Posted on 10/20/2022 8:52:00 AM PDT by Czech_Occidentalist
The Estonian weekly Eesti Ekspress interviewed the heads and several employees of Estonia’s, Latvia’s, and Lithuania’s state security agencies. This is what they had to say regarding Russia. ...
Toots wasn’t surprised by the atrocities committed in Bucha. Nor were any other of the counterintelligence agents I interviewed in Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania. They’re aware of how Russians conducted themselves in the Baltics during the Second World War. Of how they conducted themselves before that. Of how they’ve always behaved. The West lacks such awareness.
„[The West is] fortunate,“ Toots remarks. „We’re a buffer between them and Russia. They’ve forgotten a lot and think Russia is just like them.“
It isn’t. ...
„If you want to know Russia, then don’t go to St. Petersburg or Moscow,“ says Toots. He once spent six months in Kronstadt, a stone’s throw from St. Petersburg but filled with an entirely different breed of people. There, no one removed their hats at the table or knew a single thing about etiquette. Everything was decaying and chair legs were on the verge of snapping off beneath you, but no one lifted a finger to fix anything, simply sighing „Ah…“ and giving a dismissive a wave of the hand. The atmosphere was infused with something intrinsically foreign to the West – Russian society is accustomed to suffering. An injustice that sends Parisians out onto the streets won’t make a single resident of Novosibirsk scratch the back of their necks. ...
„Look at what they did in the Second World War,“ Sinisalu says when we discuss the mass graves, rapes, and deportations in Ukraine. „It’s the exact same.“ Sinisalu’s maternal grandparents were deported to Siberia, where both perished. What’s happening in Ukraine today has been seen and endured before in Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius.
(Excerpt) Read more at ekspress.delfi.ee ...
The vote fraud denier weighs in...
You misspelled [NeverTrump] Dope...
In 2010 the Court of Appeals in Kiev handed down sentences against Stalin and six members of his inner circle in the SOVIET UNION for organizing the 1932-1933 Holomodor in Ukraine.
Sentence to Stalin, his comrades for organizing Holodomor takes effect in Ukraine
Joseph Stalin -Georgia
Vyacheslav Molotov -Russia
Lazar Kaganovich -Ukraine
Stanislav Kosior -Poland
Pavel Postyshev -Russia
Vlas Chubar -Ukraine
Mendel Khatayevich -Belarus
It should be quite clear to the unbiased observer that the guilty parties came from a variety of countries, and that there were as many Ukrainians involved as Russians.
No one denies the Holodomir, and there is great blame on the Soviet Union for sponsoring it. However the Soviet Union is gone and their evils are noted. Ukrainian socialists who implemented the Holodomir get a pass and are lionized still today!!
Clearly, putin is a killer and does not value human life
They don’t seem to be distancing themselves from the Soviet Union.
https://taskandpurpose.com/uploads/2022/03/09/tank-flag-1.jpg?auto=webp&width=1440&height=810
https://twitter.com/ralee85/status/1517790682206846976
Can you imagine German troops proudly flying Nazi flags? In my country Communist symbols are formally criminalized even though people aren’t usually prosecuted for showing them. The Russian military authorities must be OK with Communist symbols otherwise the Russian troops wouldn’t fly Soviet flags.
Spare me yours
“Yes, but the Soviets didn’t actually invent that... they just co-opted the Tsarist secret police apparatus and gave it even more power and authority.”
That’s true. The Okhrana were the Tsarist secret police.
“The Russian soldier was in an oblast of the Russian Federation, NeverTrump.”
How do you know which Russian in which video was the subject of the comment? The poster who first mentioned it just said, “Russian soldier in a trench.”
“It should be quite clear to the unbiased observer that the guilty parties came from a variety of countries, and that there were as many Ukrainians involved as Russians.”
But the collectivization plan, and the orders for it came from Moscow. Moscow (the seat of ultimate power in the USSR) was in Russia.
Millions of Ukrainians murdered by Stalin in his orchestrated terror famine. Bad blood goes back a long ways.
https://youtu.be/PsM3YoPiloE?t=1
No one denies the Holodomir...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4102269/posts
“There, no one removed their hats at the table or knew a single thing about etiquette.”
LOL. Did they retread the old Nazi propaganda from 80 years ago?
Have anyone been to the Baltic states? The pine savages talking about the lack of manners are laughable.
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