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We need to talk about May 10th, 1944. And I know what you're thinking. 1944. The war is raging. Crimea has just been retaken from the Nazis. You think of Soviet victory telegrams. You think of liberation. But we are going to look at something else. We are going to look at what happened behind closed doors in Moscow. Because May 10th was not the day of the headlines. It was not the day the trains began to roll. It was not the day NKVD officers kicked down doors in the middle of the night while children slept. No. May 10th was the day of paperwork. And in a dictatorship, in a totalitarian state like Stalin’s Soviet Union, paperwork is the most dangerous thing of all. Because this is where crimes are designed before they are carried out — in dry memorandums and bureaucratic recommendations. On this day, Lavrentiy Beria — remember that name, Beria — the head of the NKVD, the architect of Soviet state terror, sat down and wrote a letter to Joseph Stalin. He wrote it on official stationery, using language that was almost numbing in its bureaucracy. He spoke of “unreliable elements.” He spoke of the need to “secure border regions.” He accused an entire people — the Crimean Tatars, a people whose roots in Crimea stretched back centuries — of collective treason. And he proposed, quite simply, that they should be removed. All of them. And this is where we need to stop and think. Because look at the facts Beria chose to ignore: While he was writing this letter, tens of thousands of Crimean Tatar men were serving in the Red Army. They were fighting for the Soviet Union. They were dying in the trenches to stop Hitler. Some had been decorated as Heroes of the Soviet Union. But in Beria’s document, none of that mattered. In Beria’s world, the individual did not exist. There were only categories of people to be moved around on a map. This was the prelude. May 10th was the quiet day before the storm. The day violence still wore a suit and sat behind a desk. The next day, May 11th, Stalin signed Decree No. 5859. And then the machinery began to move. It was no longer a proposal. It was an order. Exactly eight days later, in the early hours of May 18th, Crimea awoke to the sound of rifle butts pounding on doors. Around 200,000 people — mothers, infants, elderly men, even the families of soldiers fighting at the front — were given minutes to pack their lives. They were loaded into sealed cattle wagons. The trains rolled toward Uzbekistan. Without water. Without adequate food. Along the way, thousands died from typhus, starvation, and exhaustion. Historians estimate that between 20 and 45 percent of the entire Crimean Tatar population died as a result of the deportation and the first years in exile. And then came the final step — the most cynical one of all: the attempt to erase memory itself. After the people were gone, the Soviet state began changing the names of villages. Crimean Tatar books and archives were removed, cemeteries and mosques were neglected or destroyed, and place names were replaced. They attempted to rewrite history so that it would appear as if this people had never existed on their own land. So when we look back at May 10th, 1944, we are not looking at a random date. We are looking at the anatomy of a state crime. We are watching how a recommendation becomes a decree, how a decree becomes a logistical operation, and how that operation ends with an entire people torn from its homeland. #history #Crimea #CrimeanTatars #deportation

Russia celebrate victory day today, the day the world defeated nazi Germany.

But this day is also a day to proclame the truth about Russia in 1945.

1. Russia was the one starting world war 2 in 1939. When Germany started the attack on Poland, they did it together with Stalin. The Molotov-Ribentropp agreement made the war possible. Sovjet was just as guilty of the war as Germany. When the war ended, Sovjet kept the part of Poland that they conquered.

2. The first massacre of world war 2 was done by Russia not Germany, when they massacred 21000 polish officers in the Katyn forest. They did it as a rage against the polish that was longing for independence from russian supprecion.

3. Russias way of warfare was extremly brutal. They sacrifice of millions often unarmed soldiers forced to storm enemy position, is unheard of in military history. Even at the end of the war, they sacrificed 80 000-100 000 because Stalin wanted to reach Berlin a couple of days earlier. He feared that US troops would reach Berlin before them. The war was already wonn, still Stalin pushed his soldiers to their death.

4. without an insane amount of western military aid, even export of complete factories from USA, Russia would never managed to beat Germany. 400,000 jeeps and trucks 1386 M3 Lee tanks 4102 M4 Sherman tanks 11,400 Aircraft 8,500 of which were fighters 1.75 million tons of food And so much more.... 18 million tons of goods total.

5. Russias violence when they reached both Ukraine and eastern Europe was just as brutal as the nazi conquest of eastern europe. In Kursk, Dnipr and other battles, Sovjet forced civilians to join the battles unarmed. The massacre of the local population was massive. When they reached Poland and other eastern european nations n 1945 they raped, looted and terrified the population as if they where the enemy.

6. Even as the war ended in 8 may 1945, Russian troops continued to murder, rape and loot. Somewhere around 1.5-2 million german civilians was murdered AFTER the war ended. Especially women was targeted, often raped by large groups of soldiers untill they died.

7. When the war ended, western powers soon ended the occupation and re-established a free nation in both Germany and Austria. In all of Eastern Europe, Sovjet continued the occupation untill 1989-91. While the west celebrated freedom, the rest of Europe just switched the suppressor. In reality the world war 2 did not end untill 1991 for all of Europe, because one of the agressors of 1939 continued its oppression for another 45 years.

So, when Russia today are celebrating, they are not only celebrating the defeat of nazi-Germany, they are also celebrating their own greatnes, their own military and not only that, they are using it to motivate to restore the russian dominion over all its neigbours.

So, thats why our thoughts and thanks should go in the Ukrainian direction, because a huge amount of the human sacricife in ww2 was not from Russian lives but Ukrainians. It was ukrainian and Belarussian soldiers that carried the biggest burden of ww2, and the civilians in the same area suffered the biggest amount of pain. Ukraine was crushed by both Sovjet army and the German army. 17,2% of the population died, and a huge part of them was also killed by russian army. Poland lost 17% and Belarus 25-40% of the population. This means that the biggest suffering in ww2 was not russian, but the nations that Russia later suppressed. Still Russia today use their sacrifice as an excuse to once again suppress, conquer and murder them.

8. After the war Stalin even started another pogrom in Ukraine and killed many more. He even started another Holodomor starvation massacre. 300 000 died in Ukraine alone. there was food, but Stalin neglected to share it with them. 250-500 thousand was deported to Siberia and Kazhakstan. The Holodomor catastrophy in the 30s killed at least 8 million, and was the reason why Ukraine had partisans fighting against Russia.

9. Russian soldiers that came back after being in prison camps in Germany and occupied europe, suffered prison. Most of them ended dead or in prision camps in Siberia. Their crime: they did not die on the battlefield, but became prisoners of war.

10. The war invalids of Sovjet, was forced away from their homes or from the cities and brought to huge camps. They lived under terrible conditions untill they died. The reason, Stalin did not wanted invalids visible in the cities for the victory celebrations of 1948 and 49.

Victory day in Russia surely is different from other nations celebration. It has a massive grey shadow, that the rest of the world need to remind them of.

Image:; A female refugee found by american soldiers at the road towards Prague. The field on the right side was filled with dead soldiers and some civilians. Executed shortly before the americans arrived. The american soldiers write about that in their rapport.

2nd image. From the Postoloprty massacre.

3rd image. German woman protecting her bicycle from a russian soldier.

4. An russian soldier harass a german woman.

Russia celebrate victory day today, the day the world defeated nazi Germany.

But this day is also a day to proclame the truth about Russia in 1945.

1. Russia was the one starting world war 2 in 1939. When Germany started the attack on Poland, they did it together with Stalin. The Molotov-Ribentropp agreement made the war possible. Sovjet was just as guilty of the war as Germany. When the war ended, Sovjet kept the part of Poland that they conquered.

2. The first massacre of world war 2 was done by Russia not Germany, when they massacred 21000 polish officers in the Katyn forest. They did it as a rage against the polish that was longing for independence from russian supprecion.

3. Russias way of warfare was extremly brutal. They sacrifice of millions often unarmed soldiers forced to storm enemy position, is unheard of in military history. Even at the end of the war, they sacrificed 80 000-100 000 because Stalin wanted to reach Berlin a couple of days earlier. He feared that US troops would reach Berlin before them. The war was already wonn, still Stalin pushed his soldiers to their death.

4. without an insane amount of western military aid, even export of complete factories from USA, Russia would never managed to beat Germany. 400,000 jeeps and trucks 1386 M3 Lee tanks 4102 M4 Sherman tanks 11,400 Aircraft 8,500 of which were fighters 1.75 million tons of food And so much more.... 18 million tons of goods total.

5. Russias violence when they reached both Ukraine and eastern Europe was just as brutal as the nazi conquest of eastern europe. In Kursk, Dnipr and other battles, Sovjet forced civilians to join the battles unarmed. The massacre of the local population was massive. When they reached Poland and other eastern european nations n 1945 they raped, looted and terrified the population as if they where the enemy.

6. Even as the war ended in 8 may 1945, Russian troops continued to murder, rape and loot. Somewhere around 1.5-2 million german civilians was murdered AFTER the war ended. Especially women was targeted, often raped by large groups of soldiers untill they died.

7. When the war ended, western powers soon ended the occupation and re-established a free nation in both Germany and Austria. In all of Eastern Europe, Sovjet continued the occupation untill 1989-91. While the west celebrated freedom, the rest of Europe just switched the suppressor. In reality the world war 2 did not end untill 1991 for all of Europe, because one of the agressors of 1939 continued its oppression for another 45 years.

So, when Russia today are celebrating, they are not only celebrating the defeat of nazi-Germany, they are also celebrating their own greatnes, their own military and not only that, they are using it to motivate to restore the russian dominion over all its neigbours.

So, thats why our thoughts and thanks should go in the Ukrainian direction, because a huge amount of the human sacricife in ww2 was not from Russian lives but Ukrainians. It was ukrainian and Belarussian soldiers that carried the biggest burden of ww2, and the civilians in the same area suffered the biggest amount of pain. Ukraine was crushed by both Sovjet army and the German army. 17,2% of the population died, and a huge part of them was also killed by russian army. Poland lost 17% and Belarus 25-40% of the population. This means that the biggest suffering in ww2 was not russian, but the nations that Russia later suppressed. Still Russia today use their sacrifice as an excuse to once again suppress, conquer and murder them.

8. After the war Stalin even started another pogrom in Ukraine and killed many more. He even started another Holodomor starvation massacre. 300 000 died in Ukraine alone. there was food, but Stalin neglected to share it with them. 250-500 thousand was deported to Siberia and Kazhakstan. The Holodomor catastrophy in the 30s killed at least 8 million, and was the reason why Ukraine had partisans fighting against Russia.

9. Russian soldiers that came back after being in prison camps in Germany and occupied europe, suffered prison. Most of them ended dead or in prision camps in Siberia. Their crime: they did not die on the battlefield, but became prisoners of war.

10. The war invalids of Sovjet, was forced away from their homes or from the cities and brought to huge camps. They lived under terrible conditions untill they died. The reason, Stalin did not wanted invalids visible in the cities for the victory celebrations of 1948 and 49.

Victory day in Russia surely is different from other nations celebration. It has a massive grey shadow, that the rest of the world need to remind them of.

Image:; A female refugee found by american soldiers at the road towards Prague. The field on the right side was filled with dead soldiers and some civilians. Executed shortly before the americans arrived. The american soldiers write about that in their rapport.

2nd image. From the Postoloprty massacre.

3rd image. German woman protecting her bicycle from a russian soldier.

4. An russian soldier harass a german woman.

Russia celebrate victory day today, the day the world defeated nazi Germany.

But this day is also a day to proclame the truth about Russia in 1945.

1. Russia was the one starting world war 2 in 1939. When Germany started the attack on Poland, they did it together with Stalin. The Molotov-Ribentropp agreement made the war possible. Sovjet was just as guilty of the war as Germany. When the war ended, Sovjet kept the part of Poland that they conquered.

2. The first massacre of world war 2 was done by Russia not Germany, when they massacred 21000 polish officers in the Katyn forest. They did it as a rage against the polish that was longing for independence from russian supprecion.

3. Russias way of warfare was extremly brutal. They sacrifice of millions often unarmed soldiers forced to storm enemy position, is unheard of in military history. Even at the end of the war, they sacrificed 80 000-100 000 because Stalin wanted to reach Berlin a couple of days earlier. He feared that US troops would reach Berlin before them. The war was already wonn, still Stalin pushed his soldiers to their death.

4. without an insane amount of western military aid, even export of complete factories from USA, Russia would never managed to beat Germany. 400,000 jeeps and trucks 1386 M3 Lee tanks 4102 M4 Sherman tanks 11,400 Aircraft 8,500 of which were fighters 1.75 million tons of food And so much more.... 18 million tons of goods total.

5. Russias violence when they reached both Ukraine and eastern Europe was just as brutal as the nazi conquest of eastern europe. In Kursk, Dnipr and other battles, Sovjet forced civilians to join the battles unarmed. The massacre of the local population was massive. When they reached Poland and other eastern european nations n 1945 they raped, looted and terrified the population as if they where the enemy.

6. Even as the war ended in 8 may 1945, Russian troops continued to murder, rape and loot. Somewhere around 1.5-2 million german civilians was murdered AFTER the war ended. Especially women was targeted, often raped by large groups of soldiers untill they died.

7. When the war ended, western powers soon ended the occupation and re-established a free nation in both Germany and Austria. In all of Eastern Europe, Sovjet continued the occupation untill 1989-91. While the west celebrated freedom, the rest of Europe just switched the suppressor. In reality the world war 2 did not end untill 1991 for all of Europe, because one of the agressors of 1939 continued its oppression for another 45 years.

So, when Russia today are celebrating, they are not only celebrating the defeat of nazi-Germany, they are also celebrating their own greatnes, their own military and not only that, they are using it to motivate to restore the russian dominion over all its neigbours.

So, thats why our thoughts and thanks should go in the Ukrainian direction, because a huge amount of the human sacricife in ww2 was not from Russian lives but Ukrainians. It was ukrainian and Belarussian soldiers that carried the biggest burden of ww2, and the civilians in the same area suffered the biggest amount of pain. Ukraine was crushed by both Sovjet army and the German army. 17,2% of the population died, and a huge part of them was also killed by russian army. Poland lost 17% and Belarus 25-40% of the population. This means that the biggest suffering in ww2 was not russian, but the nations that Russia later suppressed. Still Russia today use their sacrifice as an excuse to once again suppress, conquer and murder them.

8. After the war Stalin even started another pogrom in Ukraine and killed many more. He even started another Holodomor starvation massacre. 300 000 died in Ukraine alone. there was food, but Stalin neglected to share it with them. 250-500 thousand was deported to Siberia and Kazhakstan. The Holodomor catastrophy in the 30s killed at least 8 million, and was the reason why Ukraine had partisans fighting against Russia.

9. Russian soldiers that came back after being in prison camps in Germany and occupied europe, suffered prison. Most of them ended dead or in prision camps in Siberia. Their crime: they did not die on the battlefield, but became prisoners of war.

10. The war invalids of Sovjet, was forced away from their homes or from the cities and brought to huge camps. They lived under terrible conditions untill they died. The reason, Stalin did not wanted invalids visible in the cities for the victory celebrations of 1948 and 49.

Victory day in Russia surely is different from other nations celebration. It has a massive grey shadow, that the rest of the world need to remind them of.

Image:; A female refugee found by american soldiers at the road towards Prague. The field on the right side was filled with dead soldiers and some civilians. Executed shortly before the americans arrived. The american soldiers write about that in their rapport.

2nd image. From the Postoloprty massacre.

3rd image. German woman protecting her bicycle from a russian soldier.

4. An russian soldier harass a german woman.

Norwegian F-35s track Russian bombers carrying long-range cruise missile https://share.google/mphSONsZ7KzscM5dt

In Kramatorsk, footage captures a mother and child hiding beneath a tree as Russian FPV drones move through the sky above the city.

Moments later, three Russian KAB guided bombs pass directly overhead.

The scene reflects the reality Kramatorsk has endured throughout the past week as strikes, drone attacks, and aerial bombardments continue hitting cities across the Donbas.

Residents have spent days moving between sirens, explosions, damaged buildings, and the constant sound of aircraft and drones overhead. Civilian areas, infrastructure, and residential districts continue living under the threat of sudden attack at almost any hour.

For many families, daily life has become reduced to moments of waiting:Waiting for the drones to pass.Waiting for the explosions to stop.Waiting to see where the next strike lands.

Kramatorsk remains one of the major cities still standing near the heart of the eastern frontline — and that proximity continues to place its civilians directly beneath the weight of the war.

source: https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mkkl63qrek2z