...In the 1920ies, the triumphant Poland launched a sweeping campaign of uprooting all things Russian. When the Russian Cathedral of Saint Alexander of Neva, a shrine with artwork of exceptional value, was looted and destroyed in Warsaw, a Polish newspaper wrote that by this Poland had demonstrated moral superiority over Russia...
...The burial site left from the distant epoch does not look like a cemetery in the full sense of the word. With garbage freshly removed, it is a small piece of land with some two dozen white poles, plaques on them reading: “Russian, 1920/1921”. A label marking the whole site says laconically: “Captive Bolsheviks from Russia are buried here”. No names or further information are available around. Asked a question about the place, a Tuchola resident responded bluntly: “Must we care about the Russian dead?” Well, at least, credit must be given to us for caring about the Polish dead...
June 22 nd marks a somber anniversary indeed. On this day in 1941 Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, a massive invasion of the Soviet Union, commencing the largest and most destructive struggle between two nations in mankind's history. For the great majority of thinking people who believe in the manifold mission of historical study—to interpret events, to locate patterns, to give meaning to social dimensions of the human experience, and even to draw lessons from the past—then the colossal tragedy of June 22 nd , 1941 surely warrants the most careful reflection.
We state that the concept ascribing ‘mutual responsibility’ for unleashing the war to ‘the Nazi and Soviet regimes’ lacks any historical and moral foundations. As historians, we are aware that the responsibility for that devastating war rests fully with the Western powers. Until now the diplomatic archives in London keep guarding the secrets of the British-German talks held in June 1939 on the division of the world into Great Britain’s and Germany’s spheres of influence, aimed to deter Soviet Union from taking part in shaping the future of Europe...
There is no shortage of arguments to challenge the groundless and deeply unfair claim that the USSR and the fascist Germany were equally responsible for the outbreak of World War II. Even a sketchy juxtaposition of Berlin’s and Moscow’s pre-war military plans highlights the fundamental difference in the two countries’ intentions... Hitler approved the Operation Barbarossa plan for a war against the USSR on December 18, 1940... The end goal of the German campaign was to create a protective barrier against Russia, an Asian monster in the terms of Goebbels’s propaganda, along the Arkhangelsk - Volga line...
There was an epoch when up to a third of Germany's population were Slavs. These days, traces of their history can only be found in museums or – upon close scrutiny – in names on the map of the country. Subdued by Germans over 1,500 years ago, Slavic tribes were totally germanized, and the Lusatian Sorbs who inhabited Łužyca, or Lausitz, as the historical region within Saxony and Brandenburg is known in today's Germany, remained as the only exception from the rule. Currently the Lusatian Sorbs, whose number dropped from half a million to 60,000 over the centuries of German domination... The triumphant Red Army marched into Łužyca in April, 1945...
Trying to distort the results of WW II, revenge seekers in Japan hope that people's memory will fail them. A series of court hearings took place in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk between the 25 th -31 st of December, 1949, to try twelve members of the Japanese Kwantung Army as war criminals for manufacturing and using biological weapons in 1938-1945 in China... Half a century has passed, and having abandoned all commitments it took at the Crimea Conference and documented in a three-party deal on the Far East issues (from February 11, 1945), as well as in other landmark documents signed followingthe end of WW II, the US decided to support Japan in its territorial claims to Russia...
These days ethnic diversity and multiculturalism just recently accepted as imperative across Western societies are perceived as a form of capitulation at the face of the immigrant onslaught...At the moment Greece, Italy, France, and the UK are frontier countries absorbing the shock carried by the first wave of conquest. Denying themselves the right to legitimate self-defense and armed with nothing but the liberal EU laws and norms, they take away the Europeans' housing, incomes, land, and social benefits to pay the price of inaction. There is still hope that the countries will some day regain the understanding that the actual mission of normal statehood is to protect their nations' housing, incomes, land, and social benefits...
Recently Japan relaunched the campaign of claims to Russia's Kuril Islands - Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan, and Khabomai. The impression is that Tokyo is under the delusion that it is entitled to its own version of the settlement in the wake of World War II and even hopes to draw benefits based on the unilateralist approach. These days, Japanese politicians may be dissatisfied with the sentences handed out by the Tokyo Trials which put a dot in World War II in the Far East, but any attempts to tailor the outcome of the war by staking territorial claims to Russia are doomed to failure....
Japan is the only place on our planet where the problem of “northern territories” exists. Neither the UN, nor any other country agrees that Tokyo's territorial claims to the islands are grounded... Naoto Kan described President Dmitry Medvedev`s trip in November to the Kurils as "an unforgivable outrage", without stopping for a second to think that it was his statement that would better fit into this description... While Russian diplomats are being too politically correct to adequately answer insults, the whole world is watching the ongoing exchange of remarks, wondering how patient Moscow can be about the issue...
Hungarian premier Victor Orban clearly stands in the way of the plans of the global elite for Europe. Hungary’s new constitution which was passed in the spring of 2011 and entered into force on January 1, 2012 unequivocally placed emphasis on Christian legacy and nationhood and was immediately seen as a challenge by the forces of global governance. It happens to be the first constitution in Europe reflecting a radical departure from multiculturalism and the present-day brand of tolerance, which in practice translate into the erosion of national identity and infinite acceptance of moral deviance...
