Posted on 10/20/2022 8:58:36 PM PDT by Cronos
The Moscow-installed authorities of the port city of Mariupol, which fell to Russian forces after a devastating siege earlier in the year, took down a monument to Ukrainian victims of Stalin's famine on Wednesday.
Kyiv has been calling the 1930s man-made hunger under Josef Stalin a "genocide," while Moscow has been downplaying it as an episode of famine all over the Soviet Union.
The state-run RIA Novosti news agency published a video of a truck uprooting the monument in Mariupol.
"We are not taking out a memorial, we are getting rid of a symbol of the political disinformation of the population, particularly of our youth," local youth organization spokeswoman Evgenya Krotova told RIA Novosti.
Local university professor Olga Shmatshkova said it was best not to "remind people over and over about the scariest (times)."
"Let's make our motherland cleaner and more beautiful, we will still keep the memories of our problems in our souls," she told RIA Novosti.
Pro-Russian separatist authorities in the Donetsk region said on Telegram that the structure had been removed.
"The stone will be recycled into construction material," the administration said on Telegram.
The monument was made out of two blocs of granite topped by stalks of wheat and barbed wire.
It was dedicated to victims of Soviet-era political repression, executions and mass deportations that Moscow minimizes.
"Holodomor" — Ukrainian for "death by starvation" — is the 1932-1933 famine regarded by Kyiv as a deliberate act of genocide by Stalin.
It left thousands dead, according to estimates of historians.
Moscow rejects Kyiv's narrative, placing the events in the broader context of famines that devastated regions of Central Asia and Russia.
The city of Mariupol was captured by Russian troops in May after several weeks of shelling that left thousands of dead and the city destroyed.
“The stone will be recycled into construction material,” the administration said on Telegram.”
The Taliban did stuff like this.
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Putin is a Communist. No surprises here.
Better hope the Russians never get to Kyiv cause removing all them neo-Nazi Bandera, Shukhevych, and other ‘monuments’ is really going to upset some folks in Ukraine and within FR.......
“A series of letters, from the #Polish and #Israeli embassies in #Ukraine protesting the #Zelensky governments decision to pass laws commemorating #Nazis. They were sent only 2 years ago.”
https://nitter.net/BowesChay/status/1582690527316623360#m
You’d think the bastards would be proud of their magnum opus.
The Russians have a nazi dictator Putin.
A nazi regime has industry subordinated to the state, as in Putin’s Russia.
It has a dictator with a cult of personality around him, as in Putin’s Russia with his 22 year reign.
It has wars of occupation with its neighbours. That’s Putin’s Russia.
You Russians live in a nazi country.
And you failed to get to Kyiv in February when the odds were in your favour, now you’d be lucky to keep Donetsk city
Yes, but some supposed conservatives idolize him.
Russian history books teach them that they liberated central Europe.
They don’t mention that they initially allied with Hitler.
They don’t mention their occupation of the Baltics, Poland, Romania, Hungary etc.
So Russians are shocked when they go to Bucharest and aren’t called liberators
“...declaring 2019 Stepan #Bandera year”
Nuff said.
You, get ZelenskyyIdiot and company in Kyiv to rectify their Constitution while they at it?
“....and to preserve the gene pool of the Ukrainian people....”
Straight from the Ukraine Constitution, Article 16.
“CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE”
https://rm.coe.int/constitution-of-ukraine/168071f58b
Denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine continues on....
That was announced by the Lviv regional council, not all of Ukraine, .
And Zelensky wasn’t even elected yet.
Tell your buds in the Kremlin that your Russian propaganda is getting more hysterically wrong
‘Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion attempts rebranding’
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/03/ykgh-j03.html
‘British Media ‘Whitewashing’ Ukrainian Neo-Nazis: UK Editor’
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/British-Media-Whitewashing-Ukrainian-Neo-Nazis-UK-Editor-20220530-0001.html
‘Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis
https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/NewsDetail/index/6/21533/Ukraines-Neo-Nazis?infinitescroll=1
‘Jon Stewart, DOD Honor AZOV BATTALION NAZI At Disney World’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoB_6c0cag
‘Adam Schiff meets with members of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion’
https://www.worldtribune.com/adam-schiff-meets-with-members-of-ukraines-neo-nazi-azov-battalion/
‘Zelensky Speech With Nazi AZOV BATTALION Prompts Greek Lawmakers To WALK OUT’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0tAWaNEhU8
‘Ukrainian neo-Nazis dehumanize and mock fallen Russian soldiers’
https://www.weeklyblitz.net/opinion/ukrainian-neo-nazis-dehumanize-and-mock-fallen-russian-soldiers/
Start at the 4:58 mark-
‘RT News - Sep 19 2022’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtB_r5yazsg
‘The ideology of the Banderists’
https://www.voltairenet.org/article217363.html
“Ukronazi ‘good terrorists’ – a who’s who (infographic)”
http://thesaker.is/ukronazi-good-terrorists-a-whos-who-infographic/
‘The Presence of Neo-Nazis in Ukraine’
https://www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/medea-benjamin-nicolas-js-davies-ukraine-war-russia-ukranian-neo-nazi-fascists-azov-battalion-89292/
‘Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict’
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30414955
‘How to Mainstream Neo-Nazis: A Lesson from Ukraine’s New Government’
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/10/21/how-to-mainstream-neo-nazis-a-lesson-from-ukraines-new-government/
‘Ukrainian Militia Behind Brutal Romany Attacks Getting State Funds’
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukrainian-militia-behind-brutal-romany-attacks-getting-state-funds/29290844.html
“Russia reacts to Azov neo-Nazi’s platform at prestigious US university”
https://www.rt.com/russia/564642-azov-delegation-stanford-university/
“A series of letters, from the #Polish and #Israeli embassies in #Ukraine protesting the #Zelensky governments decision to pass laws commemorating #Nazis. They were sent only 2 years ago.”
https://nitter.net/BowesChay/status/1582690527316623360#m
Yep. The Taliban, the BLM Marxists and Maoists, the former USSR, and Pootie Poot’s new USSR.
I fail to understand why those in the areas in question who spoke Russian and wanted to be united with Russia, just didn’t MOVE TO RUSSIA AND LEAVE THE TRUE UKRANIANS ALONE.
Both have somewhat of a gripe, and both should find a solution that does NOT KILL AND MAIM.
They, BOTH SIDES, have an opportunity to make things right.
And it is more the feckless United Nations problem than ours.
But they will NOT settle it without more bucks from us.
Estimates are between 7 and 10 Million dead.
A joint statement to the United Nations signed by 25 countries in 2003 declared that 7–10 million died. However, current scholarship estimates a range significantly lower, with 3.5 to 5 million victims.
-Wikipedia
Regards,
The pigs raped Ukraine twice.
We really believe your crap.
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