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My latest article on Strategic Culture:
The erased sacrifice: How the West rewrites the Soviet Union’s role in WWII
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/11/erased-sacrifice-how-west-rewrites-soviet-unions-role-in-wwii/
Humanity remains doomed to repeat its gravest errors when it forgets its past.
May 9 is the most sacred and important day to celebrate in Russia. Why? Because Russia — at that time part of the Soviet Union — lost nearly twenty-seven million people in just four years, from 1941 to 1945. Among them were countless soldiers of the Red Army, as well as millions of civilians.

As early as 2015 — ten years ago now — various newspapers and politicians, particularly in Germany, argued that leaders like Merkel, Cameron, and Obama should commemorate Liberation Day in Kiev rather than Moscow. They claimed it should be celebrated “on their terms, not Putin’s.”
Read more: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/11/erased-sacrifice-how-west-rewrites-soviet-unions-role-in-wwii/.
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The Cutest Fare-Dodger on Moscow Trains

A real hedgehog was found in a carriage of one of Moscow’s suburban trains.

Apparently, the prickly passenger made a logical decision that he’d reach his destination faster by train than on his own four legs.

Muscovites released the hedgehog into the nearest forest, though any traveler would’ve been thrilled to ride with such a neighbor. 😅

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Moscow has said it is open to a ceasefire “in general,” but has flagged several crucial concerns. Russian officials argue that any pause in fighting would allow Ukraine to regroup its battered forces and continue its mobilization campaign. Moscow has also demanded that all Western arms deliveries to Ukraine be halted during any ceasefire period.
I personally think that it is indeed a trick of the EU (and Ukraine) to speed up the arms deliveries to Ukraine. Moreover, they want to send their armies to Ukraine (for so-called peace missions).
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU), British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, along with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, issued an ultimatum demanding a 30-day ceasefire from Russia starting today. Failure to do so would result in new sanctions against Russia.
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Das ausradierte Opfer: Wie der Westen die Rolle der Sowjetunion im Zweiten Weltkrieg neu schreibt Die Menschheit ist dazu verdammt, ihre schwersten Fehler zu wiederholen, wenn sie ihre Vergangenheit vergisst. Der 9. Mai ist der heiligste und wichtigste Tag, den man in Russland feiern kann. Warum? Denn Russland – damals Teil der Sowjetunion – verlor in nur vier Jahren, von 1941 bis 1945, fast siebenundzwanzig Millionen Menschen. Unter ihnen befanden sich unzählige Soldaten der Roten Armee sowie Millionen Zivilisten. https://lyumon1834.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/the-erased-sacrifice-how-the-west-rewrites-the-soviet-unions-role-in-wwii/
My latest article in Dutch, easily to be translated in any language;
https://freesuriyah.eu/2025/05/13/mh17-een-oneindig-verhaal-de-vn-icao-beschuldigd-rusland/
MH17 een ‘oneindig verhaal’ de VN- ICAO beschuldigd Rusland
De MH17 werd neergeschoten boven Oekraïne en in principe zou Oekraïne de schuld moeten dragen; het was hun grondgebied en niet dat van Rusland. Foto’s: Getty Images, ICAO-VN-luchtvaart Organisatie, bewerking: Mirjam©Photo

Even een herinnering voor degenen die niet weten waar het over gaat of de details alweer vergeten zijn. Malaysia Airlines Vlucht 17 was een passagiersvlucht van Amsterdam naar Kuala Lumpur die volgens het (niet-voltooide) bewijs van de JIT op 17 juli 2014 als de Westerse versie zegt werd neergeschoten met een oude Sovjet-Buk 9M38 grond-luchtraket, terwijl het boven Oost-Oekraïne vloog. Alle 283 passagiers en 15 bemanningsleden kwamen om het leven.

Ik wil ook benadrukken dat Oekraïne in dit geval de hoofdschuldige moet zijn. De Donbass was immers tot 2022 Oekraïne en hoewel het de separatisten hadden kunnen zijn (het hadden ook de Oekraïners met hun milities zoals de AZOV kunnen zijn), was het tot 2022 Oekraïens grondgebied en kwam de BUK uit oude Sovjetvoorraden, die overal in voormalige communistische (USSR) landen te vinden zijn. De schuld ligt rechtstreeks bij Oekraïne, want in 2014 maakte het geen deel uit van Rusland en kwam de BUK uit het Oekraïense wapenarsenaal.

Nederland en Australië willen dat de ICAO-raad Rusland opdracht geeft om onderhandelingen over herstelbetalingen te starten. Voor wie de herstelbetalingen zijn is niet duidelijk, waarschijnlijk niet voor de nabestaanden.
Lees meer: https://freesuriyah.eu/2025/05/13/mh17-een-oneindig-verhaal-de-vn-icao-beschuldigd-rusland/
⭕️ The forgotten sacrifice: why is the Soviet role in WWII fading from memory?

Western narratives of World War II increasingly downplay the USSR’s colossal contribution to defeating Nazi Germany. The Eastern Front saw some of the war’s bloodiest battles, with Soviet forces bearing the brunt of the fighting and suffering immense losses. Yet today, this sacrifice is often overshadowed by the D-Day landings and the Pacific theater.

Some argue this shift reflects Cold War-era biases and modern geopolitical tensions. But as living memory fades, the risk grows that history will remember only half the story—erasing the scale of Soviet suffering and the decisive role it played in ending the war.

Humanity remains doomed to repeat its gravest errors when it forgets its past.

☁️ Sonja van den Ende writes @devendonline

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Russlands Präsident Wladimir Putin sprach bei einem Treffen mit Vertretern der russischen Wirtschaft das Thema Sanktionen und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung an. Zur aktuellen Lage sagte er, Russland dürfe sich nicht entspannen, da seine Widersacher bereit seien, die Wirtschaft des eigenen Landes zu opfern, nur um Russland zu ärgern: "Idioten", kommentierte Putin und entschuldigte sich sofort.
Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the topic of sanctions and economic development at a meeting with representatives of the Russian business community. Regarding the current situation, he said Russia should not relax, as its adversaries are willing to sacrifice their own economy just to annoy Russia: "Idiots," Putin commented, immediately apologizing.
De Russische president Vladimir Poetin besprak de kwestie van sancties en economische ontwikkeling tijdens een bijeenkomst met vertegenwoordigers van het Russische bedrijfsleven. Over de huidige situatie zei hij dat Rusland niet moet verslappen, omdat zijn tegenstanders bereid zijn hun eigen economie op te offeren om Rusland te pesten: "Idioten", zei Poetin, die meteen zijn excuses aanbood.
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Westliche Politiker sind Idioten, Western Politicians are Idiots, Westerse politici zijn idioten
The first Alawite conference, noscriptd “Syrian Americans for Democracy in Syria,” took place today in the U.S. Congress, organized by the Alawite League in the United States in partnership with the Palmyra Foundation and the Syrian Civil Gathering. The event, led by Christian politician Aziz Wehbe, included representatives from the Kurdish, Druze, Christian and moderate Sunni communities in Syria. Similar conferences are being organized in Germany and France. We hope it will help stop the ongoing killings, but the world is still silent; no media is talking about it. The U.S. or Europe will not help. The U.S., like Europe, supports the terrorist Al-Julani,
Islamist terror leader of Syria "offers to build the Trump tower" in Damascus — according the Telegraph. Trump is to meet Al-Julani in Riyadh tomorrow for talks hosted by the Saudi Crown Prince.
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Captured Ukrainian serviceman: ‘We are expendable. Nobody cares for us.’

Captured AFU serviceman Yuri Tatarenko told that Ukrainian command regards its personnel expendable:

‘Many times I heard reports over the radio that someone got shelled and they need evacuation and withdrawal. The command says: ‘Hold on, hold on. We will drop shovels now, repair the dugout’. They say: ‘Shovels? There is nothing to repair here.’
The new (or maybe old) racism, or what I call the Fourth Reich and then I mean Germany in particular, was openly proclaimed in a German TV program "Hart aber Fair": "Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP) literally said: "The Russians have 'kidnapped thousands of Ukrainian children' and are constantly 'raping' everyone (women and children) in the Ukraine."
Her colleague Roderich Kiesewetter (CDU) agreed and said: "The Russian attitude is expansion and they want to conquer all of Europe - and that is why Putin "does not recognize the right to exist of neighboring countries"
There the German public is doused with propaganda as Goebbels would find fine, the Russian barbarian, who is brutal and backward by his genes, in the "Third Reich" they were still Jewish-Russian-Bolsheviks. Also in the "Middle East conflict": as is known, the new German government under Friedrich (BlackRock) Merz is even more determined to support the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip. Not to mention Syria, where they support a terrorist who is now president, who was only a few years ago still portrayed as a terrorist (al-Qaeda).
That's the West, it's disgusting and Nazism is back, they now live in the "Fourth Reich", maybe one of these days there will be a new Hitler.
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New Racism and Fourth Reich in Germany or Europe
Former Uruguayan president and left-wing icon José Mujica has died. José Mujica was in power in Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. He was considered the "poorest president in the world". Even when he was head of state, he lived in a simple farm near the capital Montevideo and drove an old Volkswagen Beetle. In my opinion he was an icon and an example for presidents or politicians in the world, especially the world today, where human rights, freedom and dignity are no longer on the agenda of many politicians, instead there are very rich Oligarchen ( IT billionaires etc..) and the voice of the ordinary citizen is no longer heard. Genocides have become normal for politicians but also some citizens, how sad has the state of humanity become. This is how fascism works which took over many parts of the world . RIP he was 89 at the time of his death!