lost one of its armoured vehicles - a Stryker - that broke down along the way and could not be repaired on the spot. It will be towed to the American planned stop-over spot in Vyshkov. http://www.vz.ru/news/2015/3/29/736963.html |
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Ukrainians violated the ceasefire 27 times the day before yesterday and 20 times yesterday. Artillery shelling went mostly against the villages of Gorlovka, Peski, Shirokino and what was once the Donetsk airport. One can can hardly talk about a ceasefire any more, when it is observed one-sidedly only by Novorossian armed forces.
The first commuter train went from Lugansk to Donetsk yesterday. The connection was reconstructed after the Ukrainians demolished the railway line as part of the wholesale destruction of Debalcevo. The train will go 3 times a week allowing families in Donetsk and Lugansk to connect once again.
1120 crimes committed by military in east of Ukraine — mediahttp://tass.ru/en/world/785336The crime situation in the Donetsk region in the territories controlled by Kiev is largely caused by alcoholism among the security forces, the regional governor says
Russia urges Ukraine to lift blockade of Donbas — Russia’s ambassador to OSCEhttp://tass.ru/en/world/785390MOSCOW, March 27 /TASS/. Ukraine should immediately lift the blockade of its Donbas region, Andrey Kelin, Russia’s Permanent Representative to OSCE, said at a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on Friday.
"It is necessary to use any available means to deliver relief aid to Donbas so long as it remains under siege.
One civilian killed as Ukrainian troops open fire at civilian car - DPRhttp://tass.ru/en/world/785713
An interesting read: The EU shares responsibility for ending the conflict in Ukrainehttp://www.russia-direct.org/qa/eu-shares-responsibility-ending-conflict-ukraineRussia Direct recently sat down with Swiss journalist and politician Guy Mettan, who hosted and moderated the panel discussion “European Choice: Globalization or Re-Sovereignization,” held in Geneva on March 6, 2015.
Serving as the President of the Joint Chamber of Commerce Switzerland-Russia & CIS, Guy Mettan has extensive experience and knowledge of Russia and its history and relations with Europe. Mettan gave us his insights into the reasons for the tensions between Russia and Europe and how the situation could be improved.
He suggests that Russia has to be “rediscovered” by Europeans to break the existing stereotypes about Russia and that much of the current divide between Russia and the West is geopolitical rather than ideological.
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RD: What do you think became the main reason for the current tensions between the EU and Russia? Is it just simply a geopolitical conflict or does it go deeper to the level of values?
G.M.: It is both for me. I have written a book about a thousand years of war between the West and Russia. The subtitle is “Russophobes from Charlemagne until to the Ukrainian crisis.” I explain that it existed before with the values between the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic when the Holy Roman Empire was against the Byzantine Empire, so it was already a struggle. There were both political competition and ideological competition between them. Political was on the level of the Empires, ideological was on the level of religion. Since then, it is ongoing in different forms with different actors.
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