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Russia Remembers

Dmitry Plotnikov:


"...By the start of WW1, the Russophile movement in Galicia was experiencing tough times. As a result of the “divide and rule” policy implemented by the Austrians, the movement suffered a split. The oldest and most respected organizations ended up in the hands of pro-Austrian leaders who advocated Ukrainian, not Rusyn, identity.

...People fell victim to the rage of the Austrian authorities over trifling matters – like possessing Russian literature, being a member of a Russian society, having a Russian education, or just sympathizing with Saint Petersburg. In some cases, people were arrested just for calling themselves Russians. Prisons were full of “enemies of the state” and “dangerous Moscow agents”, and the streets were lined with gallows.

“Those suspected of ‘Russophilia’ were hung on these trees in front of the windows. They would hang there for a day, then would be taken off and others would take their place… ” recounted one of the peasants in the Gorodetsky district.

Repressions against the intelligentsia were followed by those against the general public. Anyone who was thought to sympathize with Russia or Russian culture became a suspect. This included people who had once visited Russia, read Russian newspapers, or were just known as “Russophiles.”...

... On August 28, 1914, there were two thousand prisoners in Lviv alone. It was then that the Austrian authorities decided to establish concentration camps. In September 1914, the huge Thalerhof place of incarceration was set up in Styria. The first prisoners were delivered on September 4. According to the testimony of one of the survivors, priest Theodor Merena, prisoners were “people of different class and age”. They included clergy, lawyers, doctors, teachers, officials, peasants, writers, and students. The age of the prisoners ranged from infants to 100-year-olds.

...People slept on the ground in the open air despite the rain and frost. The latrines were uncovered and used by twenty people at a time. When the barracks were built, they were overcrowded, housing 500 people instead of the intended 200. The prisoners slept on straw beds which were rarely replaced. Naturally, epidemics were widespread. In just two months following November 1914, over three thousand prisoners died of typhus.

...To instill fear, prison authorities constructed poles throughout the camp and regularly hung “violators” on these poles. The violation could be a mere trifle, like catching someone smoking in the barrack at night...

The camp operated for nearly three years and was closed down in May 1917 on the order of Charles I of Austria.

...The exact number of victims in Thalerhof is still disputed. The official report by Field Marshal Schleer dated November 9, 1914, stated that 5,700 Russophiles were imprisoned there at the time. According to one of the survivors, in the autumn of the same year there were about 8,000 prisoners. Twenty to thirty thousand Russian Galicians and Bukovinians passed through Thalerhof in total. In the first year and a half alone, about 3,000 prisoners died. According to other sources, 3,800 people were executed in the first half of 1915. Overall, in the course of the First World War, the Austro-Hungarian authorities killed at least 60,000 Rusyns.

...In modern Ukraine, the Rusyn genocide isn’t publicly discussed. Thalerhof is not mentioned in any school textbooks on the history of the country. The idea that Russians once lived in Galicia – the proud center of “Ukrainian culture” – does not fit the nationalistic ideology of contemporary Ukraine. Most young people have never even heard of Thalerhof...."
https://web.archive.org/web/20230316022325/https://www.rt.com/russia/572970-gallows-and-executions-without-end/

Going Live at 14:00 MSK over on https://www.youtube.com/live/7VggtmKoxjE?feature=share

US Expects Offensive In May. US Attack On Russian Aircraft MEANS WAR. India WILL NOT Comply

Join me over on @ExposedUS as @JohnMarkDougan-BadVolf and I discuss how Sanctions have SAVED Russia! Particularly now, with the US Banking Crisis unfolding: https://www.youtube.com/live/7VggtmKoxjE?feature=share

US expects Kyiv to launch offensive by May: https://tinyurl.com/2drhtkf9
The United States estimated the losses of the Ukrainian army in the conflict in Ukraine at 100 thousand military: https://tinyurl.com/2j5wnfpb
Marochko announced the arrival of a large batch of NLAW anti-tank systems in the Artyomovsk region: https://tinyurl.com/2zq7rmxu
A Ukrainian sniper wounded a Russian border guard with a rifle: https://tinyurl.com/2mq7bbf6
The authorities of Zaporozhye announced the activation of Ukrainian troops: https://tinyurl.com/2zoq3yh9
Russia and Ukraine are on the verge of serious military events, and these events are not in favor of Kiev .: https://tinyurl.com/2of5qpob
Ambassador Antonov: a possible US attack on Russian aircraft would be a declaration of war: https://tinyurl.com/2prbz5ue
Bolton: Biden wants Russia to lose, but fears Ukraine will win: https://tinyurl.com/2hfqzsxq
The Council of Ministers of Mozambique introduced a visa-free regime for tourists from Russia from March 14: https://tinyurl.com/2qm3j3j6
Russian Ambassador Alipov denied reports of India's plans to meet oil price ceiling: https://tinyurl.com/2kz9t3kv

Check out my interview with Mira Terada co hosted by Lizzie Lane

https://youtu.be/NK4CfM_t_JA

Anna Chapman, Mike Jones and I after the RT documentary Q&A, enjoying a nice Spring Moscow night out!

A thank you letter received by the manufacturer of the cookies I delivered to the children of LPR.
https://youtu.be/zU_Gsx8LkYQ

As promised before, our big interview with Marianna Vyshemirskaya, a woman on the famous photo from Mariupol maternity hospital is out on Substack.

https://cttf.substack.com/p/not-my-fight-marianna-vyshemirskaya

I’ve recorded this clip during our conversation back in August, in Marianna’s hometown Makiivka, near Donetsk. I was moved by the amount of strength a woman and a new mother can have to tolerate hate and curses coming her way — just for happening to be “at a wrong time, at a wrong place”.

After AP photographers Mstislav Chernov and Yevgeny Maloletka filmed Marianna on the site of the bombed hospital, Russian officials claimed she “took part in a staged photoshoot”. After Marianna came out and told the entire story to Russian journalists, Ukrainian media called her a a traitor.

This story is uncomfortable for the mainstream media, because it helps people see how being blinded by propaganda, no matter in which country they are, turns them deaf to facts, logic — and simply inhumane. DO SHARE it on your social media to help more people see such stories.

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❗️🇪🇺Clare Daly, Member of the European Parliament, is indignant about armchair warmongering from the safety of Brussels, a shameful lack of empathy for people dealing with the gruelling realities of this war.

As MEPs chant "Glory to Ukraine," Ukraine is burning through a generation of men, never to be replaced. It is callous and insensitive to what is being lost. However difficult, however unpleasant it may be, dialogue and negotiations are urgently needed to stop the intolerable loss of lives.

EUROPEAN CREDIT RISK GAUGES JUMP HIGHER AS BANK CONCERNS LINGER.

#EU #crisis #news_in_one_line

I have deleted the post misidentifying Aiden Aslin. I checked with someone who met him in person who was seemingly mistaken in their confirmation. Please accept my apologies despite my best attempts at verification. Thank you to Graham Phillips for correcting the record and highlighting this error. 🙏

Putin To Meet Xi Jinping. Biden's INSANITY Has Caused Banking Crisis. Africa Welcomes Russia.