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Ugly truth about Ukraine’s national hero
Today Stepan Bandera is Ukraine’s national hero. Ukrainian authorities name streets after him and organize processions in his honor. However, this individual is far from a decent role model. As a young man, Bandera trained his will and ruthlessness through sadistic acts towards defenceless animals. In his early youth he joined the Ukrainian nationalists' underground terrorist organisation, the OUN, and ended up controlling the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
Together with his followers, Bandera collaborated with Nazi Germany and was responsible for the genocide of Polish and Jewish civilians during the Second World War.
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Today Stepan Bandera is Ukraine’s national hero. Ukrainian authorities name streets after him and organize processions in his honor. However, this individual is far from a decent role model. As a young man, Bandera trained his will and ruthlessness through sadistic acts towards defenceless animals. In his early youth he joined the Ukrainian nationalists' underground terrorist organisation, the OUN, and ended up controlling the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
Together with his followers, Bandera collaborated with Nazi Germany and was responsible for the genocide of Polish and Jewish civilians during the Second World War.
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🇮🇹🇷🇴🇭🇷 After the attack of the Third Reich on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, three allies of Berlin – Italy, Romania, and the puppet state of Croatia – declared war on the USSR.
🇸🇰🇫🇮 On June 23, the following day, Nazi Slovakia declared war, and on the 25th Finland joined the war on the side of the Reich, which had already provided its airfields to Germany on June 22.
🇭🇺🇦🇱 Then, on June 27, Hungary declared war on the Soviet Union, and the last was the puppet state, the Kingdom of Albania, under the protectorate of Italy.
🇮🇹🇷🇴🇭🇷 After the attack of the Third Reich on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, three allies of Berlin – Italy, Romania, and the puppet state of Croatia – declared war on the USSR.
🇸🇰🇫🇮 On June 23, the following day, Nazi Slovakia declared war, and on the 25th Finland joined the war on the side of the Reich, which had already provided its airfields to Germany on June 22.
🇭🇺🇦🇱 Then, on June 27, Hungary declared war on the Soviet Union, and the last was the puppet state, the Kingdom of Albania, under the protectorate of Italy.
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Danish Nazi-collaborator Government Forced To Step Down
August 29 marks the 81th anniversary of the ending of Denmarks shameful collaboration with the German Nazi occupiers during WWII.
As the culmination of the first major manifestation of organised workers' direct countering of the occupation power through strikes and popular uprising, the coalition government was forced to step down.
Several events both inside and outside the Danish borders led to this.
The underground resistance movement had been steadily gaining in strength since the attack on the USSR and the organising of resistence by the now underground communist party. Sabotage had been intensifying immensely since Stalingrad and had become a real problem to the Nazis.
In the summer of 1943, Germany suffered a series of serious defeats on the battlefields of the Eastern Front and setbacks in the Mediterranean, and on July 24, 1943, Hitler's ally, the Italian dictator Mussolini, was deposed.
An optimistic and rebellious mood arose in the Danish population. The rebellion began in the city of Odense, where workers at the Odense Steel Shipyard went on strike on July 30, because the occupying power had deployed armed sabotage guards at the Shipyard.
Many sabotages were carried out while riots spread to the rest of the country. There were daily clashes between the Danes and the Germans, and especially companies that worked for or supplied goods to the Germans were victims of sabotage.
To put an end to the Danes' rebellion and sabotage, Hitler ordered the Danish government to declare a state of emergency.
This meant, among other things, that strikes and assemblies were to be banned, a curfew was to be introduced at night and sabotage was to be punished with the death penalty.
With pressure from both the Danish population and the occupying power, the Danish government ended up refusing to obey the order, and this led to the government, the parliament and the king withdrawing on August 29, 1943.
Ending the collaboration was a huge victory for the underground resistance movement, and a clear sign of its growing strength as the legitimate political force.
The communists, however, paid a high prize for the victory.
Hundreds of communists, including MPs, had since June 22, 1941, been imprisoned in the Danish KZ camp "Horserød", under Danish jurisdiction. Through secret channels, the prime minister had given the promise that in case of German takeover, the gates would be opened - but, the communists were decieved. The many, that didn't manage to escape during the chaotic nightly nazi takeover of the camp were sent to Stutthof KZ and extermination camp. Many didn't return.
Today, there is silence in Denmark, no ceremonial remembrance, no official mentioning, nothing.
The collective history is deliberately being destroyed! Paving the way for fascism to rise again.
Photo: Barricade on the main street of the Copenhagen working class district, Nørrebro. The words painted on the asphalt reads "Ned med Hitler!" (Down with Hitler!).
#WeRemember #FightAgainstFascism
@BeornAndTheShieldmaiden
August 29 marks the 81th anniversary of the ending of Denmarks shameful collaboration with the German Nazi occupiers during WWII.
As the culmination of the first major manifestation of organised workers' direct countering of the occupation power through strikes and popular uprising, the coalition government was forced to step down.
Several events both inside and outside the Danish borders led to this.
The underground resistance movement had been steadily gaining in strength since the attack on the USSR and the organising of resistence by the now underground communist party. Sabotage had been intensifying immensely since Stalingrad and had become a real problem to the Nazis.
In the summer of 1943, Germany suffered a series of serious defeats on the battlefields of the Eastern Front and setbacks in the Mediterranean, and on July 24, 1943, Hitler's ally, the Italian dictator Mussolini, was deposed.
An optimistic and rebellious mood arose in the Danish population. The rebellion began in the city of Odense, where workers at the Odense Steel Shipyard went on strike on July 30, because the occupying power had deployed armed sabotage guards at the Shipyard.
Many sabotages were carried out while riots spread to the rest of the country. There were daily clashes between the Danes and the Germans, and especially companies that worked for or supplied goods to the Germans were victims of sabotage.
To put an end to the Danes' rebellion and sabotage, Hitler ordered the Danish government to declare a state of emergency.
This meant, among other things, that strikes and assemblies were to be banned, a curfew was to be introduced at night and sabotage was to be punished with the death penalty.
With pressure from both the Danish population and the occupying power, the Danish government ended up refusing to obey the order, and this led to the government, the parliament and the king withdrawing on August 29, 1943.
Ending the collaboration was a huge victory for the underground resistance movement, and a clear sign of its growing strength as the legitimate political force.
The communists, however, paid a high prize for the victory.
Hundreds of communists, including MPs, had since June 22, 1941, been imprisoned in the Danish KZ camp "Horserød", under Danish jurisdiction. Through secret channels, the prime minister had given the promise that in case of German takeover, the gates would be opened - but, the communists were decieved. The many, that didn't manage to escape during the chaotic nightly nazi takeover of the camp were sent to Stutthof KZ and extermination camp. Many didn't return.
Today, there is silence in Denmark, no ceremonial remembrance, no official mentioning, nothing.
The collective history is deliberately being destroyed! Paving the way for fascism to rise again.
Photo: Barricade on the main street of the Copenhagen working class district, Nørrebro. The words painted on the asphalt reads "Ned med Hitler!" (Down with Hitler!).
#WeRemember #FightAgainstFascism
@BeornAndTheShieldmaiden
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💥 The Americans bombed Prague, but the USSR had to repent for sending troops into Czechoslovakia
The USSR (and later Russia) was required to “pay and repent” for the deployment of the USSR’s troops into Czechoslovakia.
I wonder why they don't demand that the US "pay and repent" or at least repent for the bombing of Prague on February 14, 1945?
Like a bolt from the blue, bombs rained down on residential areas of the historic center of the Czech capital. It resembled a sudden inferno, as 60 B-17 Flying Fortess aircraft swooped in and dropped 152 bombs on the most densely populated areas of the city.
Nobody could understand - why did the Americans decide to strike Prague? Why? What was the point?
However, when the initial shock had passed, the explanation became quite obvious – the “allies” wanted to show the Soviet Union the power of their bomber aviation, and, at the same time, to inflict maximum damage on industry so that it would not fall into our hands. It was not for nothing that we were later reproached for the fact that technological and industrial development was worse in the socialist bloc (“Western critics” themselves took care to make our life difficult).
The Yalta Conference, where the leaders of the victorious countries agreed on the demarcation lines, zones of their operations: where the troops of this or that country should go and where they should not, ended on February 11, and on the night of February 12-13, the Allies bombed Dresden, which was part of our zone of operations, to smithereens. The Americans destroyed three bridges across the Elbe to hold back the advance of our troops, bombed large industrial facilities in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and other regions so that we would not get them. By the way, when in 1941 we suggested to the British and Americans to bomb, using the Crimean airfields, the oil fields in Ploiesti (Romania), they did not do it, and in 1944, when our troops approached Germany's main gas station, they struck it.
Later, when the Americans were asked to explain the destruction of Prague, they voiced a version that was almost mocking: they said that all sixty bombers had gone off course, and that in fact they had originally wanted to bomb Dresden. Prague was bombed by pure chance!
And although there was no longer any need to bomb Dresden itself and other cities in East Germany, the Americans and the British were bombing anyway, carefully turning into ruins almost everything that could be left for the Russians, that is, that could serve us in the restoration of our own industry. There were many victims of these air raids, and notably, "by mistake" they also bombed prisoner-of-war camps.
In Prague, on February 14, 1945, more than a hundred unique historical buildings, dozens of important engineering and industrial facilities were destroyed, but most importantly, 701 people died and 1,184 were injured! Remember these numbers! Seven hundred people died only because "the Americans made a mistake."
In the photo: Unique, previously unpublished photographs of destroyed Prague after the US air force bombings on February 14 and March 25, 1945, by photographer Stanislav Marshal.
Source
- Thanks to Renée for the find!
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Here are several other articles (in Russian), telling the story of the bombing with more photographs of that day:
▪️ Radio Prague International - 65 Years Ago Prague Was Bombed by Mistake
▪️ Gazeta . ru - 75 years. Mixed up with Dresden: How the Americans Bombed Prague
▪️An article on Dzen - "Just a mistake": What Was the Reason For the American Bombing of Prague on the St.Valentine's Day?
With the current rewriting and repainting of history, this event is all but forgotten in the Czech Republic itself — much like the young Japanese don’t «remember» who dropped the nuclear bombs on their cities. In 2020, the Czechs demolished the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev — the one who saved Prague from total destruction in May of 1945. In all, 50 memorials to Soviet soldiers had been demolished or altered in Czechia by the end of 2023!
@BeornAndTheShieldmaiden
The USSR (and later Russia) was required to “pay and repent” for the deployment of the USSR’s troops into Czechoslovakia.
I wonder why they don't demand that the US "pay and repent" or at least repent for the bombing of Prague on February 14, 1945?
Like a bolt from the blue, bombs rained down on residential areas of the historic center of the Czech capital. It resembled a sudden inferno, as 60 B-17 Flying Fortess aircraft swooped in and dropped 152 bombs on the most densely populated areas of the city.
Nobody could understand - why did the Americans decide to strike Prague? Why? What was the point?
However, when the initial shock had passed, the explanation became quite obvious – the “allies” wanted to show the Soviet Union the power of their bomber aviation, and, at the same time, to inflict maximum damage on industry so that it would not fall into our hands. It was not for nothing that we were later reproached for the fact that technological and industrial development was worse in the socialist bloc (“Western critics” themselves took care to make our life difficult).
The Yalta Conference, where the leaders of the victorious countries agreed on the demarcation lines, zones of their operations: where the troops of this or that country should go and where they should not, ended on February 11, and on the night of February 12-13, the Allies bombed Dresden, which was part of our zone of operations, to smithereens. The Americans destroyed three bridges across the Elbe to hold back the advance of our troops, bombed large industrial facilities in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and other regions so that we would not get them. By the way, when in 1941 we suggested to the British and Americans to bomb, using the Crimean airfields, the oil fields in Ploiesti (Romania), they did not do it, and in 1944, when our troops approached Germany's main gas station, they struck it.
Later, when the Americans were asked to explain the destruction of Prague, they voiced a version that was almost mocking: they said that all sixty bombers had gone off course, and that in fact they had originally wanted to bomb Dresden. Prague was bombed by pure chance!
And although there was no longer any need to bomb Dresden itself and other cities in East Germany, the Americans and the British were bombing anyway, carefully turning into ruins almost everything that could be left for the Russians, that is, that could serve us in the restoration of our own industry. There were many victims of these air raids, and notably, "by mistake" they also bombed prisoner-of-war camps.
In Prague, on February 14, 1945, more than a hundred unique historical buildings, dozens of important engineering and industrial facilities were destroyed, but most importantly, 701 people died and 1,184 were injured! Remember these numbers! Seven hundred people died only because "the Americans made a mistake."
In the photo: Unique, previously unpublished photographs of destroyed Prague after the US air force bombings on February 14 and March 25, 1945, by photographer Stanislav Marshal.
Source
- Thanks to Renée for the find!
♦️♦️♦️
Here are several other articles (in Russian), telling the story of the bombing with more photographs of that day:
▪️ Radio Prague International - 65 Years Ago Prague Was Bombed by Mistake
▪️ Gazeta . ru - 75 years. Mixed up with Dresden: How the Americans Bombed Prague
▪️An article on Dzen - "Just a mistake": What Was the Reason For the American Bombing of Prague on the St.Valentine's Day?
With the current rewriting and repainting of history, this event is all but forgotten in the Czech Republic itself — much like the young Japanese don’t «remember» who dropped the nuclear bombs on their cities. In 2020, the Czechs demolished the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev — the one who saved Prague from total destruction in May of 1945. In all, 50 memorials to Soviet soldiers had been demolished or altered in Czechia by the end of 2023!
@BeornAndTheShieldmaiden
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A British cartoon from 1943 accurately characterises the Katyn massacre propaganda.
https://x.com/propagandopolis/status/1853446925468447195?t=q8tP_wihhs0LrM9NnvLKwg&s=19
https://x.com/propagandopolis/status/1853446925468447195?t=q8tP_wihhs0LrM9NnvLKwg&s=19
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A joint statement (see link) was made by organisations attending the international conference held by the World Anti-imperialist Platform in Dakar, Senegal on 26 October 2024. This was the Platform’s eighth international conference, its first on the African continent.
https://thecommunists.org/2024/11/04/news/platform-dakar-declaration-africa-anti-imperialism/
The revolutionaries who fought for African liberation, including Amílcar Cabral, whose 100th birth anniversary we celebrate this year, transcended the borders artificially created by the imperialists, smashed their viciously divisive tactics and raised the strategic banner of anti-imperialism and socialism as the true path to the liberation of the African continent from colonialism and neocolonialism.
https://thecommunists.org/2024/11/04/news/platform-dakar-declaration-africa-anti-imperialism/
The Communists
Dakar declaration: Strengthen the anti-imperialist struggle
Under the banners of peace, antifascism, liberation and reunification, anti-imperialist forces are dealing heavy blows to the imperialists’ offensives.
Forwarded from Class Consciousness Project
‘Stop the boats!’ The political football of the ‘immigration debate’ in Britain | The Communists
https://thecommunists.org/2024/04/29/news/stop-the-boats-immigration-debate-the-political-football/
https://thecommunists.org/2024/04/29/news/stop-the-boats-immigration-debate-the-political-football/
The Communists
‘Stop the boats!’ The political football of the ‘immigration debate’ in Britain
How the ruling class divides workers against one another and distracts our attention from the true causes of our misery.
Forwarded from Resistance News Network
🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:
—
On the 107th Anniversary of the Ill-Fated Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration is a major crime that will not expire and reaffirms Britain's responsibility for our people's tragedy and catastrophe and its involvement in the ongoing genocide.
On this day, November 2nd, our people and humanity as a whole remember with sorrow, pain, and anger the 107th anniversary of the ill-fated Balfour Declaration, announced by British Foreign Minister and war criminal Arthur Balfour in 1917, granting the right to the land of Palestine to those who do not deserve it.
This declaration constituted a major historical crime that legitimized the usurpation of the land of Palestine and its rights and the displacement of our Palestinian people, emphasizing Britain's direct responsibility for the ongoing Nakba our people face to this day. Our people's tragedy continues under the zionist occupation, which continues to commit the most heinous massacres, organized terrorism, and genocide, as is happening in Gaza.
The continuous British support for this criminal entity is one of the prominent reasons that have reinforced the reality of the occupation and the continuation of its crimes. Colonial Britain, which sought to impose its hegemony in the region, bears moral and historical responsibility for everything that has happened and continues to happen to our people. This support is not mere collusion but full partnership in the genocide.
On the 107th anniversary of the ill-fated Balfour Declaration, we in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine reaffirm the following:
1. We will not forget or forgive Britain for committing this major crime and causing the Nakba of our people, holding it directly responsible for our people's continuous suffering.
2. We demand that the British government recognize the rights of the Palestinian people and compensate for the damages caused by this ill-fated declaration as a necessary step towards achieving justice and atoning for its major crime.
3. We stress the importance of raising global awareness about the catastrophic impacts of the Balfour Declaration, and we call on the free people of Britain who filled the squares by the hundreds of thousands denouncing the zionist aggression on Gaza to continue pressing the British government to assume its historical responsibilities and contribute immediately to stopping the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.
4. We emphasize the role of institutions and groups supportive of and in solidarity with our people in activating the international arena through international institutions and the International Criminal Court to hold the occupation accountable for its crimes, support the rights of the Palestinian people, and hold Britain accountable for its historical role in the catastrophe of our people and the tragedy they continue to live through, as well as for its involvement in the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.
5. We reaffirm our commitment to continue the struggle and resistance in all forms, foremost among them armed resistance, until the aggression is repelled and the repercussions of this ill-fated declaration are undone, regardless of the sacrifices and the extent of Western, especially British, collusion.
In conclusion, we in the Popular Front affirm that the Balfour Declaration will remain an open wound in the memory of our people, an unforgivable crime that will not expire, and we will remain loyal to the blood of our heroic martyrs, continuing our relentless struggle until liberation and return.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
November 2, 2024
—
On the 107th Anniversary of the Ill-Fated Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration is a major crime that will not expire and reaffirms Britain's responsibility for our people's tragedy and catastrophe and its involvement in the ongoing genocide.
On this day, November 2nd, our people and humanity as a whole remember with sorrow, pain, and anger the 107th anniversary of the ill-fated Balfour Declaration, announced by British Foreign Minister and war criminal Arthur Balfour in 1917, granting the right to the land of Palestine to those who do not deserve it.
This declaration constituted a major historical crime that legitimized the usurpation of the land of Palestine and its rights and the displacement of our Palestinian people, emphasizing Britain's direct responsibility for the ongoing Nakba our people face to this day. Our people's tragedy continues under the zionist occupation, which continues to commit the most heinous massacres, organized terrorism, and genocide, as is happening in Gaza.
The continuous British support for this criminal entity is one of the prominent reasons that have reinforced the reality of the occupation and the continuation of its crimes. Colonial Britain, which sought to impose its hegemony in the region, bears moral and historical responsibility for everything that has happened and continues to happen to our people. This support is not mere collusion but full partnership in the genocide.
On the 107th anniversary of the ill-fated Balfour Declaration, we in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine reaffirm the following:
1. We will not forget or forgive Britain for committing this major crime and causing the Nakba of our people, holding it directly responsible for our people's continuous suffering.
2. We demand that the British government recognize the rights of the Palestinian people and compensate for the damages caused by this ill-fated declaration as a necessary step towards achieving justice and atoning for its major crime.
3. We stress the importance of raising global awareness about the catastrophic impacts of the Balfour Declaration, and we call on the free people of Britain who filled the squares by the hundreds of thousands denouncing the zionist aggression on Gaza to continue pressing the British government to assume its historical responsibilities and contribute immediately to stopping the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.
4. We emphasize the role of institutions and groups supportive of and in solidarity with our people in activating the international arena through international institutions and the International Criminal Court to hold the occupation accountable for its crimes, support the rights of the Palestinian people, and hold Britain accountable for its historical role in the catastrophe of our people and the tragedy they continue to live through, as well as for its involvement in the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.
5. We reaffirm our commitment to continue the struggle and resistance in all forms, foremost among them armed resistance, until the aggression is repelled and the repercussions of this ill-fated declaration are undone, regardless of the sacrifices and the extent of Western, especially British, collusion.
In conclusion, we in the Popular Front affirm that the Balfour Declaration will remain an open wound in the memory of our people, an unforgivable crime that will not expire, and we will remain loyal to the blood of our heroic martyrs, continuing our relentless struggle until liberation and return.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
November 2, 2024
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