Recently the new LDPR leader (political party in Russia) Leonid Slutsky who replaced the recently deceased
Vladimir Zhirinovsky made a statement,
“One country. One President. One victory”.
It resembles a bit the German motto from the 1930s, “One nation, one Reich, one Fuehrer”.
But of course, it’s nothing and pure coincidence after all.
And before that the head of the party “Rodina” (Motherland) Alexey Zhuravlev
who is in the State Duma too announced on the state TV that 2 million of the Ukrainians (5% of Ukraine’s population)
were incurable.
The poster “Fascism will not be tolerated!” which was determined
to be discrediting the Russian army is just an accident.
The new state symbol is a half of a swastika?
Just a misfortunate coincidence!
The government is searching for “national traitors”?
Well, foreign agents are just deprived of civil rights, no one kills them yet!
From the first days of his military adventure Putin has tried to imitate the Great Patriotic War.
He wants to declare himself as a new Nazism winner.
He even dared to insult the Soviet veterans directly.
Like they didn’t do a good job, they didn’t finish it – they fought the Nazis and didn’t complete it.
Oh well, our Chief Commander will train on a plywood Reichstag in the park “Patriot” under Moscow
and will set his own victory banner.
But maybe not so far away as it was in 1945 – just over Kyiv.
But it went wrong for our regime.
They desperately want to cosplay the USSR of the middle 40s.
But they stubbornly end up in the 1930s because of different coincidences and misunderstandings.
And not just the Soviet 30s.
Like a poor invalid character from a Stanley Kubrick film, he can and wants to shout,
“God save the President!”, and all he manages to say is “Sieg Heil!”.
When the war with Ukraine started, all of us understood that Putin watches the world
and commands the troops from his own reality which has no connection to our reality.
And when the Russian troops started failing again and again, and they had to abandon the Kyiv
direction and the Snake Island voluntarily,
it seemed that now the real world will penetrate the President’s informational bubble.
But it seems Putin is a lost case.
He is still giving history lessons and discussing historical memory and historical justice.
The further the war goes, the more horrified we are by the historical parallels we can recognize from
the news headlines and which we want to forget about.
Last week we learned a lot of details about what happens to the population of Ukraine in the fog of the war,
as well as what happens to the Russian soldiers.
Human Rights Watch published a report on filtration camps in LDNR.
The Ukrainian citizens who are made by the Russian army to relocate to Russia go through them.
We learned new evidence of cruel interrogations, beatings and even rapes.
People live in those camps under guard in horrible conditions for weeks.
They live there to undergo a humiliating procedure of filtration and go to Russia though many of them
preferred not to go there at all.
What is this filtration?
Who does filtrate whom?
Military people and FSB are looking for potential spies, people
who work with the Ukrainian army, or support the Ukrainian power or people with anti-Russian mood.
First, they bombed people’s houses, districts and towns, killed their relatives, forbade them to leave for Ukraine.
And now they send them to Russia by force and demand them, “Who is for Ukraine here?
Why don’t you like Russia? Why do you support Zelensky and not Putin?”.
What does this filtration look like?
With interrogations for many hours and checking of messengers and social media.
Moreover, they took passports from them and collected biometric data.
They make them take their clothes off and search for Nazis tattoos.
Moreover, the national emblem of Ukraine which is not mentioned in any list of extremist symbols,
can be considered as “Nazis symbol” if a soldier or an officer decides so!
It's unknown how many people went through this filtration process.
Ukraine estimated it’s 1.2 million people (240,000 of children among them).
That’s how many people were transferred to Russia illegally.
But it’s unknown how many Ukrainians failed the filtration process and what happened to them next.
At least 200 people after they failed the filtration were kept in some school in LDNR with barely
any food for several weeks.
There is information that people are sent to prisons or something like
that in the occupied territories and kept there.
They are all civilians, they are not captives or military action participants.
Those are people who were unlucky to live in the place Putin considers to be a part of the Russian world.
They were unlucky to be “saved and liberated” by Putin’s army.
And now we don’t even know where those victims of the Russian world are and what happened to them.
It might look like war and territory occupation is always like that.
But no, under international legislation civilians have their right for free relocation.
They can’t be withheld or transferred without their free will.
And moreover, the invaders have no right to “filtrate” civilians into good and bad,
or acceptable and unacceptable people.
But Putin doesn’t care about international laws – he thinks those are restrictions for sissies.
He is busy with a cosplay of the Great Patriotic War, though he might have mixed up the roles in the process.
It’s interesting that all this activity on sorting people who aren’t good enough
to live in the Russian world has no result.
A journalist Konstantin Ryzhenko has lived in an occupied Kherson for almost half a year
and he told how FSB tried to clean the city from resistance and what kind of mood there is now.
The occupants took photos of those who went demonstrating against them, then they tried
to catch the participants and broke into their apartments.
It looks like those activists end up in the very same prisons as people who failed their filtration.
Putin wanted only his fans to stay, as well as people who were ready to work with them for money.
There were people who wanted to collaborate and the citizens stopped going to the meetings.
But they started to give the diversionists information about the cars of Putin’s officials.
Kirienko and FSB are urgently preparing for a referendum on joining Kherson to Russia and he states
that “the decision will be obvious” – he means for joining Russia, of course.
Meanwhile, Konstantin Ryzhenko describes the real sociology this way:
“The resistance is universal. Can they make an explosion? They will.
Can they poison? They will. Can they tell where the soldiers are?
They will. If they can do nothing from above, they will just spit into the glass of water”.
What do Putin’s hounds do when they have no success in their main task?
Steal, of course. According to the data, they steal everything they can sell –
from home appliances to pure alcohol.
That’s what Putin’s system is so good at, they don’t even have to pretend here.
Meanwhile, there is more and more evidence that the civilians of Donbas, Kherson and Zaporizhia
are not the only victims of Putin’s army.
Russian soldiers who don’t want to serve in Ukraine anymore (and there are plenty of them)
end up in the camps for those who refused.
We knew about such people from the beginning of the war, but we learned a lot about it in the last month
and now we understand what happens with a soldier who understood what he got himself into
and who doesn’t want to participate in Putin’s historic reconstruction anymore.
“…we are sent into battle like meat. No support, tanks or aviation, and our artillery hits our own positions.
You can’t imagine how many wounded soldiers I carried under mortar’s fire.
There’s no evacuation of the wounded”, that’s what one of the objectors told his father.
Soldiers don’t want to participate for different reasons.
Some people saw the lawlessness of the Russian troops in Ukraine,
some people understood that they are occupants and not the liberators, and no one greets them with flowers.
But most of them saw the irresponsibility of the management,
and the lack of supplies, and they understood that their country doesn’t care about them,
they are just meat for their commanders.
Their commanders just want to report about another occupied kilometer of Ukraine.
We should say that soldiers aren’t changed at the front for months.
Though any military textbook says that there should be a rotation of soldiers every 2 weeks.
And after 45 days of constant battles soldiers just get crazy.
What the lack of rotation for many months does to people will be explained in the future textbooks
on practical military psychiatry on the example of the Russian army.
The commanders don’t accept the objectors’ dismissal notifications and lean on them.
If it doesn’t help, the soldiers are sent to special camps in LDNR and Bryansk region.
They are kept in prisons where they are guarded by the private military company “Wagner”.
They are hidden from their relatives and journalists and moved from one prison to another.
They beat the objectors, making them return to the front or sign another contract – with “Wagner” this time.
Some people agree, and some people are lucky to get out of there and come back home.
We don’t know how many soldiers there are.
The Movement of the Soldiers’ Mothers states there are hundreds of those who refused.
The very existence of special camps proves that there are many of them.
It seems we’ll know the exact number when the mysterious fog of the war fades away.
Putin says the soldiers are heroes just in his speeches and during the award-giving ceremonies.
During the public lesson he tells us about their duty and the support they need.
But it’s true if they agree to occupy an independent country and die in his conqueror’s game.
If they refuse, they don’t deserve any support, they should be imprisoned.
Putin refuses to understand the reality in Ukraine.
He is stubbornly trying to make it fit the world he created for himself.
This is the world of classified dossiers and line maps from the 20th century which should help
with the Red Army campaign or a Wehrmacht attack – it seems that Putin has ho idea what exactly this is.
Anyway we can see what this is ourselves.
Here we are, having the prototype of a volunteer division of Oskar Dirlewanger which used
to hire criminals from German prisons.
The Putin regime’s crimes are terrifying, they are hard to believe.
It’s not a postmodern film by Tarantino with a funny mock Hitler.
It’s real life, and real people suffer and die.
Each of them has a name, surname, relatives, close ones and their own history.
By no means we can underestimate the scale of this humanitarian catastrophe.
And yet, we shouldn’t underestimate the power which committed all those crimes.
Our great dictator is just a copycat after all. He can’t persuade the masses.
He can just create the illusion of his support.
He can’t lead the war at all and he hasn’t even intended to lead the war for real.
On February 24 there should have been just a big military and historic reconstruction.
A failed cosplayer didn’t succeed playing Joseph Stalin.
Every time he tries, he ends up with much less impressive mustaches.
Yes, this walking parody can kill and maim people, destroy cities.
He can disgrace a country for years to come. But we won’t have to fight it for 6 long years.
It will be solved much sooner.
A man can be killed by a piece of plywood or even cardboard.
For example, he can be hit to death by a piece of decoration made in a hurry.
But we shouldn’t forget, plywood is plywood, and cardboard is just cardboard.
They are not intended for big shows.
It can kill, but it can’t hold forever.
Time will come and based on lawfulness and humanity we will make a real government out of the country
of the country which served as a decoration for an endless TV series about World War II.
I’ll repeat, Putin’s regime is imitational and so lame that it can’t even figure out who exactly it wants to copy.
Hitler or Stalin.
But crimes, destructions, murders and injuries are not fictional.
They are real.
There is no way to create a real Russia we can be proud of without making an assessment of all those events.
The assessment should be as public as it should be legal.
Unfortunately, it came to the point that our Motherland should start from the trial for military criminals.
And it will happen!
Till tomorrow!