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From : Sean Dennis
Date : Tue Mar 08 2022 08:56 pm

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     History repeats itself again and again
     Ward Dossche - 2:292/854

     From a prosperous, modern, well organized European-style democracy and
     economy; an enemy without scruples has turned Ukraine into a
     Moon-landscape reminiscent at how Berlin looked at the very end of
     WW2.

     War crimes have been committed, the proof is obvious but that doesn't
     make much impression on the rogue-state which Russia now is.

     In spring 2019 I went to visit Oradour-sur-Glane in France, near
     Limoges. On June 10 1944, 4 days after D-Day in Normandy, a unit of
     the German SS entered the village and murdered hundreds of men, women
     and children.

     The destroyed village has been preserved as a monument.

     I could not wrap my mind around it that these German SS soldiers also
     had fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers and pretty well were aware of
     the atrocity which they were committing without giving it a second
     thought. I urge everyone to try and go to Oradour at least once in
     their life ...

     78 years later soldiers are again uselessly killing innocent
     civilians because they were ordered to do so. Soldiers are good at
     obeying orders, that's what they are paid for. Switching off the
     brain. Follow the order and do not question.

     It is 2022 ... a million and a half Ukrainian refugees, mostly  women
     and children, the largest refugee crisis since WW2 the UN  calls it
     and Europe is opening its mind and heart and its bank-account for
     these people in need fleeing from ... from "what" exactly ... A
     regime which has lost all sense for normalcy intent on annihilating a
     peaceful well organized European-style democracy and economy ...

     The refugees will be safe and taken care of, but can you imagine  what
     the fate will be of the ones that remain behind in the homeland?

     Rape is a weapon for submission, it is recognized as a war-crime.  But
     Russia has already committed war crimes the past week, which they
     know are as good as unable to become prosecuted, and they will not
     stop at this one. And Ukrainian women have already been raped by
     Russian troops, Russian propaganda will call it ...  propaganda ...
     but Western human rights watchers still on-site paint  the actual
     story.

     Hundreds of Russian soldiers have died and their families are without
     news, mothers having lost a child and unable to mourn it or bury it.
     It's all kept out of the media. And please do not call it "a war" or
     you risk 15 years of imprisonment ... It seems that during the darkest
     days of hard-core Russian Communism people had more rights than in ...


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