Posted on 10/09/2022 3:50:08 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
The exquisite golden tiara, inlaid with precious stones by master craftsmen some 1,500 years ago, was one of the world's most valuable artifacts from the blood-letting rule of Attila the Hun, who rampaged with horseback warriors deep into Europe in the 5th century.
The Hun tiara, also known as a diadem, is now vanished from the museum in Ukraine that housed it — perhaps, historians fear, forever. Russian troops carted away the priceless crown and a hoard of other treasures after capturing the Ukrainian city of Melitopol in February, museum authorities say.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, now in its eighth month, is being accompanied by the destruction and pillaging of historical sites and treasures on an industrial scale, Ukrainian authorities say.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Ukraine's culture minister alleged that Russian soldiers helped themselves to artifacts in almost 40 Ukrainian museums. The looting and destruction of cultural sites has caused losses estimated in the hundreds of millions of euros, the minister, Oleksandr Tkachenko, added.
"The attitude of Russians toward Ukrainian culture heritage is a war crime," he said.
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The Ukrainians will Ukrainian.
Expecting cultures to act contrary to their cultural norms always ends in disappointment.
Ukrainian museum staff probably stole the items themselves in all the chaos. Who knows?
The Russians stole “Priam’s treasure” from a museum in Berlin (or perhaps from someplace it had been taken for safekeeping) in 1945. Turkey has the best claim to it but Germany will be more likely to return the bust of Nefertiti to Egypt and France to send Hammurabi’s law code to Iraq before the Russians return “Priam’s treasure.”
Looting museums or their equivalent is an old -thing-. It is’t particularly a Nazi issue. For most of human history “stuff”, especially if nice, has been looted by armies or else repurposed by the locals over time.
With respect to the latter, because of timing for when a particular archaeologist went to Egypt, we got a fanciful take about a wicked son ... rather than the dull truth that the locals had carted off his pyramid for building materials in the relatively recent past.
I believe that’s what happened in Iraq.
For sure the Roooskies deadhead armies raided every Ukrainian liquor cabinet they came across.
Evidently the Ukrainians never heard of Godwin's Law.
That is all they are good for. Thievery. Stealing Ukraine's Black Sea oil and gas. And Ukraine's black soil farmlands. It is unbelievable what beautiful fields of sunflowers that Ukies grow there. That are ultimately pressed into sunflower seed cooking oil. I saw this stuff/Sun Oil in Europe.
“ For sure the Roooskies deadhead armies raided every Ukrainian liquor cabinet they came across.”
Show us on the doll where the mean ol Rooskies touched you!
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God damn the Biden regime and you, you godless SOB, to hell.
This is the Kerch villain you are looking for.
Only winners of a war get to loot anything from the losers.
I have wondered why Russia has not attacked Ukrainian transportation hubs, transmission towers, communications centers, etc. before. They certainly have the capability to have destroyed all of these, yet have not. Yet.
When military experts are planning a war, those important means for the enemy to communicate, travel, etc. are taken out with devastating air and missile barrages. But Russia did not. Why????
What’s in the Museums is probably all Russian stuff to start with.
- Crimean Bridge is back in operation - further repairs are required but road and rail traffic resumes;
- Western media notes the US is out of ammunition to send Ukraine and that US allies have even less;
- Nations like France have reached the limits of what they can send in terms of heavy weapons;
- Regional weather and subsequent mud is limiting the mobility of ground forces on both sides, giving the advantage to Russia which possess a larger air force, more drones, and long-range weapons indifferent to ground conditions;
- Ukrainian forces are losing ground in Bakhmut, indicating Ukrainian forces are already overextended - a situation that will only worsen in time;
- Russian forces are preserving their men and equipment and will soon be reinforced by an additional 300,000 troops;
So the Ukrainians looted something from Attila the Hun and are now complaining that the Russians supposedly looted it from them.
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