Vladimir Putin took part in a festive service in honor of Easter.
The service in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was conducted by Patriarch Kirill.
Video: @rt_russian
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WE KNOW THE TRUTH AND NOT AFRAID OF IT. DO AND ARE YOU?
April 23, 2022 by By Ambassador Oleg V. Stepanov
We at the Embassy of Russia in Canada respect and love to read The Hill Times. However, the other day, I came across the piece “Ukraine: the impact of the atrocities” by Gwynne Dyer published in April 11, 2022 edition. In the beginning, I was eager to write a commentary in response due to the outrageous nature of the article. But, having given it a thought, decided to bring to the attention of the readers and the editorial team a broader perspective.
As everyone knows, the Second World War was won mostly by the enormous sacrifice of the Soviet Union (hereinafter I would refer to it as Russia – the colloquial name used in the West). The story served by Mr. Dyer in his op-ed denigrating the Red Army is based on the false narrative invented on the terminal stage of the War in Europe by the Nazi Goebbels propaganda machine. And after the fall of Nazi Germany the story was re-launched with a doubled effort by the U.S. military intelligence and the CIA in coordination with the notorious Gehlen Organization (comprised of ‘rehabilitated’ Nazis, RHSA, Abwehr and SS officers) to confront Russia/Soviet Union.
Such fictitious stories became a part of the psychological information operations and propaganda policy aimed at dehumanizing and demonizing Russia and Russians in the unfolding Cold war.
My country lost to the WWII 27 million lives including about 15 million non-military toll – all civilian victims of the genocide unleashed by the German occupants supported by practically all of continental Europe that either joined the Nazis on the battlefields or economically sustained their fight. No other country in the world, with the exception of China, suffered on such a large scale during the war.
Not even did the Russian soldier manage to defeat Nazism. But having achieved the victory he stayed human and humane. He found inner strength to forgive the unforgivable crimes committed by Germany and other nations that had sided with it, to reconcile in a noble pursuit that no global wars were fought ever again. After the Victory, despite our country from Leningrad in the north to the Caucasus in the south was in ruins, the same Russian soldier – sometimes at the expense of the interests of his own people – was feeding and caring for the former enemy and helping to rebuild.
The Russian soldier is kind and will always lend a hand to the sincerely penitent foe. So is the story behind the memorial in Treptower Park in Berlin. The Soldier Liberator holding in his arm a little girl has real prototypes – sergeants Nikolay Masalov and Trifon Lukyanovich who both saved German kids during the Berlin operation in April 1945.
There are veterans of that war in my country and in the former allied nations, Canada among them, who are still alive and know this unvarnished truth. Ask them. But this article is also about broader picture.
Let me be clear. I am personally against sweeping generalizations, but here providing a snap picture of the historical perception within Russian society. We understand that on a philosophical level the denigration of Russia emanates not simply from the strategic need of propaganda and information warfare. It is deeply rooted in the farthest corner of the Western soul. Every time it alleges Russia is committing atrocities, the West attempts to conceal in a secret room its own sins and liberate itself from guilt for its dark past. By demonizing us the West is trying to escape the shame it feels looking at its own reflection in the mirror.
What is the ‘dark past’, you’ll ask? The total genocide of the indigenous peoples of what now is known as the United States. The disgraceful and bloody history of colonialism by the British Empire (of which Canada was a part) – as a result millions and millions of dead, enslaved, tortured, harassed, traumatized. The list of others is long and well documented.
As a matter of fact, there is the most vivid example that is given little thought in this country, Canada, at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century. The nation advertising itself as the beacon of democracy is still having trouble coping with the need to seek national reconciliation and bear responsibility for horrendous crimes of genocide and cultural extirpation against the First Nations.
We all support the modern effort by Canadian society to find inner peace. But everyone has to remember that while Canada was lecturing others on human rights and democracy in the second half of the 20th century the First Nations’ children in residential schools were subject to horrendous abuse and ‘cultural cleansing’ until 1996.
Russia and Russians won’t be hurt by the allegations in fake atrocities. We know those are lies. We also know that this article won’t change the views of those who on purpose or unwillingly in ignorance against the backdrop of the current historic moment are pouring on the Ukrainian propagandist mill to retrospectively reproduce the historical fakes.
However, our chief concern is that such narrative warfare is targeting Canadian audience in attempt to distort the real picture by intentionally falsifying history.
On the other hand, we also know that people of Canada whose grandfathers fought alongside my compatriots to liberate the world from Nazism are thoughtful and in terms of critical analysis can tell the truth from the lie. That is of high value especially on the eve of commemorating the upcoming anniversary of the Victory in the war in Europe celebrated on May 8th in Canada and on May 9th in Russia.
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I wrote this small article below and got several death threats by e-mail, as to my inability to see life in the new way….life as it should be, I am told…
So as we cheer for Nazism in the USA, I was proven correct at my new found thought…
Seriously people what is wrong with the USA…
Attendees of a pro-Ukraine rally in Manhattan broke out into chants of support for the neo-Nazi paramilitary faction known as the Azov Battalion, video circulating social media shows.
Source: WATCH: Pro-Ukraine Rally Attendees Cheer For Nazi Azov Battalion in NYC – [your]NEWS
or…
“Azov! Azov! Azov” attendees shout in Manhattan while waving Ukraine flags.
Source: Video: Pro-Ukraine Rally Attendees Cheer For Nazi Azov Battalion in NYC
I grew up with the saying, “A good Nazi is a dead Nazi!”
Now we chant for them in the USA….my how times have changed…
~~ Ra Ra Ra Nazi… ~~
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🇺🇦🇷🇺 OSCE staff transmitted the coordinates of objects on the territory of the LPR to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
This was told by a representative of the republican Ministry of State Security.
His operatives found documents with a list of objects “subject to fire damage”, indicating their exact coordinates.
Such information was collected by the head of the OSCE Severodonetsk team, Yaroslav Kurak, on behalf of the deputy head of the Lugansk group, Pilar Castro Moto.
Update:
The Prosecutor General’s Office of the DPR opened a case of espionage in connection with the transfer of data to Kiev of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission.
Said the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
▪️He reported the discovery of technical devices, including laptops, which were recorded using cameras The OSCE SMM used the data to correct the shelling of Donbass.
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That is from Margarita Simonian (RT): We are opening a project where we will post all these videos that we see here in the public domain: how the prisoners are released, how they are treated, how the other side treat – the whole information picture in which we live. We will translate them into 15 languages – we will start from 15 and increase to 35.
You go in, download the video in the language you need, and send it to your friends, acquaintances in Poland, Germany, Finland – wherever you want, in the language you need. And then they send it even further.
We want to ask our people to join this project of the people’s information militia.
And if a lot of people become interested in this, a lot of people take part in this, we can, all of us as a people, be very proud that we really are for some people in this West, which ended up “in the bunker at Azovstal” along with the White House we can change their minds and show them something.
Subscribe, repost, save video, distribute:We are opening a project where we will post all these videos that we see here in the public domain: how the prisoners are released, how they are treated, how the other side treats – the whole information picture in which we live. We will translate them into 15 languages – we will start from 15 and increase to 35.
You go in, download the video in the language you need, and send it to your friends, acquaintances in Poland, Germany, Finland – wherever you want, in the language you need. And then they send it even further.
We want to ask our people to join this project of the people’s information militia.
And if a lot of people become interested in this, a lot of people take part in this, we can, all of us as a people, be very proud that we really are for some people in this West, which ended up “in the bunker at Azovstal” along with the White House we can change their minds and show them something.
Subscribe, repost, save video, distribute:
Get the word out to the west…
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🇷🇺⚡Thousands and thousands of Easter cakes were baked at a mobile military bakery to be sent to the frontline for Easter…
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⚡️⚡️ US planning provocations in to accuse Russian forces of using WMDs in Ukraine, Russian MoD warns…
Get the word out…
The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation held an urgent briefing, detailing a provocation against the Russian Federation prepared by the USA and NATO with the accusation of using nuclear, biological and chemical weapons
💬 The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation possesses the information related to the preparation of provocations by the United States of America in order to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of using chemical, biological or tactical nuclear weapons.
There are three scenarios to be applied in order to accuse the Russian Federation.
👉 The first one is a ‘staged incident under a false flag’ that is the most probable.
👉 The second one refers to a ‘Maximally covert use of weapons of mass destruction in small volumes’ for neutralising the will power and the capacity to resist within the fulfilment of a particular operational task.
👉 The third and the least probable one is the ‘overt use of weapons of mass destruction at a combat area’.
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I have very bad news for Ukraine. It turns out that the land corridor to the Crimea, the per first goal of Russia 2nd phase, which were announced today in the Defense Ministry, is Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Melitopol, Kherson region…
Also, the second goal of the operation includes a corridor to Transnistria, i.e. Kherson region, Nikolaev and Odessa. Together with the cities…
Multiple states?
Just imagine if NATO had listened to Russia?
This would have never happened, instead NATO became pissy about Russian concerns…
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