Comments - Yalta Conference - Gaia Community2024-03-29T15:51:23Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A347&xn_auth=no“Russia has already moved to…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2024-03-11:5313775:Comment:1327252024-03-11T11:15:49.413ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
“Russia has already moved to covert mobilisation and is preparing to announce open mobilisation in the near future,” said Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, in an interview this week with the Ukrainian news outlet New Times. “I’m quite curious: how will they explain this to their own people?”<br />
Andrew Roth THE OBSERVER for THE GUARDIAN<br />
Since the beginning of the millennium, when Vladimir Putin took power in Russia, authoritarian leaders have come to dominate global…
“Russia has already moved to covert mobilisation and is preparing to announce open mobilisation in the near future,” said Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, in an interview this week with the Ukrainian news outlet New Times. “I’m quite curious: how will they explain this to their own people?”<br />
Andrew Roth THE OBSERVER for THE GUARDIAN<br />
Since the beginning of the millennium, when Vladimir Putin took power in Russia, authoritarian leaders have come to dominate global politics. Self-styled strongmen have risen to power in Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh and Washington.<br />
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<a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/summary-of-the-ukraine-situatio-today" target="_blank">http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/summary-of-the-ukraine-situatio-today</a> Why did our Allies need to st…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2024-03-11:5313775:Comment:1325202024-03-11T11:07:49.934ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
Why did our Allies need to stain their hands with blood in Dresden and turn the civilians into ash? With the hindsight of 70 years, the motive of revenge seems to be secondary. In February 1945 it was already known that Dresden would be part of Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany. After the bombing of February 13 the Russians entered a city of burnt ruins and piles of corpses resembling, according to the memoirs of witnesses, fallen timber. So it seems the motive of frightening the…
Why did our Allies need to stain their hands with blood in Dresden and turn the civilians into ash? With the hindsight of 70 years, the motive of revenge seems to be secondary. In February 1945 it was already known that Dresden would be part of Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany. After the bombing of February 13 the Russians entered a city of burnt ruins and piles of corpses resembling, according to the memoirs of witnesses, fallen timber. So it seems the motive of frightening the Russians also played a role.<br />
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Just like Hiroshima, Dresden was supposed to serve as a demonstration to the Soviet Union of the power of the West. And in addition to power, a readiness to ignore all principles of humanity to achieve their aims. “Today it’s Dresden and Hiroshima, tomorrow it will be Gorky, Kuibyshev and Sverdlovsk – you understand, Mister Stalin?” Today we see this same cynicism manifested through the rocket attacks on cities of Eastern Ukraine.<br />
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Of course, everything was perfectly clear to the Soviet Union. Following the Great Patriotic War we had to not only rebuild destroyed cities and razed villages but also create a defensive shield. One of the most important lessons of the war was the commitment of our country and its people to humanism. The orders coming from the front-line commanders and supreme command were to not take revenge on the Germans. Not long before the bombing of Dresden our soldiers saved another ancient city from such a fate – the city of Krakow.<br />
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A very symbolic act was the saving of the collection of Dresden’s famous Grünes Gewölbe (Green Vault) museum by Soviet soldiers. The pictures were meticulously restored in the USSR and returned to Dresden after the city was rebuilt with the active participation of Soviet specialists and in part on our money.<br />
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People of the 21st century cannot forget about the ashes of Khatyn and tens of thousands of other Russian, Ukrainian and Belarussian villages, nor about Coventry, Dresden and Hiroshima. Their ashes continue to beat in our hearts. As long as humankind remembers, it will not allow new wars.<br />
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Source: The Russian Military Historical Society<br />
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