The number of people killed by Barbarossa is absolutely staggering.
1000 Deaths every hour the first 200 days. Every hour. Day and night.
Almost 10 million soviet civilians killed throughout the entire war.
Around 3 million soviet prisoners of war killed in german camps (or on their way there), that is a death rate of about 60%. (almost genocidal in it’s own right)
And the start of the Holocaust. (first mass killing of jews, first use of gas chambers (against communists at first later en mass against jews)).
And these are just the numbers, behind which countless acts of cruelty by individuals in the Wehrmacht and the SS are hidden.
Bunch of mouth-foaming rightwing ideologues spending all their political capital on a monument directly implying that there are no victims of communism.
They have invaded Ukraine, a country that is not in NATO nor in the EU, this article is talking about a war with all the European member states of NATO. I think my wording was clear.
And considering rearmament, do you know what the security dilemma is, and what that means for the security of everyone in Europe?
Is there any credible material proof that Russia is preparing for an invasion of Europe???
They are just barely capable of winning a slow war of attrition against Ukraine, how can you make a credible argument they could achieve any war aims against all of Europe?
You can’t even argue they can take one country at a time, the entire border is riddled with NATO tripwire troops, guaranteeing the direct involvement of each major European military from the get-go.
Is this just fearmongering to drum up support for more military Keynesianism?
Given that they have already designated all Palestinians as being terrorist this feels like the legal preparation for the next phase, maybe even the final phase…
The article does not mention the evidence basis, so I will keep my comment general. In the Netherlands similar accusations were made against Lucia de Berk, the evidence was based on opinions of superiors and colleagues plus the statistical unlikelihood of so many patients dying under her supervision. But crucially there was never any direct evidence that she deliberately killed patients, and in the end it turned out that she didn’t. She was particularly unliked by her colleagues because she was a sex worker in the past and that is why she was given the worst shifts (and coincidentally the shifts where more patients die). In the end her life was ruined by her colleagues and the judiciary system not understanding statistics (5 percent of all nurses have a statistically-significant high death rate). Again this case could be a real psychopath but the fact that they don’t mention the evidence basis makes me think of Lucia de Berk.
According to this math the entire population of the Netherlands has to bike on one single road more than 80 times to create the same amount of damage as one truck…
Why, what did you expect from billionaires? That their carefully crafted image was actually genuine? That they care about anything besides hard cash and raw power? That you can get into such a position by being an emphatic person that believes in common values?
My point isn’t who is right or wrong, my point is that this war was preventable. A different security arrangement, for example a neutral Ukraine could have prevented the country from being destroyed. This was not a fringe opinion, many international relations experts and politicians have stated this, yet somehow knowing all this the US pursued. It’s almost as if there is a group of Russia hawks within most administrations that actively seek to escalate conflicts with Russia.
And if you think the US supports Ukraine altruistically you’re delusional, especially after what they are doing in Gaza. (Or Iraq for that matter).
The number of people killed by Barbarossa is absolutely staggering.
And these are just the numbers, behind which countless acts of cruelty by individuals in the Wehrmacht and the SS are hidden.